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One of OpenAI's longest serving executives is headed out the door, although the longtime COO told staff that he was "excited to help you all advance the mission from a different vantage point."

The world's largest asset manager believes the AI trade still has another decade of upside ahead. I sat down with BlackRock's @JayJacobsCFA to discuss how to invest in the next leg of AI bull market, the physical bottlenecks to bet on, comparing data center spending to the dot-com overbuild, and the sectors that investors are ignoring right now. Jay is the US head of equity ETFs at BlackRock — which manages $14 trillion in assets — and he has a unique vantage point on thematic investing and building financial products. The ideas in this conversation will surprise you. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Tech valuations declining 2:00 - 3 layers of AI 5:26 - Runway for the physical layer 7:46 - Another dot-com overbuild? 9:17 - Power constraint 11:15 - Indium, an AI choke point 14:52 -Risks in AI portfolios 16:05 - Why thematic funds beat sectors 19:25 - Defense stocks 22:10 - Healthcare 25:17 - Commodities 26:25 - Robotics 27:19 - $BTC at @BlackRock 30:58 - Highest-conviction themes 32:57 - Why not financials? 33:53 - Follow Jay

What an incredible milestone to reach so early on It would have NEVER been possible without the extraordinary community, advisory, and CTO team who all have been working around the clock to match the breakneck speed of the space (what a blessing that there are too many ppl to reasonably list here -- you know who you are) It also of course wouldn't have been possible without the support from @RobinhoodApp @RobinhoodCrypto @vladtenev and their teams, who have been tremendous partners, and to who we owe great thanks It is impossible to communicate how excited we are to continue growing the meme, the brand, @letscashfun (another killer team), and all there is to come, now alongside such exceptional partners There is SO much in store, and in every sense, we are genuinely just getting started I'm seeing some (understandable) takes from the vantage point of traders who might view this as a 'catalyst' ceiling, but the reality is that expanding distribution on RH is the FIRST STEP to our plans for growth The goal always has been, and will continue to be, a community-first approach to adding value to @RobinhoodCrypto. We believe there is a long road ahead for all metrics to continue going up (bear -> bull, TVL uponly, etc) throughout which we will continue executing at max velocity Now that things are made official, it is time to truly put things into motion Expect the same attitude as always: head down, keep shipping. No fluff. No bullshit. Stay tuned 🤝

🔎 A closer look at one of the leaders taking the stage at hashtag#CVSummit# 2026 - Welcome Dr. Dirk Klee! Dr. Dirk Klee, Country Head Switzerland at @BlackRock Asset Management and a member of the EMEA Wealth Executive Committee, brings a rare vantage point to the institutionalisation of digital assets. Across a 25-year career, Dr. Dirk Klee has held leadership roles at some of the world's most influential financial institutions. Bringing a wealth of experience, most recently Board Member at VP Bank AG and CEO of @BitcoinSuisseAG, Dr. Dirk Klee has also run @Barclays' Wealth Management and Investments business as CEO and served as COO for International Wealth Management at @UBS. That combination, spanning traditional wealth management, private banking, and digital asset infrastructure, places him at exactly the intersection CV Summit 2026 is built around: the shift of digital assets from experimentation to institutional infrastructure. Join us on 29-30 September at the Kongresshaus Zurich for Switzerland's largest AI and Institutional Digital Assets Conference. 👉 Secure your place:

We know curiously little about the first female, Eve: > never heard from her > no data on her life > manufactured from man > was second > is to blame Eve is our foundational concept of a woman, yet she is not legible. Why? For 1,400 years, humanity was confused about planets too. When the ancient Greeks looked up to the sky, they saw some lights (stars) appeared fixed, while other lights (planets) moved erratically. They couldn’t understand why. From their vantage point, Mars would stop, reverse, loop backward, and then resume. Planets were bewildering, called "wanderers". To Greek physicians, the womb was also perplexing. They taught that the womb moved freely, a restless wanderer inside the body. They looked up at the sky, and at a woman, and concluded the same thing: they are erratic and wandering. To resolve this planetary madness, astronomers spent 1,400 years trying to understand. They used complicated models, overlaying circles onto circles (epicycles). Then, Copernicus and Kepler figured it out. Two insights solved over 1,400 years of bad explanations. It turns out the observed was not fixed, and the orbits were ellipses, not perfect circles. Our bewilderment about female health only means it is yet to be understood. There’s a reframe waiting to happen. In the fifth century BCE, Polykleitos sculpted the male body as a system of ideal mathematical proportion. Setting the historical trajectory for the “ideal” body. This passed through Vitruvius and then was immortalized by Da Vinci. This is how the default template of the human body was established. The male body was chosen because it held still, not because it was superior. It lacked the cyclical, "erratic", misunderstood shifts of the female body. Perhaps it's time for another reframe. In the next 90 days, Kate will become the most measured female in history. Three of her menstrual cycles (orbits) will be meticulously tracked. > 1,900 biomarkers tracked > 14.8 million data points > 100 tasks a day > 6-10 hours a day > 50+ devices > brain, taste, smell, and more > 3 menstrual cycles The effort will reveal new insight into female health, though that’s not really the primary objective here. Kate is trying to become legible. First to herself, and then to others.

