đ« HOW TO DODGE A TARIFF â FOOD COMPANIES TAP A.I. TO FILL YOUR PANTRY. Welcome to the future, where food companies are using AI to come up with recipes to replace ingredients that arenât tariffed.
â> WHATâS HAPPENING: Imagine if ChatGPT quit its job and became a food scientist. Thatâs basically Giuseppe â an AI trained on 8,000+ ingredients, industrial food production data, and a deep understanding of flavor molecules. Its job? Help companies rewrite their recipes before tariffs make key ingredients too expensive (or impossible to get).
â> ON THE MENU:
đ§ Mac & Cheese, No Cheese: Kraft Heinz used Giuseppe to make a plant-based mac & cheese that tastes like the real deal â without dairy.
â Cold Brew, No Coffee Beans: Global bean shortages? Giuseppe can replicate coffee flavor without actual coffee.
đŠ Shake Shack Ice Cream, Reimagined: The burger chain tapped Giuseppe to make plant-based custard that mimics taste and texture â fast.
â> DONâT ASK WHATâS IN IT: Giuseppe once recreated milk using pineapple and cabbage. Not because anyone asked for that⊠but because the molecules line up. This isn't grandma's kitchen. It's sci-fi snack hacking â and somehow, it works.
â> WHY IT MATTERS: The global food system is fragile. Tariffs, wars, and climate shocks are throwing everything off. But instead of shortages, this AI gives companies a Plan B â turning food into software. That means your favorite treats might survive the next supply crunch... even if theyâve gone fully synthetic.
Still tastes like chocolate. Just... donât ask how.
Source: Fast Company.
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FUTURES
đ MARKETS COOL AFTER RECORD RUN: Wall Street futures dipped Sunday night after the S&P 500 capped a 9-day winning streak â its longest since 2004.
S&P futures: -0.4%
Dow & Nasdaq futures: -0.3% each
The rally erased all tariff-driven losses from April, when Trumpâs trade war threats shook markets. Now? Traders are betting on diplomacy. Beijing is reportedly open to restarting U.S. trade talks, but no deals yet.
FED WATCH: The Fedâs next move? Probably nothing. Futures show just a 3.2% chance of a rate cut at this weekâs policy meeting. But all eyes are on Jerome Powellâs tone â any hint of softness could move markets.
What To Expect From Wednesday's Federal Reserve Meeting, via Investopedia.
What To Look For From The Fedâs May Meeting, via Forbes.
Fedâs Powell Is About to Defy Trump and Hold Rates Steady, via Bloomy.
Source: CNBC
CRYPTO
đ« FED HOLDS â CRYPTO WAITS. Jerome Powell isnât cutting rates yet, and thatâs slowing cryptoâs climb. Bitcoin hovers near $95K as traders brace for a delayed June pivot â and less easy money means less rocket fuel. For now, crypto stays in orbit, not liftoff.
Source: CoinTelegraph
SPACE
đ°ïž THE GOLDEN DOME: AMERICAâS MISSILE SHIELD GOES FULL SCI-FI. President Trump wants to build an all-out defense grid around the U.S.âone that stretches from sea to space. It's called Golden Dome, and itâs a next-gen missile shield blending lasers, satellites, and earth-based tech to stop future attacks before they reach American soil.
â> SPACE LASERS ARE BACK: Think Star Wars, but real. Golden Dome revives Reaganâs dream of missile-zapping satellitesâand Trump wants it fast. Defense contractors from Lockheed to satellite startups are pitching space-age weapons to orbit the planet and take out threats in real time.
â> THE NEW ARMS RACE: Chinaâs hypersonic tests. North Koreaâs nukes. Golden Dome is Washingtonâs high-tech answer to a world speeding toward next-gen warfare. The Pentagon is treating it like the new Apollo programârushing timelines and throwing billions at the problem.
â> WHY IT MATTERS: If built, Golden Dome would mark the biggest leap in missile defense since the Cold War. A full-spectrum dome over Americaâcapable of spotting and stopping threats at Mach speeds, even in space.
Source: WSJ
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
𧏠QUANTUM COMPUTERS ARE STILL TOO FRAGILE TO SAVE OR DESTROY THE WORLD⊠but the countdown has started.
Stanfordâs 2025 Emerging Tech Review says weâre still stuck in the âNISQ eraâ â thatâs short for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum, aka: glitchy baby quantum machines that freak out if you breathe on them. Forget sci-fi superweapons (for now). Todayâs quantum rigs can barely make it through a math problem without collapsing into static.
â> WHY IT MATTERS: These machines donât use 1s and 0s â they use superpositions, entanglements, and quantum voodoo. When they work, they could:
Simulate the birth of the universe
Break every password on Earth
Invent new drugs and materials
Predict markets before they crash
But⊠they donât work yet. They overheat. They glitch. They guess more than they calculate. The dream is real. The timeline isnât.
â> WHERE ITâS HAPPENING
âą Quantum sensors are sneaking into defense systems to detect what radars canât.
âą Quantum networks are being built with unhackable links.
âą Post-quantum encryption is being deployed right now before the first real quantum computer shreds the internet.
Stanford says donât fall for the hype. But donât look away either. The machines are real. The physics checks out. And when quantum hits â everything changes.
Source: Stanfordâs Full report here. For now, itâs just sci-fi. Soon, itâs the new normal.
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Gadgets that make great Mother's Day gifts, via Engadget.
9 Great Deals on Mother's Day Gifts (2025), via Wired.
The 30 best Motherâs Day gifts for 2025, via The Verge.
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