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This week, we’ll dive into the result of a survey I carried out on the way forward for AI and what lies past the ChatGPT hype. And since you’ll’t all the time get away the hype, I additionally learn a e-book about SBF — however now not the only via Michael Lewis. As a substitute, I picked “Quantity Move Up: Inside of Crypto’s Wild Upward push and Staggering Fall” via investigative reporter Zeke Pretend, and I’m happy I did. — Anna
Ponzi far and wide
Even if I simply did, it’s now not completely honest to name Pretend’s e-book “Quantity Move Up” an “SBF e-book.” Certain, it has a number of chapters on FTX’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the epilogue is most commonly about his destiny, which has been unfolding in court this week. However it’s additionally about crypto extra extensively, and that’s a excellent factor.
It’s now not that I don’t care about getting a greater figuring out of SBF’s character. I listened to a whole podcast series about him, and my colleague Jacquelyn Melinek could also be getting back from court docket on a daily basis with fascinating tidbits on his behavior. However identical to the trial’s first witness used to be an alleged sufferer of FTX, I additionally wish to listen from folks whose lives had been suffering from the upward push and fall of crypto.
