What I read this week...

No more cookies, the Magnificent Seven, and a new robotics training paradigm

This is a gondola plotter, where pulleys guide a pen around a canvas to draw a picture. It’s so cool to watch, here’s a video of it in action.

• Google Is Finally Killing Cookies. Advertisers Still Aren’t Ready. (WSJ)

• It’s the Magnificent Seven’s Market. The Other Stocks Are Just Living in It. (WSJ)

• Shaping the future of advanced robotics (DeepMind)

• Why hot AI startup Anthropic wanted a lower valuation (Semafor)

• AI-Driven Study Redefines Right Heart Health Assessment With Novel Predictive Model (Mount Sinai)

• Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI (Gary Marcus)

• ‘This Can’t Go On for Much Longer.’ Private Equity’s Deal Lament (WSJ)

• Six imperatives for AI-first companies (Bessemer Venture Partners)

• How AI-created fakes are taking business from online influencers (Financial Times)

• Changes in Hospital Adverse Events and Patient Outcomes Associated With Private Equity Acquisition (Jama Network)

• Defense tech is having its moment in Silicon Valley (Semafor)

• This Health AI Startup Aims To Keep Doctors Up To Date On The Latest Science (Forbes)

• Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search (WSJ)

• Geisel Professor Harnesses AI to Act Like a Patient (Dartmouth News)

• The Faster Horse Problem in AI (Morgan’s Newsletter)

• AI Is a Healer, Not a Killer (WSJ)

• 2024 Predictions (Tomasz Tunguz)

• Harvard President Resigns After Plagiarism Allegations, Campus Antisemitism Backlash (WSJ)

• LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024 (antirez)

• Clouded Judgement 12.29.23 - Year End Review (Clouded Judgement)

• Clouded Judgement 1.5.24 (Clouded Judgement)

What I listened to this week

• The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023 (All-In Podcast, Ep. 159)

• Gregg Lemkau - The Evolution of MSD (Capital Allocators, Ep. 291)

• An intense scuffle between Apple and the government in India after a number of critics of the government received notifications that their phones might have been hacked (Nicholas Thompson)

• Ian Bogost decided to use plagiarism-detection software on his own work (Nicholas Thompson)

• Inside the mind of a master procrastinator (Tim Urban)

Song of the week

Blue Copper by Quarters of Change

Cheers, and have a great weekend!