Here are a few reads that I enjoyed this year on a variety of topics (tech, business, environment, society, etc) including articles, blog posts and longer more in-depth reads. Hope you’ll find them interesting too!
Business
Brian Chesky Lost His Mind One Night-and Now He's Relaunching Airbnb as an Everything App: Airbnb's CEO is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an all-purpose service app. Fitness…
Inside Cursor [Colossus]
Tech
Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online: Sesame's new AI voice model features uncanny imperfections, and it's willing to act like an angry boss.
How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI: When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a…
Stripe's Tempo And The Ghost Of Facebook's Libra's Past: Libra is crypto's favorite ghost story. Stripe is betting the sequel, called Tempo, has a happier ending.
Toronto Is Not the Next Silicon Valley - And That's a Good Thing: Toronto isn't the next Silicon Valley - and it shouldn't try. Vanity stats don't build companies. The real question is…
How to make something great: In the pantheon of creative endeavors-be it product design, art, architecture, software, or some hybrid creature of the…
Society
'I want him to be prepared': why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI: As AI grows increasingly prevalent, some are showing their children tools from ChatGPT to Dall-E to learn and bond
The Anti-Social Century: Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It's changing our personalities, our politics, and even our…
Putting ChatGPT on the Couch: Gary Greenberg, a psychotherapist, writes about conversations with ChatGPT in which he addresses the bot as he would a…
Macro economy
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’: An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff’s access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider…
China Has Already Remade the International System: How the world adopted Beijing’s economic playbook.
Unlocking Canada’s superpower potential: Capitalising on the G7 nation’s vast geography could spark an economic boom
Francophone
Le Québec à l'heure des choix | Comment sortir le Québec de ses pantoufles ?: D'un côté, les " lucides ". De l'autre, les " solidaires ". Il y a 20 ans, deux groupes aux opinions bien campées…
Place publique avec Viviane Audet | Le sacre du matin: L'autrice-compositrice-interprète Viviane Audet prend la plume pour nous raconter un matin en famille, semblable à des…