Meet Noah Shinn, Whose Instinct AI Competes With Meta's Muse - Business Insider

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23-year-old Noah Shinn's invite-only AI agent Instinct raised $250M at a $2.5B valuation and now competes with Meta's personal assistant Muse in the battle for practical AI assistants.

The Untrainable - Sarah Guo
As AI models commoditize measurable tasks, lasting value lies in 'untrainable' work requiring private data, trust, organizational change, and domain-specific authority.
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Data is your only moat
The article argues that data collected from user adoption is the only sustainable moat for AI applications, with easy-to-adopt, easy-to-solve use cases being value traps for startups.
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Chinese AI engineers are Silicon Valley’s new power players - Rest of World
Chinese-born AI researchers and founders have become central to Silicon Valley's boom, driven by elite math training, relentless work ethic, and intense career anxiety.
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Files Reveal Epstein’s Money Mingled with Silicon Valley’s Tech Start-Ups - The New York Times
Epstein's financial records show he invested in multiple Silicon Valley startups, using tech industry connections for deal access.
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Meta Seeks Payoff From AI Spending With New Push for Business Customers - WSJ
Meta launches a new enterprise business unit to monetize its $100B+ AI investment by selling tools like Muse, coding tools, and business agents.
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