Tag: business models
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Scientists, historians and economists have long studied the optimal conditions that create a Cambrian explosion of innovation. In generative AI, we have reached a modern marvel, our generation’s space race.… more ›
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At SXSW 2017, Mark Cuban predicted that the world’s first trillionaire would be an AI entrepreneur. This kind of made sense at the time: https://connor-shepherd.ghost.io/ai-is-a-margin-destruction-machine/ more ›
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Stop and think for a moment about how many ads you saw in the last 24 hours, on Instagram or Facebook or anywhere else. How many did you scroll through… more ›
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Almost 20 years ago, Chris Anderson published The Long Tail, which accurately predicted that the Internet would fragment attention and consumption would shift into the “tail.” But Top Gun: Maverick… more ›
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Over the last two years, the e-commerce platform has taken the world by storm. In 2021, it caught most people by surprise when it became the most downloaded U.S. iPhone… more ›
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Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere, large language models ingested truly staggering amounts of data to train their models. That training data didn’t emerge from the ether: Some of it… more ›
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Warner Bros released a new Harry Potter title last month and took $850m in two weeks. That made it the second-most-successful Potter launch in the film studio’s history. But “Hogwarts… more ›
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Industrial heat is largely invisible to consumers but represents about 20% of global final energy demand and 10% of the world’s CO2 emissions. That is 2.5 times more than air and maritime transportation emissions… more ›
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The Malian discovery was vivid evidence for what a small group of scientists, studying hints from seeps, mines, and abandoned wells, had been saying for years: Contrary to conventional wisdom,… more ›