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E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more

Published 2 years, 8 months ago
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(0:00) Bestie intros: Friedberg fills in as moderator!

(2:45) Wagner Group rebellion

(23:15) SCOTUS strikes down Affirmative Action

(51:03) Databricks acquires MosaicML for $1.3B, Inflection raises $1.3B

(1:09:35) IRL shuts down after faking 95% of users, Byju's seeks to raise emergency $1B as founder control in jeopardy

(1:26:38) Science Corner: Understanding the NANOGrav findings

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Referenced in the show:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/ukraine-counteroffensive-western-assessment/index.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-wagner-russia-treason-coup-b2363430.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia

https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings

https://twitter.com/MatreshkaRF/status/1673209794608365570

https://www.csis.org/blogs/post-soviet-post/la-vie-en-rose-why-kremlin-blacklisted-levada-center

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/world/africa/central-african-republic-wagner-africa-syria.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-rejects-affirmative-action-at-colleges-says-schools-cant-consider-race-in-admission.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1674426520100814848

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-percent-white-students-are-legacy-athletes-n1060361

https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-strikes-1-3-billion-deal-for-generative-ai-startup-mosaicml-fdcefc06

https://www.snowflake.com/blog/snowflake-acquires-neeva-to-accelerate-search-in-the-data-cloud-through-generative-ai

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