According to Bloomberg, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has, in a series of recent meetings, told senior ASML executives he’s concerned that one of the Dutch chipmaker’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines — the EUV systems that are the only tools on Earth capable of printing the most advanced semiconductor patterns — may have ended up … Read more
Leading Thoughts for June 18, 2026 IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on success: “‘People with very high expectations have very low resilience. Unfortunately, resilience matters in success,’ he later said. ‘Greatness … Read more
Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars. On Tuesday, NASA said it hired the company to build a spacecraft to house a suite of scientific instruments, launch it into space, and fly it to Mars. The … Read more
AI search interfaces are reshaping how content gets surfaced and cited. Pew Research data from 2025 found that around one in five Google searches produced an AI-generated summary, with 88% of those summaries citing three or more sources. Bain’s 2025 research found that roughly 80% of consumers rely on zero-click results in at least 40% of their searches.
Pessimists Can’t Lead “The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.” Joseph Campbell Pessimists emphasize risk more than ability. They bring up opportunities in ways that make teams feel small. Pessimists: Use what they don’t want to explain what they want. Believe discouragement makes people try … Read more
Anthropic is having a month. The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just revealed. It raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation (also besting OpenAI) at the end of May, then waltzed into June by filing confidential paperwork for an IPO, reportedly … Read more
On Sunday, a team of nine researchers at Sina Weibo — the Chinese social media giant better known for its microblogging platform than for cutting-edge artificial intelligence — quietly posted a 14-page technical report to arXiv that sent shockwaves through the AI research community. Their claim: a language model with just 3 billion parameters can … Read more
In 2017, Respond.io set out to solve a simple problem: businesses couldn’t keep up with customers who had moved to messaging apps. Today Respond, with its customer conversation management software, has become one of the tech success stories of Malaysia. The startup, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, has raised a $62.5 million Series B round led … Read more
Unexpected Vitality Vitality comes from being wholehearted. Half-heartedness drains vitality because you’re moving in two directions at once. Part of you jumps in. Part of you holds back. Give yourself fully to challenges. Receive vitality in return. “The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.” David Steindl-Rast “Brother David taught that you don’t always need to take … Read more
After spending 200+ hours with Agent A, Ahrefs’ AI marketing assistant, I’m still not sure whether it’s my best friend or my biggest threat—it’s that capable. Here’s me letting my AI assistant code something for me, while I contemplate the AI doomsday scenarios. But debating the impact of AI on our jobs only gets you … Read more