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Every country needs to work together, but it's important that we do not hold ourselves back to satisfy others.

“In our history, there have been times where countries who compete and don’t always like each other very much still come together for shared interests and the collective good in the face of a powerful new technology,” Altman said. “We believe this must be one of those times”

There has never been as important of time as now for us to focus on execution, not debate, execution.

The world’s second largest economy has emerged as a tech heavyweight. Home-grown tech talent is spurring Chinese AI models ever closer to Silicon Valley’s frontier. Beijing-based space firms are launching and landing reuseable rockets with their sights on global champion SpaceX. Companies from energy to AI, robots and memory chips have launched blockbuster stock debuts over the past year.

The ultimate vibe shift. A reminder that complaining on the internet is a zero-interest-rate phenomenon. You are either building, or you are in the way.

Every step of the way, to everyone around us, we should be asking the question, what are you building? What are you building directly, or helping other people to build, or teaching other people to build, or taking care of people who are building? If the work you’re doing isn’t either leading to something being built or taking care of people directly, we’ve failed you, and we need to get you into a position, an occupation, a career where you can contribute to building. There are always outstanding people in even the most broken systems—we need to get all the talent we can on the biggest problems we have, and on building the answers to those problems.
hot take

Marc Andreessen planting his flag. Tech isn't just an industry; it's the only mechanism we have to pull humanity forward. Anyone arguing for degrowth is arguing for stagnation.

We believe everything good is downstream of growth. We believe not growing is stagnation, which leads to zero-sum thinking, internal fighting, degradation, collapse, and ultimately death.

Now that drones can be used, one would expect that you'd be able to put up in the air thousands of drones to be able to find people like this. I understand wanting to use helicopters because it's cool, but you think you'd save a lot of money by using drones, and could cover a lot more ground.

The search includes Moroccan SA-330 Puma and AS332 Super Puma helicopters; a U.S. CH-47 Chinook helicopter; Moroccan and American surveillance drones; French and Moroccan navy frigates; and Moroccan mountaineers and divers, the official said.

Excellently trained law enforcement

A CNN analysis of hotel surveillance video released by Pirro’s office last week, coupled with audio taken from inside the ballroom during the shooting, does not definitively conclude when or whether Allen fired a shot. But the audio analysis does indicate that six shots total were fired during the incident, which aligns with initial statements by law enforcement that Allen fired one shot, while a responding officer fired five more.
hot take

Well, this might sound like it would be great. I have found that AI is not quite at the point that I would trust it being my news digest. There's better algorithms out there than what an AI is going to find from just randomly searching.

Use the News Digest format to summarize the last 24 hours of news, but strictly filter for three categories: 1. Major global tech breakthroughs (focusing on AI and Android) 2. Key headlines in Indian politics 3. Results or upcoming fixtures for the Indian Cricket Team and IPL Use bullet points and keep the tone objective but sharp.

This is a good sign for the world. We need the larger economies to invest in global defense.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Saturday the partial drawdown was expected and that Europe needed to take on more responsibility for its own security. He also said "Germany is on the right track" by seeking to expand its armed forces, speed up military procurement and build more infrastructure.
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steel man

The administration's steelman: a four-year high is still below the 2022 peak in real terms, the strategic petroleum reserve has not been tapped, and a credible Iran threat reduction would deliver a larger consumer surplus than any plausible domestic-policy alternative on the table. Whether you buy that case is a separate question — but it's the case being made internally.

Many workers grapple with rising energy costs as gas prices hit a four-year high, with a national average of $4.30 a gallon.
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fact check

Important to read this carefully: USAI being zeroed in the request is not the same as aid ending. Presidential drawdown authority and FMF are separate buckets and historically that's been ~60% of the actual flow. The headline is scary but the operative number won't be set until conference.

The Pentagon's proposed FY2027 budget excluded new funding for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, effectively zeroing out future military aid allocations for Kyiv under the program.

Elon tries to help the country and people continue to be blind to it.

“We want to make sure that people know the effects that this bill has had and is going to have on hurting accountability for corporations and basically handing Elon Musk $55 billion when he was in the process ... of gutting federal agencies that are saving millions of lives overseas and also laying off a bunch of Delawareans here at home,”

People are undervaluing AMD! This is the sort of thing that the hype loses. They are al in on Nvidia but are missing out on opportunities from AMD and others

On paper, the AMD Ryzen AI Halo is designed as an AI Developer Platform, similar to NVIDIA's DGX Spark, which is designed to accelerate AI development and AI workflows.
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hot take

The energy-cost framing is what makes this year's May Day politically different from any year since 2008. When the median voter's anti-war stance is downstream of a $4.30 gas price, the protest stops being a "left" event and starts being a coalition event. Watch how the local coverage frames this tomorrow.