OpenAI's former Chief Operating Officer, Brad Lightcap just announced he is stepping down from the company Here is the full letter Lightcap sent to OpenAI employees: "Team, it is bittersweet to share that I’ll be moving on from OpenAI to start something new. I feel incredibly fortunate to have spent most of the last decade pursuing our mission and building this company. Sitting here today, mission success feels within sight. It has been the honor of my life to help bring us to this point, and to do it alongside all of you. I joined OpenAI in 2018, eight years ago this month, because I wanted to work on something hard. @sama introduced me to @gdb and @ilyasut, who showed me a pitch deck suggesting that because models improve predictably with scale, AGI was not only possible but likely. If you had told me then that we’d be where we are today, I wouldn't have believed you. In the years that followed, I had the privilege of building the first versions of most of our operations and business teams – from Finance to Legal, People, CorpSec, GTM/Gov, Partnerships, and more. Among the most rewarding parts of this journey for me has been watching each of these teams mature under brilliant leaders. I am excited for the next decade in the hands of this incredibly capable team. At the same time, we grew from a small research lab to one of the most consequential companies of our time. I was reminded of that fact constantly – from serving our first user to our billionth, to the growing scale and ambition of our partnerships and the occasional curveball (the Blip, etc.). Through it all, I’m proud of how we’ve maintained our focus on people. It always amazes me how quickly the world has adopted our tools and rallied behind our mission. I hope we will continue to earn their trust. Over the last few months, I’ve been focused on the next horizon and what would stand in the way of mission success. I believe there are a few important new things the world will need to get right as we enter this next period. I’ll have more to share soon, but I believe in OpenAI more than ever and am excited to help you all advance the mission from a different vantage point. I am deeply grateful to have had the opportunity to work with all of you, and to so many of you for the support through the years. The old OpenAI meme that “the real AGI is the friends you made along the way” really rings true for me. I will be around for the next few weeks. I am not going far and hope to continue to support you all however I can. I’ll always be a phone call away if you need me. Brad"

i shared the message below with the openai team this morning. these decisions are never easy, but the talent and mission orientation of the openai team make me more optimistic than ever. 🤍 ### Team, it is bittersweet to share that I’ll be moving on from OpenAI to start something new. I feel incredibly fortunate to have spent most of the last decade pursuing our mission and building this company. Sitting here today, mission success feels within sight. It has been the honor of my life to help bring us to this point, and to do it alongside all of you. I joined OpenAI in 2018, eight years ago this month, because I wanted to work on something hard. @sama introduced me to @gdb and @ilyasut, who showed me a pitch deck suggesting that because models improve predictably with scale, AGI was not only possible but likely. If you had told me then that we’d be where we are today, I wouldn't have believed you. In the years that followed, I had the privilege of building the first versions of most of our operations and business teams – from Finance to Legal, People, CorpSec, GTM/Gov, Partnerships, and more. Among the most rewarding parts of this journey for me has been watching each of these teams mature under brilliant leaders. I am excited for the next decade in the hands of this incredibly capable team. At the same time, we grew from a small research lab to one of the most consequential companies of our time. I was reminded of that fact constantly – from serving our first user to our billionth, to the growing scale and ambition of our partnerships and the occasional curveball (the Blip, etc.). Through it all, I’m proud of how we’ve maintained our focus on people. It always amazes me how quickly the world has adopted our tools and rallied behind our mission. I hope we will continue to earn their trust. Over the last few months, I’ve been focused on the next horizon and what would stand in the way of mission success. I believe there are a few important new things the world will need to get right as we enter this next period. I’ll have more to share soon, but I believe in OpenAI more than ever and am excited to help you all advance the mission from a different vantage point. I am deeply grateful to have had the opportunity to work with all of you, and to so many of you for the support through the years. The old OpenAI meme that “the real AGI is the friends you made along the way” really rings true for me. I will be around for the next few weeks. I am not going far and hope to continue to support you all however I can. I’ll always be a phone call away if you need me. Brad

Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin (ITBrief) reports on Shopify’s Platinum membership in PyTorch Foundation, including Shopify’s plans to contribute upstream engineering expertise and share experience from running machine learning systems in retail and commerce settings. "AI is becoming the operating layer for commerce, and we're convinced that layer needs to be open to reach global scale," said Mikhail Parakhin, Chief Technical Officer, Shopify. "PyTorch is central to how Shopify builds AI today. Joining the Foundation lets us invest in that base directly and help shape it for the agentic era, rather than just building on top of it." The coverage also details Shopify’s use of PyTorch across Sidekick, search and recommendation tools, fraud protection, and foundation model work tied to merchant tools. "We are excited to welcome Shopify to the PyTorch Foundation as our newest Platinum Member," said Mark Collier, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation. "Shopify operates where AI meets real buyers and sellers every day, and that vantage point is exactly what the Foundation needs as agents become a front door to commerce. Read more: