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Excellent new Bill Gates essay on the urgency of having a coherent AI plan
2+ week, 4+ day ago (243+ words) Excellent new essay by Bill Gates, echoing many of the themes I have been writing about here and in my 2024 book Taming Silicon Valley: The critical, lasting importance of the decisions we make now. The risks that AI creates, around…...
Anthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy
2+ week, 5+ day ago (137+ words) A lot of people (not me) are bothered by the just-reported fact that Anthropic has sometimes asked prospective employees whether they are comfortable with the possibility that the price of the company stock could potentially crash to zero. But whatever…...
ARR vs ARR. Watch out for this one sly trick.
3+ week, 1+ day ago (259+ words) Anthropic’s boosters are rushing to celebrate their ARR. As they do, be mindful that the acronym ARR can actually mean two rather different things, Annual Recurring Revenue or Annualized Run Rate. (And 65 other things, less immediately relevant.) You might think…...
Leopold???s Folly - by Gary Marcus
3+ week, 3+ day ago (149+ words) Before I get to what I am going to call Leopold’s Folly, let’s talk about check-kiting, a classic scam that has been on my mind. Wikipedia has a nice summary. I am not saying that the generative AI industry is…...