Strategy
As someone working in the healthcare market, as well as tech gadgets and luxury regularly, I couldn't help monitor the rise of fitness trackers for many years, well before the birth of the Apple Watch. Tech fitness has always been a glorified collection of gadgets at the intersection
Hot Takes
An interesting link from the venerable Daring Fireball about the perception from within Google of how the company is going, quoting an engineer who worked there for 18 years: Much of these problems with Google today stem from a lack of visionary leadership from Sundar Pichai, and his clear lack
Weak Signals
I was lucky enough to be invited to chat on the podcast of my good friend Jean-Louis Frechin, who has been one of the leading design figures in France for so many years. The podcast is in French (sorry - not sorry): Le design parmi les gens: Philippe Méda, pilote
Weak Signals
This week, a discussion on the struggles and opportunities camera-makers are facing with the fast evolution of cheap AI tools and why it will soon matter for everyone else...
Hot Takes
While everyone is discussing the minute-by-minute live-action, let's step back and see the big picture for every business starting to invest (and depend) on AI in 10 bullet points. 1. OpenAI structure was a clown car (imagine if Mozilla was running Google) and still is. This is terrible
Weak Signals
Despite the U.S. government's best efforts and sanctions, China seems to have secured access to cutting-edge microchip technology. Launched in August, Huawei's Mate 60 Pro uses Chinese microchips with 7nm engraving, way below what their technology is supposed to be able to achieve (finer engraving
Hot Takes
I'm shamelessly stealing the title of a Vox Media podcast about the project of a few Silicon Valley billionaires planning to build a whole new utopian city in California. California Forever was created to bring back the California Dream. We want to do that by building a new
AI
The signals of AI starting to appear in our normal day-to-day lives are now popping right and left. It's still early, but the march forward has very obviously started. The University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) has started using AI with the EPIC Dutch Association to streamline patient communication.
This is going to be an unusual short newsletter this week. I didn't publish the usual regular newsletter yesterday and wanted to keep you in the loop on how it's going to evolve a little bit. I've been going through a lot of back
Beginner
Let me sell you something. It's a small smartphone with no screen that can talk back to you, record sound, and clip to your lap. Also, it costs $699 with a monthly $24 subscription. Are you excited yet? No? Still hesitant? In that case, let me convince you
Hot Takes
Like quite a few others, I broadcasted for many years how the EU automotive sector was driving into a wall while ignoring the uptake of its Chinese counterparts. First, they ignore the Chinese EV, then they laugh at it, then they say it’s unfair...The Paris Motor Show is
AI
There's a reason why I write quite frequently about AI. The thing with AI is that contrary to other technologies that have changed our world this last century, we immediately start to feel its impact. Probably not because we are more educated about tech in general (far from