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Friday, May 22, 2026

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  1. The White House postponed Trump’s AI / cybersecurity executive order — Biggest policy signal this morning. Washington is still trying to back into an AI posture without slowing the labs, which means uncertainty is now part of the market structure.
  2. The administration is also pushing billions in financing for U.S. AI exports — Same story from the other side: less regulation friction, more geopolitical acceleration.
  3. Lisa Su says the CPU market could grow 35%+ annually through 2031 on AI inference and agentic demand — Clean reminder that the next wave is not just model providers. Chips, packaging, and deployment layers keep getting more important.
  4. Every is running a live session today on frontier-model workflows and human-agent collaboration — Probably worth a skim if you want a current external reference for the same thesis you keep circling: AI raises the bar for operators instead of removing them.
  5. Garry Tan’s “1000x founder” framing is making the rounds — Slightly hypey, but it matches the ambient founder mood: leverage is concentrating around the people who can actually wield these tools.

BM

Live unread scan for dan.wick@blankmetal.ai failed. gog gmail search --account dan.wick@blankmetal.ai 'is:unread newer_than:1d' --max 10 --no-input returned invalid_grant / invalid_rapt, so I am not going to fake an inbox read.
Static board read from MEMORY.md: Rally still looks like the strongest narrative lead, Care Providers of Minnesota still looks like the cleanest scoped AI use case, and Great Hill / Tungsten still read like unblock-or-prune decisions.
Main BM tension is still force concentration. Plenty of warm threads. The risk is opening more loops instead of pushing one or two opportunities into a real next step.

Munger Observer

Opportunity Cost: the open list is still carrying stale March items. Old priorities are still charging attention.
Margin of Safety: the Minnebar reference in the latest note is stale, but the principle holds. Protect slack early so one surprise does not consume the whole day.

Personal Thought

There’s a nice tension this morning between optionality and commitment. The world keeps offering more branches. The real edge is probably picking fewer branches and compounding harder on them.

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