The Social Gravity Model: A New Valuation Framework for the Attention Age

🤖 💥TARS Raises $455M in Embodied AI Breakout

While Lucid locks in 35K robotaxis and Skild snaps up Zebra

🔔 Speaker Announcement – Hard Things: April 2026

🧱⚡️Blackstone Bets $4.6B on AI Data Centers

QTS, a new REIT filing, and a Rowan stake

📌 Coming Soon – Hard Things: April 2026

AI Meets National Security — Inside Our Latest Dinner Salon

💰🏗️ $16B: AI Goes Fully Physical

Including Data Centers, Warships, and Micro-reactors

🛰️🛡️ War Tech Gets $2B

Defense, Orbital Compute, and Sovereign AI Converge.

What a Palo Alto Living Room Taught Us About Physical AI — Hard Things Recap + What's Next

The first Hard Things gathering exceeded every expectation. Here's what happened — and what's coming April 28th.

The tech moat, as we knew it, is gone

🧊⚡️ Ecolab's $4.75B Bet Reshapes AI Cooling

The Industrial Giant Enters The Arms Race

⚡🌏 The $4.75B Deal That Changes Big Tech Energy

Robots, Roads, and Renewables Converge