New research from Profluent Bio validates the power of machine learning models to design bespoke biological systems at scale.

How the EU spent 16 years and €8 billion on a drone that may never fly.

You can read the essay on press.airstreet.com at https://press.airstreet.com/p/how-not-to-build-a-drone

In the spirit of building in the open and holding ourselves accountable to our progress, here is our year in review for 2024. We cover Air Street, Air Street Press, the State of AI Report, and our community engagement.

We share our best essays from 2024 on Air Street Press.

We dive into the AI energy wars, arguing that things will get worse before they get better. Read on for uranium, geopolitics, and why technical fixes likely aren’t coming to the rescue.

The company's first generative world model and Pixar's co-founder, Ed Catmull, joins the Board and invests.

Learn more at press.airstreet.com and odyseey.systems

Jeremy Kahn is the AI editor at Fortune and co-writes and edits Fortune’s Eye on AI newsletter. His book Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future was published by Simon and Schuster in the U.S.

In this episode, we interview Jeremy about his new book!

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The State of AI Report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know across AI research, industry, politics, and safety. To ensure the report remains at a manageable length, lots of material doesn’t make it into the final version. We’re bringing Air Street Press some of the research that didn’t make the original cut, along with our own reflections.

You can read more on press.airstreet.com and check out the full State of AI Report 2024 at www.stateof.ai

Every month, we produce the ⁠Guide to AI⁠, an editorialized roundup covering geopolitics, hardware, start-ups, research, and fundraising. But so much happens in the AI world, that weeks can feel like years. So on off-weeks for Guide to AI, we’ll be bringing you three things that grabbed our attention from the past few days…

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This week on Air Street Press - we’re looking at how speed, inertia, and friction impact AI-first start-ups. Why being first is a moat, taking examples from ElevenLabs, Perplexity and Synthesia. As well as some failure cases like Internet Explorer and ActiveX.

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