Good morning. It’s Friday, April 10. The air lies to your face, and you’re either overdressed, underdressed, or emotionally confused. No in between.

On this day in 1970, Paul McCartney announced he was “taking a break” from The Beatles — which is a very polite way of saying the most legendary band in history just ended. 

A small reminder for the rest of us: endings don’t have to be loud to be significant. Sometimes the biggest shifts happen very casually.

Thanks for being here. Go have a good one.

Today’s stories:

Stocks pushed higher Thursday, extending the rally even as oil climbed — optimism is still holding, for now. The S&P 500 rose 0.6%, the Nasdaq gained 0.8%, and the Dow Jones added 276 points. The Dow is now slightly positive for the year — a quiet milestone.

Oil didn’t get the memo. West Texas Intermediate jumped over 3% (briefly topping $100), while Brent crude climbed more than 1%. Markets caught a second wind after Benjamin Netanyahu signaled openness to direct talks with Lebanon — even as tensions remain messy across the region.

Translation: stocks are leaning into optimism, oil is leaning into reality.

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Revolut just posted record profits, pulling in $2.3 billion, and is now acting like it’s ready to take over the world — or at least the U.S., which is basically the same thing in fintech terms. The company grew fast, added millions of users, stacked billions in customer money, and finally got its long-awaited U.K. banking license, which means it can now do what real banks do… but with better UX and less personality. Now it’s eyeing the U.S., because every ambitious tech company eventually decides it’s time to fight American banks, which is bold considering those banks have been winning since forever. The pitch is simple: global, tech-first, fast-growing, and very confident — maybe a little too confident, but that’s kind of required at this level.

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Big tech spending finally shows results. Amazon finally revealed its AI business is generating over $15 billion a year, which conveniently arrives right when investors started side-eyeing the massive spending spree and wondering if anyone was actually making money. The company is pouring around $200 billion into AI, so this number is less impressive and more necessary, like showing proof of life after burning cash for years. At the same time, Amazon is building its own chips to rely less on Nvidia, because paying someone else forever is not exactly the long-term vision.

The Big Short guy is now betting against palantir. Michael Burry, the Big Short guy who made a career out of betting against the obvious and then reminding everyone about it, is back — this time going after Palantir and saying it’s getting outpaced by AI company Anthropic. He pointed out that while Palantir spent 20 years building a complex, service-heavy business that still relies on people showing up and doing the work, Anthropic scaled insanely fast with simple plug-and-play AI that companies can use instantly without the extra layers. After he posted about it, Palantir stock dropped, because even one comment from the guy who called the 2008 crisis still makes the market a little nervous. The core argument is pretty brutal: one company is selling the brains of AI, the other is selling the setup and maintenance, and right now the market is clearly more excited about the brains. Some still believe Palantir’s government ties keep it safe, but others are noticing the stock is priced like everything will go perfectly, which historically is not how things go.

Dr. Dre is now officially a billionaire. Dr. Dre just officially became a billionaire, which feels less like news and more like… finally catching up to reality. The Still D.R.E. guy, who said “no more livin’ hard” decades ago, is now sitting on a fortune built not just from music, but from selling $300 headphones to everyone who wanted to look like they have taste. His real power move wasn’t just producing hits, it was selling Beats to Apple for $3 billion, proving once again that the smartest artists eventually become businessmen. He’s still making music, sitting on hundreds of unreleased tracks, and casually expanding into alcohol brands with Snoop Dogg, because at this level, you don’t slow down — you diversify.

Someone really woke up and said, “you know what the world needs? A $663,000 dinosaur handbag,” and now here we are, with a lab-grown “T-Rex leather” purse being displayed in Amsterdam like it’s the next Mona Lisa. Yes, it’s technically made using reconstructed T-Rex protein (kind of, allegedly, loosely — scientists are side-eyeing it), mixed with biotech and AI, because apparently we’ve run out of normal things to do with technology. The bag is a one-of-one luxury piece for now, starting at half a million pounds, which means it’s less of a handbag and more of a personality trait for someone very rich and slightly bored. The pitch is that this isn’t “fake leather” — it’s elevated, exclusive, prehistoric-core luxury, meant to convince people that lab-grown materials can be just as desirable as traditional ones, just with fewer cows and more… Jurassic Park energy. Critics are already pointing out that there’s no actual T-Rex DNA involved, so technically you’re not carrying a dinosaur, just a very expensive science experiment pretending to be one.

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This Kia van thinks it’s ready for NYC. New York might be getting a new taxi, and no, it’s not another tired yellow sedan that smells like mystery and regret, but a funky electric van from Kia called the PV5 that showed up at the 2026 New York Auto Show. The van is fully electric, runs about 200 miles in real life (which, let’s be honest, is basically one aggressive NYC shift), and was presented as a “production-ready concept,” which is a polite way of saying “we’re not fully committing yet, but please clap.” It’s also designed to be wheelchair-accessible, which is actually a big deal and something NYC taxis desperately need more of, so points for that, even if the interior still looks a little too clean and optimistic for what it’s about to go through. Charging takes around 30 minutes, which sounds fine until you remember NYC taxi drivers don’t exactly enjoy sitting still doing nothing, but technically it could work since most cabs drive about 180 miles per shift anyway. Will it actually become the next NYC taxi? Maybe. Will it stay that shiny and nice after one week in Manhattan? Absolutely not.

Science says marriage could lower cancer risk. For thousands of years, marriage was basically mandatory, like taxes but with a dress, and now that people are opting out, scientists are popping up to say… you might be missing out on health perks too. A new study suggests that people who’ve never been married have higher cancer rates — significantly higher — especially women, which is ironic because historically everyone assumed men were the ones benefiting the most from marriage. Researchers say it’s not just romance and matching pajamas, it’s things like having someone nag you to go to the doctor, eat something green, and stop doing dumb things like smoking or ignoring symptoms for six months. Also, married people tend to have better access to healthcare and more support, while single people are apparently out here raw-dogging life with WebMD and vibes. Some experts are quick to say — let’s relax — it’s not marriage itself that magically protects you, it’s the systems around it, like insurance benefits and having someone who forces you to take care of yourself. So no, getting married won’t make you immortal. But having someone who says “go check that” instead of “it’ll probably go away” might actually help.

Someone launched a silk-covered mannequin 33 km into the sky to “test fabric in extreme conditions,” which sounds like science but feels like fashion people getting bored on Earth. The mannequin is ghost-looking, anonymous, and filmed in 360°, because obviously if you’re sending silk into near space, you need content.

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Cannes chooses taste over star power. The festival still has names like Léa Seydoux, Catherine Deneuve, Rami Malek, Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Isabelle Huppert, Sandra Hüller, and Javier Bardem — so yes, there are stars — just not the loud, blockbuster, paparazzi-everywhere kind. Hollywood is noticeably quieter this year, with only one U.S. director in competition, and way more focus on serious arthouse directors like Asghar Farhadi and Cristian Mungiu. This year feels less like a celebrity circus and more like a curated film club where everyone is talented, slightly intimidating, and very well dressed.

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