Nobody talks about Europe when it comes to AI. They're all looking at Silicon Valley and Beijing. But while the hype was elsewhere, three German automakers quietly built something serious. Here's what's actually happening ✍🏽 TDLR:Volkswagen: AI at Scale 🏭BMW: Robots on the Factory Floor 🦾Mercedes: AI From Factory to Dashboard 🚗The Suppliers Nobody Mentions 🔧The Bro's Take 🤔LISTEN HEREVolkswagen: AI at Scale 🏭Volkswagen is not running pilots. It's running infrastructure. Over 1,200 AI a...

The WSJ recently published a pair of articles (here and here) talking about where the US is growing and shrinking — through charts. The three components of this are domestic migration, international migration, and births minus deaths. One of the key themes for the year ending in June 2025 is that the country is seeing significantly less international migration. According to the WSJ, more people moved out of the US than moved in last year for the first time since the Great Depression.Internati...

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Gameweek 31 was dominated by non-EPL football as Manchester City and Arsenal locked horns in the Carabao Cup final. However, while most eyes were on Wembley, so many EPL games played out in very interesting fashion. European chasers secured crucial victories, relegation stragglers continued the battle for survival, and we had another Tyne-Wear derby. Here are all the winners and losers from a fascinating gameweek of football.Losers: Tottenham Hotspur F.C.Yeah, so here is the thing: Tottenham ...

A New Benchmark for AI Fluent OrganizationsYesterday, the team at Zapier released their new AI fluency rubric.Wade Foster@wadefoster Today we released our new AI Fluency Rubric. We use it for every hire, focusing on what they’ve actually built. Last May we open-sourced V1. Hundreds of companies used it to screen candidates and develop teams. It worked. But the floor moved fast. An updated look at the 32:00 PM · Mar 31, 2026 · 9.49K Views4 Replies · 11 Reposts · 114 Likes A few things you’ll n...

The First VolunteersShanidar 1 couldn’t have survived without help. He suffered a severe blow to the head, lost his right arm at the elbow, sustained damage to his right leg, and experienced progressive, profound deafness. There were no pain meds. Only cold, and cave bears looking for easy prey. And yet, Shanidar 1 lived to around fifty years old, which in the Ice Age made him ancient. He could not hunt. He could not carry. He probably could not even chew tough meat. And yet, morning after mo...

Our mission is to build a global economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom. In 2025, we set out to grow this economy across five pillars: builders, apps, ownership, markets, and bringing everyone onchain. We processed over $17T in stablecoin volume across 26 local currencies and 17 countries. We became the #1 onchain venue for BTC spot trading. We launched and grew the Base App in 140+ countries. We funded 50+ teams through Base Batches and saw new crypto native markets emerg...

Last year i built an ai biographer for my parents. I wanted to capture their life stories and learn about ai voice. With my friend Avi, we built an agent that would talk to my mom and dad on the phone and it was trained to ask them personalized questions about their life. After each “chapter” was completed a separate agent would write it up Walter Isaacson style for everyone to read so people could follow along as the stories were told. Since then we have been experimenting with new ways to c...

In the olden days here in Toronto, approved development land used to sell for a premium compared to unapproved land. This was true because approved land meant you could start construction much sooner. And since time has value, this was worth something. Today, this is far less valuable to developers (if at all) because, in most cases, the market does not support new construction. So, the land may be approved, but what does one do with it? Rather than speed, I would say that the most valuable f...

Adopting an Engineering MindsetOver the past 2 years, I’ve been aggressively leaning AI. While a lot of people might presume that this means I’m simply throwing myself into the newest tools of the day, I’ve found that the bigger benefit has not been about learning new tools — or even the productivity gains. It’s been learning how to think like an engineer. Here are the four core skills that I’ve noticed myself applying more liberally than ever before in my career:Decomposition: Taking a big p...