🔮 Robot bosses; freeing music; genomes; Gaga's boyfriend, Softbank's scandals, anoxic animals++ #259

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🔮 I had a wonderful conversation with the CEO of one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing companies, Airtable, Howie Liu. Airtable has a bold mission—I thought it was just about reinventing the spreadsheet, but Howie has much bigger ideas.

🎶 Programmers claim to have generated “every possible melody” with an algorithm, copyrighted them and released them to the public in an attempt to protect musicians from being sued. Their algorithm generates 300,000 melodies a second, all of which are released under a Creative Commons Zero license. Existing IP laws are not fit for the exponential age, endeavours like this help …