Excellent piece, Deirdre Bosa. Was fun to participate!

This week’s Friday pod starring Deirdre Bosa: LLMs’ room to grow, Big Tech earnings ft. Meta, Google, and Microsoft. Plus the latest on TikTok! open.spotify.com/episode/3k8S4F…

Are LLMs about to hit a wall?

Zuck last week said a moderate sized Nuclear-level powerplant may eventually be needed to keep scaling exponentially. How far does this go?

bigtechnology.com/p/are-llms-abo… via Big Technology

NYTIMES: Please sit down with us, President Biden
President Biden:

If we do another pandemic, I'm going about it totally differently. Instead of exercise bike + doomscrolling, I'm getting the last ten versions of Assassin's Creed and will see you in three years when I'm done.

First the pope, then Jensen. 60 minutes is flexing.

Got a former resident's jury duty notice in my mailbox, found (what I think was) his cell number and texted him about it, but I'm sure he's not replying because he thinks I'm a wrong number scam.

Emotional interview with the man who, almost singularly, helped build so much of the modern NYC we know today and is now battling to stay alive with ALS…

Yep 👀 bigtechnology.com/p/googles-ai-n…

Snap now has 422 million daily active users, up 39 million on the year. Also beat on earnings and revenue. Impressive.

I'm a longtime Substack user, but the company is overindexing on in-app followers vs. newsletter subscribers. Big mistake. Keep the main thing the main thing.

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This was a blast and, as M.G. notes here, goes deep on the forthcoming WWDC AI news that is starting to come into focus: spyglass.org/apple-ai-llm/

Great chat with Alex Kantrowitz on Big Technology pod last week on Apple and AI — also timely given Apple LLM news yesterday… pod.link/1522960417/epi…

Personal news: Thrilled to announce CNBC has renewed my contract and we've extended our agreement through 2026. Great network, great people. See you on air soon :)

The Ivy Leagues: Spend four years as a communist activist and then go work for McKinsey