Arvind's Newsletter

1.Apple discovered the India opportunity late but now wants to make up for lost ground. Apple’s first-ever retail store in India is almost here.
To be named Apple BKC, the store will be located in India’s financial capital - Mumbai. The move is part of the company’s landmark move to place big bets on the South Asian nation for everything from manufacturing to sales.
Apple BKC store will be located in the Mukesh Ambani-owned Jio World Drive Mall, in Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai.

2.The AI Index, a new report from Stanford, highlights how the private sector has taken over from academia when it comes to developing new AI models. The AI Index finds of the significant new machine learning models released in the past year, 32 came from private industry while three came from academia.

The annual report tracks, collates, distills, and visualises data relating to artificial intelligence, enabling decision-makers to take meaningful action to advance AI responsibly and ethically with humans in mind.
The AI Index collaborates with many different organisations to track progress in artificial intelligence.

3.Tim Cook on Shaping the Future of Apple
As Apple CEO, he has defied his skeptics and refashioned the world’s most creative company on his own exacting terms. Now, in a frank conversation with GQ Magazine, he offers new insight into his leadership—explaining why he sees himself as an outsider, how he asserts Apple’s values, and what he does to keep from staring at his iPhone all day.

4.Say hello to your new tutor: It’s ChatGPT
As schools across the country ban AI tools, this Silicon Valley school is encouraging students to use one reports Lisa Bonos of the Washington Post.

“Last week, the private Khan Lab School campuses in Palo Alto and Mountain View welcomed a special version of the [GPT] technology into its classrooms.

Rather than solve a math problem for a student, as ChatGPT might do if asked, Khanmigo is programmed to act like “a thoughtful tutor that’s actually going to move you forward in your work,” says Salman Khan, the technologist-turned-educator who founded Khan Academy and Khan Lab School.

Khanmigo was developed in concert with OpenAI, the nonprofit tech start-up that created GPT-4, the underlying technology for the latest version of ChatGPT. OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment on the partnership.”

5.Moderate Drinking Has No Health Benefits, Analysis of Decades of Research Finds

The review found that the methodology of many previous studies was flawed and that risk of myriad health problems increased significantly after less than two drinks a day for women and after three for men.
For decades, scientific studies suggested moderate drinking was better for most people’s health than not drinking at all, and could even help them live longer.

A new analysis of more than 40 years of research has concluded that many of those studies were flawed and that the opposite is true.

The review found that the risks of dying prematurely increase significantly for women once they drink 25 grams of alcohol a day, which is less than two standard cocktails containing 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, two 12-ounce beers or two 5-ounce glasses of wine. The risks to men increase significantly at 45 grams of alcohol a day, or just over three drinks.

The new report, which analyzed more than 100 studies of almost five million adults, was not designed to develop drinking recommendations, but to correct for methodological problems that plagued many of the older observational studies. Those reports consistently found that moderate drinkers were less likely to die of all causes, including those not related to alcohol consumption.