What I read this week...
Joe Manchin, Jack Ma, the race to catch OpenAI
What I read this week…
Alphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI (The Information)
The AI industry really should slow down a little (Platformer)
Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT (Politico)
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Betrayal (Joe Manchin)
The Election You Shouldn’t Look Away From (The Atlantic)
March 30, 2023: Trump Indictment (Heather Cox Richardson)
Fentanyl Fuels Surge in Deaths Among Those Who Are Homeless (WSJ)
SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds (SF Examiner)
My Bet on Substack: Why Writers Like Me Want to Give Substack Our Money (Newcomer)
On Twiter…
Cost of sequencing a human genome:
• 2001 - $95 million
• 2021 - $450
• 2023 - $200 with new Illumina machine
Cc: @fdesouza @Noahpinion @erikbryn @amcafee @rtnarch
Canada let in a million immigrants last year.
The equivalent for the US would be 9 million.
Public opinion of immigration is very positive & broadly supported.
How?
Canada is selective about who it admits, with eligibility criteria that value higher education & skilled work.
NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d…
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
