A Smart Bear: Longform

AUGUST 4, 2024

People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 4, 2024

What does advertising look like in the world of AI? In a future where generative AI dominates search, the ten blue links & five sponsored ads disappear. What if they were invisible ads? When a user executes a search query within a generative AI search engine, the query, for example, “best carbonated beverage for health-conscious individuals,” is combined with relevant documents typically web pages.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 4, 2024

HOUSTON, August 5, 2024 – Axiom Space officially announced today that it is partnering with India, through the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Poland, with European Space Agency (ESA) support, and Hungary to send three national astronauts to the space station on Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), the company’s next commercial human spaceflight mission to the […]

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 4, 2024

Call it Service-as-a-Software. Call it AI agents or agentic systems. There’s a brewing idea that AI will complete human labor especially in white-collar work. What attributes of a market make it attractive to pursue? Those with three attributes : Toil, labor market shortages, and margin pressure. Toil is repetitive work : reviewing alerts, triaging leads, data entry.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 4, 2024

I’m writing to share why I think a Kamala Harris presidency would be far better for the long-term success of the American technology industry and the startup world than the alternative—but before I make this political omelet, I need to break a few eggshells. Marc Andreessen and his partner at A16Z, Ben Horowitz, recently went “all in” on their firm’s podcast to discuss their financial and political support for Donald Trump , which wasn’t all that surprising.

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