Curated Commons // Edition 131
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Meet the ‘Passive Income’ bros
They are a plague on every social media platform - Hustle Gurus who engage you promising to teach you how to make more money while making themselves money. - Read here
Big tech, monopoly, and more
Interesting interview with academic Dina Srinivasan - Read here ($)
India, getting an infra shot in the arm
Lot of infrastructure push in India in recent years - Read here ($)
The world is flat, for those with a strong currency
Interesting read on how some rich Americans are moving to Southern Europe and distorting local markets - Read here($)
Large Language Models, but for Protein structures
A team at Meta has trained an LLM on “the statistics of the appearance of amino acids within proteins and used the system's internal representation of what it learned to extract information about the structure of those proteins” - Read here
When trash robots meet strangers
Are we in a moment of ‘radical uncertainty’?
People are really excited, and equally worried, with the advent of Generative AI. Perhaps, equally. - Read here ($)
What if AI replaces your CEO?
Before the CEO replaces other jobs with AI, what if we replace the CEO with an AI system? One Chinese company (>$2Bn in revenue) did that, and you have a nice correlation chart with their stock price - Read here
Semiconductor in focus
Everywhere, from South Korea to the USA.
Samsung is set to invest a massive $228 Bn over the next 20 years in a new semi complex in South Korea - Read here
It’s not enough to announce these big plans though. You also need talent to run these massive plants. Some are discovering it slowly. - Read here ($)
Social experiment or algorithm gone rogue?
A bunch of people in Los Angeles have been receiving food orders through Uber Eats - orders that they haven’t made - Read here
Get ready to be bombarded with different industries adopting ‘AI’
And so it begins… - Read here ($)
More interesting reads:
Are we modifying tech to suit our needs or are we modifying our behavior to suit tech? - Read here
Climate activists are turning their attention to Hollywood - Read here ($)
New evidence suggesting that the pandemic is most likely traceable to an animal - racoon dogs - Read here ($)
Apparently some CEOs have impeccable timing in trading on stocks…of their competitors - Read here
China apparently has a thriving black market for ChatGPT logins - Read here
Drone delivery experiments continue -
And finally, see how the humble USB-C inspires mergers in financial services
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