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Weekly Reads Worth Reading | 24.03 - 30.03
AI talent wars, Sam Altman, Google x Wiz and multiplayer minesweeper
Happy Monday! - I think (and hope!) this is a particularly good week of articles & content! I very much enjoyed reading them - hope you do too 🤞
On that note, I know we’ve been pretty heavy on AI related articles in recent weeks - but it’s just what’s happening!
That said, we try to keep all the articles (AI or otherwise) accessible and not especially technical so that everyone can enjoy them. Anyway, feedback on the topics for these posts is greatly appreciated - let us know what you like most/what you want to see more of! - as always, you can reply directly to this email to get in touch.
Top Reads 🗞️
Inside the AI talent wars where research scientists get multimillion-dollar stock grants and wooed by Mark Zuckerberg [Fortune] | Reading time: 10 mins
Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company [Stratechery] | Reading time: 43 mins (also podcast)
34 Reflections On Turning 34 [Dexter Zhuang] | Reading time: 14 mins
Rippling is suing competitor Deel for cultivating a spy and stealing secrets [Rippling] | Reading time: 3 mins
Rippling sued @deel today. Our lawsuit alleges Deel cultivated a spy at Rippling & orchestrated a long-running trade-secret theft. The spy searched “deel” in our systems 23 times per day on avg, letting him spy on Deel’s own customers who were considering a switch to Rippling.
— Parker Conrad (@parkerconrad)
12:42 PM • Mar 17, 2025
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Looking Beyond The Google & Wiz Acquisition: The Future Of Cloud Security [Software Analyst] | Reading time: 22 mins
I can prove I’ve solved this Sudoku without revealing it - intro to Zero-knowledge proofs [Polylog] | Video (+ accompanying blog post)
Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world [Google DeepMind] | Reading time: 6 mins
Will AI Automate Away Your Job? [Commonplace] | Reading time: 14 mins
Detours 🦦
A simple, addictive daily memory challenge [Matcha Game] | Game
A library containing every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be (~104677 books) - sort of 🙂 [Library of Babel] | Website
Live, multiplayer minesweeper [MinesweeperPro] | Game
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