Business Standard: “India’s next scientific revolution needs patient philanthropic capital…Private wealth built the institutions that gave India its scientific capability long before the nation had economic strength or independence. There is a need to do it again.”
NYTimes: “To optimists, robots could rescue U.S. manufacturing by increasing productivity, solving shortages of skilled workers and giving Western carmakers a fighting chance at competing with Chinese rivals that enjoy lower costs. Boring but important jobs like sorting parts would be done by robots, freeing humans for more interesting and specialized work. But many experts who have studied the use of robots and other automation tools caution that there is also a gloomier scenario. “With any kind of automation, you generally reduce the amount of labor you need per widget that you make, and that’s generally a gain for society,” said Susan Helper, a professor of economics at Case Western Reserve University who testified on robotics before a congressional committee in April. “But,” she added, “how do you use that extra time that’s freed up? You can use it to just take away the interesting work and leave the human workers with the boring work. And have fewer workers that you pay less.””
Mike Grossman: “Build a great cultural environment because if people really love working for the company, when adversity strikes—and it always does—people will stay…I think of business as just an endless sequence of problem-solving exercises. You’re trying to analyze data in a structured way and then figure out the answer.”
Spyglass: “Open weight models may now be a viable alternative to the closed variety and, relatedly, distillation of such models may actually spur innovation in the sector.”
