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Nov 12, 2023

Millions of GPTs coming your way.

You’ve tried ChatGPT, and it’s impressive. You might even have bookmarked a site that helps you pick great prompts. OpenAI’s latest announcement paves the path for an entire app store of custom GPTs with unique customization and knowledge. This is, of course, just a stepping stone on the…

Nov 12, 2023

Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI?

I was about to take my first driverless ride when I learned that they shut down the srevice nationwide. Gary Marcus, a prominent and well-reasoned AI critic, asks what’s up? “Cruise may or may not turn out to be the same kind of story, with the same kind…

Nov 12, 2023

The trust battery.

Shopify founder Tobi Lütke offers this analogy for interpersonal relationships (and more) in his interview with Shane Parish. “If people meet each other, especially in a curated context like a company, like both of us start working here, and we both got hired, so we both ran through…

Nov 12, 2023

Amazon’s new lower priced health care offering.

“The current list price for a One Medical membership is $199, which gets a person access to unlimited 24/7 virtual visits. The new Prime benefit is around half off with One Medical memberships for $99 a year or $9 a month for the primary user – additional family…

Nov 12, 2023

Inflammation drives social media use.

“It seems that inflammation not only increases social media use, but our results show preliminary evidence that it’s also associated with using social media to specifically interact with other users, like direct messaging and posting to people’s pages. Interestingly, inflammation did not lead people to use social media…

Nov 12, 2023

For the first time, the Y chromosome has been fully sequenced.

“Large portions of the Y chromosome have long been inaccessible to scientists, namely on account of what’s known as satellite DNA, stretches of short sequences of nucleotides repeated over and over again. On top of that, the chromosome also contains many palindromes, sequences of different nucleic acids that…

Nov 12, 2023

A critical first step to regenerating teeth.

“As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Developmental Cell, the researchers created organoids, which are three-dimensional scaffolds of stem cells that mimic the functions of organs, to secrete proteins that eventually turn into dental enamel, the hard material that protects teeth from decay or damage.” ~ learn…

Nov 12, 2023

Tech is going to get much bigger.

Packy McCormack argues that we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. “What happens when energy, intelligence, and labor get cheap?” ~ learn more

Nov 12, 2023

dNFTs are non-fungible and dynamic.

Remember that there are a ton of developers still pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with blockchain technology. “Imagine if every Tesla was tokenized as a dNFT with real-time metadata updates showing its service record, mileage, accident history, market value, and more.” ~ learn more

Nov 12, 2023

Peter Thiel is taking a break from democracy.

This reporter from The Atlantic had rare access to Thiel. Why? “He wanted me to publish a promise he was going to make, so that he would not be tempted to go back on his word. And what was that thing he needed to say, loudly? That he…