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Deep Dives 💬

1. How to Become a Successful Leader in the Age of AI Compression

Shreyas Doshi (former Product Leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google & Yahoo) presents the concept of High Agency (vs Talent) and how to build a High Agency team.

Our Summary + Repost on X: Link

His Original Thread on X: Link 

2. How Your Life is Driven by Network Effects, by NfX
   How life choices are guided by hidden mathematical patterns and social interactions.
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3. Term of the Day: Red Queen Effect
   An evolutionary biology concept applied to business. This indicates that companies must continuously innovate and improve not just to gain an advantage, but to maintain their current position relative to competitors.
   
   "As we ramp up our tech development, we're really seeing the Red Queen Effect in action. Despite our advances in the feature-set and lowering app latency, we have to keep pushing hard just to stay in line with competitors."

News & Trends 📢

1. Elon Musks’s xAI releases the GPT-1.5V, its first multimodal model

   

   Elon Musk's xAI launched Grok-1.5V, a multimodal AI model capable of processing text, documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots, and photos. It outperforms peers in the RealWorldQA benchmark, focusing on real-world spatial understanding. More Details: Venture Beat

   
   

2. Unpacking the EU’s crackdown on Big Tech [Audio]

   

   
   

3. The US government has a Microsoft Problem

   The US government's heavy reliance on Microsoft products, despite the company's repeated security breaches, has stifled criticism and effective oversight. The recent news of alleged Russian-linked hackers accessing US government information via a Microsoft vulnerability, has amplified concerns. [Link]

   
   

4. Why small language models (SLMs) are the next big thing in AI: 3-min deep dive

   
   

5. Spotify AI plans to know what’s inside your head - CNBC

   

   With tools like AI DJ, Spotify aims to enhance music discovery through blending human expertise with machine learning. This lets listeners explore new music while balancing familiarity - leading to significantly higher artist discoveries and evolved listening experiences.

   
   

6. Salesforce in advanced talks to buy Informatica ($11b market cap) - find out why: Bloomberg

   
   

7. Bitcoin back in green as crypto market awaits Hong Kong ETF launch

   

   Bitcoin dropped by around 8% (with other crypto tokens seeing a larger drop) due to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East over the weekend. It’s now back in the green, largely due to strong anticipation of a Bitcoin ETF launch in Hong Kong - these could unlock around $25b in demand (mostly from China). [Link]

   
   

8. [BREAKING] Tesla shares dips in premarket trading, after reports that the firm will cut over 10% of its global workforce