Community Updates
A stream of short-form insights, takes, and news from the AI Socratic community.
Apple Names John Ternus as Next CEO
Apple names John Ternus as next Apple CEO Ternus joined in 2001 on the Product Design team. Rose through hardware engineering roles: VP of Hardware Engineering 2013, Senior VP 2021, now leading hardwa
Strait of Hormuz Blockage & Rising Oil/Electricity Costs
Who Controls the Spice Controls the Universe The Strait of Hurmuz is still closed — this affects many sectors including fertilizers, aluminum, and of course oil prices, which directly affects electric
Record AI Investment Levels
There's never been an investment like this one! Sources: tweethttps://x.com/paulg/status/2045120274551423142
SaaSpocalypse: SaaS Stocks Crash
Bro was right. - Atlassian: down 75% - HubSpot: down 69% - Figma: down 86% Almost all of them down 30–70% from their 52-week highs. Sources: tweethttps://x.com/garrytan/status/2043347398697845209
More Macroeconomics: MIT AI Layoffs Paper & Post-Labor Society
- 📉 MIT research paper: AI Layoffs Will Collapse the Economy This research paper from MIT argues that AI layoffs will collapse the economy — tweethttps://x.com/pvergadia/status/2043430961057058888 -