YouTube — 2026-05-23#

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Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED makes a bold, biological case for neural implants, comparing our coming integration with AI to the evolutionary moment single-celled organisms absorbed mitochondria. It is a compelling reframing of the AI safety debate that argues keeping artificial intelligence separate from human consciousness makes it a deadly rival rather than an integrated tool.

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News & Business#

In macro news, 加息已成最大风险！IPO将成牛市终点？英伟达数据又闹乌龙？ from 美投侃新闻 warns that impending megacap AI IPOs like SpaceX and OpenAI could drain massive liquidity from the market, functioning as a top signal for the current bull run. On the global supply chain front, CNBC’s How The Strait Of Hormuz Logjam Is Causing Chaos For Medical Suppliers reveals how geopolitical chokepoints are driving up raw material costs for medical dressings by as much as 30%. Meanwhile, Special Operations Forces Give Rare Demonstration at SOF Week | WSJ covers a rare daytime tactical demonstration by elite commandos in Tampa, emphasizing the Pentagon’s push to heavily integrate new tech into special ops. For UK politics nerds, the FT uses a football metaphor to contrast Keir Starmer’s defensive playstyle with Andy Burnham’s “buccaneering” approach in What does Andy Burnham stand for? | FT #shorts.

Learning & Ideas#

American Patents: The Chinese Instruction Manual | Palmer Luckey on #UncommonKnowledge features Oculus founder Palmer Luckey arguing that the public patent system basically functions as a free blueprint for foreign IP theft, advocating instead for expanded national security patents. If you want a quick brain teaser, Veritasium’s Can you solve the hat riddle? breaks down a classic logic puzzle where a prisoner’s silence acts as the crucial piece of missing data. In Chinese history, #高晓松|指北排行榜|十大没落省会城市01… offers a fascinating look at Kulun (modern Ulaanbaatar) and how it transitioned from a Chinese provincial capital to the center of an independent Mongolia. Additionally, 【限免】袁Sir翻牌：日本武士掌权后，跟中国的交流多吗？… breaks down why official diplomatic relations between China and Japan drastically cooled after the Kamakura shogunate took power during a period of massive instability.

Tech & AI#

Beyond the macro IPO threats, 加息已成最大风险！IPO将成牛市终点？英伟达数据又闹乌龙？ also digs into Nvidia’s claim of $20 billion in CPU revenue, noting Wall Street skepticism that the number is heavily inflated by bundled memory and GPU components. Big tech is also taking heat on the privacy front, with Google面臨的法律爭議 highlighting recent lawsuits over deceptive location tracking and biometric data collection in Google Photos.

Everything Else#

美國傳奇主廚二代正式接班！… is a great kitchen profile of Emeril Lagasse’s 22-year-old son, who just earned two Michelin stars in New Orleans and relies on custom-raised ingredients like local quail. BBC Earth delivers stunning, bleak footage in How the Amur Leopard Survives Winter | 20 Years of Planet Earth | BBC Earth, tracking one of the world’s 40 remaining wild Amur leopards as she struggles to feed her cub. Finally, if you are feeling the modern grind, CNBC Make It explains the rising trend of “doomjobbing”—where stressed job seekers frantically mass-apply to roles online—in The stress of unemployment has some jobseekers ‘doomjobbing’.