🧠 How to Build a Second Brain, Robinhood on Notice, ☁️ Alternative GPU Clouds, iPhone Leak

Deep Dives 💬

The Future of Tokenisation

With Blackrock’s recent $100m tokenised fund launch on Ethereum, speculation is rife on what the future of tokenised assets looks like - specifically whether private or public blockchains shall dominate the field. While public networks offer increased transparency and immutability, private networks are more practical.

How to Build a Second Brain 

Level up your productivity and learning for free! Reduce stress and “information overload”; find information quickly; learn better; and create your own CODE (Capture, Organise, Distill, Express) system.

How ServiceNow scaled to $10b ARR

12 insights on how ServiceNow (a SaaS company) scaled to over $10b in annual recurring revenue (ARR)

Tools 🔧

PeopleGPT (the leader in AI-powered talent sourcing)

Search across dozens of databases in real-time to find high-quality talent. Trusted by 25,000+ teams and hiring managers.

Fanfuel (AI co-pilot to create video content)

Create Youtube content like a Pro. At 1% of the cost.

23 Free AI Productivity Tools to revolutionise your workflow

Many use cases: informational search, calendar management, writing, meeting management; and more

News & Trends 📢

BIG TECH / SAAS AI 🤖

How Big Tech (Meta, Google, TikTok) and others are labelling AI images [Axios]

The proliferation of generative AI is making it harder to determine what’s real. Meta, Google, and TikTok say that content made with their own AI tools will be automatically labelled - but content made elsewhere is harder to discern.

Alternative cloud providers are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs [Techcrunch]

Given the high cost of procuring and maintaining GPUs, companies are turning to GPU cloud providers. Compared to incumbents (such as AWS and Google Cloud), alternative providers are cheaper. Alternative GPU cloud providers have collectively raised billions over the last 12 months.

iPhone 17 “Slim” will replace “iPhone Plus” models [WCCtech]

WEIRD & WHACKY 🤯

AI app [Vera AI] claims it can clone dead family members to “keep talking to them without limits”. Black Mirror episode, anyone?

Scientists create bacteria that turns any blood into universal donor type [Source]. Paging Count Dracula…

Higher levels of uranium and lead found in teens who vape. Vapers beware

MORE NEWS 📰

Apple just launched the world’s largest stock buyback plan, at a record $110b

Robinhood’s crypto arm receives notice from SEC about alleged securities violations [source]

SEC is making the same claim as it did against Coinbase and Binance, that there are unregistered securities (i.e. certain crypto tokens) on Robinhood. The company’s shares dipped following the news

Stack Overflow and OpenAI partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT [Verge]

• This collaboration will enrich ChatGPT's responses with Stack Overflow's vast technical knowledge, aiming to foster deeper user engagement and develop new AI-driven tools.