🧠 How Steve Jobs Became Intelligent, Apple's AI phone and $110b buyback, How to become a Writer-Builder

Deep Dives 💬

How AI Apps Make Money

The article explores the pricing strategies of AI apps, noting a dominant subscription model and limited pricing innovation. It highlights trends like usage-based and outcome-based models. Why should you care? There are several takeaways on pricing and consumer behaviour that can be applied to your industry / firm.

How Steve Jobs Defined Intelligence

A concise thread: Why most smart people struggle, How Steve Jobs reprogrammed himself, Ways to become smarter in the world of AI

The Writer-Builder: A New Archetype of The Renaissance Man

Writing both clarifies ideas and begets new ones. Newton, Galileo - and more recently, Andreesen, Ravikant, Graham - are feted not just for their domain expertise but also for their writing gravitas. Writing increases your rate of insights - through the process of reflection, assertion and iteration.

Paul Graham was writing long before he co-founded Y-Combinator - this is how and why his approach works. Writing does not need to be complicated, clever, or even public. You can spend 10 mins daily and use these techniques to become a better thinker, builder, and writer.

News & Trends 📢

From iPhone to AI Phone: What to Expect from Apple’s iOS 18

iOS 18, Apple's latest update, promises significant integration of AI into iPhones

• LLM-powered Siri: have natural conversations with in-built past context

• Privacy: Run data on-device and not send off to servers

• Automation & Personalisation: Incorporate personalisation into apps

  
  More details to be announced at the Keynote on 10 June.

Microsoft signs a $12b deal to fuel its AI ambitions with renewable energy

The largest-ever corporate agreement to purchase renewable energy was just signed between Microsoft and Brookfield Asset Management. The deal is valued at around $12b, to supply 10.5GW of renewable energy between 2026 and 2030. This will provide clean power for Microsoft’s data centers and computation power. The firm has committed to become carbon negative by 2030. 

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Social Media Wrap-up

• X launches Stories, delivering news summarised by Grok AI

• Instagram now lets you post a secret Story which viewers can uncover with a DM

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In Other News…

• OpenAI rumoured to be launching its search engine (ChatGPT Search) - here’s why Google should be worried

• Why AI hardware devices (such as (Humane Pin, Rabbit R1) are flopping. And how to position for future success (across the 3 pillars: silicon, interface, sensors)
  

• Apple launches the world’s largest buyback plan, at a record $110b