I’ve been zipping through The Infinity Machine, Sebastian Mallaby’s absorbing new biography of Google DeepMind CEO, Nobel laureate, and knight Demis Hassabis. You can tell Hassabis at turns inspires, terrifies, and fascinates his biographer—and Mallaby delivers the reader that very same experience.
I’ve always wanted to write a tech biography, but the truth is, in all my years of interviewing founders, I’ve encountered very few who seemed like they’d be worth the years of effort (and those ones were already taken). Then on Friday, I met a subject—three of them, actually—so intriguing I found myself wondering what it’d be like to follow their journey full-time for a few years.
Read on to hear about my wacky couple of days with the young founders of the billion-dollar AI startup Aaru, and to learn why I think their company could be an industry killer.
Mentioned in this issue: Sam Altman, Diplo, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, Paramount, Warner Bros., The Best One Yet, Ned Koh, Cam Fink, John Kessler, Jeff Bezos, Zohran Mamdani, Waymo, Ben Stiller, Mario Carbone, Blank Street Coffee, Kristen Stewart, and Pedro Pascal… | 
