This week: the craftspeople who went extinct so their art could survive, the runners who lose so the race can mean something, and one man who paid with his humanity to become the best golfer who ever lived.
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Today's entirely and fully FREE Edition has left the nest: 🐦🪹
631: How Meta Can Win vs ChatGPT, SpaceX IPO, Mythos Cyber & Bio, Ray Tracing LASIK, Amazon + Globalstar vs Starlink, Slowing Down Light, Claude Cowork, and 10,000 Live Shows
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It used to be this, now it's this
Today's entirely and fully FREE Edition has left the nest: 🐦🪹
631: How Meta Can Win vs ChatGPT, SpaceX IPO, Mythos Cyber & Bio, Ray Tracing LASIK, Amazon + Globalstar vs Starlink, Slowing Down Light, Claude Cowork, and 10,000 Live Shows
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Today's Edition is in the envelope: ✉️
630: Andy Jassy's Letter, The Chips That Change AWS's Math, Sundar Pichai on Why Google Didn't Ship ChatGPT First, SpaceX's Pre-IPO Financials, Hidden Costs Inside Each Token, Gmail E2EE, and Macs
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“…they have demonstrated that no one is impossible…”
Today's Edition is taken off and achieved stage separation:
629: Mythos vs World: The Model Too Good to Release, GPU Rich vs GPU Poor Leaderboard, Meta's Back With Muse Spark, Greg Brockman, Artemis II, and Lady Bird
www.libertyrpf.com/p/629-mythos...
Today's Edition is taken off and achieved stage separation:
629: Mythos vs World: The Model Too Good to Release, GPU Rich vs GPU Poor Leaderboard, Meta's Back With Muse Spark, Greg Brockman, Artemis II, and Lady Bird
www.libertyrpf.com/p/629-mythos...
Today's FREE Edition is out the door 🚪
628: Apple’s Air Traffic Controller Strategy, Anthropic's $30bn ARR + TPU Deal, Meta's Leaderboard, Berkshire Hathaway’s Mountain, Visa, Moody's & S&P Global, Max Life Expectancy, and Andy Weir
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Is that good?
(Mythos benchmarks vs GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro)
Wow
A lot of people are learning about the scorpion and the frog these days. 🐸🦂
The firebombing of London in 1941:
For long weekend reading:
627: Artemis II & Astrovan, Waymo, Zuck & Demis Hassabis, Old GPUs Aging like Wine, Demis Hassabis Bio, Redrawing the Intelligence Map, Christensen & Dediu, Nvidia + Marvell, and Hollywood Recession
www.libertyrpf.com/p/627-artemi...
Todays' FREE Edition, which includes my dream reading chair:
626: ARM's Not Just IP Anymore, From Magnificent 7 to Hateful 8, Benedict Evans, Netflix Pricing, Microsoft, Inference Bandwidth, Snob Sandwich, and Pink Floyd
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Digital. I just thought the vinyl image was cooler to illustrate.
“war against Russia seemed easy... The worst of the fighting would be over in six weeks, he predicted”
Very nice
When’s the last time you listened to Dark Side of the Moon from beginning to end?
Why not today?
I did it this morning. It had been a while. Still quite a ride. 🌘
In the mail today:
Today's Edition is live, just in time for weekend relaxation + learning:
625: Google TurboQuant, Karpathy’s AI Psychosis, Anthropic's Tight Compute, Memory Stocks, Jensen as VC, xAI's Exodus, Texas Batteries, Germany, and Fixing Nuclear Paperwork
www.libertyrpf.com/p/625-google...
Today's FREE Editions, amaze amaze amaze:
624: How Waymo Actually Works, Jensen's Big Bet, Canada's Lost Decade, Secret Soviet Space Cannon, Claude's Domesticated Claw, Chinese Wifi, and My Review of Project Hail Mary
www.libertyrpf.com/p/624-how-wa...
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it:
623: AI Compute Bottlenecks, Constellation Software AI Podcast, Cowork, Greg Brockman, Dylan Patel, Anthropic's Culture, and more
www.libertyrpf.com/p/623-ai-com...
I didn’t know that!
Churchill, known for his cigars, kept getting them as gifts. His advisor was concerned about poisoned cigars.
"If the Germans come, each one of you can take a dead German with you.”
Churchill’s personal bravery was quite something:
“Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels grew perplexed. None of it made sense. He could not fathom why Churchill had not yet conceded defeat, given the nightly pounding of London.”
Mickey Mouse gas masks during WWII
Today's Edition, full of interesting things to read over the weekend:
622: Are Nvidia's Margins Sustainable?, OpenAI Drops Side Quests, Anthropic, China Compute, Starlink + Russia, Meta CFO, Google, AI Water, Project Hail Mary, and Dune 3
www.libertyrpf.com/p/622-are-nv...