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Getting attention is easy now, getting people to stick is the hard part — a16z partner
18 insights: Why he hasn't Googled in ages, the one question he asks anyone who adopts a new app, and why Siri only gets so many chances to try one more…
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China makes 70% of the world's EVs, so nobody can compete — Fidelity China manager
14 calls: Why he finally bought BYD, the first year Chinese companies stopped issuing shares, and the sector he says trades at mid-single-digit earnings
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Olivia Carville: TikTok held a safeguard back from 15M users to measure engagement
13 takeaways: Why only $12B of Meta's settlement is unconditional, the two lines from a sealed TikTok document, and the safeguards she says under 1% of…
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Ben Moore: the only real fix for social media addiction is a feed that ends
6 takeaways: Why he calls Meta's agreed remedies product specs it could have shipped years ago, what removing the algorithm would cost, and how BeReal…
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Jordan Schneider: the data center backlash is homegrown, and China's rockets were filled with water | TBPN
The ChinaTalk founder on cars that cost a third of the Western equivalent, what DeepSeek's leaked transcript says about Liang Wenfeng, and the compute…
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AI:AM Highlights: RL environments "rushed and vibe coded," a 27B scientist model handing its code to GPT-5.5 Codex, and Shenzhen betting on…
Vercel's CTO on why frontier models are already good at cyber defense, Arm's first silicon in thirty-five years, a photonic processor built on a…
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