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Friday, May 1

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Brian Sugar

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Vinyl has split into two tribes at Record Store Day 2026: collectors who want it forever, listeners who want it now, almost nothing between. Coinbase's legislative deal marks the moment when a sector stops fighting and starts building around the rules it will live inside, which is when you know the calendar matters more than the argument.

If you only have 2 minutesTop 5

Will Taylor Frankie Paul's Season Of 'The Bachelorette' Ever Air? ABC Is Still Taking It 'Day-To-Day', Says Disney's Reality TV Chief

ABC shelved the season days before air and has no timeline to unshelf it, a franchise moment where content risk beats franchise momentum.

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    Meryl Streep Says 'We Tend to Marvel-ize the Movies Now' and 'It's So Boring'

    Streep's complaint about Marvel dominance lands because she remains the only actor whose critiques of filmmaking register as something other than resentment.

    Variety
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    Meta buys robotic startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

    Meta acquired Assured Robotics to layer embodied intelligence into its AI stack, betting that physical robots need different neural wiring than language models.

    TechCrunch
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    Maverick City Music Co-Founder Barred from Releasing Competing Worship Songs During Legal Battle

    Maverick City Music used a court order to mute its co-founder's competing worship songs, turning a theological split into IP enforcement.

    Billboard
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    Magna CEO Nods to Affordability Pinch as Autos Top $50,000 Mark

    Auto makers have hit a wall where sticker price now prices out the middle market, and even suppliers are admitting the math no longer works.

    Bloomberg.com
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Sugar Rush is the daily commerce + culture brief from Sugar Capital, a seed-stage venture firm investing at the intersection of consumer, commerce, and culture.

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