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Will's Weekly Roundup is a weekly newsletter of curated tech, business, and startup news (and what I'm thinking about).
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Headlines
The tech and business headlines you missed (or need to see again)...
60k tech workers have been laid off this year, on top of the 160k last year. LINK
Microsoft confirms a ‘multibillion-dollar’ investment in OpenAI. LINK
Fintech startup Stripe has set a 12-month deadline for itself to go public, either through a direct listing, or pursuing a transaction on the private market. LINK
FDA proposes switching to an annual coronavirus vaccine, mimicking the flu model. LINK
ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative,' and 'nothing revolutionary', says Meta's chief AI scientist. LINK
Seven banks including JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are planning a wallet to compete with PayPal and Apple Pay. LINK
US oil and gas M&A dropped 13% YoY to a 17-year low in 2022. LINK
The New York Stock Exchange glitch on Tuesday (Jan 24th) that prevented “opening auctions” was caused by an employee who left a backup system running. LINK
Amazon will offer a $5/month subscription plan for US Prime members that will cover generic drugs and their doorstep delivery. LINK
Elon Musk considers raising up to $3 billion to pay off Twitter's debt. LINK
Rocket Lab, the SpaceX competitor making fully reusable 3D printed rockets, completed a successful launch that was over a year delayed. Here’s a clip of the launch. LINK
The European smart thermostat competitor to Nest, Tado, raised $46.9M. LINK
Ideas
Some ideas I'm thinking about...
Berkshire Hathaway currently holds $88 Billion in cash. LINK
Fast food robot Flippy-2 (by Miso Robotics) can flip burgers and make fries 2x faster than humans. LINK, ANOTHER LINK
Electric boat startup Candela released a new all-electric boat that can be reserved now for 2024. LINK
AI supply chain company Outrider is automating container yards with robots, which looks like something from the future. LINK
Continuous health monitoring is the next big tech trend, especially with products like Whoop and the Oura ring becoming more popular. We’re going to look back on going to the doctor once a year for a less-than-comprehensive health screening as comically foolish. LINK
There’s a website that can check to see if text was written by AI. LINK
Non-business and tech ideas I’m thinking about…
Apple continues to raise the bar with each new commercial release. Here's one of their most recent ad videos. LINK
Teenagers today are not necessarily 'less religious' than their parents. They are likely practicing their faith in a way that is not labeled as a traditional religion. LINK
It could be cool to see Uber Eats add a dieting mode that caps the number of calories you can order in a day. LINK
The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because of a software bug. LINK
Visuals
Natural Gas prices are now down 71% from their peak last August.
The Periodic Table of Commodities Returns 2013 - 2022
Percentage of consumers using digital payment tools (Base: consumers 21 to 42 years old who make digital payments)
Quotes
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." ―Henry David Thoreau
“When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” ― Peter Atkins
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