If you want to build a predictive health platform, a mattress cover is a surprisingly good place to start. Then, you just need to build a consumer hardware company with hundreds of thousands of users over a decade. This week's Deep Dive is on @eightsleep
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Eight Sleep: Building Predictive Health Through Smart Mattress Hardware
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The Master Switch: Essential Reading on Tech Power Concentration
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In The Master Switch by @superwuster
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Big Tech Monopolies and Government Surveillance: Historical Parallels
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I'm currently reading about how the Bush admin let the Bells reconstitute themselves into AT&T after breaking them up a couple decades earlier so that the NSA would have one partner to wiretap Americans with. Makes you wonder how Apple keeps getting away with this stuff.
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Ti Morse interviews Chris on AI’s historical arc
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Really good conversation between @ti_morse and @2112Power
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Weekly Dose of Optimism: AI and Tech Innovations
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Weekly Tech Wins: Robots, AI Hardware, and Health Breakthroughs
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Robots can play ping pong.
— Packy McCormick (@packyM) 9 août 2024
Anduril is rebuilding the Arsenal.
Nudge wants to enhance your brain.
Blood tests could soon predict Alzheimer's.
Samsung drops a 600 mile battery w/ 9 minute charge.
+ The Case for Long-Term Tech Optimism
What a week for the optimists. pic.twitter.com/WWCSyPJ808Robots can play ping pong.
Anduril is rebuilding the Arsenal.
Nudge wants to enhance your brain.
Blood tests could soon predict Alzheimer's.
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AGI and Singularity Progress: A Critical Perspective
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if this is agi my singularity is not off to a good start
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Anduril Secures $1.5B to Scale Autonomous Weapons Manufacturing
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Anduril has secured $1.5B in Series F funding to hyperscale defense manufacturing. Introducing Arsenal-1, a 5M+ sq ft state-of-the-art facility to produce autonomous weapons systems. Learn more: https://
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l-raises-usd1-5-billion-to-rebuild-the-arsenal-of-democracy/
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Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Consistent Excellence in Investment Insights
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It's easy to take people for granted when their output is consistently excellent for a long time, but worth calling out: @patrick_oshag has been on a long heater. I can't remember the last time I didn't get at least one valuable thing from an Invest Like the Best conversation.