• Apple is in talks with OpenAI for iPhone generative AI features.

• SpaceX added a cosmic tourism offering to its website. 

• Kim Kardashian’s PE firm only raised a fraction of its $1B goal.

• Google became the fourth company to reach a $2T market cap.

• Sony officially joined Apollo’s $26B all-cash bid for Paramount.

• BlackRock will introduce lifetime payment 401(k)s.

• Two satellite telecom giants joined forces to compete with Starlink. 

• Apple is reportedly cutting its Vision Pro headset shipment forecast.

• Mysterious GPT-4-quality chatbot was quietly launched, then quickly disappeared.

• The FDA is considering putting health risk labels on food items.

• Cannabis ETF is up 25% after Biden proposed to reclassify marijuana.

• Tesla received approval to deploy self-driving in China, the world’s biggest auto market. 

• Binance’s founder was sentenced to 4 months in prison.

• Apple is poaching experts from Google for it new secretive European AI lab. 

• Mercury is going to release a personal banking app.

• U.S. Homeland Security formed an AI special counsel. 

• Twitter co-founder is joining the board of Twitter-rival Mastodon.

• General Atlantic and CVC halt deals in south-east Asia as Gaza boycotts intensify. 

• Open AI might have solved the ‘AI memory’ problem.

• WeWork struck a restructuring deal to avoid bankruptcy.

• 2nd AI Safety Summit is expected to have low attendance.

• ChatGPT is facing another privacy complaint in the EU.

• Pfizer’s first gene therapy for a rare bleeding disorder was approved by the FDA.

• Chipotle workers can reach a $100k annual salary in just 3 years. 

• Completing 20 Uber rides per week as a driver is enough to pay for the cost of owning the car. 

• Half of the Fortune 100 companies have purchased Apple Vision Pro units.

• Japan’s oldest VC firm is on target to 3x the value of its investments. 

• Nearly 60% of orders placed through Amazon Prime in the top 60 U.S. metro areas in Q1 arrived the same or next day, up 50% from FY23 Q2.

• Edtech stocks have tanked over 10% because of ChatGPT popularity. 

• Github Copilot is growing 35% quarter over quarter. 

• 78% of Americans say social media companies have too much power.

• 44 million households pay rent in the U.S.

• Vinod Khosla on investing, contrarian bets, and Khosla Ventures. PODCAST

• The new math of driving your car till the wheels fall off. WSJ

• 16 changes to the way enterprises are building and buying generative AI. a16z

• When will flying taxis get off the ground? WSJ

• The "Planet Fitness" era of SaaS is over. SUBSTACK

• The future of EV charging might be wireless and on the road. WSJ

• Dear venture capitalists: You're blowing it. AXIOS

• Why RAG won’t solve AI’s hallucination problem. TECH CRUNCH

• Tech predictions for the next 10-25 years by Vinod Khosla. TWITTER

• Dave & Buster’s will allow customers to bet on arcade games.

• The rot at top U.S. universities begins with the faculty: a WSJ Opinion piece. 

• Snapchat will soon let you edit messages up to 5 mins after sending.

• Price's Law states that 50% of all work will be done by the square root of the total number of people who take part in the work.

• The chinchilla point describes the threshold of marginal diminishing return when training an AI model - the point at which the amount of compute and money being spent isn’t worth the incremental improvement to the model.

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