Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek is strengthening its grip on Meta's AI glasses supply chain, including making “Hypernova”, through a spate of dealmaking
similar to the Quest — on local ecommerce platforms. Meta executives debated launching a lawsuit against its Chinese supplier, but ultimately decided against pursuing a case ‼️ Bluesky: Tony Tassell /...
An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more
The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’ Bluesky: @hypervisible , @tonytassell , and @nataliegreenp...
A profile of Alex Gerko, who used an Icelandic supercomputer and 25K AI chips to build XTX, an algorithmic trading firm that handles $250B of daily trades
XTX Markets conquered foreign exchange trading and made its Russian-born founder a multibillion-pound fortune X: @hsu_steve and @tonytassell X: Steve Hsu / @hsu_steve : Alex Gerko in FT. Not on X anym...
NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot that is trained on his equity valuation work that is in the public domain, why AI will empower generalists, and more
Whether the risks to jobs is real or not, it behoves us all to act like it is given how consequential the costs could be X: @tonytassell and @adsinuk X: Tony Tassell / @tonytassell : Strategies to bea...
Sources paint a bleak picture for startup founders in China; IT Juzi report: only 1,202 startups were founded in the country in 2023 compared to 51,302 in 2018
Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation X: @carnage4life , @tonytassell , @michaelxpettis , @eleanorolcott , @hsu...
Q&A with Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson on generative AI, potential productivity gains, his “J-curve” and “Turing trap” concepts, AI drawbacks, and more
The Stanford professor on what generative AI will mean for productivity, jobs and the society of the future X: @tejparikh90 , @michaelrstrain , @futureworkinst , @pawlega , @tonytassell , @erikbryn , ...
A look at Binance's early and rapid growth, aided by the haze of regulatory uncertainty, and whether, post-FTX, the exchange has blown its chance to rule crypto
Scott Chipolina / Financial Times : X: @tonytassell and @jonathaneley X: Tony Tassell / @tonytassell : Has Binance blown its chance to rule the crypto markets? @ScottChipolina dive here into a compan...
A look at the India Stack, a set of government-backed APIs on which third parties can build apps integrated with state services for payments, loans, and more
New Delhi has pioneered a new approach to online infrastructure in its drive to connect 1.4bn. But there are privacy and data protection concerns Tweets: @akothari , @lakshmishaks , @wadehrarajiv , @...
What poet, playboy, and prophet of investment bubbles Charles Mackay, plagiarizing in 1841 on the Dutch tulip bubble, can tell us about crypto's rise and fall
One winter morning in early 1637, a sailor presented himself at the counting-house of a wealthy Dutch merchant and was offered a hearty breakfast of fine red herring. Tweets: @pkedrosky , @profjohntur...
Behind the rise of TikTok “cults”, like Step Chickens, which revolve around a single creator and borrow tactics from “comment raid” groups on other platforms
Fandoms are forming around a new kind of influencer: the charismatic cult leader. Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @tonytassell , @nytmedia , @realadamrose , @yoda , and @genepark Tweets: Taylor Lorenz / @tayl...