Trends in Venture Capital and the Evolving AI Landscape

Shenanigans from some Elon companies. Twitter looks like it’s blocking Substack. Not just links to Substack but even mentioning the name, the word Substack, in some cases. Oh, and Tesla employees apparently liked to view videos from your car and share them with each other internally. Last quarter was epically bad when it came to venture investing. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

Links:

• Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links (The Verge)
• Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars (Reuters)
• A third of organizations admit to covering up data breaches (VentureBeat)
• Global VC Funding Falls Dramatically Across All Stages In Rocky Q1, Despite Massive OpenAI And Stripe Deals (CrunchBase News)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Behind the curtain: what it feels like to work in AI right now (Democratizing Automation)
• Think of language models like ChatGPT as a “calculator for words” (Simon Willison's Blog)
• Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI (TechCrunch)
• Blockbuster pushed HBO to start investing in original content, cable giant’s ex-chief says (CNBC)

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