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Wednesday, May 21, 2026 -- Daily Briefing

SF Events

FoodieLand this weekend, Giants hosting White Sox, A$AP Rocky in June

FoodieLand Food Festival -- This Weekend

May 22-24 | San Francisco | $12 GA

America's largest food festival. 250+ vendors, global street food, artisan shopping, live music. Kids under 5 free. Buy in advance -- they sell out.

SF Giants vs Chicago White Sox at Oracle Park

3-game series | May 22-24

Giants (20-29) host the rebuilding White Sox. Got crushed 12-2 by Arizona yesterday. Oracle Park in late May is still a great experience and tickets should be cheap.

A$AP Rocky: Don't Be Dumb World Tour

Chase Center | June 25 | Tickets from $120

Rocky's first major tour in a while. The Don't Be Dumb album cycle has been one of his most cohesive rollouts. Fashion-forward live show energy.

Festa Italiana -- North Beach Street Fair

June 6-7 | North Beach | FREE

105th annual Statuto Race, Italian food, wine tastings, pizza toss, live music. One of SF's oldest and best free festivals.

Investments

NVDA crushed earnings ($81.6B, +85%) but sold off AH -- ASML ripped +6%, AAPL broke $300

NVIDIA Earnings: $81.6B Revenue, Beat Everything, Stock Fell

Q1 FY27 | EPS $1.87 vs $1.75 est | -2% after hours

Revenue up 85% YoY, data center $75.2B (+92%), buyback raised to $80B. And the stock dropped 2% AH. The bar was impossibly high. Real signal is Q2 guidance (~$87B expected).

ASML Ripped +6.2% to $1,550 Watchlist

Above consensus PT | New ATH territory

The EUV monopoly prints. Every hyperscaler raising capex flows through ASML's order book. Your thesis chokepoint is at peak validation.

Apple Broke $300 for the First Time New ATH

AAPL $302.25 | All-time high $303.20

Services revenue at all-time records, iPhone demand supply-constrained. $100B buyback providing a floor. Next catalyst: WWDC in June.

Startups

Karpathy defected to Anthropic, Anduril raised $5B, AI eating 81% of VC

Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic Talent Move

OpenAI co-founder defects to the rival lab | May 19

Joining the pretraining team under Nick Joseph. "The next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative." Biggest talent move of 2026. Given your Anthropic interview Friday, the timing is poetic.

Anduril Closes $5B Series H at $61B Valuation

$10.6B total raised | Defense AI

Palmer Luckey's defense tech company is worth more than most public defense contractors. Autonomous systems governments actually buy. The biggest private round outside frontier AI labs.

Robotics

Figure's robot worked 81 hours straight, Hyundai wants 25K Atlas units

Figure AI: 81-Hour Warehouse Shift, Zero Errors

Helix-02 | 100,000+ packages sorted autonomously

Livestreamed. No human touching controls. This separates "cool robot video" from "actual business." Now producing 1 robot per hour -- 24x scale in 120 days.

Hyundai Demands 25,000 Atlas Robots from Boston Dynamics

New 30,000-unit production plant by 2028

Hyundai's board frustrated with pace. C-suite exodus at Boston Dynamics as pressure mounts. This is what "pull" looks like in robotics.

Manchester United

3rd place locked, CL secured, season finale at Brighton Saturday

Man Utd 3-2 Nottingham Forest -- Five-Goal Thriller

Shaw, Cunha, Mbeumo | Old Trafford | May 17

Shaw opened early, Cunha and Mbeumo sealed it. 74,015 in attendance. End-of-season party at the Theatre of Dreams.

3rd Place, 68 Points, Champions League Secured

Arsenal champions (82 pts) | City 2nd (78)

Best PL finish in years. CL football back at Old Trafford next season -- that changes the entire transfer window calculus.

Music

Drake dropped a triple album, Charli xcx new single today, Muse gearing up for summer

Drake Dumped 43 Tracks Across Three Albums

Iceman + Habibti + Maid of Honour | May 15

Tracking 480K-520K first-week units for Iceman alone. 250M Spotify streams on day one. Fulfilled his UMG contract. Nobody else can just... do this.

Charli xcx Drops 'SS26' Today

New single | May 21

Announced via cryptic luxury fashion invitation. If it's anything like the Brat era, expect the internet to have opinions within 30 minutes.