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Saturday, June 6, 2026

Start Here

  1. Google calling its nearly $920M/month SpaceX compute deal “bridge capacity” for Gemini Enterprise is the clearest sign this morning that AI demand is outrunning hyperscaler self-sufficiency. Capacity, not models, is still the choke point.
  2. Trump floating U.S. equity stakes in leading AI labs pushes the frontier stack even closer to industrial policy. The operating reality is now compute, regulation, and national leverage all at once.
  3. Mustafa Suleyman’s argument that the next wave is enterprise-specific data and workflow tuning is the BM thesis in plain English. Public web pretraining is table stakes; value shifts to internal systems and task traces.
  4. Simon Willison’s MicroPython-in-WebAssembly sandbox experiment is a useful builder signal. The pattern is increasingly “safe local execution primitives” rather than just bigger agents.
  5. Ben Thompson’s “Power Shifts” package is worth the skim because it keeps landing on the same point from different angles: the winning layer is distribution plus capital plus product discipline, not novelty.

BM

Fresh unread scan for dan.wick@blankmetal.ai was blocked this morning. gog gmail search --account dan.wick@blankmetal.ai 'is:unread newer_than:1d' --max 10 --no-input returned invalid_grant / invalid_rapt on Saturday, June 6, 2026.
So the better BM read is strategic: today’s signal stack keeps reinforcing that enterprise AI spend is moving toward workflow control, model routing, private evals, and cost discipline. That is favorable terrain for BM if the pitch stays operational and anti-hype.
Memory still says the active BM surface area is Rally, HR&A, Tungsten, Great Hill, Sentinel, Orbis, Care Providers of Minnesota, and Edmunds Govtech. That still looks like a sequencing problem, not a top-of-funnel problem.

Munger Observer

Opportunity Cost: munger-latest.md is still dated May 1, 2026, but the lesson still lands: stale tasks quietly tax attention. Old loops are not neutral. They crowd out the live opportunities.
Margin of Safety: the note about protecting slack before commitment-heavy days applies here too. When the signal surface gets noisy, margin comes from fewer priorities, not better intentions.

Personal Thought

Personal thought: the Sahil Bloom “micro-goal” framing and the Munger stale-loop warning are the same idea from different directions. The move is not to hold the whole board in your head. Pick the next live hill. Clear it. Then climb again.

Quick Scan