That Was The Week

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Contents

Editorial: 

Essays of the Week

Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?

Draghi Says EU Itself at Risk Without More Funds, Joint Debt

Draghi's view of Europe: Investment, R&D & the US-EU comparison

Musk, Telegram and the European Assault on Online Speech

Venture Capitalists Turn to Novel Methods to Return Cash

The Rise Of Fintech Families

The Shadow Dollar That’s Fueling the Financial Underworld

Startup Success - How to Measure it?

Illiquidity is a feature, not a bug

Video of the Week

Elon Musk Live at All In Summit

AI of the Week

Waymo and Uber expand their robotaxi partnership to Austin and Atlanta

New AI Chip Surpasses Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with 20x Faster Speeds and Over 4 Trillion Transistors

Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?

OpenAI COO Says ChatGPT Passed 11 Million Paying Subscribers

OpenAI In Talks To Raise $6.5 Billion at $150 Billion Valuation

Keen On: Gary Marcus on How to Tame Silicon Valley’s AI Barons

Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model

News Of the Week

Why the SpaceX spacewalk is such a huge deal

Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator to Double Number of Cohorts Per Year

The Unicorn Board Adds 8 New Companies, With One Newly Minted Entry Valued At $16B 

Startup of the Week

AI-Powered Work Assistant Glean Doubles Valuation To $4.6B In Less Than Seven Months

X of the Week

Australian Government is “Fascist” - Elon Musk

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I am still on my summer hiatus, but Andrew’s travel was postponed, and he wanted to do a show. So here it is, video only. Enjoy, and see you on August 16th.

Hat Tip to this week’s creators: @jaredheyman, @PeterJ_Walker, @cartaInc, @Om, @davemcclure, @vntrcapital, @mgsiegler, @sarahfielding_, @elevenlabsio, @fredwilson, @markgurman, @e_howcroft, @UtkarshShetti, @steph_palazzolo, @runwayml, @EricHSchwartz, @Cloudflare

Contents

Editorial: Rise of the Algorithms: Private Markets Indexing is Coming.

Essays of the Week

Larry Fink says BlackRock’s deal to acquire Preqin could lead to indexing private markets.

On Rebel Theorem 3.0

First Cut—State of Private Markets: Q2 2024

The Future of Writing: How AI Will Reshape Our Tools

Video of the Week

From Startups to Secondary VC Investments: Dave McClure's Insights from 500 Startups and Paypal (VNTR)

AI of the Week

Lowering the Boom on the New Boom Times

You can now get AI Judy Garland or James Dean to read you the news

The USV Librarian

Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact

OpenAI CTO Admits Creative Jobs Can Be Harmed By AI

News Of the Week

Circle Becomes First to Receive License in the EU to Issue Stablecoins Under MiCABritain's Revolut surges to record profit as it seeks $40 bln valuation

Kuo: New AirPods to Feature Cameras for Enhanced Spatial Experiences

Startup of the Week

Runway, an AI Video Startup, in Talks With General Atlantic for $4 Billion–Valuation Fundraise

X of the Week

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