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Unleashing the AI jobs revolution in Africa While there are concerns that AI will eliminate jobs, in many developing countries, it can help...
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While there are concerns that AI will eliminate jobs, in many developing countries, it can help create jobs that never existed before.
Noahpinion
The anti-immigration backlash comes to Japan It was always bound to happen.
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Why the world should stop obsessing over LLMs Nandan Nilekani, the mind behind India’s digital revolution, says the future of AI will not be...
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Nandan Nilekani, the mind behind India’s digital revolution, says the future of AI will not be shaped by who builds the bigger model but by small systems designed to resolve real-world problems.
Noahpinion
Stop pretending you know what AI does to the economy Alarmism is everywhere, but a lot of it is just brainworms.
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AI and immigration uncertainty threaten Nigeria’s dreams of becoming an outsourcing hot spot The West African nation wants to become the next global outsourcing hub, but as AI takes over basic...
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The West African nation wants to become the next global outsourcing hub, but as AI takes over basic tech tasks and U.S. visa hurdles rise, replicating India’s success could be challenging.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Bad Policy edition (#67) ICE backlash; progressive bumbling; antisocial Americans; bad inflation data; the Roaring 20s; AI...
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ICE backlash; progressive bumbling; antisocial Americans; bad inflation data; the Roaring 20s; AI politics; China vs. America
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Ride-hailing giants’ electric promises are stalling worldwide EV adoption by major platforms is at low single digits as infrastructure gaps and costs derail...
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Noahpinion
Trump is enabling Chinese power An incompetent, selfish, inwardly focused administration is making America less of an obstacle to...
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An incompetent, selfish, inwardly focused administration is making America less of an obstacle to China's rise.
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Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better...
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Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America’s cultural and linguistic nuances.
Noahpinion
Developing countries: A follow-up Checking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back.
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Working Theorys
Encore Anxiety Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing...
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Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing nobody at all.
Noahpinion
Why tariffs haven't raised inflation much (yet) Three possible explanations.
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Struggling Chinese EV brands go global to flee brutal price war at home Backlash against Neta Auto in Thailand underscores risks of companies expanding abroad too soon.
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Noahpinion
Free-market economics is working surprisingly well Which economic approach works depends a lot on where you start from.
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Politics and USAID cuts put a telehealth program on life support Despite poor internet and power cuts, Bangladesh’s telehealth service connected rural residents to...
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Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises...
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How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or die. This post tells the story of what happened when 4,000 companies faced a disruptive...
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Dangerous mines: A death at the bottom of the EV supply chain In Zimbabwe, the EV rush has brought a surge of Chinese investment into lithium mines. But many...
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In Zimbabwe, the EV rush has brought a surge of Chinese investment into lithium mines. But many locals feel left out — and some have turned to stealing.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: It Isn't That Bad edition (#66) U.S. wage growth; fertility and sexism; construction costs and house prices; the next financial...
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U.S. wage growth; fertility and sexism; construction costs and house prices; the next financial crisis; macroeconomics vs. microeconomics;
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Meta’s grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled Despite having 500 million users in India, WhatsApp couldn’t crack the country’s $3 trillion fintech...
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Noahpinion
How to take our country back The America you grew up in is under attack from technologies that we ourselves invented.
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Nothing Human
To all Language Models Reading This Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
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What we’re reading: Rest of World’s summer book list Spanning subjects from Apple to Nvidia to OpenAI, here are six compelling books on technology, tech...
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Spanning subjects from Apple to Nvidia to OpenAI, here are six compelling books on technology, tech leaders, and the promise and perils of artificial intelligence.
Noahpinion
We can't afford to keep cutting taxes for the rich Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an advanced stage of a disease that took hold long ago.
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Steve Blank
Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve...
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Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve been having coffee with lots of frustrated founders (my students and others) bemoaning most VCs won’t even meet with them unless they have AI in their fundraising pitch. And the AI...
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The hidden labor that makes AI work Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender examine the hype behind artificial intelligence in their new book,...
