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Mar 2024
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🍓 “The perfect strawberry” — Oiishi’s i...

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Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI all just invested in FigureAI, whose humanoid robots can do manual labor — The key isn’t the human-like bodies, it’s the AI brains.

Following its worst year ever, Budweiser managed to avoid a worker strike — And it reveals one of our favorite lessons on negotiation.

And Oiishi has invented the perfect strawberry
 that’s also the world’s most expensive strawberry — The “Veblen Effect” explains how this berry defies economics.


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