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Midweek greetings to all, as we unveil the 295th chapter of Weekly Olio — a delightful concoction of laughter, insight, and a sprinkle of mystery. Within these pages, you'll discover a handpicked selection of fascinating finds from the vast realms of the internet.
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NVIDIA's Founder Says Farmers Should Absolutely Use AI
“If I were a farmer, I would absolutely use AI.”
That’s Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
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𝘐𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥. 𝘋𝘐𝘛 𝘈𝘨𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘊 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘹𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦: https://bit.ly/4bzuWCi
The Quote 💭
“Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.”
The Tweet 🐦
Scott Belsky argues 2026 marks consumer AI’s maturation into agent-first products offering a “sixth sense” of foresight. Agents with deep personal context will prioritise tasks, manage life logistics, and optimise finances. Users will trade privacy for communal intelligence. Key shifts include Explorers vs. Guardians, agent personality as new UX, the “intentions graph” as a commerce goldmine, trust as a differentiator, selective memory as a moat, and loyalty through exclusive access—while discovery and notifications remain challenges.
The Infographic 💹
How big has AI wealth concentration gotten? SpaceX ($2.0T), Anthropic ($2.0T) and OpenAI ($1.2T) together are valued at $5.2T - more than the combined first-day value of all 3,365 US tech IPOs from 1980 to 2025 ($4.1T).
Product teams aren’t short on ideas. They’re missing a system.
Jira Product Discovery gives teams one place to capture customer feedback, prioritize ideas with consistent frameworks, and build living roadmaps everyone can align on. And when it’s time to build, those decisions connect directly to delivery in Jira, so everyone can see how the roadmap turns into real work.
The Short Read 📝
Asia’s lonely economy of one - by The Asia Times
The family household was a bundle: shared rent, meals, care, company, informal insurance. Across East Asia it's unbundling, and each line item is becoming a purchase. Single-person households are 36% of Korea's total, 38% in Japan heading to 44% by 2050, 125 million people in China. Singles in China spent over $1 trillion in 2025, up 50% in two years.
Yang's argument is that both the demographic-doom and the still-spending-consumer readings are wrong. Much of that trillion is a transfer, not new activity — family dinner is invisible in GDP; a single-serving meal is a transaction. Solo living also carries an unavoidable premium: one rent, one fridge, roughly double the per-person carbon footprint. Markets unbundle meals and paid company well. They can't unbundle catastrophe insurance or last-mile care — hence China's viral "Are You Dead?" check-in app. He wants care-capacity measurement and chosen-family law, and notes China's July AI-companion rules may become the global template. Read more…
The Long Read 📜
The Wretched Refuse - by Michael Moritz
"The Wretched Refuse," an excerpt from Michael Moritz's memoir Ausländer: One Family's Story of Escape and Exile, published by Colossus in September 2026. Moritz — former Sequoia partner — reconstructs how his family escaped Nazi Germany. Prompted by stumbling on London's Kindertransport Memorial in 2019, he traces his mother's 1939 journey from Cologne to Liverpool Street: a numbered card round her neck, soldiers looting bags at the Dutch border, arrival the morning of Hitler's 50th birthday parade.
The core is a meditation on why some got out and others didn't. Moritz contrasts his two grandfathers. Salli, a blind cattle farmer, sold his land at distressed prices and reached England days before war broke out. Max, a judge, trusted his war service and judiciary standing to protect him, returned to Germany twice, and died in the camps. Professional credentials, Moritz observes, travelled badly and survived camps badly. A must read extract. Read more…
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