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The Briefing

Wall Street Delivers Verdict on AI Slowdown’s Winners and Losers

By Martin Peers · Sep 14, 2026 5:00pm PDT
Guess who likes the idea of an AI development slowdown? Software investors! Stocks of enterprise software firms, such as Salesforce, Shopify, ServiceNow and Figma, all gained ground on Monday—ServiceNow jumped 7%, for instance, while Salesforce rose nearly 5%. Software firms, of course, have been seen as threatened by AI. Meanwhile, stocks of... Guess who likes the idea of an AI development slowdown? Software investors! Stocks of enterprise...
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The Weekend

LeBron’s AI Blunder, Tech’s Fortunate Bet on Trump

By Abram Brown · Jul 26, 2025 7:00am PDT
Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Sports execs’ favorite pastime? Venture capital• The Top 5: The best new startup accelerators • Plus, our Recommendations: “Autocracy in America,” “I Regret Almost Everything” and “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” LeBron James would like the internet to behave itself. Of course, it won’... Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Sports execs’ favorite pastime? Venture...
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The Weekend

Blind Loyalty to an Anonymous Chat App

By Jon Steinberg · Jul 29, 2023 6:00am PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.What’s that I hear? It’s the sound of thousands of techies in the Bay Area calling in favors and taking out second mortgages to score tickets to Taylor Swift’s concert at Levi’s Stadium last night and tonight in Santa Clara. If you succeeded, congratulations! Speaking of Taylor, I stumbled across a fascinating... Hi, welcome to your Weekend.What’s that I hear? It’s the sound of thousands of techies in the Bay...
Jasjeet Sekhon, Chief Strategy Officer at Google DeepMind. Photo courtesy of the Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence.
AI Agenda

Google DeepMind Exec Says Unprecedented Capex Is Actually a Bet On ‘RSI’

By Amir Efrati · Aug 3, 2026 7:01am PDT
Over the weekend, Jasjeet Sekhon, the chief strategy officer at Google’s DeepMind AI unit, used two words to describe what needs to happen to justify his industry’s unprecedented capital expenditures: recursive self-improvement. The white-hot term refers to AI that can automatically create better versions of itself.RSI is a “key part of the... Over the weekend, Jasjeet Sekhon, the chief strategy officer at Google’s DeepMind AI unit, used...
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AI Agenda

What Trump's AI Manhattan Project Means for the AI Industry

By Rocket Drew · Nov 26, 2025 7:00am PST · 1 comment
On Monday, the President signed an executive order laying out his vision for a “Manhattan Project” for AI. The plan calls for the national labs—the Department of Energy-funded research centers—to work together with AI companies to train AI models based on government science data. For instance, it tasks the Secretary of Energy with assessing the... On Monday, the President signed an executive order laying out his vision for a “Manhattan Project...