SaaStr: “The truly great people — your A+ players — they’re not going anywhere. They’re still few and far between. They’re still invaluable. They bring creativity, strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and judgment that AI can’t touch yet. And yes, they probably can manage and orchestrate 10+ AI Agents, so they are and will be even more valuable than before. But B players? That’s a different story. Because here’s the thing about AI Agents: they’re always there.”
Ben Thompson: “This is a push to make ChatGPT the operating system of the future. Apps won’t be on your phone or in a browser; they’ll be in ChatGPT, and if they aren’t, they simply will not exist for ChatGPT users. That, by extension, means the burden of making these integrations work — and those conversions performant — will be on third party developers, not OpenAI. This is the power that comes from owning users, and OpenAI is flexing that power in a major way.”
WSJ: “Pound-for-pound, the human brain is the body’s most metabolically costly organ, consuming 20% of our energy and accounting for an outsize portion of our anatomy compared with most other animals. The reason? Our neural network, according to one hypothesis, evolved so that it could juggle our expansive social networks. Humans, it seems, are built to schmooze. At about 3 pounds, the human brain makes up 2% of our body weight, and three-quarters of this oversize organ is the neocortex, an area responsible for complex cognitive functions like memory, language, problem-solving and self-awareness. These abilities enable people to navigate the complex relationships of families, friend groups, sports teams and workplaces, and cultivating a wide network confers health benefits.”
NYTimes: “In the last decade and a half, boys and young men have more than doubled their average time per week spent gaming…The rise has coincided with technological changes that made games much more engrossing. Gaming went from an activity done at home on a console or computer to one also done on phones, anywhere and anytime.”
