New World Same Humans

Welcome to this update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 25,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 For this week’s instalment, I’m doing something different. A few days ago I recorded a video update to share some thoughts on OpenAI’s new GPT-4o and the state...

Welcome to this update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 25,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin This week brings news from Boston Dynamics and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The message common to both stories? The humanoid robots are coming. Mea...

Welcome to this update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 25,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin One week until the Christmas break: where did 2023 go? This week, DeepMind serve up proof that a large language model can create new knowledge. Also, m...

Welcome to this update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 25,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin It’s a bumper instalment this week; what do we have in store? Google DeepMind owned this week’s tech headlines with the release of Gemini, a new multi-...

Welcome to this update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 25,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin This week, more AI magic rains from the sky. Also, average temperatures on planet Earth exceed the 2C warming threshold for the first time. And my take...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 25,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin This week, Microsoft and Nvidia go head to head with new chips intended to train the next generation of AI models. And a clever hoax underlines...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 25,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin It’s a bumper instalment this week. What do we have in store? The Chinese government is calling on its technology industry to roll out millions...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 25,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin This week, two intriguing stories and a big announcement. Global leaders and senior tech executives gathered at the UK’s AI Safety Summit. But...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 25,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin It’s great to be back! Here, as promised, is the first post-break instalment of New Week . What do we have in store? Nvidia are using an AI age...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin It’s a bumper instalment this week. What’s coming up? Google showcase their AI arsenal at the annual I/O developers conference. Meanwhile, new...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin The generative AI rollercoaster is thundering forward at increasing speed. This week, researchers at Stanford and Google use an enhanced large...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin I put the newsletter on pause last week; did I miss anything? Given what is unfolding right now, it’s hard to make this newsletter anything oth...

Welcome to New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and our shared future by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 At the start of the year I promised the return of short notes. Here’s the first: a meditation on the ChatGPT moment we’re living through right now. To avoid claims of f...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin It’s another packed instalment of New Week . What do we have in store? This week, tech giants from Microsoft to Snap put their arms around a tr...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin It’s a bumper instalment this week. What lies ahead? Generative AI is plunging us into a new world of infinite shadow and simulated media, and...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin This newsletter is billed a mid-week update . Here, for once, is an instalment that arrives in the middle of the week. In this edition? A new s...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin I was away for most of this week, and that means a truncated instalment of the newsletter. But that gives me a chance to dive a little deeper t...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin Greetings from London! We’ve just seen seven days containing plenty of fuel for the NWSH fire. This week, a UK-based startup release an amazing...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin After an extended break, it’s the first New Week update of 2023! This week, media giants are waking up to the IP implications of generative AI....

Welcome to  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin Here we are again, at the start of it all. Well, almost; I can’t believe we’re already 22 days into 2023. I took something of an extended break from the newsletter over...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin I’m giving myself permission to play with the format of these New Week updates. This week, four stories caught my eye. Any one of them might le...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin A shorter instalment this week. But that means a chance to dive a little deeper than usual into one story that caught my eye. I speak of Meta’s...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 24,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin I put the newsletter on pause last week due to travel commitments. To make up for it, here’s a bumper instalment. This week, new research sugge...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 22,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin Hello from London! It’s the night before Guy Fawkes Night, and I’ve just hosted a back-garden fireworks display for a gaggle of over-excited ni...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 22,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin Hello from London! It’s late on a Friday evening; this is not a sensible time to be sending out the newsletter. I’m stretching the definition o...