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BIG TECH & STARTUPS
JENSEN HUANG HAS BEEN OUSTED AS NVIDIA CEO (8 MINUTE READ) [8]
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's CEO after the revelation of two extramarital affairs. Finance chief Colette Kress will serve as
interim CEO until a permanent successor is named. The board is
considering both internal and external candidates. Nvidia's board has
appointed long-time director Harvey C. Jones as its first ever chair.
Huang has previously said that he doesn't believe in succession
planning and that leaders should continuously pass on knowledge and
information as they have it.
SPACEX AND TESLA TALKS ON RECORD MERGER ARE SAID TO PROGRESS (4
MINUTE READ) [9]
SpaceX and Tesla could announce a merger deal as soon as December.
The companies' boards and advisers are working out the terms of the
deal and the governance structure of the combined entity. The merger
will be a major test case for political sentiment following the US
midterm elections. The aggressive timeline reflects Elon Musk's
tendency to move quickly when it comes to corporate maneuvers.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
A DEEPSEEK MOMENT FOR BIOTECH (12 MINUTE READ) [10]
Chinese drugmakers account for at least a third of the world's
pipeline of innovative drugs in development, but China-originated
novel treatments have yet to reach overseas markets at scale. The
country runs more clinical trials than any place else. Chinese
drugmakers with global ambitions currently pursue them primarily
through partnerships with Western companies, who usually take charge
of late-stage development and eventual sales of the drugs outside of
China. Some lawmakers in the US are calling for restrictions on
partnerships with Chinese companies, but industry analysts say the
business momentum is too strong to break.
THE NEXT CHAPTER OF MRNA (28 MINUTE READ) [11]
mRNA technology has the potential to generate hundreds of new
treatments for a range of diseases. It is quickly becoming the
preferred technology for its speed - a vaccine can be created against
any pathogen within six to eight weeks, less time than it takes to
conduct the studies required to establish a therapy's safety and
efficacy. The technology could redesign treatments in infectious
diseases, rare diseases, and cancer.
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4 IN 10 LEADERS SAY HUMANOID ROBOTS WILL NEVER BE VIABLE FOR MASS
DEPLOYMENT (SPONSOR) [12]
Intel asked 800 senior business, IT and robotics leaders which robots
will matter most in their industry over the next five years. Humanoids
got 6% of the votes [12]. 77% said reliability matters more than what
a robot looks like. See the full breakdown in Intel's Robotics
Readiness Gap report. [12]
SLOP IS MOVING UP THE STACK (18 MINUTE READ) [13]
AI is writing significantly less slop, but slop has not been
eliminated. Slop has now moved up the stack to infest design
decisions. Frontier agents lack foresight into how their code will be
used. They display poor abstraction design and complete disregard for
reusing library-provided code.
BAD IDEAS THAT AREN'T BAD ANYMORE (12 MINUTE READ) [14]
You develop a lot of intuition throughout your career through
experience. This knowledge and experience is what makes leaders
effective. However, once in a while, it's worth revisiting ideas that
were once considered bad. Some of the intuition you're relying on
might not be worth as much anymore, as things change.
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MISCELLANEOUS
AI COMPANY EMPLOYEES SHOULD UNIONIZE (10 MINUTE READ) [17]
Safety-conscious employees at AI companies should unionize, as this
would give them the power to keep their employers in check if they
have concerns about their work. There are so few skilled AI
researchers that companies will want to negotiate if a dozen top AI
researchers threaten to walk. A union would uphold normal protections
around discipline and firing, demand transparency, and act as an
independent voice to hold companies to their commitments. RSI could
make AI employees obsolete as soon as next year, so they need to take
action now, as they may never have this amount of leverage again.
GOOGLE PUSHES PRIVACY ANGLE AS GEMINI-POWERED SMARTGLASSES DEBUT
STARTING AT $395 (5 MINUTE READ) [18]
Google has partnered with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker
to create Gemini-powered smartglasses. The frames, which all weigh
around 41 grams, will have a camera that Gemini can use for tasks. The assistant will have access to user data and preferences to produce
personalized answers. Google claims it has implemented a number of
features and limitations to ensure that people don't do creepy things
with the device, and that it doesn't do creepy things to users.
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QUICK LINKS
HOW A ROBOT GOES FROM DEMO TO EVERY SHIFT (SPONSOR) [19]
Robot demos are everywhere, but few robots work every shift. Intel
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FIRST STRIKE (1 MINUTE READ) [20]
China will have 10 times the electricity of the US in 10 years if
trends continue.
AGE AND ACCELERATIONISM (10 MINUTE READ) [21]
Younger people may not care too much whether AI will be able to
prolong life, but older people have shorter timelines, so they are
more incentivized to accelerate development.
DETAILS OF INCIDENT.IO'S AI SPEND (11 MINUTE READ) [22]
incident.io's 'effort point' concept is a way to analyze AI spend.
ARCA PAYS FOR YOUR AI SESSIONS (SPONSOR) [23]
Got hundreds of Claude Code, Codex or Cursor sessions just sitting
there? Might as well get paid for them.
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TRUMP FLOATS APPLE CHAIRMAN TIM COOK AS JENSEN HUANG'S SUCCESSOR (1
MINUTE READ) [24]
Tim Cook has an unparalleled track record of succeeding a
bigger-than-life founder.
ANNOUNCING RUST 1.100.0 (13 MINUTE READ) [25]
Rust 1.100.0 stable features the never type, the Allocator and
DropGuard APIs, conjuring zero types, and more.
MASSIVE MICROSOFT 365 OUTAGE DISRUPTS OUTLOOK, TEAMS, COPILOT
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