NEWS

• Skype shuts down in May after 22 years — a retrospective on Microsoft's $8.5B albatross
• Sam Soulek earns IFBB pro card at 23 with no coach, just daily YouTube documentation
• Valar Atomics stages sci-fi-style launch event, hosts call it the biggest tech story of the week
• Amazon enters the quantum computing race with its first chip, Ocelot, claiming 90% error reduction
• Joe Gebbia leaves Airbnb retirement and joins DOGE to redesign government's paper-based retirement process
• Anduril vs. Jason Calacanis: Palmer Luckey posts Epstein black book entry, team piles on

COMMENTARY

• GPT-4.5 reviewed: 10x more compute, but is the improvement worth it?
• Altimeter's vintage VC funds: 61% net IRR and $6.5B realized, mostly on the back of Snowflake
• Stablecoins as the new cash back: Bridget Harris on yield becoming consumer standard
• AI as your manager, not your assistant: Sam Lessin argues the real leverage flips the org chart