March 13, 20230CommentsA Reddit user shows how Samsung’s “Space Zoom” feature produces fake, generated images of the moon, highlighting how photography and “real photos” are changing (The Verge)
March 13, 20230CommentsAfter Microsoft invested $1B in OpenAI in 2019, the company scrambled to string together tens of thousands of Nvidia A100 GPUs, costing several hundred million (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
March 13, 20230CommentsSVB bears responsibility for its demise, the outcome of disruption being tech’s objective function, and the Silicon Valley myth could be the ultimate casualty (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
March 13, 20230CommentsA eulogy for Silicon Valley Bank, a business partner to tech for 40 years, which offered services when established banks would not and was undone by its loyalty (Michael Moritz/Financial Times)
March 13, 20230CommentsLending protocol Euler Finance lost $197M in a flash-loan attack, including $136M in stETH and $34M in USDC; Euler raised $32M in June 2022; EUL drops 45%+ (Vishal Chawla/The Block)
March 13, 20230CommentsSources: long before its collapse, SVB remained technologically stagnant, including failing to integrate Stripe’s tech and biometric authentication on mobile (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
March 13, 20230CommentsAs AI explodes, humanity must accelerate its adaptation or reach a collective, enforceable decision to slow the development of these technologies (Ezra Klein/New York Times)