🔮 Cyberwar; the infrastructure phase; Amazon & AI; Tim's new web; amazing founders; secularization, microbiota & drone killers++ #186

How Amazon will put AI everywhere; understanding novel cyber attacks.

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Dept of podcasts

The digital revolution no longer needs any support, any subsidy from the government. On the contrary, [...] it is attacking the authority of the state.

I discuss the innovation economy & the relationship between entrepreneurs, investors and the state in this deep conversation with economist and veteran investor, Bill Janeway. Listen to the new episode of the Exponential View podcast here:

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Dept of the near future

🚀 How AI shapes every part of Amazon’s business and how it plans to put those powers "in the hands of every developer and data scientist".

✊ Tim Berners-Lee announced Solid, a decentralised service …