Not Boring's 185th Weekly Dose of Optimism covers five distinct threads: Travis Kalanick's next move, a Bezos-linked bet, copper supply dynamics, a cancer drug development update, and research on meditation and neural stimulation.
The issue arrives back-to-back with Packy McCormick's deep dive on world models, co-written with General Intuition's Pim de Witte, published March 19, 2026. That primer is worth reading first: it frames how AI systems build internal simulations of reality, which gives context to several of the companies McCormick covers this week.
The original is worth the full read for the Kalanick section alone, plus the return of contributor Ulkar, whose previous pieces drove some of the newsletter's highest engagement. The copper and cancer drug items are short but carry specific data points that don't survive summarization.
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