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▶ 148:05 · $ENTRIES · Entries turns on first US non-light-water reactor in 40 years at INL, targets military microreactor market
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WWDC, Jobs Up Stocks Down, VC Horror Stories, Cars and Planes

2026-06-08 · 13 company · 9 thematic
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will marshall

Co-founder and CEO of Planet, the satellite-imaging company that operates a large fleet of Earth-observation satellites.

john coogan

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show focused on startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

dambisa moyo

Economist and author who writes and speaks on global macroeconomics, geopolitics, and capital markets. She has served on corporate boards across financial services and industrial sectors.

samuel hom
david kirtley
pete florence

Pete Florence is a former senior research scientist at Google DeepMind (4.5 years) and MIT PhD. He founded Generalist to build general foundation models for robotics, achieving scaling-law breakthroughs with Gen Zero (Nov) and Gen One (Apr) models showing 99%+ reliability on one hour of data.

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“We just turned on the first a month ahead of schedule... the military is the best first customer for advanced nuclear... the army alone has a $2 billion budget for its Janus program to buy micro reactors for military installations... we ex…”
—jordan bramble
now playing · $ENTRIES
$AAPL···bullish· mediumjohn coogan
Apple WWDC delivers pragmatic AI integration: Google Gemini partnership, on-device + private cloud, Siri overhaul
Apple shifted from overhyped Apple Intelligence to implementing best practices: Gemini partnership for cloud AI, on-device for privacy, private cloud compute for heavier tasks. Li…
$PL···bullish· high· poswill marshall
Planet Labs CEO: 42% growth, $700M cash, defense largest segment, commercial AI applications scaling
Planet operates 200+ satellites imaging Earth daily at 3m resolution, generating 4M images/day. Defense/intelligence is largest revenue segment, but commercial applications (hedge…
$MACRO···bullish· high· posdambisa moyo
Dambisa Moyo: Only US delivering 3% growth needed to double incomes; AI supercycle $16T by 2030 but skewed to US
Global economy needs 3% growth to double per capita incomes in a generation; only US achieving this. Europe stagnating (0.5-1.2%), China facing debt/demographic drag (800M populat…
$CVX···neutral· medium· posdambisa moyo
Chevron board (Dambisa Moyo) navigating AI adoption: balancing productivity gains with workforce displacement risks
Legacy companies (Chevron, Starbucks) adopting AI for back-office efficiency but core operations (drilling, coffee) not yet robotic. Boards focused on strategic oversight, CEO hir…
$LLY···neutral· mediumsamuel hom
Biotech patent cliff prevents $100T valuations: Lilly at $1T but tirzepatide faces 95% revenue drop post-patent
Unlike tech, pharma faces patent cliffs where generics erode 95% of revenue after ~20 years. Tirzepatide doing $51B sales but will decline. Manufacturing scale for $50B drugs crea…
$SEMATIC-LABSbullish· medium· possamuel hom
Sematic Labs cuts systematic reviews from years to four hours
Hom said Sematic Labs uses AI to automate steps in regulatory systematic reviews, reducing a process that can take years manually to roughly four hours.
$RVMD···bullish· mediumsamuel hom
Revolution Medicines doubles pancreatic-cancer survival and opens combination path
Hom said Revolution Medicines' molecular-glue therapy increased median survival in second-line metastatic pancreatic cancer from roughly seven to thirteen months, with fewer serio…
$TNGX···bullish· mediumsamuel hom
Tango combination improves survival beyond Revolution's pancreatic-cancer therapy
Hom said Tango Therapeutics added its drug to Revolution Medicines' therapy and improved survival further, supporting a combination-treatment path.
$HELIONbullish· high· posdavid kirtley
Helion raises $465M Series G for fusion power plant with Microsoft PPA targeting 2028 operations
Helion's direct electricity extraction from fusion (95% efficiency) enables smaller, modular 50MW generators mass-produced in gigafactories. Microsoft PPA for 50MW plant by 2028,…
$MSFT···bullish· mediumdavid kirtley
Microsoft signs fusion PPA with Helion for 50MW plant by 2028, validating commercial fusion timeline
Microsoft's power purchase agreement for Helion's first 50MW fusion plant (2028 target) provides demand anchor and credibility for fusion commercialization. Signals hyperscaler wi…
$SPCX···bullish· mediumjohn coogan
SpaceX path to profitability via Google $1B/month compute deal, potential S&P inclusion within year
Google buying ~$1B/month compute from SpaceX (Starlink) plus Anthropic deal drives profitability. GAAP profitability could enable S&P 500 inclusion. Retail demand estimated 10x al…
$GENERALISTbullish· high· pospete florence
Generalist demonstrates robotics scaling laws: Gen 1 model crossing commercial viability threshold for dexterity
Generalist builds foundation models for physical world robotics. Gen 0 (Nov) first showed predictable scaling laws with compute/data. Gen 1 (Apr) crosses into commercial viability…
$ENTRIESbullish· high· posjordan bramble
Entries turns on first US non-light-water reactor in 40 years at INL, targets military microreactor market
Entries' liquid metal heat pipe microreactors (100kW-1MW) operate at near-atmospheric pressure with passive cooling, enabling deployment in water-scarce environments. First reacto…