My main newsletter, Complex Machinery, includes a section called "In Other News..." It's where I list one-liners about interesting articles that didn't fit into any segments.

You can think of this as a weekly version of In Other News. It's still a curated list, but it has a wider remit than Complex Machinery's "risk, AI, and related topics."

What I've been reading

• Ryanair is doing away with paper boarding cards. (Der Spiegel 🇩🇪)

• Remember the old Apple slogan, "there's an app for that?" We need to update that to "there's a chat(bot) for that." Because we have gone so far that we now have chatbot Jesus. (NBC Philadelphia)

• Jeff Bezos launches a new AI company. Because, I guess, why not? (New York Times)

• Thoughts on AI-generated music, including a recent country-charts hit. (Le Monde 🇫🇷, Financial Times)

• Anthropic forges partnership with Sweden's IFS for "industrial AI." (Les Echos 🇫🇷, The Observer)

• Two interviews with Richard Moore, who recently left his role as head of MI6. (Financial Times, Bloomberg)

• While people in companies frequently use genAI, adoption by those same companies is still low. I am biased to like this article because the author's take echoes my own. (Le Monde 🇫🇷)

• An old phrase in finance is "revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, and cash is reality." Using a twist on that idea, this post explains why the earnings-per-share (EPS) metric is reality. (Quantamental Trader)

• Build-A-Bear Workshop presents itself as a strong investment. (Bloomberg)

• One manager's attempt to change the business of K-pop, which put the group NewJeans in a legal battle with its label HYBE. (NPR)

• Four-legged robot "dogs" find work with police departments. (Bloomberg)

• Sound is a key element of the horror genre – as explained through video games like Dead Space. (The Guardian)

• Phone thieves prefer iOS to Android. To the point that some will even return devices to their rightful owner. (London Centric)

• Luxus launches a fund to invest in Hermès bags. (Women's Wear Daily)

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai joins the list of AI execs claiming that AI is a bubble. (BBC)

• Giving your kids an AI-powered toy? Maybe, have another think. (The Register, Futurism)

• A long read on genAI chatbots, trust, and safety. (Die Zeit 🇩🇪)

Did I miss anything?

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