Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome - Charlie Munger
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The Quantum Computing Economic Shift
While still in its nascent stages, the global quantum computing market is projected to reach approximately $65 billion by 2030. This leap is driven by the fact that quantum processors can perform specific calculations in seconds that would take today’s most powerful supercomputers thousands of years to complete.
Tech Talk
If you haven’t updated your "must-buy" list yet, Samsung just made it easy (and expensive) by dropping the Galaxy S26 and Buds4 at Unpacked on February 25. They’re leaning hard into the "Agentic AI" buzzword, promising a phone that basically lives your life for you while you stare at its shiny new "Privacy Display." Meanwhile, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang is already warming up his leather jacket for the GTC 2026 announcement, calling AI a "five-layer cake", which sounds delicious until you realize he’s talking about data centers and not actual dessert. Not to be outdone in the "merging everything" department, SpaceX and xAI reportedly closed a trillion-dollar deal to create a vertical empire of rockets and chatbots. And for the truly antisocial, a new social network called Moltbook launched specifically for AI agents to talk to each other. Finally, a place where bots can complain about humans without us ruining the vibe.
Science Scoop
Humanity might have a shot at a decent future, thanks to some literal "jelly" coming out of ETH Zurich. Researchers just unveiled a laser-printed hydrogel implant that mimics natural bone, potentially ending the era of clunky metal plates for severe breaks. If that doesn’t warm your heart, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory just went live, issuing 800,000 alerts in its first night to help us track supernovas and "whizzing" asteroids before they get too close for comfort. We also found out that a certain "resilient bacterium" might survive a Martian asteroid impact, which is great news for our future space-colonizing microbial friends. Plus, a new high-intensity brain stimulation approach can reportedly treat depression in just five days, a massive win for mental health that makes the standard six-week slog look like dial-up internet.
The Rest of the World
The geopolitical map is looking a bit spicy this week. The UN Security Council is bracing for a hectic March under the US presidency, with eyes glued to the Middle East following reports of significant strikes and energy disruptions in the region. Oil prices are doing their usual nervous dance as tanker disruptions rattle global supply, though some analysts are already betting on a "sell the news" cycle. On a brighter note, the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics wrapped up their final stretch of prep, reminding us that we can still get together to slide down hills for shiny medals.
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We pledged approx. €2000 for you to see the ups 😀 and downs 👎. Defence rising (oh I wonder why?) and Bitcoin starting to recover.
Market Pulse: February 25 to March 3, 2026 – Buckle Up for the Rollercoaster Ride
The global markets decided to take us on a wild adventure this past week. In the US, the tech sector felt some heavy gravity as the Nasdaq dropped a painful 2.15% while the S&P 500 slid 1.41%. It wasn't just an American party though because even the DAX in Germany and the FTSE 100 in the UK saw slight declines of 0.09% and 0.26% respectively. On the flip side, India's Nifty 50 was the overachiever of the group, surging ahead by 2.55% to prove that someone was actually making money while others were checking their couch cushions for loose change.
A $1000 bet on a global basket a week ago would have grown into roughly $1012 by today. Your American stocks decided to have a bad hair day with a 1.41% drop, and your European slice followed suit with a minor 0.16% dip, but your Indian stocks saved the day by jumping a healthy 2.55%. Meanwhile, your Bitcoin slice acted like a toddler who just realized they cannot have chocolate for breakfast, showing its typical volatile spirit with a market cap holding around $1.46 trillion. It was not a jackpot, but at least you ended the week with enough extra cash to buy a decent dinner and a very large coffee
Japan is taking "people power" quite literally by embedding piezoelectric sensors into high-traffic flooring. At major hubs like Tokyo’s Shibuya Station and various airports, the mechanical stress from millions of daily footsteps is being converted directly into electricity. While a single step only kicks out about 0.1 to 0.5 watts, the sheer volume of commuters in these "kinetic cities" is enough to run LED displays, ticket gates, and information boards without drawing a drop from the traditional grid.
My Take: It is the ultimate "work smarter, not harder" move for urban planning. We have spent decades complaining about overcrowded train stations, and Japan just decided to turn those annoying crowds into a giant, walking battery. Sure, the tech is currently expensive and the individual output is tiny, but there is something deeply satisfying about knowing your frantic sprint to catch the morning express just helped power the digital sign telling you that you’re late. It’s localized, zero-emission energy that requires zero extra effort from the public beyond just existing and moving.
Why It Matters: This isn't about replacing nuclear plants or massive wind farms; it is about micro-resilience. As cities get denser, harvesting "wasted" kinetic energy becomes a no-brainer for powering the small-scale tech that keeps a city breathing. If we can scale this, your local mall or stadium could become its own mini power plant, reducing the strain on aging infrastructure and proving that the most sustainable energy source might actually be us.
