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This Mother’s Day, I’m thinking about my mom, and all the lessons she taught me. I'm proud to honor her memory with the Ann Dunham Water Terrace at the Obama Presidential Center.

It was great having you! Here is the link to our interview! youtu.be/LvMNgcvf3Xk?si…

Michelle and I can’t wait for you to visit the Obama Presidential Center! Starting on June 19, the Center will be open to the public, and you’ll be able to check out the Museum along with public spaces like a new branch of the Chicago Public Library with a reading room, a two-acre playground, a fruit and vegetable garden, and more. Tickets available at tickets.obama.org.

Nearly 80% of U.S. hoteliers in 11 World Cup host cities say bookings are tracking below original forecasts, with some describing the tournament as a “non-event,” according to an American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) survey of members released Monday. Read more: forbes.com/sites/suzanner… (Photo: Dustin Satloff via Getty Images)

ChatGPT is now available as an add-on in Excel and Google Sheets. It can help analyze messy data, write formulas, update spreadsheets, and explain what it’s doing along the way—without leaving your spreadsheet. Powered by GPT-5.5. chatgpt.com/apps/spreadshe…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has met with global investors in Paris, France, emphasising transparency and fiscal discipline, and explaining the rationale for the swift implementation of bold reforms.   At the meeting, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Taiwo Oyedele, highlighted Nigeria's strong GDP growth in dollar terms in 2025.   He said Nigeria recorded 11.2% GDP growth in dollar terms last year, a record that reinforced the country's ambition to achieve a $1 trillion economy in 2030.   Oyedele emphasised the government's near-term priorities of translating reforms into results for the Nigerian people. He also pledged to publish quarterly financial data.   The Director General of the Debt Management Office, Mrs Patience Oniha, assured investors of the government’s responsible approach to debt financing and its focus on sustainable debt management.   The investors were from Citibank and France's Amundi, led by Valerie Baudson. There were also BlueCrest, the Britain- and South Africa-based Ninety One, Kirkoswald Capital, Principal Finisterre, US groups Prudential Global Investment Management (PGIM) and Mesarete Capital.   President Tinubu, who left Nigeria on Sunday for a three-nation trip, said the economic reform program of his administration includes measures to remove economic distortions and stabilise macroeconomic indicators, laying the foundation for sustained inclusive growth.   He said his government is committed to deepening reforms, enhancing transparency across the oil value chain, and implementing a multi-pronged security strategy, including police decentralisation and disrupting terrorist financing.   "The focus remains on policy stability and diligent execution to ensure these strategic shifts translate into concrete benefits for all Nigerians", President Tinubu said.   Some of the investors who spoke at the meeting commended the government's transformative reforms and expressed optimism about the Nigerian economy.   One of the investors asked President Tinubu about his post-2027 agenda. He promised to strengthen fiscal discipline and transparency, and to deliver policy consistency. Bayo Onanuga Special Adviser to the President, (Information & Strategy)

My guest today is Brian Chesky (@bchesky), founder and CEO of Airbnb and one of the great consumer founders of the last 20 years. Paul Graham coined "founder mode" based on Brian's experience running Airbnb. This conversation is about what comes after it, what he calls AI founder mode, and how it will force founders to focus even more on the details. We talk about his eleven-star exercise for finding product market fit, why your first hire should be a recruiter, and why Airbnb's $100B IPO became one of the saddest days of his life. Brian still comes across like the 17 year-old at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) who picked to study industrial design. His heroes are all artists. Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Walt Disney, and Steve Jobs, all of whom were working the week they died because they loved what they did. Rick Rubin taught him that an artist is only an artist when they make things for themselves. Now Brian believes AI is the opportunity for all of us to do the same. Enjoy! Timestamps: 1:00 Studying Industrial Design 11:33 AI Founder Mode 17:02 Lack of Consumer AI Companies 22:10 Small Teams and Focused Problems 30:52 The Evolution from Founder to CEO 38:13 The 11-Star Experience 41:07 AI as a Canvas for Creativity 48:17 Detaching from Success 53:12 Founder-Led Moats 58:34 The Next Chapter of Airbnb 1:03:08 What Endures in the Age of AI 1:06:43 Lessons from Bodybuilding 1:10:20 The CEO's No. 1 Job 1:17:01 Activating Talent 1:20:39 The Kindest Thing

