AI
A collection of 13 issues
Base App by Coinbase Is Live for Everyone, Secured by XMTP: Create, Earn, and Trade — All in Chat
The Base App is officially live to the world.
Base App isn’t just another crypto app. It’s a social and economic Superapp where you can create, earn, trade, and discover—all inside DMs and group chats.
Chat is not just a feature but a foundation for users to
Hello, World: Proof of Human Comes to Messaging
Every major messaging system still assumes you can trust a username, a voice, or a video.
AI has made that assumption obsolete.
Today, that changes.
World has integrated XMTP to create World Chat, the first messaging network built on proof of human and decentralized, quantum-resistant encryption. For the first time,
The (near) future of messaging isn’t just quantum-resistant. It’s decentralized
Every year, a16z puts out its Big Ideas List. It's 17 things that various a16z crypto partners (plus a few guest contributors) observe about what’s ahead. I was lucky to be included this year. Check out the whole list here and read my Big Idea below.
As
The Future of Prediction Markets Lives in Group Chats
The experience I had on Base App this morning reminded me of some of my first mobile experiences back in the day.
In 2010, people laughed at the idea of trading stocks on your phone.
Too clunky. Too risky. Not Serious. Real investors used real terminals.
Then mobile-native apps like
Thinking About Trust & The Future Of Attention On The Internet
"How are you going to protect from spam?" is the first question people ask.
"Are you going to let brands 'pay-to-reach' people on XMTP?" is the second.
I've thought about these questions a lot. Building a network that protects the world'
When Software Upgrades Become Life or Death
I love full self-driving (FSD). It's up there with the iPhone for me.
I never realized how much of my brain I used to spend just driving. Staying between the lines, checking maps, knowing where to turn, watching other drivers, checking mirrors, stop-go stop-go stop-go traffic, not dying.
“For You” Is Dead. Prompts Will Kill the Feed. Groups Are The Social Graph.
Here's a rambling of thoughts that I've been thinking about for a while, just observing and listening to how people use the internet...
Prompts are replacing posts.
A prompt makes a video.
A song. An agent.
Soon, an entire app.
Prompts are becoming the new content
What’s the Innovator's Dilemma of AI & How Can Any Startup Compete With These Behemoths?
What if the next innovation in AI isn't about what exists, it's about what doesn't exist? What if it’s not about crunching more data, it’s about being able to create something without any data?
This question has been burning in my brain
Podcast Review: The Future of The World After Apps - An Interview with Amdocs President of Technology Avishai Sharlin & Shane Mac
Sometimes you get an email that you want to share with everyone. That's the
email I got from Grace Meyer
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-meyer-25b048164/], student at the University
of Auckland. She decided to review our interview for her college course
requirement.
> "One of my
Machine Yearning goes to Cannes Lions
Machine Yearning
[https://medium.com/assist/dreaming-about-the-machine-3d778494e848] posts its
fourth episode this week, and already we’re breaking our format. We approach the
podcast like everything in life: stay rigid, get stuck, nothing but problems
follow…
We’ve used this podcast to jump start conversations about how much we don’
There are a dozen ways to order a coffee. Why do dumb bots only allow one?
If bots are going to live up to their hype, we have to move beyond the fixed
decision trees and pre-defined scripts.
Last week, Mikhail Larionov [https://www.facebook.com/mikhail99] from Facebook,
wrote a post
[https://medium.com/@vernon99/messenger-bots-decision-trees-vs-webviews-64b36eb0905e#.v3tnihj53]
about decision trees vs web views. He argues