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It’s Tuesday, TFP. To show just how powerful a headline can be: the S&P 500 rallied 8.5% in only 34 minutes yesterday after news broke that the White House was set to issue a 90-day pause on the newly-instituted tariffs. Turns out, that report was incorrect… sending it tumbling back down again. Just goes to show how much of a rollercoaster the financial markets really are. Hold on tight.

Biotechnology startup Colossal Biosciences has brought the dire wolf, which disappeared over 10,000 years ago, back to life — the first-ever successful de-extinction of an animal.

The Big Picture: By recreating the dire wolf, Colossal proves that its ambition to revive the woolly mammoth (which it’s taken steps to make possible) may not be so crazy after all. Expect investors to stampede like… well… a herd of mammoths, ya know.

Between the Genes: Colossal would like to introduce its three newest pups — males Romulus and Remus and female Khaleesi (named after the character in Game of Thrones, which acquainted most people with dire wolves).

The Future: If cloning a dire wolf wasn’t cool enough, the company got filmmaker and Colossal investor Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings, King Kong) to loan his official 330-pound Game of Thrones Iron Throne prop for a photoshoot with the wolves. It also got GoT author George R.R. Martin to sign on as a cultural advisor and investor in the company (yes, he got to meet the wolves).

Oh, and it wasn’t lost on many that a company literally recreated dire wolves before Martin could finish his next installment in the A Song of Fire and Ice series, The Winds of Winter.

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In a new memo, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke announced that he’s looking to employ the use of more AI rather than additional human employees.

The Big Bet: The use of AI agents is already reshaping white-collar jobs, with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (who’s very invested in AI) calling the tech a “limitless workforce.” A report out of the UN’s Trade and Development organization estimates that a whopping 40% of jobs worldwide could be disrupted by AI by 2033.

Behind the Hires: You’re no longer just competing with people for an open job… you have to beat AI for it, too.

Closing Thoughts: Shopify isn’t the only company looking to update its workforce for the AI age. Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said last year that his company’s AI does the work of roughly 700 customer service agents and will likely lead him to cut his human workforce by half eventually.

With tariffs pulling the rug from under Shopify, it’s no surprise that Lütke would make the decision as a cost-cutting measure… which might embolden other companies in the same position to make a similar announcement.

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54.7% of you voted No in yesterday’s poll: Have you ever used Vimeo to watch or upload content?

“I haven’t used it in years, but I remember watching other people’s wedding videos and blog videos on there.”

“Vimeo is an excellent backend for video production and embedding. It’s not so great for distribution, mostly working better as a portfolio site than a commercial site — its VOD platform is messy, difficult to navigate, doesn’t present movies well, and filmmakers have to do all the promotion themselves — but perhaps this pivot to streaming-as-service will help.”

“The Borrego Springs Film Festival sees many submissions through that platform.”

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🍿 Warner Bros. Discovery’s A Minecraft Movie opened to $163 million at the box office — the biggest debut of 2025 and the biggest ever for a video game adaptation.

🎤 Amazon Music will once again be Stagecoach’s exclusive livestream partner and will now make rebroadcasts of performances immediately available.

📽️ Multi-platform media company Shout! Studios has acquired indie distributor Gravitas Ventures for an undisclosed amount.

🤖 OpenAI is considering acquiring the AI device startup founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and ex-Apple designer Jony Ive. Shocker.

🔋 Heron Power, founded by former Tesla exec Dan Baglino, is raising $50 million to build a fleet of solid-state electrical transformers to update the grid.

🏈 Former MIT football player Kodiak Brush has developed a new helmet, dubbed the “Apache,” to protect players from traumatic brain injuries.

💄 Influencer-led fashion and beauty brands are still popping up… but are now self-funded and have names not tied to their famous founders.

👕 LVMH has named Ramon Ros the CEO of Fendi and Charlotte Coupé the CEO of Kenzo.

👟 Apparel stocks are bracing for some relief as Vietnam allegedly works with the Trump administration to reduce tariffs on the country.