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Inflation inside the electronics you buy may soon become a bit more sticky. It’s important to learn about the supply chain up and down a red hot industry such as the AI one. Resin is not popular among consumers, but is a critical component inside a circuit board which is the brain of every electronic device. The Iran conflict is expected to disrupt the supply of this important chemical globally and soon every company and consumer will feel this impact.
Uber CEO on AI, Autonomous Vehicles, and the Future of Transportation. Dara is one of the best CEOs in the last decade in my opinion. The way he came in and turned around Uber into a free cash flow margin and a monster of a business is impressive. I agree, of course not to the extreme extent, with his view on parenting and letting your kids fail and figure things out on their own.
Apple Wins Consumer AI By Default. To Apple, it is important that its products and services fit its worldview and make sense to its customers. It tends not to be first with features and in a lot of cases, it doesn’t seem to want to be first. The same goes with AI. Ridiculed as the loser and laggard in AI for several years, Apple now quiets the critics when the work behind the scenes starts to show and affirms the company as the winner in Consumer AI.
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Building the Dynamo of the Intelligence Age. A brilliant chat by Jensen. Two things stood out for me. The first is how he described in laymen’s terms how AI is created and how AI will change cocoon our world is impressive. The second is the difference between tasks and a job. A brilliant take-down of the narrative out there that AI will take jobs away from people. The convenient excuse that companies use to fire people drives fear into the mind of a lot of workers, but it’s the greed that fuels the layoffs.
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess. Such a stark contrast between Apple and Meta. The former had an astounding product launch with waves of positive feedback on Siri AI. Meanwhile, the former is now cutting back on token usage for employees and destroys the morale among employees with the insanity around AI and, simply put, just mismanagement.
Other Stuff I Find Interesting & You May Too
Guide to Ultra-Premium Credit Card Travel Protections. A neat compilation of travel protections by premium credit cards. All things equal, this may tip the scale when you have to decide which cards to apply for. Based on this information, Strata Elite does look a bit inferior, compared to others. And I wish they would add the cards from UBS and HSBC.
Are Agentic CPUs a Commodity? It’s Complicated. As a non-engineer, I learned a few things from this article about CPU and GPU. Really appreciate the author to dumb it all down.
Sunscreen is about to change dramatically for the better — just in time for summer. It is mind-blowing that bemotrizinol or BEMT has been available for years as a safe and cosmetically better sunscreen in Asia and Europe for years, yet we only JUST had it approved here in the US now.
The sites fighting to be removed from the Unesco World Heritage List. These sties want to avoid excessive tourism. I get that having to welcome thousands of tourists every year comes with its own problems, but people have the right and, one can argue, the obligation to see these outstanding places. I don’t think the Unesco World Heritage List is as big a problem as social media nowadays.
Stats
Almost 16% of Gen Zers have more than one job at a given time
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