IPOs, DeepMind, Elon Musk, World Cup, and Homing Pigeons
Your Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI
Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
📊 AI in Healthcare
🏦 OpenAI IPO
💻 DeepMind
👩💼 Four Design Jobs
🤑 Elon Musk
💩 Meta
⚽ World Cup
🕊️ Homing Pigeons
Podcast
Harnessing AI in Healthcare: Insights from RJ Kedziora
In this episode of Product by Design, Kyle Evans interviews RJ Kedziora, co-founder of Estenda, a company specializing in custom software and data analysis for healthcare. We discuss RJ’s journey in technology and entrepreneurship, the importance of energy management over time management, and the role of AI in healthcare. RJ shares insights into the challenges and future of AI applications, the need for ethical considerations, and the potential for personalized healthcare solutions. He also offers advice to aspiring entrepreneurs looking to make a difference in the industry.
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News and Useful Reads
OpenAI confidentially files for IPO, prepping Wall Street for mega AI debut
OpenAI has confidentially filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission, joining the party a week after Anthropic did the same and days before Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to hit the public market.
Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact
I am also worried about it.
According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s AGI safety and alignment research, the mass-market arrival of agents that can carry out tasks without human oversight and follow instructions given to them by other agents creates a whole new class of risk.
The Four Design Jobs AI Created (So Far)
The conversation around AI and design is forking. What used to be a single (admittedly vague) topic has split into at least four distinct orientations. Each one focuses on a different type of design work, sits in different organizational structures, and uses different definitions of what “good” looks like. Most teams are staffed for only one of these orientations, confused about which one they’re doing, or trying to dance between all of them without realizing it.
Elon Musk Is the World’s First Trillionaire
What could possibly go wrong from here?
Elon Musk became the first person to amass a personal fortune of over $1,000,000,000,000—that’s 12 zeros—after shares of his rocket company SpaceX debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday.
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
Things aren’t going great for Meta’s applied AI team apparently.
Three current employees tell WIRED there is widespread dissatisfaction with how Meta assembled the unit of about 6,500 engineers and product managers and the drudgework they allege they have been assigned to improve AI models. Each spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Other Interesting Finds
World Cup facts and figures to get you sounding like an expert
The biggest and best sporting event has officially begun. Team USA is off to a great start, and it feels like it’s going to be good tournament, despite many of the ongoing issues.
The U.S. team has competed on soccer’s biggest stage a total of 12 times — including at the inaugural World Cup in 1930, where the U.S. placed third out of 13.
Since then, the country’s best run was in 2002 when the U.S. made it to the quarterfinals — defeating Portugal and Mexico before losing to Germany and finishing in 8th.
‘Mind-blowing’: Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate
Of all the myriad animal senses, the most mysterious and controversial is the perception of magnetism. Somehow, migratory songbirds, sea turtles, and other creatures detect Earth’s magnetic field and use its directionality to help them navigate. Now, a paper published in Science has found a surprising mechanism: Iron-rich immune cells within homing pigeons’ livers seem to give the birds their magnetic compass.