What I read this week...

Davos, DeepMind, and the difficulty with IPO markets

Impressive results from DeepMind’s AI that can solve geometry problems. Source: DeepMind

• WEF Panel - The Expanding Universe of Generative Models (Nicholas Thompson)

• AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry (DeepMind)

• The Bar for Going Public (Clouded Judgement) 

• Open Source Models : What Can We Determine from Download Patterns? (Tomasz Tunguz) 

• Generative AI’s end-run around copyright won’t be resolved by the courts (AI Snake Oil)

• Spotify Dominates Audio Streaming, but Where Are the Profits? (WSJ)

• Inside America's electric vehicle whiplash (Axios)

• Synopsys to Acquire Ansys in $35 Billion Deal (WSJ)

• After Netflix says no, other app makers debate a Vision Pro launch (TechCrunch)

• After a Sugar High of Free Money, These Billion-Dollar Technologies Need a Nap (WSJ) 

• New CNN Boss Shakes Up News Operations, Explores Digital Subscription Model (WSJ)

• Astronaut accused of eating first ‘space tomato’ is exonerated (Yahoo News)

• From Which River to Which Sea? (WSJ)

• How Global Companies Use AI to Prevent Supply Chain Disruptions (Harvard Business Review)

• SpaceX deploys direct-to-smartphone satellites in first launch of 2024 (Space News)

• SpaceX launches 4 people for a private mission to the International Space Station (NPR)

• OpenAI and journalism (OpenAI)

• OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material (Ars Technica)

• Want Your Packages Delivered Faster and Cheaper? AI Is on the Case (WSJ)

• A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country (The New York Times)

• Japanese author used ChatGPT to write an award-winning novel (Semafor)

• Microsoft Reports Hack by Nation-State Actor (WSJ)

• Sex Differences in the Brain and the Mind (Quillette)

• The Vatican’s top expert on AI ethics is a friar from a medieval Franciscan order (AP News)

• You Should Go to a Trump Rally (The Atlantic)

• go/rulesofthumb (Non_Int)

What I listened to this week

• Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more (All-In Podcast, Ep. 162)

• Special address by Javier Milei, President of Argentina (World Economic Forum, transcript here)

• Elon Musk’s Quest to Own the Stars (The Daily)

• The cost of awesome – Turning CHAOS into Order with Mitch Davis (CIO In The Know)

• The quest to find training data for their AI models in languages other than English (Nicholas Thompson)

Song of the week

Maple Syrup by The Backseat Lovers

Thanks for reading, have a great week!