Elon Musk Is Harvesting Everything for AI, Apple Is Spending Millions Per Day, Salesforce-Owned Time Magazine Releases Its "AI 100," Zoom Meetings Will Never Be the Same and the AI Arms Race Is So On
So much Elon news, the mind boggles. But let's go through the whole week in AI to extract what we need to know.
“I’m against AI,” a dental assistant told me this week.
“Yeah, sure,” I responded. “So is, I think, almost every person on the planet who likes humans over tech. But that doesn’t change the fact that AI is here to stay, it’s on an exponential rate of growth trajectory, it’s fundamentally remaking society, and at the end of the day, I want to know what the billionaires know, don’t you?”
And nowadays the billionaires aren’t just accelerating AI, they own the news, too.
If ever there was a week that had explosive, attention-grabbing headlines—including the 100 most influential people in AI according to the billionaire owner of Time Marc Benioff (featuring several of the stars at the companies he’s investing in) and a fascinating new excerpt from Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson’s new book about Elon Musk—it was this one.
Here’s everything you need to know.