YouTube — 2026-06-13#
Watch First#
Oral History of SpaceX’s Journey: Space and AI, and the Prelude to Human Civilization’s Expansion? is an incredibly rich, feature-length podcast interview with a former early SpaceX manufacturing chief. He reveals how Elon Musk aggressively pushed the team to treat rocket building like mass-producing soda cans, offering brilliant insights into SpaceX’s ruthless engineering culture and its future integrating with xAI.
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News & Business#
The massive SpaceX IPO and Elon Musk’s newly minted trillionaire status dominated financial media, with Elon Musk’s Big Bet for SpaceX exploring the immense risks of his vision and You Have No Idea How Much a Trillion Dollars Is — and We Have Proof | WSJ illustrating just how mind-bogglingly large his net worth has become. On the geopolitical and macroeconomic front, 战争结束美股起飞？微软掌控数据红线！明年AI开支被低估？SpaceX大受追捧！ unpacks how a potential US-Iran peace treaty is driving down oil prices and buoying stock market sentiment. Meanwhile, Can Democrats Overcome GOP Gerrymandering? breaks down the 3.1-point structural advantage Republicans hold in the House due to redistricting, and The Need for American Energy Statecraft makes a compelling case for the U.S. to weaponize its energy abundance to support allies abroad.
Learning & Ideas#
For a fascinating historical detour, 【限免】袁Sir翻牌：皇上信佛，是真信还是假信？#lifeano翻牌 260606 answers viewer questions about why Japanese Buddhism diverged so wildly from Chinese traditions, detailing how historical changes allowed monks to marry, have children, and eat meat. On the medical science front, The Next Phase Of The Obesity Drug Race provides an excellent overview of GLP-1 developments, highlighting Lilly’s powerful new Retatrutide drug which is driving up to 28% weight loss. If you need a dose of inspiration, Jensen Huang on Why the Immigrant Spirit Resembles the Entrepreneurial Spirit | Only in America draws an elegant parallel between the immigrant experience and the desperation required to survive as an entrepreneur. We also get a quick, fascinating trivia hit from 阿姆斯壯反常的生理反應？ noting that Neil Armstrong’s heart rate actually slowed down as he took high-pressure manual control to land the Apollo module on the moon.
Tech & AI#
It’s a rocky road at Meta, where Big Challenges Ahead For Meta AI Chief Alexandr Wang After A Rocky First Year reports the chief AI officer is under intense pressure following the disappointing Llama 4 launch and internal morale issues. We get another angle on the AI arms race from 战争结束美股起飞？微软掌控数据红线！明年AI开支被低估？SpaceX大受追捧！, which details a fascinating bottleneck at Microsoft: strict “zero data retention” policies for enterprise clients are actively clashing with Anthropic’s need to retain prompts for its powerful new Claude Fable 5 model. For a hardware perspective, 2分鐘超快速解說晶片製程 offers a hyper-fast visual explainer on the extreme ultraviolet light machinery required for 2-nanometer chip manufacturing, and Nokia Doesn’t Make Phones Anymore — But It Still Makes Billions explores how the legacy brand successfully pivoted into building AI-native telecom networks.
Everything Else#
In lifestyle and culture, creator Susie Woo hilariously observes in 英國職場最可怕的地方是：工作過之後，你可能就不想回亞洲上班了。🤣 that the relaxed “10-to-4” working culture in the UK makes it nearly impossible for expats to ever return to grueling Asian office hours. Food enthusiasts should watch 直擊紐約最夯墨西哥餐廳後場！享受烹飪喜悅第一次開餐廳就上手？也透露老闆兼主廚的挑戰與壓力｜美食公道伯｜GQ Taiwan, which goes behind the scenes at Hellbender in NYC, showcasing the intense daily prep work and stress of a first-time chef-owner. Finally, legendary Hong Kong director Wong Jing drops by to joke in 王晶：都怪周润发，让我放弃了演艺事业 竖版 that seeing Chow Yun-fat’s flawless looks and acting skills early in their careers is what intimidated him into immediately quitting acting to direct instead.