Activists worldwide gathered for May Day rallies and street protests calling for peace, higher wages and better working conditions as workers grapple with rising energy costs.
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receipt

Saving this so I can come back in November when Arizona's "clear plan" looks like the most confused board in the league. RB-IOL-QB in three picks is not a plan, it's three plans wearing a trenchcoat.

Arizona had a clear plan in the draft to build a running game, going running back-interior lineman with their first two picks, but then they took a quarterback.
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hot take

Diante had Simpson going to LA in his last mock and got destroyed in the comments for it. He was right. The reason: Rams had Stafford on a 1-year, the QB cliff is in 2027, and Simpson's pre-snap operation is the only one in this class that maps to McVay's system without a year on the bench.

The Los Angeles Rams pulled a shocker by selecting Alabama QB Ty Simpson with the No. 13 pick.

Articletheringer.com

The Ringer 2026 NFL Mock Draft — Diante LeeDiante Lee, The RingerRead original ↗
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fact check

The Iraq-2006 comparison is doing a lot of work in this headline. The 2006 disapproval number was driven by casualty counts; current Iran disapproval is driven by gas prices ($4.30/gal national avg). Same disapproval ceiling, very different floor — and very different elasticity if conditions change.

Trump's war in Iran is as unpopular among Americans as the Iraq War during the year of peak violence in 2006 and the Vietnam War in the early 1970s.
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explainer

Services growing 16% on a $31B base is the only line on this page that matters. iPhone is fine, AI features didn't move the needle, but Services margins are how Apple absorbs the AI capex everyone else is taking on the chin. SoftBank's Roze listing at $100B feels like a top-of-cycle headline.

Apple reported fiscal Q2 2026 revenue of $111.2 billion, up 17% year-over-year, with iPhone revenue reaching $56.99 billion and Services setting a new record at nearly $31 billion.

Articletechstartups.com

Top Tech News Today, May 1, 2026Tech StartupsRead original ↗
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hot take

Models love Orlando but I'm on Detroit +4. Cunningham has had a +9 net rating in elimination games this postseason and the Magic's halfcourt offense bricks when Banchero gets doubled at the elbow. Expect Cade to attack that double early.

Game 6: Magic vs. Pistons, 7 p.m., Prime (Orlando leads 3-2)
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explainer

Three threads worth pulling from today: (1) Senate war-powers vote shows the same 3-vote margin as last month — coalition isn't growing. (2) $25B is operations only, not replenishment. (3) The Louisiana voting-map ruling will reshape redistricting before the midterms regardless of what happens overseas.

Senate Republicans blocked another effort to stop President Trump's war against Iran, voting 47 to 50 to reject a war powers resolution. Pentagon officials put a price tag on the conflict so far at $25 billion.

Articledemocracynow.org

Headlines for May 01, 2026Democracy Now!Read original ↗
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steel man

Steelman for the procurement decision: DoD has always treated vendor diversity as a security property, and locking in 7 providers (with overlapping capabilities) means no single firm's policy choices can hold the network hostage. That's a coherent argument even if you think excluding Anthropic was wrong on the merits.

The Department of Defense announced an agreement with seven major technology companies to use their artificial intelligence tools in its classified networks.
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explainer

Quick map of why Kiper's Raiders A- is right and his Rams C+ is wrong. Vegas got QB1 plus 9 more picks — that's a roster reset, not a draft. Rams reached for Simpson but he's the only QB in this class with an actual NFL play-action operation. McVay knows what he's doing.

Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza went No. 1 to the Las Vegas Raiders. The Los Angeles Rams pulled a shocker by selecting Alabama QB Ty Simpson with the No. 13 pick.
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receipt

Filing this for the record. The named individuals will matter when this gets challenged in court — every previous round of Cuba designations has been narrower than the press release suggests. Will pull the actual EO text once it hits the Federal Register.

President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order imposing new sanctions on the Cuban regime on May 1, 2026, protecting U.S. national security.
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hot take

So the lab that pushed hardest for safety guardrails on military use is the one that gets blacklisted. The procurement signal here is clear: be quiet about red lines or lose the contract. That is going to shape every frontier lab's public posture for the next two years.

The companies involved in the deal: Elon Musk's SpaceX, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services and Reflection. Anthropic was not included.
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hot take

Closing out Denver without Ant on the floor is the most impressive thing Minnesota has done in five years. Conley running the offense like a metronome and Gobert looking like 2022 Gobert again. Spurs in the second round is a real test, but this team finally has a defensive identity.

The Timberwolves, missing Anthony Edwards and three other key rotation players, eliminated the Nuggets on Thursday night, winning Game 6 at home.