This is an email I sent earlier today to all employees at Coinbase: Team, Today I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%. I want to walk you through why we're doing this now, what it means for those affected, and how this positions us for the future. Why now Two forces are converging at the same time. We need to be front footed to respond to both. First, the market. Coinbase is well-capitalized, has diversified revenue streams, and is well-positioned to weather any storm. Crypto is also on the verge of the next wave of adoption, with stablecoins, prediction markets, tokenization, and more taking off. However, our business is still volatile from quarter to quarter. While we've managed through that cyclicality many times before and come out stronger on the other side, we’re currently in a down market and need to adjust our cost structure now so that we emerge from this period leaner, faster, and more efficient for our next phase of growth. Second, AI is changing how we work. Over the past year, I’ve watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks. Non-technical teams are now shipping production code and many of our workflows are being automated. The pace of what's possible with a small, focused team has changed dramatically, and it's accelerating every day. All of this has led us to an inflection point, not just for Coinbase, but for every company. The biggest risk now is not taking action. We are adjusting early and deliberately to rebuild Coinbase to be lean, fast, and AI-native. We need to return to the speed and focus of our startup founding, with AI at our core. What this means To get there, we are not just reducing headcount and cutting costs, we’re fundamentally changing how we operate: rebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it. What does this mean in practice? - Fewer layers, faster decisions: We are flattening our org structure to 5 layers max below CEO/COO. Layers slow things down and create coordination tax. The future is small, high context teams that can move quickly. Leaders will own much more, with as many as 15+ direct reports. Fewer layers also means a leaner cost structure that is built to perform through all market cycles. - No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches, getting their hands dirty alongside their teams. - AI-native pods: We’ll be concentrating around AI-native talent who can manage fleets of agents to drive outsized impact. We’ll also be experimenting with reduced pod sizes, including “one person teams” with engineers, designers, and product managers all in one role. In short: AI is bringing a profound shift in how companies operate, and we’re reshaping Coinbase to lead in this new era. This is a new way of working, and we need to leverage AI across every facet of our jobs. To those who are affected I know there are real people behind these decisions — talented colleagues who have poured themselves into this company and our mission. To those of you who will be leaving: thank you. You’ve helped build Coinbase into what it is today, and I am sincerely grateful for everything you've done. All impacted team members will receive an email to their personal account in the next hour with more information, and an invitation to meet with an HRBP and a senior leader in your organization. Coinbase system access has been removed today. I know this feels sudden and harsh, but it is the only responsible choice given our duty to protect customer information. To those affected, we will be providing a comprehensive package to support you through this transition. US employees will receive a minimum of 16 weeks base pay (plus 2 weeks per year worked), their next equity vest, and 6 months of COBRA. Employees on a work visa will get extra transition support. Those outside of the US will receive similar support, based on local factors and subject to any consultation requirements. Coinbase prides itself on talent density. Our employees are among the most talented people in the world, and I have no doubt that your skills and experience will be highly sought after as you pursue your next chapters. How we move forward To the team that is staying, I know this is a difficult day. We’re saying goodbye to colleagues and friends you've been in the trenches with. But here’s what I want you to know as we move forward together: Over the past 13 years, we have weathered four crypto winters, gone public, and built the most trusted platform in our industry. We’ve made it this far by making hard decisions and by always staying focused on our mission. This time will be no different – nothing has changed about the long term outlook of our company or industry. And most importantly, our mission has never been more important for the world. Increasing economic freedom requires a new financial system, and we’re building it. The Coinbase that emerges from this will be more capable than ever to achieve our mission. Brian

May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19. @BarackObama @MarkHamill

@nnpclimited Signs MOU for Restart, Expansion of Warri, Port Harcourt Refineries More details to come: MOU with Sanjiang Chemical Company Limited and Xingcheng (Fuzhou) Industrial Park Operation and Management Co. Ltd, for collaboration through a potential Technical Equity Partnership (TEP) in support of the completion and operation of the Port Harcourt and Warri Refineries.

the fastest growing GitHub repos in finance this week: 1. TradingAgents (+7.9K ★) multi-agent LLM trading framework from UCLA/MIT. fundamental analyst, sentiment analyst, technicals, risk manager with DeepSeek V4 thinking-mode support. 2. FinceptTerminal (+4.3K ★) open-source Bloomberg alternative built in C++20 + Qt6. 37 AI agents in Buffett/Munger/Lynch/Graham style. real-time trading with 16 broker integrations. internal MCP + AI quant tabs. 3. daily_stock_analysis (+2.3K ★) LLM stock analyzer for US, A-share and H-share markets. auto-builds a daily decision dashboard with entry/exit levels. pushes to WeChat/Telegram/Discord/Email via GitHub Actions. 4. Vibe-Trading (+1.9K ★) personal trading agent. natural language - strategy - backtest - export to TradingView/MT5. your own AI trading desk in one pip install. 5. QuantDinger (+837 ★) self-hosted AI quant OS. research markets, generate Python strategies, backtest ideas, run live trading. crypto, stocks via IBKR, forex via MT5. one Docker Compose, your infra, your data. 6. TradingAgents-CN (+641 ★) Chinese fork of TradingAgents. fully localized for A-share markets, Chinese data sources, and domestic LLMs. 7. last30days-skill (+630 ★) AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket and the web in the last 30 days. plug it into any agent. 8. qlib (+569 ★) Microsoft's AI-oriented quant investment platform. end-to-end: data - alpha - portfolio - execution. the most serious open-source quant infrastructure out there. 9. scientific-agent-skills (+511 ★) ready-to-use agent skills for research, science, engineering, analysis, and finance. plug into any agent framework. covers bioinformatics, cheminformatics, and now Hugging Science. 10. OpenBB (+387 ★) open-source financial data platform for analysts, quants, and AI agents. stocks, crypto, options, derivatives, fixed income шт one platform. integrates with AI agents via MCP.

