LLMs are powerful tools, not magic solutions. They're part of your toolkit, not a replacement for human judgment.

Great essay by Jack Clark. (ImportAI) The new generation of thinking models. Mean curiosity is the biggest differentiator for users.

Everyone's shouting about 20% AI growth, but here's the inconvenient truth: transformative tech rarely creates overnight revolutions.

It creates compounding gains. Like electricity before it, AI's real power is in the slow reshape 🌱

Sophisticated investors + AI = 18% better at predicting earnings

Everyone else + AI = only 7% improvement

Paper by MIT-Chicago Booth Reserach 2024

The American insurance market is not in a good spot - California wildfires to Florida hurricanes.

A common pattern I've seen so far is homes that have been saved through domestic fire prevention practices. Ex fire retardants, homemade sprinkler systems, and brick houses.

These are quite costly investments - moving back means someone has to pick up the tab.

Taxpayers or Private citizens.

Case #422 for more market integration within Europe.

"The UK and smaller northern countries are ahead of the USA. Only 40% of Italians made ANY online purchase in the last 3 months."

The EU-Inc by Andreas Klinger looks necessary by the day.

Charts Via Ben Evans.

Rednote - That new viral app everyone's downloading?

Its code reveals more tracking features than my home security system 🔍

Former Patagonia CEO mentions the absolute focus on quarterly results does not make sense.

Funny - She used to be a public CFO.

AI agents now simulate human behaviour with 85% accuracy. Via Deepmind paper.

Using LLMs for behavioural insights may be here.

Geospatial image on the LA fires. The Sheer Scale is something else.

ChatGPT produces less tokens as it's on holiday for Christmas. 😆

Bruh - How does one get data from the dark ages?

Fun Fact: Managers & Execs have the highest GenAI usage even higher than software dept.

Via Ben Evans.