Cytokinetics Announces Positive Topline Results from ACACIA-HCM, the Pivotal Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Aficamten in Patients with Non-Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (news.google.com)
OpenMythos: A theoretical reconstruction of the Claude Mythos architecture, built from first principles using the available research literature (github.com)
Harley-Davidson spent years doubling down on its baby-boomer base with expensive cruisers and touring bikes. Now, its new CEO said, the name of the game is volume sales—and affordability. (on.wsj.com)
Beijing is shifting from warning to action, deploying long-dormant sanctions tools against U.S. tech and energy interests. Read more in this week’s WSJ China newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
Exchange-traded funds have a built-in tax edge, but tax dangers lurk in the market’s niche offerings and for small funds. Even big, established funds could face a reckoning. Read more in today’s Markets A.M. Newsletter. (on.wsj.com)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed spinning out the company’s robotics and consumer hardware divisions last year to give them more room to grow without weighing down the core business, sources say (on.wsj.com)
Will A.I. Make College Obsolete? - Americans already distrust institutions, including academia. More and more people may decide that its stamp of approval isn’t worth the cost. (www.newyorker.com)
I Have No Idea Why My Daughter Doesn’t Talk to Me - I have no idea why my daughter doesn’t talk to me. I’ll stop “rewriting history” when she stops remembering her childhood wrong. (www.newyorker.com)
Ohio Primary Elections Map: Live Results - Sherrod Brown is running in the Democratic primary for J. D. Vance’s Senate seat; Vivek Ramaswamy looks to win the Republican primary for governor. (www.newyorker.com)
Marilyn Monroe Made Being Photographed Into an Art - Hollywood was full of beauties. What Monroe had was something rarer: the ability to project. (www.newyorker.com)
“While My Daughter Is in Surgery I Think About a Night in a Hotel in Florence,” by Ellen Bass - “She’d bought a black leather jacket from a stall on the Ponte Vecchio.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Idea That Reshaped Identity Politics Has a Complicated Backstory - Kimberlé Crenshaw gave us the terms “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Her new memoir shows that she isn’t done fighting over what they mean. (www.newyorker.com)
The Artist Who Made America Look Like a Promised Land - Frederic Edwin Church sold a nation on its own mythology. That was his making—and his unmaking. (www.newyorker.com)
In HBO’s “The Dark Wizard,” Dean Potter Climbs On - The BASE jumper died in a tragic accident in 2015, the day before he was to accept an award for performance art. A new docuseries explores his life and legacy. (www.newyorker.com)
How Americans Caught Gold Fever Again - Soaring gold prices, viral panning influencers, macho gold-mining reality shows, and Trump’s gold obsession have ignited a craze for prospecting not seen since 1849. (www.newyorker.com)
Barack Obama Considers His Role in the Age of Trump - The former President remains one of the most popular politicians in the country. What are his obligations to it? (www.newyorker.com)
Colbert’s Trumpet Player on Life After Late Night - Since 2015, Jon Lampley has played in the house band of “The Late Show,” which CBS unceremoniously cancelled. As the final episode looms, he takes a look back. (www.newyorker.com)
Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Complicated Commemorations - Donald Trump’s aversion to admitting fault suggests that we will not likely see events that grapple with the nuanced nature of the nation’s history this July 4th. (www.newyorker.com)
The A.I. Industry Is Booming. When Will It Actually Make Money? - As Elon Musk sues his former OpenAI partners, A.I. companies are expanding rapidly, but profits are still scarce. (www.newyorker.com)
Was the Declaration of Independence Better Before the Edits? - Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost. (www.newyorker.com)
The American Revolution Wasn’t That Big a Deal - Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story looks rather different. (www.newyorker.com)
Harriet Clark’s Début Is a New Kind of Coming-of-Age Novel - In “The Hill,” a daughter comes of age through visits to her imprisoned mother, inheriting the afterlife of a youthful radicalism that shattered her family. (www.newyorker.com)
On the High Line, Buddha Is the New Giant Pigeon - After the bird sculpture flew the Chelsea coop, the curator Cecilia Alemani oversaw the installation of a new work—a sacred sandstone colossus, based on one destroyed by the Taliban. (www.newyorker.com)