Sunday newsletter

🔮 AI’s ongoing mismeasure; standing between superpowers; Mrs Genghis Khan, Ozempic & happy Finns ++ #470

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. In this week’s edition, we explore the problem of mismeasuring AI and what to do about it. And in the rest of today’s issue: Need…

Apr 21 •

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🔮 AI’s diminishing marginal returns; Yellen’s time machine; TikTok boom; cycling, beauty & vintage phones++ #469

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. In this week’s edition, we explore why data is not all we need to take AI to the next level of competency. And in the rest of…

Apr 14 •

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🔮 EVs on the up; Google‘s paywall; software’s fatal flaw; creative walking, long Covid and Amazon’s ”AI” ++ #468

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. In this week’s edition, we explore what the trajectory of the electric vehicle market can teach us about the adoption of…

Apr 7 •

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🔮 Who is winning the AI talent wars? EV#467

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. In this week’s edition, we explore What Taiwan can teach us about the new era of disinformation. Balancing AI assistance and…

Mar 31 •

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🔮 Will AI agents enter your business this year?; economic efficiency vs. welfare; modelling breakdown; Tot-AI-l Football ++ #466

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. In this week’s edition, we explore The potential of AI agents. A Nobel laureate’s critique of mainstream economics. Climate models…

Mar 24 •

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🔮 What to make of ChatGPT’s rival Claude 3; urban innovation; AI patents; solar learning; epigenetics ++ #464

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. In this week’s edition, we explore Why new data about remote work challenges our assumptions about what makes cities innovative…

Mar 10 •

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🔮 The complicated costs of genAI; Gemini & bias; good news for energy transition; AI patents, Nvidia, gambling ++ #462

An insider’s guide to AI and exponential technologies

Feb 25 •

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🔮 AI hype; controlling compute; digital dialectic; a micro-dose of complexity ++ #461

An insider’s guide to AI and exponential technologies

Feb 18 •

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🔮 AI, trust, & lawyers' future; China's chip success; face swap, robot swarms, obesity drugs ++ #460

An insider’s guide to AI and exponential technologies

Feb 11 •

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🔮 AI cloud capture; asymmetric warfare; 34 authors; code quality; big PDFs ++ #459

An insider’s guide to AI and exponential technologies

Feb 4 •

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🔮 Slow AI?; chatbot therapy; mis-misinformation; poisoned Apple; long covid ++ #458

An insider’s guide to AI and exponential technologies

Jan 28 •

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🔮 AI, jobs & Engels’ pause; silicon sensitivity; GPUs galore; artificial milk, cheap batteries ++ #457

An insider’s guide to AI and exponential technologies

Jan 21 •

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