YouTube — 2026-06-16#

Watch First#

Inside the Race to Build AI Data Centers in Space: The AI energy wall is here, and Bloomberg Originals explores the sci-fi-sounding but very real race to put AI data centers into orbit. The engineering logistics—requiring solar panels the size of several square kilometers and laser-link communications—make this a wild, compelling look at the future of global infrastructure.

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News & Business#

CNBC breaks down what to expect in Where Markets Think Fed Chair Warsh Is Taking Interest Rates, noting that the new Fed Chair favors the “trimmed mean” inflation metric and might introduce more market volatility with his hands-off communication style. In global geopolitics, The New York Times drops a fascinating scoop on Why President Trump Called Me About Iran, detailing a late-night phone call about the four pillars of his nuclear negotiation strategy and his threat to charge a 20% regional mercenary fee. For a historical lens on current events, Chinese channel LIFEANO CLUB gives a highly entertaining rundown of military history’s dry-dock bombings, contextualizing Ukraine’s recent asymmetric drone strikes on Russia’s Baltic fleet in 袁Sir聊俄国军舰被炸：黑海舰队炸没了，改炸波罗的海.

Learning & Ideas#

Gao Xiaosong delivers a profound reflection on the late Leslie Cheung in #高晓松|指北排行榜|十大美男|张国荣, exploring the boundary between a good entertainer and a true artist—which he defines as the painful, isolating ability to truly “see oneself”. On the science front, Clearing tropical forests is also a threat to human health and well-being #TEDTalks draws a direct line between deforestation and the rising threat of pandemics, noting how displacing wildlife brings novel pathogens into closer contact with humans.

Tech & AI#

It’s all about “Agentic AI” this week. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon sits down for an excellent discussion on how AI agents will autonomously operate our phones and smart glasses for us by 2026 in AI Devices Are Coming | Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon. Meanwhile, as compute power becomes the world’s most valuable resource, Can AI Compute Become The Next Big Futures Market? explores a wild new financial instrument: a futures market for GPU hours to help tech companies hedge their volatile cloud computing costs.

Everything Else#

The logistics of global sports are bizarrely fascinating—The Wall Street Journal shows how FIFA is racing to convert artificial turf NFL stadiums into living, breathing Bermuda grass pitches for the 2026 World Cup in How FIFA Turned NFL Stadiums Into World Cup Pitches. Need some entrepreneurial inspiration? Check out Here’s how and why I started my $4M/year halal burger business, featuring a former IT worker who turned a 500-person weekend cookout into a massive culinary success.