What an upsetting story! It’s a terrible look for the government officials of Iowa. “When two men were hired to break into Iowa judicial buildings, they thought it was just another physical security audit—until they were charged with burglary.” | learn more
Here we go folks! Can’t put this toothpaste back in the tube. “This week, a programmer mimicked Jay-Z’s voice and cadence so effectively that his agency, Roc Nation, got SoundCloud to take the track down.” | learn more
This is part 23 of Hubert Horan’s quest to highlight the bear case for Uber. “The press is still refusing to depict Uber accurately, as a rotting corpse.” Reading this forced me to look up their most recent financials and […]
“The co-working company has a plan to survive the pandemic and the aftermath of its disastrous IPO attempt.” | learn more
The dust has settled a bit since OpenAI dropped their AI language model GPT-3 on the world. This is a deep dive from Inside Business that covers a lot of ground including, “How will GPT-3 affect different industries?” | learn more
“[Sacca’s] Lowercase Fund I was the best performing venture fund in history. What are the ingredients for Sacca 2.0?” | learn more
Rob May offers an interesting line of thinking. “The laws of economics aren’t fixed forever. As AI impacts society in many ways, and as AI makes more decisions for humans that we no longer make ourselves, it is very possible the […]
The WSJ highlights a few examples of alleged impropriety where Amazon’s Alexa Fund made early stage investments and Amazon later launched competing products. While it’s popular to be critical of Amazon these days, these examples don’t quite paint the “bad […]
The company’s first generation product came with a temperature-detecting feature that let wearers measure across groups of people. The new version will do even more. Reading this reminded me to check in on Google Glass, which is still alive and kicking […]
From Ben Evans: “This June, I updated my macro trends deck, with a condensed version of where we were in January and some thoughts on where we are in June: forced experimentation and years of progress in weeks.” | learn more