- Industrial and manufacturing companies are growing in value because of the AI data center boom.
- Governments and companies are trying to outsmart youth who find ways around social media bans, FT reports.
- Cal Newport on “doom trolling” from AI companies: “As a computer scientist and a digital ethicist, I’m both optimistic about the possibilities of A.I. and confounded by the terrifying and grim way that current technology leaders insist on talking about it. This could have been a period of hopeful innovation, but instead our emotions are being manipulated by Silicon Valley’s self-serving and morally untenable addiction to doom trolling. This communication strategy has to stop. The harm it’s causing to the public’s mental health has arguably outweighed the benefits that A.I. has so far delivered. There have been some signs that this behavior is starting to shift.”
- And Ross Douthat’s framing of an ideological battle at the center of an AI conflict: “But beyond the specifics of why, say, the libertarian tech people in the Trump administration distrust the effective-altruist tech people running Anthropic, the kind of conflict we’re seeing here is overdetermined by the trajectory of the A.I. models: There is too much potential power here not to have ongoing, escalating struggles over who actually gets to rule.”
- Paul Graham tells the Oxford Union how to be a billionaire: “So how do you find startup ideas without looking for them? By working on projects with your friends. That’s where the very best startups come from. Initially they’re not even meant to be companies. They’re just something people built because they thought it would be cool. That’s how Apple and Google and Facebook all started. None of them were meant to be companies at first. The reason this works is what I told you earlier: you predict future demand. So if you just build random stuff you think would be cool, the things you build will actually be far from random.”