AI progress continues to accelerate at an amazing pace, a couple callouts below:
AI progress continues to accelerate at an amazing pace, a couple callouts below:
New image generation model from OpenAI, one cool example of the type of impact and use this can have
Still early but democratizing game development will be a very exciting space to watch out for
Games are going to be huge, Google already doing crazy stuff: https://gamengen.github.io/
Tech pulse March 2025 (AI-specific covered in separate post)
Robot technology continuing to improve at a rapid pace, supported by underlying AI acceleration
VR technology and adoption might still have a ways to go but cool to hear about some real use!
Philadelphia annual flower show highlights 💐
Below are the dozen biggest tips and takeaways I have found applicable to improving my health (much of this learned from the many Huberman Lab podcast episodes I have listened to!)
A new idea/perspective I came across this month was from a Facebook employee who spent nearly 20 years at the company. He talked about how he first viewed doing his job as analogous to playing chess, but he found the analogy lacking, and upgrade to “Alien Chess”. See his description below - I think a lot of us will have had (and have ahead of us!) moments where we can relate and where this perspective will be helpful.
The economic and competitive cost of regulation and barriers is enormous, per Mario Draghi (former president of the European Central Bank).
AI progress is, as Box CEO Aaron Levie put it, “insane”. See two tweets below. One major development over the last month is how AI models are trending toward commoditization, with for example 3 Chinese companies (DeepSeek, ByteDance, Alibaba) releasing competitive models this year.
Government spending has grown unsustainably (see below two charts), and Defense is one of the 3 key US spending areas (along with Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid).
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered officials to cut 8 percent from the defense budget over each of the next five years. 8% a year means in 5 years the defense budget will have been reduced by 1/3. This will meaningfully impact the debt, so if this indeed is carried out then from a debt perspective this is a very positive development.