[0:02:15] Very Very Happy Birthday to Brit Morin! Questions about automated birthday messages.

[0:03:20] Idea: Automated Birthday Greeting AI Thing

[0:04:24] Idea: AI Responder

[0:07:13] Headlines: Next volley in the AI wars with Google launching the Gemini AI Model, more layoffs at Spotify, media news with Disney finishing acquiring the rest of Hulu from Comcast, more bad news in venture capital land with a Boston based firm closing it's doors, and some book recommendations.

[0:09:35] The Information Wrapped: With The Information turning 10 this week, what are Jess' big lessons? Biggest stories?

[0:11:35] Google AI: What are the implications of powerful multi-modal models like Gemini?

[0:13:59] Impressive More or Less Show Notes brought to you by Google Gemini.

[0:14:57] It was always ridiculous to count Google out. Of course they were going to build really interesting stuff.

[0:16:50] An even more interesting Google AI Announcement: DeepMind's breakthrough in discovering millions of new crystals and other materials.

[0:21:10] Don't forget Meta AI: WhatsApp Bots, Meta Imagine, and Meta buying the most Nvidia H100s in the world.

[0:23:05] The Big Product Strategy Question: You're running Google or Meta, what is your AI rollout strategy?

[0:32:28] VC Temperature Check: Firms shutting down, IPOs were suppose to come but did not really come, yet crypto is ripping?

[0:35:45] Next Phase of Crypto: We are now in the phase of crypto where we are starting to connect these technologies to the real world.

[0:37:14] Crypto, Fandom, and CRM 3.0: Giving creators the power to engage more deeply with their fandoms.

[0:41:33] The pitches in crypto have finally become good business pitches.

[0:41:58] So where are we on crypto tokens now?

[0:43:55] Happy Birthday to Brit again!

[0:44:47] Book Recommendation: The Organized Mind - Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

[0:47:34] A More or Less Book Proposal: Is our date night an ops meeting or a date night?

[0:48:45] Book Recommendation: How to Know a Person - The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

[0:49:50] Cybertruck: Thoughts on the Tesla Cybertruck design, and engineering.

[0:52:25] Closing.

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