Vibes are up this week. 

Alexandr Wang, the former Scale AI CEO who now runs Meta's new multi-billion dollar Superintelligence unit, has announced one of their first products: What if TikTok but only AI slop?

Vibes is a feed full of AI videos. That sounds like an idiotic thing to put the greatest and highest paid minds of our generation onto. Unless?

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Vibes are up this week. Alexandr Wang, the former Scale AI CEO who now runs Meta's new multi-billion dollar Superintelligence unit, has announced one of their first products: What if TikTok but only AI slop? Vibes is a feed full of AI videos. That sounds like an idiotic thing to put the greatest and highest paid minds of our generation onto. Unless? Sign up to Down Round Premium: <a href="https://downround.net">downround.net</a>

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In this premium ep we discuss Apple's appointment of John Giannandrea's as their head of machine learning and what it might mean for their AI ambitions, Sam Altman enacting CODE RED at OpenAI, and finally chat through Google's move to start selling their proprietary TPU chips.

In this premium ep we discuss Apple's appointment of John Giannandrea's as their head of machine learning and what it might mean for their AI ambitions, Sam Altman enacting CODE RED at OpenAI, and finally chat through Google's move to start selling their proprietary TPU chips.

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This week we're going deep on the rise of prediction markets — the hybrid of futures trading, sports gambling, and economic theology that suddenly seems to have eaten the world. Platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi are booming and an increasingly big part of both tech culture and also gambling culture.

We trace the whole arc: from Hayekian fantasies about prices revealing truth, to the far bigger truth: people just really, really like having a punt.

 

This week we're going deep on the rise of prediction markets &mdash; the hybrid of futures trading, sports gambling, and economic theology that suddenly seems to have eaten the world. Platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi are booming and an increasingly big part of both tech culture and also gambling culture.
We trace the whole arc: from Hayekian fantasies about prices revealing truth, to the far bigger truth: people just really, really like having a punt.
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