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Activity Doesn't Equal Productivity - DTNS Live 4935

Season 12, Ep. 4935

Is social media an addiction? If so can we treat its obsessive use by some the same way we treat individuals with substance abuse problems? Andrea explains what the data says. Plus a lawsuit alleges Nvidia’s Cosmos World Foundation Models trained on YouTube videos without their permission and why Nvidia believes it hasn’t. And TSMC’s Arizona plant begins fabbing 4-nm chips and does this hearld a new American renaissance in silicon chip production?


Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Andrew Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe.

Link to the Show Notes.

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