🔢 By the Numbers

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

  • ⛰️ Kami Rita Sherpa, a 55-year-old Nepali guide, scaled Mount Everest for the 31st time on Tuesday, breaking his own world record for most ascents.
  • 💉 ~4% of American adults were taking GLP-1 drugs in 2024.
  • ✈️ ~8% of the 31.1 million reviews submitted to Tripadvisor in 2024 were fake, per the company’s Transparency Report 2025.
  • 🤖 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei this week said AI could wipe out ~50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs—and spike overall unemployment to 10%–20%—in the next one to five years.
  • 🏀 This NBA postseason has seen more 20-point comebacks (6) than the last four postseasons combined (5).
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