This is absolutely worth a watch if you’re looking for a good summary and grounding on where we are with AU today and the opportunity ahead. Super relatable.

To the point about the speed at which this is happening…

The speed at which AI’s replatforming is happening is astonishing.

Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video generation model globally

The App Economy faces disruption as AI assistants replace discrete websites and apps. OS giants and AI challengers are racing to own the emerging future and pushing us to a new Agent Economy.

Fun with math…

To quote Ferris, “Life moves pretty fast”… The speed of progress is accelerating and innovator lead times are shortening.

Today we explore the ten critical drivers pushing media companies toward global servicing libraries. From achieving dramatic operational cost savings to enabling AI-powered content enrichment, the post examines how centralization has become imperative in today's media landscape.

With control of mobile OS, Google and Apple have advantaged positions in the platform transition to AI. The article makes an interesting point that Google has an advantage given greater strength and execution of Gemini (over Siri).

I'm excited by where AI will take the media industry with tools to create content in new ways, streamline content prep and processing, leverage much deeper levels of media intelligence, and drive new consumer paradigms.

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

The evolution of interfaces for common services is significant and has massive consequences. www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/sho...

So great to get Spotify’s Wrapped each year. It’s a powerful, brand defining tool. I’d be fascinated to see how Wrapped 2024 played out for folks like Rob Harvilla and Yasi Salek. That alone would be worth an episode for each.

Impressive. Simplistically, it's a pan+zoom extrapolation today, but the trajectory of this is super powerful. www.worldlabs.ai/blog?utm_sou...

A worthwhile read from Doug Shapiro. dougshapiro.substack.com/p/the-relent...

Unless countered, this move strengthens AWS’ position relative to media customers and customers mining video analyses.

www.theinformation.com/articles/ama...

This is a fascinating study, and speaks to the vast perception gap between what LLMs are capable of and what people think they are capable of.

Doctors using ChatGPT for diagnosis performed *worse* than ChatGPT alone, because they kept second-guessing the model.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h...