That Was The Week

That Was The Week

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That Was The Week episodes

  • "Here's Sydney"

    That Was The Week 2023, #5


    Contents

    Editorial: “Here’s Sydney”
    Essays of the Week
    • The Ascent of ChatGPT - Open Data Science
    • Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’ - Kevin Roose (NYT)
    • A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled - Kevin Roose (NYT)
    • Inside the Heart of ChatGPT’s Darkness - Gary Marcus
    • From Bing to Sydney - Ben Thompson, Stratechery
    • We’ve Seen This Before: Investors Take To The Next Shiny Toy — AI - Chris Metinko
    • Microsoft explains Bing's bizarre AI chat behavior - Steve Dent
    • ChatGPT clearly has a place - Dave Winer
    • Feedback loops, and Google’s home-field advantage with LLMs - Sarah Tavel
    • VC-Unicorns Vs. Real-Unicorns: The 2 Disastrous Impacts Of VC Hype - Dileep Rao
    • Growth Investing - All Change - Rob Go
    • Section 230 is On Trial. Here's What You Need to Know. Josh Richman
    • Sydney and the Bard - Mike Loukides
    • AI Platforms, Markets, & Open Source - Elad Gil
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      38 min
    • AI Can't Be Stopped

      AI Can't Be Stopped.


      https://thatwastheweek.substack.com/p/ai-cant-be-stopped


      Content from @IndexVentures @a16z @azeem @GaryMarcus @Ljungman @krishnanrohit @bradleytusk @karanslala @pmarca @Samirkaji

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      23 min
    • Born Again. Is Tech Back?

      Facebook at 2 billion users a week, ChatGPT already at 100m. Meta stock up 100% in 3 months. Is Tech Born Again?


      thatwastheweek.substack.com/p/born-again-i…


      Content from @alexkantrowitz @alexeheath @kateclarktweets @om @davekarpf @BrentLeary @hamishmckenzie @JONATHANVANIAN @karissabe & @TwitterDev

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      27 min
    • Unicorns are Dying
      Contents
      • Essays of the Week
        • --AGI will not happen in your lifetime. Or will it?
        --Google vs. ChatGPT
        --Unicorn Valuations Are On The Chopping Block
        --Thinning The Herd
        --Netflix’s New Chapter
        --Why Now is a Great Time to Raise Seed Funding. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds.
        --Japan to remove limit on overseas investment by startup funds
      • News of the Week
        • --Cowboy Ventures goes bigger with $260M across two new funds, including an opportunity fund
        --Lightspeed - Fintech Trends for 2023 and Beyond
        --What Microsoft gets from betting billions on the maker of ChatGPT
        --NEA Announces Two New Funds Totaling $6.2B
      • Startup of the Week
        • --Substack
      • Tweet of the Week
        • --Dave Rubin on Twitter
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        33 min
      • The Dawning of a New Era
        Contents
        • Essays of the Week
          • --24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI
          --Is Microsoft about to get the deal of the century? Or is Sam Altman unloading OpenAI at just the right time?
          --Is ChatGPT Really a “Code Red” for Google Search?
          --ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Could Be Valued At $29B In Tender Offer
          --Infinite AI Interns for Everybody
          --Who Owns the Generative AI Platform?
          --Fireside Chat: Reid Hoffman, w/ Elad Gil (AI, Big Tech, & Startups)
          --New AngelList Data Shows Startup Fundraising Pain in Second Half of 2022
          --What Creators Really Want From Twitter
          --Visualizing China’s Dominance in Battery Manufacturing (2022-2027P)
        • News of the Week
          • --Apple’s New Reality
          --Twitter Officially Bans All Third-Party Apps
          --The European Union and the Quest for Digital Sovereignty: Briefing addresses the causes of Europe's failure on digital innovation
        • Startup of the Week
          • --Blackstone raises over $22B for world's biggest secondaries fund
        • Tweet of the Week
          • --Bill Gurley on Degobalization
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          25 min
        • Can Bad AI be Good?

          This week we look at the fallout from the ChatGPT launch. How concerned should we be that ChatGPT is often wrong? Can we trust it? Should we use it? If so what for?

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          37 min
        • The Thanksgiving Issue

          #ActivityPub & #Mastodon are in the news. A long-time passionate group of believers in the indieweb has recently found a use case. @elonmusk has inspired many opponents to try this new distributed social technology. It is time to understand it.

