An important reminder to those investing in tech+bio that regardless of how much tech there is, you are still buying bio risk. And if you don’t understand the bio risk, it’ll bite you. …matter how large you foundation models is https://
science.org/content/blog-p
ost/ai-and-hard-stuff
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@nathanbenaich
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Tech-Bio Investments: Understanding Biological Risk Beyond AI
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Brain drain accelerates post-Brexit exodus of skilled professionals
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Entirely unsurprising and a harbinger for what’s to come…even if this efflux has been ongoing since Brexit. So many friends and colleagues are fed up.
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European Dynamism: VCs Must Tackle Hard Problems
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3) We need a new spirit of European Dynamism, where VCs go after the hardest problems, while governments are prepared to make tough choices and bet big. Read my oped in the @FT today:
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Government Barriers to Digital Defense Innovation and VC Investment
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2) This is partly VC's fault but governments are their own worst enemies on digital transformation. Slow procurement, low risk tolerance, and reliance on lame incumbents. This makes it very hard to build sustainable new defense businesses.
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US Defense Tech Startups Surge While Europe Lags Behind
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1) As we’re already seeing in Ukraine, the way wars are fought and democracies defend themselves is changing. US VCs recognised this years ago and are acting. The defense tech entrepreneur community is building. Meanwhile, Europe is still lagging behind.
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European Dynamism: Democracy Beyond Grocery Delivery Apps
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My call for European Dynamism is in print @FT today *Democracy won’t defend itself with the next grocery-delivery app.* Here’s the diagnosis and what needs to happen:
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NVIDIA Q1 2024 Earnings Report Analysis
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Link https://
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Nvidia’s Earnings Beat Highlights Market’s AI Misunderstanding
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What’s more mad than a mad good earnings beat by @nvidia is how the Street *still* doesn’t understand AI. Tbh they’re not alone.
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Eric Lander Fireside Chat on AI, Science and Policy
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Can’t wait to host a fireside chat with Eric Lander at @raais 2023 in London. Amongst many achievements, Eric is Founding Director @broadinstitute
, Chief Scientist @science4america
, Prof @MIT
, and more. We’ll talk ambitious science, policy, AI…