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Now you have to pay to use Google Bard

Plus: Amazon Captured 29% of Online Orders Before Christmas

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Cash Nut
January 05, 2024

In Today’s Edition 

  • Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s

  • The founder's guide to B2B sales

  • Amazon Captured 29% of Online Orders Before Christmas 

  • Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years

  • Google wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us 

  • What Will Happen In 2024 

🚀Startups Nuts

Elon Musk recently made a post on X saying that SpaceX might need to make up to 300 spaceships a year to achieve Mars colonization. Establishing a settlement on Mars will require rocket travel to be nearly as routine as air travel. While SpaceX will be able to reuse Starship and its Super Heavy boosters, the parts that travel into orbit won't be able to be reused as often. Ships often have to orbit the planet several times before they line up with pickup sites, so they might only be able to be used once a day.

Balderton Capital produced this comprehensive guide for B2B founders on effective sales strategies a while ago, but the content is still relevant today. Sharing as a timely reminder of best practices ahead of what will hopefully be a better year in 2024 for sales.

🏭Business Nuts 

Amazon's global order volume in the final two weeks before Christmas was up 21% from the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday. The company's speedy delivery is a key competitive advantage. 70% of Prime orders in the US arrive within two days, with almost a quarter being delivered within a day. Amazon plans to double its number of same-day delivery facilities in the coming years.

Google appears to be working on an ‘advanced’ version of Bard that you have to pay for

Bard Advanced is an upgraded version of Bard that may soon be available through a paid subscription to Google One. It appears to be powered by Gemini Ultra, an upgrade over the current version of Bard which runs the mid-tier Gemini Pro. There may be a feature that allows users to create custom bots, but it is unclear whether users will be able to share these bots. It is unknown when or if the feature will become official.

📱Tech Nuts

Microsoft partners will start shipping a new Copilot key on a variety of new PCs and laptops. The button will provide quick access to Microsoft's AI-powered Windows Copilot experience. It is the first big change to the Windows PC keyboard layout in nearly three decades. The new Copilot key will replace the menu (or application) key. If Windows Copilot isn't available in the user's country, the button will launch Windows Search instead. It is unclear whether Microsoft plans to allow users to use the key in combination with other keys.

The DeepMind robotics team has revealed three new advances that will help robots make faster, better, and safer decisions in the wild. One involves a system for gathering training data with a set of safety-focused prompts instructing the model to avoid choosing tasks that involve humans, animals, sharp objects, and electrical appliances. The others are a neural network architecture designed to make the existing Robotic Transformer RT-2 more accurate and faster and RT-Trajectory, which adds 2D outlines to help robots better perform specific physical tasks.

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🎁Miscellaneous

A lot of innovation will be happening in 2024. AI and web3 are creating a more intelligent, resilient, and decentralized internet and new energy technologies will power our lives in new and sustainable ways. This article looks at the technologies that will be developed this year and opportunities for the teams building these new technologies. 2024 will be a terrific year for tech.

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😎Fun Fact

The term "blue chip" in finance originated from poker, where blue chips traditionally held the highest value

🔥 Hot Book of the Day

Misinformation affects all of us on a daily basis—from social media to larger political challenges, from casual conversations in supermarkets, to even our closest relationships. While we recognize the dangers that misinformation poses, the problem is complex—far beyond what policing social media alone can achieve—and too often our limited solutions are shaped by partisan politics and individual interpretations of truth.

In Misbelief, preeminent social scientist Dan Ariely argues that to understand the irrational appeal of misinformation, we must first understand the behavior of “misbelief”—the psychological and social journey that leads people to mistrust accepted truths, entertain alternative facts, and even embrace full-blown conspiracy theories.

Misinformation, it turns out, appeals to something innate in all of us—on the right and the left—and it is only by understanding this psychology that we can blunt its effects. Grounded in years of study as well as Ariely’s own experience as a target of disinformation, Misbelief is an eye-opening and comprehensive analysis of the psychological drivers that cause otherwise rational people to adopt deeply irrational beliefs.

Utilizing the latest research, Ariely reveals the key elements—emotional, cognitive, personality, and social—that drive people down the funnel of false information and mistrust, showing how under the right circumstances, anyone can become a misbeliever.

“Dan Ariely writes in a way that gets us to think and reflect about our human nature.”

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