Where Money, Investing, and Technology Meet
from the elegant-nihilism dept I recently sat through this hour-long interview between New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat and Peter Thiel. It was honestly a somewhat hypnotic experience for me. And on reflection, deeply disturbing. Not because Thiel said anything overtly monstrous—quite the opposite. He was thoughtful, articulate, intellectually sophisticated. He demonstrated genuine insight into technological stagnation, political […]
There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but I find that many of these conversations occur at such an abstract altitude that […]
TL;DR With the newest version of Android Auto, references to “Google Assistant” are being replaced with generic terms like “Digital Assistant,” despite still referring to the existing Google Assistant settings. The changes indicate Google’s ongoing transition from Google Assistant to Gemini across supported platforms. Google has long begun phasing out Google Assistant in favor of […]
Key Takeaways A trillion-dollar bank has cleared the Bitwise crypto ETF for advisor-managed accounts. The approval signals growing institutional acceptance of regulated crypto investment products. Share this article A global bank with over $1 trillion in assets under management has approved a crypto exchange-traded fund from Bitwise Asset Management for its managed accounts platform, as […]
Even the most affordable Kindle usually has a $110 MSRP, so holding out for the best Prime Day Kindle deals Amazon offers makes a lot of sense. Right now, nearly every Kindle Amazon sells is seeing a discount — and a couple are hitting the best prices we’ve seen since this year. Just note that […]