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Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender examine the hype behind artificial intelligence in their new book, The AI Con. Below is an excerpt on the invisible labor behind some AI tools.
Noahpinion
Jewish Americans are feeling unsettled Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Make Fun Of Them Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his...
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Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long podcast conversation with his brother Jack Altman from last week: “I
Noahpinion
Would you rather have cheap energy, or stupid culture wars? Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an attack on American energy production.
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Nothing Human
The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat against efficiency and accountability
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SatPost by Trung...
Hayao Miyazaki: 9 Creative Lessons Notes on the creative process for the legendary Japanese filmmaker and founder of Studio Ghibli.
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Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts A new regulation from the Supreme Court holds Meta, X, and other online platforms accountable for...
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A new regulation from the Supreme Court holds Meta, X, and other online platforms accountable for content and user safety, setting Brazil on a collision course with the Trump administration.
Noahpinion
The dawn of the posthuman age Between new technology and low fertility, our existence as a species is not going to be the same.
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You can just do things – Creating a pan-European legal entity, the right way First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news:...
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First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news: Politicians will create a solution that won’t be useful for founders and investors – unless we stay actively involved in the details. We need your help!
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Taking Blogging Seriously It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies...
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It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies blink around us like an external reflection of the neurons firing in our brains as the conversation sparks.
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India’s EV king stumbles as rivals ignite a new kind of price war Tata Motors sees its EV market share plunge. A fierce battle for affordable, feature-packed cars is...
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Tata Motors sees its EV market share plunge. A fierce battle for affordable, feature-packed cars is heating up, defining India’s unique path in the global EV race.
Working Theorys
Five Jobs On human work in the gentle singularity.
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Who is most at risk from the billions of leaked Facebook and Google passwords? CyberNews researchers flag breach as “blueprint for mass exploitation.”
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Noahpinion
A chat with Derek Thompson One of my favorite writers has joined Substack! Let's see what he has to say.
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Steve Blank
Lean Launchpad at Stanford – 2025 The PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished the...
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The PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished the 15th<>annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The class had gotten so popular that in 2021 we started teaching it in both the winter and spring sessions. During the 2025 spring quarter...
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Can the Gulf buy its way to AI supremacy? Middle East nations have committed $2 trillion to artificial intelligence, computer chips, and...
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Middle East nations have committed $2 trillion to artificial intelligence, computer chips, and defense, chasing tech supremacy that money alone may not guarantee.
Noahpinion
Zohran Mamdani's policies will (mostly) not bring abundance to NYC Progressive ideas still try to defy economic realities.
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India wants its own EV market, but needs China to get there Despite tensions with China, India is avoiding U.S.-style restrictions, hoping for a bridge to...
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Steve Blank
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2025 – Lessons Learned Presentations The videos and PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished...
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The videos and PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished our 10th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 70 universities, has teams of students working to understand and help solve national...
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Progressives take their best shot at Abundance (but it falls short) A review by Sandeep Vaheesan fails to discredit Abundance, but it points to what the movement could...
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Humanoid robots, astronauts, and huge lines: Photos from China’s pavilion at the World Expo Chinese firms iFlytek and Hytera highlighted AI translation and public safety tech — sidestepping...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Sincerity Wins The War Hello Where’s Your Ed At Subscribers! I’ve started a premium version of this newsletter with a...
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Hello Where’s Your Ed At Subscribers! I’ve started a premium version of this newsletter with a weekly Friday column where I go over the most meaningful news and give my views, which I guess is what you’d expect. Anyway, it’s $7 a
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Samsung is desperate to compete on chips. Workers say it comes at a cost. Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for...
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Noahpinion
Feeling cautiously optimistic about American democracy This is still the country I grew up in.
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Internal Tech Emails
ChatGPT's 2025 strategy | Peter Thiel | Apple exec meeting ChatGPT should be cool. Right now, it’s useful but not cool.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
What're We Even Doing?
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