PE deal activity in construction & engineering hit an ATH in Q1 2026 with an estimated 501 deals, up 32% YOY with total deal value of $24.4B. The quarter’s dominant theme was power and grid infrastructure and we all know why!

NEW: Juan Hernandez, a welder who says he took “just another contract job” at SpaceX for $28/hr in 2015, is now a millionaire as shares soar.

Amazing — always bet the man.

With fortunes being made in ATX and SF tomorrow, buy hard rare assets seems to be the trending narrative.

$PLTR CEO Alex Karp talked abt Anthropic on CNBC, saying “most of the things they talk about in public are running on Palantir,” adding that Amodei has gone from being “way behind” to “ahead” and that he genuinely believes what he is saying. Karp also said the public has only seen older versions of Maven, arguing Americans would be “positively surprised” by the advances in U.S. defense technology. More broadly, he criticized AI labs for operating with what he called a “hyper-religion of hyper-optimism,” saying they believe they can solve all problems — including human nature and even the problems they create themselves. His bigger point was that the models alone do not create value; the real value comes from implementation, deployment, and turning AI into actual workflows, which is why Palantir is winning with enterprises.

A lot of Generational wealth needs to be passed to your kids when they need it. Not when their 75 yrs old and your on ice.

Tough to be optimistic when bad events happen fast and most good news happens at a slow rate.

Anthropic is on track for gross margins of approx. 44%, having spent $0.71 on computing power per dollar of revenue in Q1 and a projected $0.56 in Q2. If that number holds / 40% to 50% gross margins and $345 billion to $450 billion in 2030 revenue is implied.

The majority of high-net-worth heirs say they won't keep their parents' financial adviser. With 80% of Gen Z already using AI for personal finances, the $500,000-a-year wealth management job is at the mercy of a ticking generational clock.

The New Power Law A business valued between $100B and $1T has a higher statistical likelihood (31%) of multiplying its value by 10x compared to smaller, earlier-stage unicorns (8%).

Bain’s AI Pathfinder Survey in 2026, with 951 respondents, found that 40% of the companies that tracked their AI spending recorded cost savings of less than 10% from their AI initiatives. 90% of those surveyed still plan to increase their AI budgets next year. 📈 the FOMO is here for another year.

Finally—A Bitcoin core dev has proposed a post-quantum path for #Bitcoin's BIP324 P2P transport encryption. Key points: —P2P protocol upgrades don't require consensus changes, making this an easier first step toward quantum security. —-Suggests a hybrid approach (ECDH ML-KEM) to protect against both quantum threats and flaws in newer algorithms. —Explores ways (like OEINC) to keep handshakes completely indistinguishable from random bytes to preserve privacy.

Be the first to know/ The prediction market forclinical trials. Bots incoming. Endpoint arena

East Coast teams tend to perform worse when they head out west to play basketball since the athletes need to process jet lag. @nyknicks The win percentage of Eastern teams playing a road game that tips off at the equivalent of 4:30 to 6:29 p.m. ET is 39.7 percent. When the game is at 10:30 p.m. or later, that drops to 34.9 percent.

-Wealth promises security and produces anxiety. -Fame promises significance and produces loneliness. -Success promises fulfillment and produces emptiness. -Sexual freedom promises satisfaction and produces bondage. The narratives of this age are very good at making promises. They are very bad at keeping them. The Lord is not a cosmic killjoy sitting at the entrance of a prison. He is the entrance to freedom, liberation and life. And the door is wide open! Step inside.

When you stop creating you start causing problems.

Can this be real: Nearly 40% of young American’s admit they’ve gone on a date just for the free food — Inflation?

ESPN has signed a new two-year deal with the Women’s National Football Conference, a big commitment to women’s tackle football!

The invitation of the First Commandment is not a burden. It is a rescue. It calls you out of the exhausting project of building your life around things that cannot hold it, and into the freedom of a life built around God, the One who can.

Christianity is on the rise and sales have followed — from 2019 to 2025/ books that feature daily Bible passages or meditations — devotionals have increased from 5.1 million books sold per year to 8.5 million.