🪙 CRYPTO CLEARED FOR 401(K) PLANS: The Trump administration just tore up Biden-era rules that urged caution on crypto in retirement accounts—opening the door for bitcoin, meme coins, and NFTs in your 401(k).
—> 🧾 WHAT CHANGED: The Labor Department rescinded 2022 guidance that warned employers to use “extreme care” before offering crypto. The new stance? Neutral. Employers can now offer digital assets—if they decide it’s prudent.
—> 💸 WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU: Your 401(k) could soon include crypto options. That means more choice—but also more risk. Prices swing wildly. Fraud and scams are still rampant. You could strike gold—or get wrecked.
—> ⚖️ LEGAL GUARDRAILS STILL APPLY: Employers still owe you a fiduciary duty. If they offer crypto recklessly, they could be sued. This isn’t a green light—it’s a yellow one with fewer warning signs.
Sources: CNBC, Financial Times
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HAPPENING TONIGHT: AI gets the DC treatment. More via Variety:
The inaugural AI Honors, presented on Tuesday by the Washington AI Network at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, will honor lawmakers, tech executives, researchers and others who are influential voices in AI.
Honorees include Sen. Todd Young (R-IN); Rep. Jay Olbernolte (R-CA) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), chairs of the House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence; Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency; Jack Hindary, CEO of SandboxAQ; Patricia K. Falcone, deputy director for science and technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and Father Paolo Benanti, the Vatican’s official adviser on AI ethics.
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ROBOTS
🤖 THE RISE OF ROBOTS: Morgan Stanley says we’re entering the age of embodied AI — where machine learning meets machine muscle. Think: humanoid robots that walk, grip, carry, sense, respond. Powered by the same AI behind chatbots, but with physical form.
—> 💡 WHY IT MATTERS: This isn’t about novelty. It’s about a new labor force. These robots could transform logistics, healthcare, manufacturing, caregiving — even home assistance. If they can move like humans, they can work where humans do. That means a new industrial revolution is brewing — and it’s automated.
—> 🧱 WHO WINS: Investors are eyeing the hardware — companies that make the motors, joints, sensors, and cooling tech that bring robots to life. It's not just about Nvidia chips anymore. It’s about the full stack: intelligence, infrastructure, and embodiment.
—> 🚨 THE BIG PICTURE: This changes what it means to scale. It’s no longer just about software eating the world — it’s about AI building a physical presence in it. The lines between tool and teammate are blurring fast.
Source: Morgan Stanley
SPACE
🌌 COSMIC COIN FLIP: MILKY WAY MAY NOT COLLIDE WITH ANDROMEDA: A galactic smash-up once treated as destiny? Now just a 50/50. New models from astrophysicist Til Sawala (University of Helsinki) using data from Gaia and Hubble suggest our Milky Way might not merge with Andromeda after all — a dramatic shift from previous predictions.
🔀 THREE FUTURES: MERGE, MISS, OR GLIDE PAST: The study mapped out three possible outcomes:
• A rare head-on collision (less than 2% chance)
• A close gravitational dance that eventually spirals into a merger
• A full pass-by with both galaxies continuing on in isolation
—> 🤔 WHY YOU CARE: If the Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda, it reorients everything — not just our night sky, but our understanding of time, progress, and what humanity is building toward. It's a future-defining moment on a cosmic clock. If not? We’re alone a little longer, evolving in quiet isolation. Either way, we’re definitely set to devour the Large Magellanic Cloud in the next 2 billion years. 📖 Published in Nature Astronomy
Source: Space.com
ENERGY // QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🌐 META SIGNS 20-YEAR NUCLEAR DEAL TO POWER THE AI FUTURE: Meta just inked a two-decade pact with Constellation Energy to revive a nuclear plant in Illinois —part of its high-stakes plan to fuel AI’s exponential energy appetite.
—> 🔋 AI EATS ELECTRICITY: Generative AI models like Meta’s LLaMA devour power during both training and daily use (aka inferencing). Data centers need massive cooling and compute—often powered by fossil fuels. This nuclear bet is Meta’s signal it wants cleaner, steadier juice.
—> 💥 WHY IT MATTERS: AI is scaling so fast, it’s disrupting the grid. The U.S. Department of Energy says data center energy use could triple again by 2028, hitting 12% of the entire nation’s supply. That’s like giving a toaster to every star in the galaxy and asking them all to fire up at once.
—> 🤖 ENTER: “NUCLEAR-POWERED AI”: Meta’s pivot echoes moves by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. But it also admits nuclear won’t come online fast enough. Until then, Meta is betting big on gas-fired plants in Louisiana to feed its next mega-data center.
—> 🚀 THE FUTURE IS PLUG-AND-PLAY: France is pitching itself as the nuclear-AI capital. Macron’s pitch? “Plug baby, plug.” In the U.S., Meta’s gamble is that splitting atoms — not just wires — could someday power the AI arms race.
Source: AP
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ONE MORE THING
🫁 BREATHE EASY, LIVE BETTER — SIX SCIENCE-BACKED BREATHING TECHNIQUES FOR SLEEP, STRESS & FOCUS: From Navy SEALs to sleep doctors, the science of breathing is getting serious. Health experts say mastering your inhale and exhale can upgrade your physical and mental health — without touching an app.
—> 😴 BEDTIME BREATHING (4-7-8) Rebecca Dennis of the Breathing Tree recommends this pattern: inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 7, exhale for 8. This deep diaphragmatic breathing calms the nervous system and lulls the brain into sleep mode — no sheep required.
🏃♂️ BOOST ENDURANCE BY BREATHING THROUGH YOUR NOSE:
Double Inhale, Long Sigh: The “physiological sigh” calms nerves before high-stress moments.
Box Breathing (4-4-4-4): Used by Navy SEALs for focus under pressure.
Coherent Breathing (5-5): Equal in-and-out breaths may lower cortisol and ease pain.
Source: The Times
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Kev
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