The future is.. where one of the world’s biggest ad execs has absolutely no clue that the video he posted is 100% AI generated slop

Did a pod with the legends from Kwetta to announce their US$10.5m round - led by Blackbird - for their EV charging tech for heavy electric vehicles. Connects to the high-voltage network, reduces need for grid upgrades, speeds up connections. Super interesting tech.

Favourite part of DeepSeekWeek is the gloating from techies: “ACTUALLY I posted about DeepSeek on Christmas Day” Congrats! I discovered Khruangbin in 2015 and no-one cares anymore

Should Microsoft focus more on a) spending $80bn of capex next year or b) fixing bulleted numbering formats in 42 year old Microsoft Word? It's a big question for Satya and the Board

can you rate base GLP-1s? asking for a friend

Asked the same task of ChatGPT o1 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet and then asked o1: which was answer was better? It said Claude

Or CFOs who use Google Sheets 😅

New ETF: SHORT all companies doing April Fools posts. Ticker $CRINGE

AFR and Capital Brief will be LOST when they write their final daily StrongRoomAi update (in 2047). If only they devoted equal attention to celebrating Australian ingenuity instead of feasting incessantly on this for clicks

I know we aren’t supposed to interrupt the group chat discourse with woke nonsense like the habitability of our planet, but possibly the most intense heat wave on record is unfolding from Sub-Saharan Africa to East Asia and it’s getting zero attention.

I think Base Power encapsulates so much of what climate tech should be: Rides megatrends and cost curves in a massive market; Simplifies complex problems with an elegant, tech-enabled model; Compounds value and savings with scale; Aligns incentives with consumers and

Fascinating rare public case of Long Covid or ME/CFS playing out in the NBA "He had a virus... now he crashes after mild exercise...No one knows what it is..." Would not wish it on anyone in the world

Pre 2025: call centre waiting lines Post 2025: deep research waiting lines

Every time I research a supposed devastating weakness of large-scale reliance on solar PV + batteries, I end up becoming more of a solar + battery maximallist.

Just read a newsletter where the author promised "non AI, fully human insights!"...there were 18 em-dashes 😂

Not what the fossil fuel spokespersons and instant "inertia experts" said immediately

What!! 1 in 9 adults in Australia are on Ozempic? Great newsletter GLP-1s and food system from the always excellent Agtech So What from Tenacious Ventures and Sarah Nolet One of the few Australian VCs with consistent and genuine thought leadership!

Microsoft adding an "AI agent" to Windows to help automatically close an open PDF so you can rename it? = $1T of enterprise value imho

New AI use case, "where the hell is this chart from"?

Related: the collective sigh of relief by the Australian podcast industry. A few Descript accounts got renewed today.