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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs11 min
How the US-Iran Deal Could Affect Oil Prices
Daan Struyven, Alison Nathan, Don Stroyven
Following a diplomatic breakthrough between the U.S. and Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Brent crude prices retreated from over $120 to the low $80s as markets priced in a normalization of Middle Eastern supply by late July. Goldman Sachs forecasts average prices of $75 to $80 per barrel through 2027, noting that while most demand losses from the 14% production shock will recover, structural shifts like accelerating EV adoption in China may leave a 500,000 bpd deficit relative to pre-conflict baselines. Despite the recent sell-off, prices are expected to remain elevated by roughly $20 due to lingering security premiums and low inventories, with upside risks to $130 outweighing downside scenarios where quick recovery drives prices to $60.
- The Economist7 min
Can Donald Trump secure a deal with Cuba? | The Economist
Donald Trump, Dr Christopher Sabatini, David Rennie, Sarah Birke, Christopher
A proposed transactional framework seeks to secure Cuban economic relief, including lifting the oil embargo, in exchange for a credible multi-party election plan. Key figures like Marco Rubio and Donald Trump aim to satisfy the Cuban-American voting bloc by offering a political roadmap that prioritizes economic liberalization over immediate regime change. Despite skepticism regarding the administration's long-term commitment, proponents argue that even a flawed agreement could dismantle the current stagnant leadership structure.
- Y Combinator12 min
Pick One Idea and Go Deep
Founders must abandon the search for a theoretically perfect idea and instead commit fully to a single concept to generate reliable market data and achieve deep expertise. This approach demands a radical identity shift and a "burn the boats" mentality, ensuring leaders can run a customer's business with precision while targeting high-stakes sectors like regulated industries or hard tech. By operating at the frontier of AI capabilities and owning specific outcomes rather than just selling software, entrepreneurs validate their viability through real-world execution or acquire unambiguous failure data necessary for strategic pivots.
- Milken Institute53 min
Catalyzing Capital, Innovation, and Impact to Advance Women's Health | Global Conference 2026
Esther Krofah, Jill Biden, Diana Ramos, Kalahn Taylor-Clark, Afton Vechery
The Women's Health Network, comprising 170 organizations, launched a $1 billion funding initiative led by Merck's Health Catalytic Fund to address century-old data gaps and the $2 billion annual productivity loss caused by menopause. Driven by strategic partnerships like California's PRIMA screening tool and private sector innovations such as Modern Fertility, the coalition is leveraging artificial intelligence and capital to de-risk early-stage commercialization while targeting a 50% reduction in maternal mortality. This convergence of philanthropic resources and consumer demand aims to shift medical research from male-centric models to comprehensive care for the 51% of the global population that women represent.
- Dwarkesh Patel2h 8m
Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer
Niccolò Machiavelli analyzed the political instability of Renaissance Italy through his diplomatic service to Cesare Borgia, arguing that only a ruler with hereditary power could overcome the chaotic cycles of papal interference and factional violence. In *The Prince*, he advocated for a pragmatic approach where fear, neutral justice, and the strategic use of religion secured stability, while emphasizing that true patriotism required establishing rule of law over arbitrary tyranny. Although initially circulated as a secret job application to the Medici, the work eventually evolved into a foundational text for secular statecraft after surviving centuries of censorship and the distortion of Machiavelli's true patriotic intent.
Inside Harvey AI: CEO Winston Weinberg on How a 4-Year-Old Company Is Taking on the Foundation Labs
Winston Weinberg, Molly O'Shea
Harvey AI has scaled to nearly $300 million in ARR and over 2,000 enterprise clients by migrating to cloud agents and deploying specialized legal models that outperform general frontier AI. CEO Sam Saltman drives a culture of rapid reinvention and meritocracy, where over 200 legal professionals transition into product and engineering roles to build vertical-specific solutions for high-growth sectors like finance and pharmaceuticals. The company differentiates itself from traditional legal tech and generic AI labs by prioritizing granular ROI proof per token and rejecting legacy technology acquisitions in favor of acquiring high-performing teams to fuel its current 12-to-13 trillion token monthly usage projections.
- Sequoia Capital39 min
Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park
Founded by Stanford alum Jun with co-founders Percy Liang and Michael Bernstein, Simile is an applied AI lab that has transitioned from the experimental "Smallville" project to a commercial platform capable of simulating complex human societies. By combining proprietary behavioral data with foundation models, the company validates its SaaS service with an 85% prediction accuracy against real-world self-reports, allowing enterprises like CVS to test strategic decisions without the cost of live field trials. This approach leverages specific statistical metrics and reinforcement learning to bridge the gap between attitudinal data and actual behavior, offering a scalable alternative to traditional polling for forecasting long-term market and societal impacts.
