Raunaq's World — May 26, 2026

Daily refresh: SF events, investments, Man Utd, music, startups, robotics.

SF Events — Get out this week

Union Street Festival

June 6-7 • Cow Hollow

Live music, food trucks, craft beer, family activities. Free. Get there early for parking.

Street Fair

SF Pride Parade & Festival

June 27-28 • Civic Center

Parade Sunday, festival both days. Massive crowds, great energy. Book dinner now if you're going out after.

Pride

Warriors NBA Finals Game 1

June 5 • Chase Center

City will be buzzing. Tickets are stupid expensive, but bars around Mission Bay will be packed.

Warriors

Investments — Semi entry window open

NVDA taps $216

Record close in sight

Shares hit $216.11, just shy of $216.61 record. IREN deal gives a five-year cloud revenue stream. Momentum is back.

NVDA $216.11 • +0.36%

ASML hits new ATH

$1,633 after guidance raise

Closed $1,632.90 on May 22, up 52.6% YTD. EUV monopoly plus AI capex equals pricing power. Your Tranche 2 entry would be up nicely.

ASML $1,632.90 • +12% MoM

META $607, down 8.5% YTD

Capex fear overblown

PE 22 with ad impressions +19% and price/ad +12% in Q1. Market hates the $125-145B capex guide, but AI glasses are real. Buyable dip.

META $607.52 • PE 22

Manchester United — Third place locked

Season over, third place locked

Carrick's Red Devils finish with 71 points

3-0 win at Brighton closed it. Bruno Fernandes grabbed his record-breaking 21st assist. 20-11-7 is Champions League football and momentum.

3rd • 71 pts • +19 GD

Ederson to Old Trafford close

£43m Atalanta midfielder verbally agreed

Club-to-club agreement done, contract settled. Ball-winner Casemiro replacement Carrick needs. Shrewd if they close before rivals wake up.

£43m • Close

Music — New drops and live

MGK & Wiz Khalifa go back to the blog era

Blog Era Boyz is pure nostalgia bait

Two veterans trading neon hooks over boomy 2012-style beats. Shameless and it works.

Out May 22

The Fillmore this week

Mt Joy and The Adicts back-to-back

Mt Joy May 22 at 8pm, folk-rock singalongs. The Adicts May 23 at 8pm, punk theatrics. Two crowds, same room.

The Fillmore SF

Startups — YC W26 follow-ons

YC W26: moon hotels and cattle herding

Investors chased extremes

GRU Space lunar hotel and AI cattle herding got the most investor love. Generic SaaS got ignored.

W26 Demo Day

Hark raises $700M at $6B

AI hardware + foundation models

Parkway led with Nvidia, AMD, Intel Capital in. They want a universal human-machine interface.

$700M Series A

Robotics — Physical AI moves

Musk admits Optimus isn't working yet

No meaningful work in Tesla plants

May earnings call concession. Investors rotating to companies with actual revenue.

Tesla

Figure's Helix at BMW

Humanoid deployment is real

Not full autonomy yet, but further along than most demos. Physical AI is leaving the lab.

BMW factory

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