Notes on AI Bias (Benedict Evans)
AI’s Victories in Go Inspire Better Human Game Playing (Scientific American)
The unfortunate math behind consulting companies (A Smart Bear)
Tencent Sheds $46 Billion in Market Cap After China Proposes Online-Gaming Curbs (WSJ)
How Electric Vehicles Are Losing Momentum with U.S. Buyers, in Charts (WSJ)
The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work (The New York Times)
Excuse me, is there a problem? (A Smart Bear)
The End of the English Major (The New Yorker)
It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber (The Atlantic)
Self-Checkout Haters -- and Retailers -- Can Rejoice: A New Machine Rings Customers Up Automatically (Inc.)
Clearlake and Insight reach $4.4B deal to take software maker Alteryx private (TechCrunch)
The Economic Case for Generative AI and Foundation Models (Andreesen Horowitz)
Prompt engineering (OpenAI)
Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends (WSJ)
A note to the staff about AI (Nicholas Thompson)
The Art of Slide Design: Maximise Signal, Minimise Noise (Melinda Seckington)
Cop Diary (The Sun)
A Letter From Sy’s Desk (The Sun)
The Winding Road to Volkswagen's Famous Line 'Think Small' (Muse)
The VW Doctor Is In (Craftsmanship)
What I listened to this week
A new study in Nature uses a clever methodology to suggest that innovation is more likely when people are together (Nicholas Thompson)
Imran Khan, the imprisoned former prime minister of Pakistan, uses AI voice technology to give a speech (Nicholas Thompson)
Adobe has given up on its acquisition of Figma (Nicholas Thompson)
Are Programmers Obsolete? (Naval Ravikant)
Book I’m reading
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Song of the week
You’ve Got a Friend - Live by Donny Hathaway
Thanks for reading, and happy New Year!