My end-of-week morning practice WFH reads:

• A.I. Is Altering How Silicon Valley Builds Begin-Ups: Tech start-ups sometimes raised large sums to rent armies of employees and develop quick. Now synthetic intelligence instruments are making employees extra productive and spurring tales of “tiny staff” success. (New York Times)

• The Rower Turned Engineer Who Helped Make Nvidia a $3 Trillion Firm: Jonah Alben makes use of classes from his days as Stanford rowing coxswain to design AI chips and hold promoting to China. (Wall Street Journal) see additionally Lastly, laborious information on a real-world AI enterprise use case: It’s large for customer support: Researchers measured positive factors and trade-offs from human customer support reps utilizing an AI assistant. One massive win? Fewer offended prospects. (Sherwood)

• This Vanguard ETF Is Now The World’s Most Standard For A Good Motive: Step apart SPDR S&P 500 ETF Belief (SPY) — there’s a brand new king within the ETF world. As anticipated, the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) noticed its web property beneath administration hit $633.8 billion on Feb. 18, says Morningstar Direct. That makes VOO the world’s largest ETF, passing up the oldest and beforehand largest ETF for many years, recognized finest by its image: SPY. (Investor’s Business Daily)

• From Japan, a Exhausting Lesson A few Weak Forex: Although it recovered within the second half of the 12 months, Japan’s economic system barely grew in 2024 as a depreciated yen fueled inflation and strained households. (New York Times)

• Metals Essential to Clear Power Are Getting Caught Up within the US–China Commerce Battle: After a Chinese language export ban, can the US get gallium and germanium from Canada—or will tariffs get in the best way? (Wired)

• Governments are folks, my pal: The far-reaching penalties of the largest layoff in historical past. (OptimistiCallie)

• No, 150-12 months-Olds Aren’t Amassing Social Safety Advantages: Elon Musk claims to have discovered rampant fraud within the Social Safety Administration. There’s a a lot less complicated rationalization. (Wired) see additionally No, Elon Musk Hasn’t ‘Found’ Fraud at Social Safety Any that takes place seems to be of the small change, one-person-at-a-time type, not the larger-scale persevering with points at Medicaid and Medicare. (Bloomberg)

• An Iranian Drone Lands in Queens: Ukrainian forces downed the lethal Shahed 136, which is headed for show in Washington. (Wall Street Journal)

• The Worst and the Dimmest: It’s not a coincidence that we’re being led by the least certified monsters out there; it’s a deliberate technique. Going through the Worst – a collection about directional alignment. (The Reframe) see additionally I used to be a Jan. 6 juror. What I realized shocked me. Trump’s pardons of nearly the entire Jan. 6 rioters left me dejected. Am I secure? (Washington Post)

• The Finest ‘Saturday Night time Reside’ Sketches, In accordance with the Folks Who Made Them: Forward of ‘SNL50,’ we requested Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, Invoice Hader, and extra to inform us which of their sketches they maintain closest to their hearts. (The Ringer)

Be sure you try our Masters in Business interview  this weekend with Charley Ellis, founding father of Greenwich Associates (1972) Trustee at Yale, Chairman of Yale Endowment’s Funding Committee and member of the Vanguard Group’s Board of Administrators. He’s the writer of 21 books, together with “Winning the Loser’s Game” (now eighth ed). His most up-to-date e book is is “Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide to Very Long-Term Investing.”

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