We Read the News and Everyone’s On Drugs

In this episode we looked at the tragic story of tech company CEOs doing drugs and the various knock-on effects.We also played a lightning round of "Aspiring to be a nation state or on drugs?" with various headlines.This is the final episode of Picture Me Coding for 2024 and we’ll be taking a break for a few weeks after this. But we’ll be back next year!Mike made a playlist of all the music we talked about this year too! Find it here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jbM32yzvi8MK3zv2cXPSr?si=f40f8df000404a11REFERENCES ROUNDUPNYT: “The C.E.O.s Are Tripping. Can Psychedelics Help the C-Suite?”The Verge: “Google reveals quantum computing chip with ‘breakthrough’ achievements”Google blog announcement of quantum computing breakthroughScott Aaronson: Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » The Google Willow thingTechCrunch: “Court orders Automattic to restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org”Wordpress’s Mullenweg interview with The Verge. Goodbye, unreliable weather forecasts? Google DeepMind's AI model sets new benchmark for 15-day predictions | TechRadar Google Blog: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic erathe Spectator “Are you ready for agentic AI?”Google Genai: new Python repo with “Part” data typeAzure’s AI Agent Service announcementToms Hardware: “AI GPU Clusters with one million GPUs are planned for 2027”Big Tech Embraces Nuclear Power to Fuel AI and Data Centers - IEEE Spectrumhttps://subseacables.blogspot.com/2024/10/breaking-story-facebook-building-subsea.htmlSend us Fan Mail