Ben Thompson of Stratechery offers my favorite (so far) vision for how generative AI could be a net benefit for school homework. A school could mandate the use of a specific AI! “Here’s the thing, though: the system will frequently […]
So say by Daisy Wolf and Vijay Pande, investors at a16z. In this post they make their case for why it’s possible and what the company might look like. “We see two paths to a consumer health startup becoming the biggest company […]
“Butter” is the term we use to describe interactions & experiences that are just so smooth. Rich, easy, delicious. Hard to define formally, but you know it when you see it / feel it.” | learn more
Assure, a tech startup that allowed investors to pool together funds to make private investments, suddenly shut down. They took cash-up-front to manage these funds (called SPVs) for their lifetime. Now the cash is gone and they’re dumping the legal […]
Dan Shipper trained a chatbot on transcripts of the Huberman Lab podcast. Now he can interrogate it as if it were (a slightly bumbling version of) Andrew Huberman himself. “It’ll be a big change for the way content is produced […]
A running list of excellent ways to bypass the safeguards that prevent ChatGPT from behaving badly. Some are already patched. But human innovation knows no limits, so on with the cat-vs-mouse games! | learn more
This is not necessarily a tech story, but I think it’ll become one. “Globally, one in five people below 25 is from India. 47% of Indians, about 650 million, are below the age of 25. This group of young Indians […]
This impacted many Honda, Nissan and Toyota vehicles. “By only having the VIN number, any attackers can fetch the customer details with the help of a python script and a continuous escalation lead researchers to find the HTTP request to […]
“Character.AI lets you create Characters and talk to them…” You can also choose characters trained to be Elon Musk, Tony Stark, Alan Turing, Plato, and more. | learn more
This has come up a couple times in conversations as a potential solution for the not-enough-lithium problem that society faces. “Sodium-ion batteries are a potential alternative to lithium-based battery technologies, largely due to sodium’s lower cost and greater availability.” | learn more