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I am in full tennis fever right now and Roland Garros is delivering. But even against that backdrop, the Fonseca vs. Djokovic match this week was something else entirely. Fonseca went down two sets, fought back through almost five hours, and somehow came out the other end with a win. One of those matches where you keep watching just to see if the result is actually real. The official highlights are right here and they're well worth your time even if you don't usually follow tennis.

There is a paradox sitting at the center of AI right now and Dan Shipper at Every articulates it better than anyone I've read. The short version: as AI makes standard competence cheap and widely available, the demand for genuine expert judgment doesn't go down, it goes up. Because suddenly there's a flood of output that mostly doesn't feel quite right, and you need the people who can actually tell the difference. His team automated everything they could and ended up hiring more humans than ever. After Automation is one of the more honest and precise takes I've come across in a while.

The team behind the Peter Thiel Story podcast just released a new six-part series for Deutschlandfunk: Die OpenAI Story. It's in German, but if you speak the language it is absolutely worth your time. Host Fritz Espenlaub traces how Sam Altman and Elon Musk founded OpenAI as a nonprofit to build safe AI for humanity and how that original mission collided with the reality of ChatGPT's success. Idealism, ego, control and what it means when a technology escapes the people who built it. All six episodes are on Deutschlandfunk right now.

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