Author name: Arvind Narayanan

This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful

And a big change for this newsletter

A new paper that we will expand into our next book

Making sense of recent technology trends and claims

Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects

What’s in the book and how we wrote it

The book was published September 2024

Turning models into products runs into five challenges

How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification

Scaling will run out. The question is when.