Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 11th/12th oct 2025
What Will Happen In 2023 by Fred Wilson
“. Startups are going to have a tough year in 2023. While many have gotten their burn rates way down, most startups still are losing money and will eventually need to raise capital in 2023. Because most startups avoided raising in 2022, there will be a glut of startup companies in the market for capital this year and while there is plenty of venture capital sitting on the sidelines waiting to be deployed, VCs will be much more selective, instead of funding everything that moves as we’ve done over the last few years…”
#80: What’s in 2025? From Elad Gil, Francois Chollet, Maxime Labonne, swyx and others by Ksenia Se
“ We think that in 2025, AI will prioritize “thinking before speaking,” placing inference at the core of machine intelligence. This shift towards test-time compute will spotlight symbolic reasoning, adaptive scaling, and smaller models capable of exceptional problem-solving. Size supremacy will lose its appeal, challenging Nvidia’s hardware dominance and sparking a marketplace of innovation. A smarter, leaner AI era is on the horizon.…”
Encryption backdoor debate ‘done and dusted,’ former White House tech advisor says by Jessica Lyons
“In December, CISA published formal guidance [PDF] on how to keep Chinese government spies off mobile devices, and “strongly urged” politicians and senior government officials — these are “highly targeted” individuals that are “likely to possess information of interest to these threat actors” — to ditch regular phone calls and messaging apps and instead use only end-to-end encrypted communications.” …
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Qs?
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