"Data Centers" remains a terrible name for what are the giant thinking machines we are building. The association to the public that of privacy invasion and stealing data. It also implies also "data transmission" hence the insane brainworm of "Data Center Radiation!"

Everyone from Mark Zuckerberg to Jensen Huang to Tom Cruise entrust their personal fortunes and maybe daily lives to the management of a young family office from San Francisco. Iconiq has also become a major AI investor—in Anthropic. Read the @bismarckanlys Brief (link below):

Our concepts of “humanity” and “humanitarianism” are usually taken as the eternal bedrock of morality. Yet, AI raises the prospect of “posthumanity," and challenges us to redefine what it is to be human. Buy your tickets here for Wolf's talk:

San Francisco just gave final approval to an 820-foot residential skyscraper. Here are the revised plans for 10 South Van Ness: • 67 stories • 921 homes (681 condos + 240 apts) • 70 affordable homes • 352 bike spaces • 105 car parking spaces • 1.59 million total square feet All on a 1.1-acre triangular lot at Market & South Van Ness. The location has a lot of great transit options...Muni is literally next door, Van Ness BRT runs past the site, BART is nearby. At 820 feet, the tower would be nearly as tall as the Transamerica Pyramid. Also this is interesting: the developer donated the land at 1979 Mission Street to the city as part of its affordable housing requirements. That site is now expected to eventually produce another 382 affordable homes, with the first phase already under construction. Now comes the hard part... Actually getting the tower financed and built 😬 📍San Francisco