Hi friends,
We’re streaming from San Francisco tomorrow, live from the a16z offices. The stream will feature a special co-host Jules Rosenberg, who will be weighing in on the allbirds AI shenanigans, among other hot topics.
In the meantime, can someone tell me if this AI?
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Allbirds (dumb shoe company) is now an AI compute company.
Diplo is involved in some sort of Theranos blood testing company dupe called Rythm Health. Says Diplo, “it’s better than paying $40 for Disney+.” Sorry but free Elizabeth Holmes.
President Trump's choice to lead the Federal Reserve invested in Friends with Benefits, per his financial disclosures.
An open-source AI parenting agent called "TradClaw" is annoying a lot of people. Not me! It plans dinners, triages school emails and does a lot of things that suck energy and mental space away from family time.
Wired (lol) published an investigation calling the Brooklyn band Geese “a psyop.” The article is getting treated like a bombshell but the marketing strategy it describes is just how things work now.
Hyperliquid, a decentralized crypto exchange run by 11 people in Singapore, generated $900 million in profit last year according to a new profile on its founder Jeffrey Yan. Zero venture capital dollars invested.
Kraken's Chief Security Officer says the exchange is being extorted by a criminal group threatening to release videos of their internal systems with client data. With this and Drift it’s really been a brutal month for crypto security.
"Laptop, table, books, wall" is the current state of video set design in tech.
CZ Wrote a Memoir and two billionaires are fighting about his divorce. Binance founder CZ dropped his self-published autobiography "Freedom of Money" on April 8th, and OKX founder Star Xu called bullshit on various stories within, including a dispute as to whether CZ is legally divorced. (Why this matters is a mix of honor and Binance stock lore.) CZ responded by offering a $1 billion bet that he is, in fact, officially divorced. This is a very divorced guy thing to do, so I believe it.
Binance co-CEO Yi He (and CZ’s current partner) weighed in: "I'm not some delicate wife literature female protagonist; I'm the second largest shareholder and Co-CEO of Binance who continues to fully suppress competitors even after CZ stepped down." Can I be the showrunner for the Netflix series?
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