First State Economic Development News + Notes

First State Economic Development News + Notes

First State Economic Development News + Notes - Issue 173

Let's Build Some Things

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Troy Mix
Aug 09, 2025
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This week I waded through loads of articles focused on Silicon Valley’s new obsession with building actual things, summed up nicely in this quote from a bonus NY Times article:

Stacked up against ChatGPT’s ability to instantly transform any image into a Studio Ghibli cartoon, Instagram’s photo filters are practically Paleolithic. And the chatter is abou…

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