🔮 Genome architects; Chinese cables; sun & the data centre; rising rivals; hair juche & Schrodinger’s AI cat ++ #480

Hi all, welcome to the last Sunday edition of this month.

I spent the week in NYC, where I had a number of meetings and speaking engagements. On the back of last week’s Sunday edition (which got picked up by Elon on X…) about the collapse of traditional news outlets, I had a number of conversations with some of the leading figures of New York & British …