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Mary Mitchell, a colleague from my days at Dow Jones, sent me an email the other day.

Om Malik had a wonderful ability to balance a boy-wonder enthusiasm of new technology with an appreciation of its broader impacts to society.

We lost Mimi last night.

No AI Involved The dance sequence at the end of this video directed by Romain Gavras is amazing.

Wow.

It’s been over a year since The Messenger closed down and the lessons are even more stark today.

I went to a panel yesterday where online retailers spoke about the changes AI has brought to their profession.

Anthropic, makers of AI Assistant Claude, is going after their competition with a series of ads to designed to give users pause after the Open AI’s announcement that ads would be coming to their product, Chat GPT.

Went to visit the excellent selection of ephemera on display at the New York Public Library and picked out a few choice pieces to share.

My father moved our family to Tokyo in 1978.