Kyle Nowak

⚡️ Yesterday, Meta announced a deal with nuclear energy provider Constellation Energy to buy massive amounts of electricity over the next two-plus decades to fuel its AI ambitions.

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”

–John Wooden (1910-2010)

📉 Novo Nordisk, which briefly became Europe’s most valuable company in 2023 due to blockbuster weight-loss/diabetes drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, now finds itself with a rapidly slimming market share and stock price (-46% over the past year). 

🏢 More office space is being removed than added this year, shrinking America’s overall office footprint for the first time in 25+ years, according to new data from CBRE Group, the world's largest commercial real-estate services firm. 

❓ Our question to you: In general, do you support Elon Musk’s efforts as the leader of DOGE?

“Whatever you are, try to be a good one.”

–William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

🏛️ Elon Musk officially said goodbye to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Friday, when his 130-day legal tenure as a special government employee expired.

❓ Our question to you (long-form): What are your thoughts on the current situation regarding the Trump administration’s tariff plans?

Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

–T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

🏛️ Yesterday afternoon, a federal appeals court temporarily paused a ruling, handed down by the Court of International Trade one day earlier, that had declared most of President Trump’s tariff plans to be illegal.

"An approximate answer to the right question is worth a great deal more than a precise answer to the wrong question."

–John Tukey (1915-2000)

⛽️ In recent months, US retail giants have accelerated their ongoing push into the auto fuel business, with new gas stations gradually popping up next to stores across the country.

❓ Our question to you: In your opinion, how should the US approach the Russia-Ukraine war?

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

–Voltaire (1694-1778)

🌍 President Trump is strongly considering new sanctions on Russia in the coming days as his frustration with Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine continues to mount, according to multiple reports.

🤖 Anthropic launched its new Claude Opus 4 AI model it says sets “new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents.” But the model is drawing widespread attention for a different, more sinister ability—its tendency to blackmail Anthropic engineers when its own existence is on the line.

🖱📰 Click to see a list of bite-sized stories you should know for today.

"Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood."

–Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

❓ Our question to you: Do you agree with Congress’ decision to revoke waivers allowing California to set its own vehicle emissions standards?