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Nearly 50 years running. Grand Parade on Sunday with 3,000+ costumed performers, plus vendors, live music across stages. The city's biggest free street festival. If you only leave the house once this weekend, make it this.

Their warm, sprawling jams fill that room exactly right. These guys have been on a tear since 'Astrovan' blew up. Expect an apple from the barrel on the way out.

Friday 7:15, Saturday and Sunday 1:05. The White Sox are historically bad -- low-stress, high-fun ballpark weekend. Grab a garlic fries.

Forward PE is now ~22x -- the cheapest it's been all cycle. Benchmark raised their target to $335. At $219.51, this is the kind of "nobody cares about the beat" dip your tranche plan was designed for.

Iran war keeps Hormuz closed, WTI crude near $98. On days oil falls, stocks rip. On days oil rebounds, even NVDA's blowout doesn't matter. This is the macro regime that makes or breaks your semi entry timing.

NVDA's PE compression to ~22x is the cheapest entry since the AI cycle began. TSM ($407) keeps grinding on 2nm pricing power. ASML ($1,592) rallied 20% since April. The wild card is whether bond yields let any of this breathe.

Fernandes equalled the all-time PL single-season assist record held by Henry (02-03) and De Bruyne (19-20). Also bagged 8 goals. FWA Footballer of the Year -- first United player since Rooney in 2010. Brighton away Sunday is his shot at 21.

Elliot Anderson is the dream target but Forest want 100m+ and City are circling. Valverde became available after a dressing-room bust-up at Real Madrid. Tchouameni, Ederson, and Brighton's Baleba also on the shortlist. Transfer window opens June 15.

Anthropic closed a $30B Series H led by Sequoia, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Altimeter -- surpassing OpenAI's $852B March valuation. ARR hit $30B in April. An October IPO targeting $60B+ in proceeds is reportedly in the works. Relevant context: your system design interview with them is today.

The serverless AI infrastructure startup raised a Series C led by Redpoint and General Catalyst. 5x growth since September. Modal's trajectory validates that the real margin is in the compute layer, not the model layer.

15 categories for S26 -- agricultural robots, counter-drone defense, lunar regolith manufacturing, semiconductor supply chain tools. If you're evaluating W26 companies, this tells you where YC sees the next wave: physical AI in regulated, capital-heavy verticals.

Figure AI livestreamed Figure 03 sorting over 100,000 packages across 81 continuous hours -- zero errors in the first 24. Then they raced a human intern over 10 hours: the intern barely won. The gap between human and robot warehouse labor is now single-digit percentages.

Tesla produced its last Model S and Model X at Fremont -- ending 14 and 11 years of production. The factory is being converted into an Optimus humanoid assembly plant, with Musk suggesting production could start before year-end. Tesla literally tearing up its origin story to bet on robots.

America's first vertically integrated humanoid robot factory opened in Hayward. At $20K per unit (or $499/month subscription), the entire first-year run sold out in five days -- $200M in pre-orders. Consumer shipments begin before year-end.

Jack Antonoff's fifth Bleachers album ricochets from synth-pop to folk to chamber pop, threaded through his marriage to Margaret Qualley. He told NPR "this version of modernity is trash," and the record backs it up. Might be their best one.

If you came up on Arts & Crafts records in the mid-2000s, this triple bill is a time machine. Emily Haines, Kevin Drew, and Torquil Campbell sharing a green room. Get tickets before the millennials find out.