Nabeel Qureshi on Palantir: “The big productivity gains of this AI cycle are going to come when AI starts providing leverage to the large companies and businesses of this era – in industries like manufacturing, defense, logistics, healthcare and more. Palantir has spent a decade working with these companies. AI agents will eventually drive many core business workflows, and these agents will rely on read/write access to critical business data. Spending a decade integrating enterprise data is the critical foundation for deploying AI to the enterprise. The opportunity is massive.”
Rohit Krishnan: “Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations conducted a thousand times a day.”
WSJ: “Research shows we lose roughly 3% to 8% of muscle mass per decade after age 30, with a faster decline after 60, while fat mass increases. This can lead to less mobility and a greater risk of falls and injury, plus other long-term effects. The changes mean we need to eat progressively fewer calories as we age to maintain our weight, says Dr. Sarah Nosal, a family-medicine doctor in New York and president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Muscle tissue stores more water than fat mass does, so we are more susceptible to dehydration as we age, says Nosal. That, plus changes in our enzymes that process alcohol differently and at a lower level, help explain why it often feels harder to recover from a night of drinking the older we get.”
Daron Acemoglu: “Inflation seems under control. The job market remains healthy. Wages, including at the bottom end of the scale, are rising. But this is just a lull. There is a storm approaching, and Americans are not prepared. Barreling toward us are three epochal changes poised to reshape the U.S. economy in coming years: an aging population, the rise of artificial intelligence and the rewiring of the global economy. There should be little surprise in this, since all these are evolving slowly in plain sight. What has not been fully understood is how these changes in combination are likely to transform the lives of working people in ways not seen since the late 1970s, when wage inequality surged and wages at the low end stagnated or even fell. Together, if handled correctly, these challenges could remake work and deliver much higher productivity, wages and opportunities — something the computer revolution promised and never fulfilled.”
Marissa Mayer on a technology that she is secretly excited about: “Carbon nanotubes. They’re made of carbon and they’re tiny, and they’re incredibly strong. If you do a space tether, you can make things that are incredibly light and incredibly strong. Because they’re carbon, you can actually print them. One day you could do 3D printing of a bridge or of a heart. I’m surprised more hasn’t happened with carbon nanotubes.”
