What I read this week...

TikTok’s Owner Generated Nearly $7 Billion in Cash From Operations in First Quarter (The Information)

California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National (The Atlantic)

PG&E’s $6 Billion Plan to Prevent Wildfires Is in Peril (WSJ)

New Breakthrough in Energy Storage – MIT Engineers Create Supercapacitor out of Ancient Materials (SciTechDaily)

The Harvard Professor and the Bloggers (NYT)

Why Americans Are Losing Faith in College (The Ringer)

The cheesecake factor: Why these restaurants can reveal a mall's financial success (Axios)

MrBeast is putting his snack brand’s logo on NBA jerseys (The Verge)

Taylor Swift helped boost NFL ratings, but her power extends far beyond the league (Yahoo)

AlphaFold touted as next big thing for drug discovery — but is it? (Nature)

FTC sues PE-backed anesthesia provider for monopolistic roll-ups, price setting (FierceHealthcare)

Private Equity’s Slow Carnage Unleashes a Wave of Zombies (Bloomberg)