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Grace Carney

Jul 14, 2025

This blog is co-authored with Zoe Weinberg and Matt Hawes at ex/ante, and is a follow-up to our first blog post on the topic, 'You don't own your memory.' We need an open architecture that puts us ...

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Jul 7, 2025

This blog is co-authored with ex/ante. Who will own our digital memory? This question has become increasingly urgent as ChatGPT and Claude ask us to entrust more and more of our memories to their platforms. Frontier AI models ...

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Mar 27, 2025

A quiet insurgency is rewiring our world. We're hitting a critical moment when the inefficiency of constant AC/DC conversion is becoming too convoluted to ignore, especially as data centers strain capacity, renewable projects multiply, and extreme weather exposes grid vulnerabilities.

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Sep 23, 2024

It's been over a year since Albert shared his vision for 'tutors for everyone,' and we're all the more convinced that AI will not only make knowledge more accessible, but also unlock radically new learning experiences. The sad truth is ...

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Sep 3, 2024

To practice venture is to practice social theory. It's not novel to point out that to really understand what’s happening in today’s technology market, we must situate it within its broader societal context. Yet during periods of intense technological innovation ...

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Jul 1, 2024

Placing financial value on an individual’s personal data, let alone selling it, has always felt like a futile exercise. While ‘big data’ is a hot commodity, my own personal dataset has seemed pretty worthless commercially. But as more LLMs announce ...

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May 31, 2024

It’s never been more difficult to tell whether what we see online is real or fake. AI bots are being paid to leave fake reddit comments, Drake resurrected Tupac in a rap verse, and Morgan Freeman is still not Morgan ...

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May 30, 2024

This post was originally published on the USV blog and can be found here. It’s never been more difficult to tell whether what we see online is real or fake. AI bots are being paid to leave fake reddit ...

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