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          36 min
        • The Crazy Ones: In Defense of Risk-Takers

          Masayoshi San, Cathy Woods, Elon Musk, and Sam Bankman-Fried have all been in the spotlight I want to take a step back, and a deep breath and ask. Would we be better without risk-takers? Even risk-takers that take too much risk and lose? Content from @elonmusk, @CathyDWood, @GSands, @masason, @SBF_FTX, @HarryStebbings, @mwseibel


          Contents

          Editorial

          • In Defense of Risk-Takers

            • The Crazy Ones

            • Masayoshi Son owes $4.7bn to SoftBank following tech rout
            • 20VC: ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood - Harry Stebbings
            • Musk Warns Twitter May Lose Billions Next Year
            • Elon Musk gives Twitter staff deadline to commit to being ‘hardcore’
            • Twitter Employees Have Reportedly Had Their Building Access Suspended and Musk is Being Suspiciously Quiet
            • Costanoa’s First 10 Years: What a Long (and Short) Strange Trip It’s Been

              • Essays of the Week

              • What to Watch in AI
              • In My Newsletter I Trust
              • Binance role in FTX collapse under congressional scrutiny
              • Binance’s CZ is considering purchasing Genesis’ loan book
              • Crypto Lending Seizes Up as FTX Contagion Spreads
              • Narratives – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

                • News of the Week

                • Endowments quickly slide from record-breaking returns to losses
                • Want to Invest Like a VC? These New Indexes Can Help You Do It
                • Meet The Companies That Joined The Emerging Unicorn Board In October 2022
                • Sam Bankman-Fried Tries to Explain Himself

                  • Startups of the Week

                  • Protocol - RIP
                  • Mother Duck
                  • Mastodon

                    • Tweet of the Week

                    • Michael Seibel - @mwseibel
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                      39 min
                    • Bank Man Fried

                      This week saw FTX shrink from $32 billion of value to zero in less than 48 hours. @TheInformation is doing great reporting. It seems the ill-named founder @SBF_FTX - Sam Bankman-Fried - invested hundreds of millions into Sequoia and other funds. The @SECGov failure to provide a regulatory framework for Crypto seems even more silly. But @DavidKirkpatric and @LHSummers provide a thoughtful distraction from the noise.


                      Contents

                      Editorial: I Vote For Change

                      Essays of the Week: The end of the Internet?

                      • In Our Own Best Interests - Techonomy - David Kirkpatrick
                      • Larry Summers Compares the Surge of Pain in Tech to the Dot-Com Bubble

                        • The Big FTX Collapse

                        • Sam Bankman-Fried’s Late-Night Move and How the FTX House Crumbled
                        • FTX’s $2 Billion Startup Fund Ensnared in Collapse
                        • FTX’s Bankman-Fried Quietly Invested More than $500 Million in Sequoia and Other VCs — The Information
                        • Binance walks away from FTX deal, citing ‘mishandled customer funds,’ regulatory scrutiny

                          • Substack

                          • Introducing Mentions and Cross-Posts
                          • The Substack Bestseller Badge

                            • Zoom Zooms

                            • Zoom is coming for Microsoft’s territory with email and calendar services
                            • Tesla vehicles will soon have Zoom video conferencing

                              • This Week in Twitter

                              • Musk Warns Twitter May Lose Billions Next Year
                              • Musk ends remote work at Twitter
                              • Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $4bn

                                • News of the Week

                                • Meet The New Unicorns Minted In October 2022
                                • Tiger Global Slashes Value of Private Tech Bets by Billions, Documents Show
                                • VC firm Molten Ventures cuts portfolio value after tech sell-off
                                • Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?
                                • Stripe will lay off 14% of its employees

                                  • Startup of the Week

                                  • The Internet

                                    • Tweet of the Week

                                    • Sam Bankman-Fried
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                                      39 min
                                    • The Musk Edition
                                      Twitter is complicated. And this week it has attracted intense and emotional attention from a wide spectrum of opinions. The standoff between @AOC and @ElonMusk on his intent to charge $8 a month for the Twitter blue tick is symbolic of a wider debate. @karaswisher, @waltmossberg and @davidsacks all weigh in. @HamishMckenzie of @Substack also has an angle.

                                      Contents

                                      Editorial: Elon Musk 1-0 Kara Swisher

                                      Twitter’s Rebirth

                                      • Elon Musk

                                        • Twitter is Good for Substack

                                        • Hamish McKenzie
                                        • Introducing Substack Chat

                                          • Essays of the Week

                                          • Meta Myths - Ben Thompson
                                          • Ways to think about the Metaverse - Benedict Evans
                                          • Will nationalism end the golden age of global AI collaboration?
                                          • After A Lot Of Hype, (Useful) AI May Finally Be Here - Crunchbase
                                          • Google releases text-to-image AI model Imagen for public use for the first time
                                          • Why America Must Develop Space and How We’ll Do It - Andreessen Horowitz

                                            • Review of the Week

                                            • iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Huge Leap

                                              • Fool of the Week

                                              • Elizabeth Warren

                                                • Startup of the Week

                                                • Tiger Global Management

                                                  • Tweet of the Week

                                                  • Elon Musk
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                                                    35 min

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