Shane Parrish: “Persistence isn’t just continuing to try—it’s the runway that gives your talent time to take off.”
WSJ: “The Bee, Limitless and Plaud wearables record everything you say and use AI to provide summaries, to-do’s—and a slightly terrifying glimpse of the future.”
Alix Partners 2025 Media and Entertainment Report: “AI advances have made major inroads in the past year and will continue to serve as the major technological force disrupting business and operations across the media industry. From a creative perspective, AI has further penetrated the TV and film sectors, where practical, easy-to-implement use cases with measurable outcomes will lead the way in 2025. But we don’t expect the technology to replace human talent; it should only enhance creative output. AI is also disrupting the video gaming, casino gaming, sports betting, and search markets, shifting traditional business models to meet consumer preferences. Legacy media and advertising businesses are seeing a similar need to transform business models as subscription revenue moves from Pay TV to streaming, while advertising revenue moves from linear to digital. The continued rise of retail media will evolve where companies place their ad dollars to match consumption habits.”
FT: “As consumers spend more time on streaming apps, ordering online and shifting towards digital transactions, “we are seeing a lot of domestic consumption, so that as well is going to fuel the domestic data centre growth”, said Devi Shankar, executive director at real estate company Anarock. In a report published in April, Shankar noted India’s average monthly data consumption per user had nearly doubled to 21.1 gigabytes in the five years to 2024. During the same period, India’s data centre capacity jumped to 1.4GW from 590MW and is expected to pass 9GW by 2030.”
TIME in a profile of Demis Hassabis: “AlphaFold’s impact may have been broad enough to win its creators a Nobel Prize, but in the world of AI, it is seen as almost hopelessly narrow. It can model the structures of proteins but not much else; it has no understanding of the wider world, cannot carry out research, nor can it make its own scientific breakthroughs. Hassabis’s dream, and the wider industry’s, is to build AI that can do all of those things and more, unlocking a future of almost unimaginable wonder. All human diseases will be a thing of the past if this technology is created, he says. Energy will be zero-carbon and free, allowing us to transcend the climate crisis and begin restoring our planet’s ecosystems. Global conflicts over scarce resources will dissipate, giving way to a new era of peace and abundance. “I think some of the biggest problems that face us today as a society, whether that’s climate or disease, will be helped by AI solutions,” Hassabis says. “I’d be very worried about society today if I didn’t know that something as transformative as AI was coming down the line.””