Props to @MalloryMcMorrow for appearing on CNN with @mkraju to defend her prior tweets ahead of her run for the Michigan Senate Seat.

Ghana has rejected a $109m US health deal over data protection concerns. Zimbabwe has also turned down a similar offer. The BBC’s Thomas Naadi explains why some African nations are pushing back.

Yesterday, the Federal Executive Council presided over by Mr. President approved my memo to end the 20-year old dispute between the Federal Government and Bi-Courtney Ltd over MM2 Airport in Lagos. For more than one year, we were locked in negotiations on how to get out of the impasse. These are just the highlights: * Bi-Courtney wrote off the N132 billion court-assessed damages against the Federal Government. * Bi-Courtney handed back MMI Airport (the old local Terminal) which the Supreme Court ordered to be handed over to it. * Bi-Courtney gave up its right to exclusively run any private or domestic airport in and around Lagos State as affirmed by the courts. * Bi-Courtney agreed to commence the payment of Concession fee due and payable under the Concession Agreement dated 24th April 2003 from when the settlement agreement is executed. Because of the dispute, the Federal Government has also lost its own part of the revenue for nearly 20 years. In exchange for the above, the Federal Government agreed to the following: * FG also wrote off all the concession fees Bi-Courtney has not paid since the concession agreement was signed nearly 20 years ago due to the disputes. * FG returned the uncompleted hotel and conference centre opposite the airport (which it has previously revoked) to Bi-Courtney to complete and operate within 24 months and from which the FG will have its own share. * FG agreed to move regional flights to MM2 (which had been approved, but not operational for years now) to the extent of its capacity. * FG agreed to give Bi-Courtney more land space to expand the apron of MM2 to accommodate more airplanes. Below was my press briefing after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council meeting:

Yesterday, I was back at @ARISEtv's GBR with @Rotankwot, where we discussed about the Q1:26 performance of Nigerian Breweries and Berger Paints. I shared insights on the earnings & we unpacked key line items from revenue drivers, profitability & growth outlook for the two coys.

Jay-Z explains the craft of writing at its highest level, where the rhythm sets the foundation and the lyrics fall into place after. “The flow comes first… then I fill it with words.” From pulling inspiration from Rakim’s delivery to studying The Notorious B.I.G.’s flow, it’s a lesson in making every bar count.

My guest today is Paul Tudor Jones (@ptj_official), one of the greatest macro traders of all time. He correctly predicted the 1987 stock market crash and shorted the Japanese bubble in 1990. For over 40 years, his flagship fund has had a negative correlation to the S&P 500. 100% of his returns are alpha. He says today's market has so many similarities to 2000, "the easiest bear market I've ever seen in my whole life." He makes the case for going long dollar-yen, why Bitcoin beats gold as an inflation hedge, and why he was wrong about Warren Buffett. But what I'll remember most from this conversation is Paul's zest for life. He's 71 and still wakes at 2:30 every morning to trade the London open. He works out for two hours a day. He walks with his wife every evening. He travels the country chasing peak spring and peak fall. He's so excited about the songs picked for his funeral that he wishes he could be there to hear them. Paul has lived five lifetimes in one. He's one of the most entertaining and interesting people I've met, and the conversation will leave you searching to be as passionate about what you do as he is about what he does. Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:00 The Kindest Thing 13:19 Trading vs. Investing 17:33 Lessons from Warren Buffet 22:24 The Existential Risks of AI 29:54 The Nature of Trading 31:46 Bitcoin 35:55 Bubbles 42:08 A Day in the Life of PTJ 46:00 Information Overload 47:07 Passion for Markets 50:49 The Robin Hood Foundation 54:18 The Workless World 56:03 Journalism 1:00:00 Principal Components of a Great Life 1:05:06 Kill Them With Kindness

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President Ruto to Nigerians: I was misquoted. All of us in Africa speak good English.