The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you
…SpaceX has stapled its unsuccessful AI dreams to the successful business using Starlink as a guide. The idea is: data centers in space, with Starlink beaming the data back down. The pitch…
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The AI code wars are heating up
…Increasingly, AI coding seems like the first truly mainstream AI use case — not to mention the first potentially great AI business. The Claude Code moment coincided with an absolute explosion in revenue…
AI warfare is already here
…The US military has backed AI development for decades, and in turn, AI has transformed warfare. In the 2000s, the technology became capable of parsing unprecedented amounts of data collected worldwide, creating…
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
…I want to talk about the web, the health journey in Gemini that requires a rich data set of health information on the web to exist. You’re training Gemini on YouTube…
Attack of the killer script kiddies
…stealing sensitive data on their own. Industry experts predict that the advancement in AI security capabilities is going to lead to a lot more exploits. Bad actors could direct AI to find…
Online Shopping
…data from BNPL loans. The scoring models, which incorporate loan history from buy now, pay later services, like Klarna, Affirm, and Afterpay, will exist alongside FICO’s standard credit score. FICO trained…
The things we’re building
…a large language model exclusively trained on text from before 1931, with all the trappings of modern AI interaction but no knowledge of the modern world. These “vintage models” are starting to…
The future of border security isn’t at the border at all
…In 2022, the ACLU found that DHS was buying location data from Babel Street and other private brokers to circumvent the typical warrant process. To obtain this data, Babel Street pays other…
The app you need to clean up your computer
…turned-AI-trainers and the Subway Takes guy, listening to a lot of Productivity FM’s mixes while I work, finally writing my vibe-coding opus, testing the Poppy AI assistant (and…
CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
…That’s not a great place for AI to be. People are voting against data centers in their communities. AI is widely associated with job loss and maybe now you’re going…