🔮 Sunday edition #528: Superintelligent states; thinking parrots; paywalls vs overviews; stochastic chips++

An insider's guide to AI and exponential technologies

Hi, it’s Azeem.

This week’s edition opens with a question that has gone from sci-fi to strategy: who’s ready for superintelligence? Sam Altman says a gentle takeoff has begun. I agree, but the gentleness of this singularity will depend on how quickly institutions, norms, and minds adapt.

From Apple’s quiet pivot toward ambient computing, to Gulf states reengineering their political economies for AI supremacy, to students offloading cognition onto ChatGPT -every system is under pressure to evolve. What fails to adapt, breaks. What adapts too late, loses relevance.

Here’s another Sunday edition to help you make sense of things.