My Waymo in SF *honked* at a car that was reversing ahead of us All it needs now is a robotic voice that screams “what the hell are you doing, motherf*cker”, and it will be ready for the streets of New York

I am running out of words to describe how absurd August 2024 was in Svalbard. Reaching an average temperature of 11°C in August would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. This is totally bonkers.

Some numbers on the fundraise for our $50M Fund III: -Took 108 first calls with LPs, 28 committed -Took over 80 first calls in three weeks to start the raise, ran a tight process how a startup might (this was a gamble but it worked) -$38.5M of the $50M are from 6 LPs -Raised

Nichole Wischoff Ok now turn $75m into 5x net and as a solo GP life is pretty good Very hard but doable

Former head of Tesla AI Andrej Karpathy: "I personally think Tesla is ahead of Waymo. I know it doesn't look like that, but I'm still very bullish on Tesla and its self-driving program. Tesla has a software problem and Waymo has a hardware problem. Software problems are much easier;

Cars are about to go through their “iPhone moment,” as it all converges down to two companies, Tesla and Google.

Yeah this is the core of my OPSEC since 2007. Everything in the clear.

Hakan Sukur is one of Turkey's greatest soccer players. But his country has tried to forget about him, leading to a life in exile in the U.S. nytimes.com/athletic/57148…

I stand by this. "People love making things black and white when the world runs in a lot of different shades of truth.” businessinsider.com/founder-mode-m…

The UK's economy has stagnated since 2008 🇬🇧 In terms of GDP per capita - economic output divided by the number of people in a country - we've actually gone backwards. A short 🧵 on the countries that the UK was richer than in 2007, but which have since overtaken us...

In search, first you get the content, then you get the power, then you get the users, then you really get the power, then you get the women. ft.com/content/06c6f8…

Many people aren’t finding love - and seem to be giving up cc jason ball 🐺🍌 kyla.substack.com/p/how-dating-a…

The rapid rise in AI has the potential to dramatically change the labor market libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2024/09/ai-and…

“USC study confirms the rotation of Earth’s inner core has slowed” Significantly since 2010… today.usc.edu/usc-study-conf…

The only way the SEC could get around Section 230 is by arguing that OpenSea contracts "materially developed" every NFT offering on the platform into an unlawful security. If they did this, it'd be a reach. I have a feeling the SEC bit off more than they can chew with OpenSea.

I see your @WashingtonPost, New York Times Pitchbot, and I raise you an @NYTimes:

The Chinese government is ending its international adoption programme, and the US is seeking clarification on how the decision will affect hundreds of American families with pending applications. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Major Democratic donors on Wall Street are increasingly pushing Kamala Harris’ team to replace top regulators Lina Khan and Gary Gensler if the vice president wins in November bloomberg.com/news/articles/…