- Stanford Online41 min
Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Scale, AGI, and the Future of Everything
The event analyzes how affordable compute and large language models have exponentially increased the scale and ambition a single founder can achieve, effectively rewriting the rules of startup founding. It details OpenAI's pivot from research to product with ChatGPT, arguing that future AI success depends on treating inference as a utility and prioritizing cheap, abundant intelligence over hardware ownership. Finally, the discussion outlines a probable trajectory toward democratized access where citizens own equity in AI capital, necessitating an educational shift toward meta-skills as critical thinking faces atrophy.
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China
Aravind Srinivas, Harry Stebbings
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas highlights the company's rapid rise to a $20 billion valuation with 45 million users, attributing their success to a shift from answering questions to orchestrating autonomous agents that drive significant revenue efficiency. Srinivas contends that Perplexity has forced major industry redesigns, including Google's new AI interface, by proving that high-value enterprise workloads can replace traditional advertising models as the primary revenue driver. Looking ahead, he forecasts a market dominated by smaller, highly productive teams managing agent loops, with infrastructure bottlenecks in power and memory becoming the critical constraints for AI's next growth phase.
$40B Fund, 1 Creator: Why Lightspeed Hired Zauey Talks
Zauey, Claire Zau, Josh Machiz, Molly O'Shea
Lightspeed partner Josh formalized a unique arrangement with investor Claire Zhao, allowing her to join the firm while retaining editorial control of her media brand, Zowie Talks, which now reaches over 350,000 followers. Leveraging this platform, Zhao co-hosts the new "Lightwork" initiative to bridge the gap between complex venture insights and mainstream audiences, specifically translating deep tech and AI trends into accessible narratives. This strategy supports Lightspeed's broader goal of building a robust top-of-funnel ecosystem for AI-native services, agent infrastructure, and deep tech investments like Sycamore Labs and Anthropic.
- Y Combinator30 min
Groww: If Your Customers Don't Love It or Hate It, You've Already Lost
Grow successfully pivoted from a failed robo-advisor hypothesis to an open investment platform in May 2017, achieving rapid product-market fit by offering zero-commission mutual funds and a frictionless user experience. Guided by a strict "design first" philosophy and a four-founder team aligned on immutable values, the company built a massive customer base through word-of-mouth rather than paid acquisition. Now India's largest publicly traded investment platform, Grow is currently expanding into sophisticated wealth management while leveraging AI tools to maintain its operational efficiency and deep customer connection.
- The Diary Of A CEO1h 16m
Anti-Aging Expert: Creatine Is The Fat Loss Secret Doctors Don’t Tell You - Dr. Darren Candow
Dr. Candow, a leading researcher with over 120 publications, advocates for creatine monohydrate supplementation to support healthy aging, enhance athletic performance, and provide neuroprotection during metabolic stress. Her findings confirm that specific dosages, ranging from 1g for bone health in youth to 20g for Alzheimer's patients, effectively improve muscle mass, cognitive function, and mental health outcomes without harming kidneys or causing hair loss. By combining targeted creatine protocols with resistance training and high-quality protein, individuals can significantly extend their healthspan and combat age-related muscle and bone decline.
- Bank of America36 min
Equities, Fed, BoJ, & you
Mark Cabana, Jill Carey Hall, Aditya Bhave, Oliver Levingston
Strategists from Bank of America Global Research analyzed mid-year market dynamics on June 12, highlighting a divergent outlook where bearish S&P 500 signals coexist with expectations for a Bank of Japan rate hike and a Federal Reserve pause. Jill's equity strategy warned of a potential 4% correction driven by extended valuations and sector dispersion, while advising a rotation toward undervalued mid-caps to avoid the rate sensitivity facing small companies. Concurrently, Aditya and Oliver outlined global monetary policy shifts, forecasting that a hawkish drift in Fed expectations and a dovish Japanese stance could reshape asset allocation amidst rising inflation and geopolitical uncertainties.
- The Economist7 min
Is global culture dead? | The Economist
Contrary to the expectation of cultural convergence, streaming data from 2019 to 2025 reveals a sharp global rise in local artist representation as audiences prioritize national identity over global homogeneity. This shift has compelled major platforms like Netflix to abandon failed "global first" productions in favor of domestic-focused strategies, while democratized technology and user-driven algorithms have further suppressed elite curation in favor of hyper-local viral trends. Consequently, charts in nations from Brazil to Mexico now show dominant local shares, with only specific language-sharing or Anglophone outliers remaining significantly influenced by foreign content.
SpaceX IPO: Inside the Firm That Owns 1%
Justin Fishner-Wolfson, Molly O’Shea
Co-founded by Justin Fishner-Wolfson, 137 Ventures manages $15 billion in assets by prioritizing a concentrated, secondary-first strategy that has enabled approximately two dozen distinct investments in SpaceX over sixteen years. The firm leveraged SpaceX's operational efficiency and leadership stability to fund a pivotal shift from cost-plus to firm fixed pricing, ultimately supporting the company's profitability and the economic viability of Starlink. As the private market anticipates a new listing cycle led by SpaceX, the firm continues to target durable enterprises while navigating a $240 billion secondary market that facilitates liquidity for employees and investors alike.