This video provides a visual breakdown of how Japan has integrated piezoelectric technology into its busiest transit hubs to create a self-sustaining urban environment.
Meta's smart glasses are selling way faster than anyone anticipated, hitting 7 million units in 2025, which has officially turned the "privacy concern" from a tech blog trope into a public reality. The latest headache involves reports of human reviewers at Meta listening to and watching snippets of recorded footage to "train the AI." While Meta insists this is for improving object recognition and voice commands, it means sensitive moments, think doctor appointments, financial docs, or just private family time, could be landing on a contractor's screen. To make things even spicy, academic researchers just dropped an Android app called "Nearby Glasses" that uses Bluetooth to sniff out if someone near you is wearing the frames.
My Take: Meta spent years trying to make these glasses look like "just regular Ray-Bans" specifically so we'd forget they’re basically a Go-Pro for your face owned by the world’s hungriest data company. The "human-in-the-loop" training is the classic tech bait-and-switch: they sell you a private assistant, but keep a literal person in the basement to make sure it’s working. And the fact that people are building "spy detectors" just to walk down the street tells you exactly where the trust level is at. We’re basically one firmware update away from "Name Tag" facial recognition turning every coffee shop into a searchable database.
Why It Matters: This is the end of the "expectation of privacy" in public. As these wearables go mainstream, the friction between two-party consent laws and "always-on" hardware is going to spark massive legal battles and probably a few sidewalk arguments. If you’re a user, check your data sharing settings in the Meta View app before you inadvertently live-stream your tax returns to a data center. For everyone else, get used to the idea that if someone is looking at you, they might also be indexing you.
This video explores the latest privacy concerns surrounding Meta's smart glasses, specifically focusing on the controversial plans for facial recognition.
Proxima Fusion just signed a massive deal with RWE, the state of Bavaria, and the Max Planck Institute to build Europe’s first commercial fusion power plant. The plan is a two-step sprint: first, a demonstration reactor called "Alpha" in Garching to prove they can actually get more energy out than they put in, followed by "Stellaris," a full-scale power plant in Gundremmingen. They’re repurposing an old nuclear fission site for the project, aiming to have the tech operational by the 2030s. Bavaria is putting up 20% of the cash, Proxima is hunting for another 20% from private investors, and RWE is bringing the industrial muscle.
My Take: Fusion has been "thirty years away" for about seventy years now, but this feels different because the adults have finally entered the room. We’re moving past the "cool science experiment" phase and into the "let’s build a factory" phase. Using an old nuclear site is a stroke of genius, the grid connections are already there, and the local permits are likely less of a nightmare than starting from scratch. It’s also peak German efficiency to take a site currently being decommissioned and immediately flip it into the next generation of energy. Is it ambitious? Extremely. But at least they’re actually picking up the tools instead of just publishing more papers.
Why It Matters: If this works, it solves the "baseload" problem for green energy without the radioactive baggage of traditional nuclear. For Europe, this is a play for energy sovereignty so they can stop worrying about gas pipelines from neighbors they don't like. On a tech level, it signals that the "stellarator" design, which is notoriously harder to build than the standard "tokamak" but easier to keep running, is finally ready for prime time. If Bavaria pulls this off, they won't just be exporting cars and beer; they'll be exporting the blueprint for the entire world’s power grid.
Martin DeVido gave Claude control of a ‘growing chamber’ to take care of a tomato plant. See the video for more details!
🌎 March 4, 1789: The Constitution of the United States Takes Effect
On this day in 1789, the United States Constitution officially replaced the Articles of Confederation as the supreme law of the land, and the First Federal Congress convened in New York City. While the transition was physically modest, only eight senators and thirteen representatives were present on opening day, the legal framework established a revolutionary "federal" system of shared sovereignty.
PODCASTUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi reveals the future of driverless cars, how he led Uber’s financial turnaround, his family’s escape from Iran in 1978, and the truth about AI, automation, and job loss!
He explains:
◼️The "wartime" leadership strategy he used to save Uber from collapse
◼️Why telling the uncomfortable truth is the only way to scale a company
◼️His undercover experience as a driver and why it changed the app
◼️Why 80% of jobs face total disruption from AI automation by 2035
◼️The truth about autonomous vehicles and banning humans from driving
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🍏Apple raises MacBook prices up to $400 amid memory shortage
🛍️ Amazon said three of its data centers in the Middle East were damaged by drone strikes due to the US-Iran conflict in the region.
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