Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman / Rest of World) restofworld.org/2025/indonesia… techmeme.com/251011/p18#a25…

Data center proposals are facing growing opposition from towns across the US, as residents and officials raise concerns about water and electricity use (Daniel Wu / Washington Post) washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/10… techmeme.com/251013/p6#a251… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

Researchers used an off-the-shelf system to compile a vast collection of private data, including T-Mobile users' calls and texts, sent by satellites unencrypted (Wired) wired.com/story/satellit… techmeme.com/251013/p50#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

Nexperia says China banned it from exporting China-made products, as Beijing hits back at the Dutch government for taking over the Wingtech-owned chipmaker (Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/251014/p11#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

Here's my conversation with Julia Shaw, a criminal psychologist and author, who in her work explores human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, the psychology of evil, police interrogation, false memory manipulation, deception detection, and human sexuality. It's here

Here's the links for my conversation with Julia Shaw: YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=7OLVwZ… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc… Podcast: lexfridman.com/podcast

Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others (Mother Jones) motherjones.com/politics/2025/… techmeme.com/251015/p9#a251… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

10-15-2025 ($) An Interview with Gracelin Baskaran About Rare Earths stratechery.com/2025/an-interv…

Sources: Anthropic is on track to meet an internal goal of $9B in annual revenue run rate by the end of 2025 and is targeting $20B to $26B for 2026 (Reuters) reuters.com/business/retai… techmeme.com/251015/p45#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

Aboon, an AI-powered platform for financial advisers to help business owners launch and manage 401(k) plans, raised a $17.5M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures (Davis Janowski / WealthManagement) wealthmanagement.com/advisor-suppor… techmeme.com/251016/p48#a25…

European automakers warn of substantial disruption to production after China cut off Nexperia's outbound shipments following the Dutch seizure of Nexperia (Financial Times) ft.com/content/91304d… techmeme.com/251017/p22#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

Who says people don't have the patience for long-form learning and entertainment any more? My 6-hour interview with Lex Fridman has a million views on YouTube alone! youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?si…

Great site example! Stratechery was built on Twitter. It was always disappointing it basically died as a distribution channel, but what really bummed me out is that others didn’t have the same opportunity to get big enough to manage without. Very glad to see these changes.

Analysis: agencies have hired hundreds of thousands of "chatters" to impersonate 4M+ OnlyFans creators, as many Filipino chatters struggle with mental health (Michael Beltran / Nikkei Asia) asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/soci… techmeme.com/251021/p2#a251… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

The most interesting people in the world just dropped their best stories. Follow Brady Knowlton for the full ride.

Nothing will do more to make you a fervent anti-monopolist than trying to make a simple transaction on Ticketmaster

Here's my conversation with Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games and legendary creative mind behind Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Red Dead Redemption series of video games. I have spent hundreds of hours in worlds that Dan helped create. So, this was an incredible honor and

Here's the links for my conversation with Dan Houser: YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o3gbXD… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc… Podcast: lexfridman.com/podcast

Amazing video, particularly the end youtu.be/FxEX_GWwE7M?si…

11-4-2025 ($) •Amazon Earnings •AWS and OpenAI •Did Amazon Solve Groceries? stratechery.com/2025/amazon-ea…