Read it and weep forbes.com/sites/angelauy…

14% “tried it” is impressive this early … and with 5b+ people / 15b+ devices connected to the internet, real adoption should quickly accelerate via Metcalfe’s law if genAI usefully augments our lives

News execs weigh deals with AI companies axios.com/2023/05/30/new…

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I got to hold Shoehei Ohtani’s 443-foot home run after last night’s game. I’m told Texas Rangers will likely auction off the authenticated ball in the coming weeks around the All-Star Game hoopla. #gameused #Ohtani

Excited to share that my book is now available for pre-order! I have spent years reporting "The Everything War." It is the first untold exposé of Amazon’s endless strategic greed in pursuit of total domination. Available for pre-order here: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dana-ma…… $AMZN

Inside Elon Musk's illegal drug use, and the years-long concern of some leaders at Tesla and SpaceX - especially, lately, about his use of ketamine. Some directors have taken drugs along with him. An investigation w/ the great Emily Glazer wsj.com/business/elon-…

Solar Eclipse time lapse from Dallas 📍

Time lapse of the solar eclipse at GABP 😍 (via Cincinnati Reds)

Drone time lapse of the solar eclipse crowd here at SMU (Dallas, TX)

“Bring him home.” A message from Evan Gershkovich’s colleagues.

The best WSJ homepage. Just last night I gave my daughter an extra "Free Evan" pin to put on her new backpack. So happy for Evan Gershkovich, and congratulations to all his The Wall Street Journal colleagues who for the past 16 months fought for his release and for press freedom. #istandwithevan

Most large AI models have trained on a giant set of Hollywood dialogue. Creators have not been compensated for it. Here’s a searchable database we built so you can see what’s in it. bit.ly/4fVefQS

After 5.5 years, today is my last day at Google. Leading NotebookLM from idea to a product serving millions has been the ride of a lifetime. But the best part? Finding my future cofounders in the trenches: Jason Spielman : My 4-year collaborator, design genius, and execution

the AI trade is alive and well...its just moved to the app layer & startups like Cursor Abridge Perplexity are the new darlings Our latest TC Take: rise of the app layer (or as we like to say: Justice for AI wrappers) thanks to Shiv Rao, MD Bryan Kim Calvin Chin

Browser agents are actually NOT why they're doing this -- or why Perplexity has a browser now. Every one of these AI company browsers is about one thing & one thing only: web scraping. Cloudflare has shut down their ability to get tokens off the open web. Hence these browsers.

My wife & I both just had our time thoroughly wasted by the @toyota chat AI. First time in my life (that I know of) that I'm literally the victim of a bad AI agent implementation -- certainly not the last. I'm working on just such a system rn, so I have a good idea what failed