tech, startups, internet
WeWork’s gamble to act like a boring, normal company
“The co-working company has a plan to survive the pandemic and the aftermath of its disastrous IPO attempt.” | learn more
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How will GPT-3 impact the world?
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
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The search for the next Chris Sacca
“[Sacca’s] Lowercase Fund I was the best performing venture fund in history. What are the ingredients for Sacca 2.0?” | learn more
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Can AI shift the laws of economics?
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 […]
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Conflicts of interest in Amazon’s startup investments?
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 […]
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Chinese AR startup Rokid’s smart glasses
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 […]
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Tech and the new normal
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
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The new standard in AI language
“GPT-3, which stands for “Gaussian Process Tracking 3,” is a language processing model – or a text generator – based on Artificial Intelligence. It can predict the next word in a sentence if it is given a few words. This […]
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Garmin global outage caused by ransomware attack
Earlier this year I published a primer on ransomware. Garmin, famous for their GPS navigation devices, has been under attack since Wednesday. It’s taken down all their services as well as their contact center. Reading between the lines, a key challenge […]
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The Slack social network
First came Slack, taking the world of chat software by storm. Then came Microsoft Teams, drawing some competitive ribbing from Slack in a full page ad in the NY Times. Then within a few years, Teams’ adoption overtook Slack’s by a wide […]