Resilient Power, Kind AI

📡 Radar

☺️ Anthropic wants to build a 'kind' AI—without losing control

In an in-depth profile, Anthropic outlines its ambitious vision to create a benevolent AI system that aligns with human values. The company stresses caution as it pursues artificial general intelligence, balancing innovation with existential risk. Read more on WIRED

🏠 Base Power raises $200M from a16z to back up American homes

Base Power secured a $200M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz to scale its residential battery systems. The company wants to become a household name in home energy resilience, competing with Tesla’s Powerwall as grid instability grows. Read more on TechCrunch

🌊 Anduril unveils Copperhead, its stealth undersea drone

Defense tech company Anduril introduced Copperhead, a high-speed autonomous undersea vehicle designed for long-range missions without human control. The reveal marks a leap forward in naval tech as autonomous systems become central to modern warfare. Read more on Anduril

👊🏽 xAI rolls out Grok-3 API in challenge to OpenAI, Anthropic

Elon Musk’s xAI launched an API for Grok-3, its latest language model, aiming to lure developers with performance claims rivaling GPT-4 and Claude. The move intensifies the battle to commercialize large language models through plug-and-play integrations. Read more on TechCrunch

💰 Andreessen Horowitz eyes $20B megafund to fuel AI surge

a16z is reportedly raising a $20B megafund—one of the largest ever in venture capital history—to double down on U.S. AI dominance. The raise reflects surging global interest in foundational models and a16z’s ambition to be the epicenter of AI capital. Read more on Reuters

🧠 Wisdom

🎧 What We’re Listening To

BG2 on US Open Source vs China Open Source

Takeaway: The U.S. is leveraging OpenAI’s open-source commitment to counter China’s AI dominance, but this strategy might backfire by accelerating China’s ability to innovate without IP constraints.

📕 What We’re Reading

The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday

💬 Quote of the Week

💣 Perspective

• 1 million seconds = 11.5 days

• 1 billion seconds = 31.7 years

• 1 trillion seconds = 31,709 years

Although the surface level difference is just one letter, it is important to understand how different these figures are as they get tossed around. People lump millionaires and billionaires together, but they’re not even in the same conversation. This perspective also helps gauge the severity of the United States’ $36 trillion national debt, which when converted to seconds amounts to a whopping 1.14 million years!

💬 Prompt

What can I help you with?

Pick a high-achieving founder (like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Sam Altman) and reverse engineer their strategy, mindset, and daily habits. How did they think, operate, and build momentum? Then show me how I can adapt 3 of their core principles to my own work today.

📣 Updates

⛳ Challenge: Augusta Ascender

Inspired by Augusta’s brutal elevation shifts.

• 50 pushups

• 100 walking lunges

• 40 stair flights (or step-ups)

Fastest time (with proper technique) wins. Green jacket not included. 

🏡 Family

Get your kids in the game with Charlie Golf Co. Rob picked one of these bags up for his son Jack, and he loves it. Not affiliated whatsoever, just love this golf brand for kids.

🛫 Where We’re Going 

Chris will be in Ft. Lauderdale on April 23-26. Let us know if you’re around.

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