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Bezos on the Future of Amazon the company's annual report (hint: lots of AI)

And now, a brief feature on Facebook who's receiving a lot of love this time around...

Facebook outlines how it is going to fight misinformation and fake news, amongst other things in it's Information Operations at Facebook report

Facebook's Building8 working on brain-computer interface technology
I mentioned this tech a few weeks back when Neuralink formally popped up. Very fascinating tech. Oh, and they got the former head of DARPA to oversee things.

Facebook owns four out of the five most downloaded apps worldwide (wow, that's strong 💪)

So is this - Facebook Gives Staff Green Light to Join May 1 Political Protests

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to boost sharing of global scientific research in collaboration with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (aka bioRxiv)
[Side note: really awesome to see Mark's commitment to the Chan Zuckerberg initiative]

And back to our regularly schedule programming...

Princeton’s Ad-Blocking Superweapon May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race
☝️ What's cool about this is the information literacy component -- that is, highlighting ads not just censoring. You know, teach a (wo)man to fish and what not. Similar approaches could be expanded to other use cases.

Tesla unveils its new ‘sleek and low-profile’ exclusive solar panel made by Panasonic

This Week In Statups: Stripe Patrick Collison on online payment pwrhouse, Atlas, public/private mkts, & GDP of net (again, huge fan of the Atlas)

Speaking of Stripe - Susan Fowler to lead Stripe’s new engineering tips publication

The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI

Facebook’s Perfect, Impossible Chatbot

CommAI: Evaluating the First Steps Towards a Useful General AI

Live Office Hours with Yuri Sagalov and Sam Altman

Toyota unveils plans to build a fleet of heavy-duty, hydrogen-powered trucks