💡 Warp News #218
📉 U.S. coal use declines and reduces carbon emissions. ⚡ Renewable energy increased globally by 50% in 2023. 📉 Significant reduction in poverty in the U.S. 🔋 An electric car became the world's best-selling car in 2023.
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🦾 What can we learn from the Swedish IT miracle for the AI era?
Last Friday, we had the first formal meeting with the AI Commission. There, we announced the news that we are adding an expert group of heavyweights:
Börje Ekholm, CEO of Ericsson, Martin Lundstedt, CEO of AB Volvo, Mats Granryd, Chairman of the Board at Vattenfall, Katarina Areskoug, former head of the EU Commission in Sweden, Magnus Tyreman, former Europe head at McKinsey, Katrin Westling Palm, Director-General of the Swedish Tax Agency, and Nils Öberg, Director-General of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.
Newspaper Dagens Industri was there and reported on this addition, and also took some pictures. As you can see, I have a prominent role in the commission...
Börje Ekholm's Ericsson hosted the meeting, and we were given presentations about their AI work as well as the status in the expansion of 5G. ABB and Vattenfall also gave presentations.
I have been thinking a lot about what made Sweden so successful as an IT nation in the 1990s. This is relevant not only for Sweden, but for every country entering the AI age.
Newsweek named Stockholm the internet capital of Europe. Swedes had the most computers and the best broadband in the world. From the Swedish IT miracle, Skype, Spotify, and many other billion-dollar companies were born. What can we learn from that?
Therefore, I have talked to some who were there when it happened. That is the topic for this week's article: 🦾 What can we learn from the Swedish IT miracle for the AI era?
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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🦾 What can we learn from the Swedish IT miracle for the AI era?
Newsweek named Stockholm Europe's internet capital. Swedes had the most computers and the best broadband in the world. From the Swedish IT miracle, Skype, Spotify, and many other unicorns were born. What can we learn from that as we now try to create AI miracles?
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💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🔋 An electric car became the world's best-selling car in 2023 (for the first time)
It took three years from the launch of Tesla's Model Y for it to conquer the position as the world's best-selling car, across all categories.
🥩 World's first regulatory approval for cultured beef (meat without cows)
Aleph Farms has received the world's first regulatory approval for cultured beef.
⚡ Renewable energy increased globally by 50 percent during 2023
The world is experiencing the fastest expansion of renewable energy in three decades. Solar energy accounted for three-quarters of the new capacity. The price of solar panels dropped by nearly 50 percent compared to 2022.
📉 Significant reduction in poverty in the USA, according to a new report
Poverty in the USA has decreased significantly since 1980, with a drop of 27 percentage points. This trend continued during the period 2020-2022, despite the pandemic.
📉 U.S. coal use declines and reduces carbon emissions
U.S. carbon emissions fell by 1.9 percent during 2023. The use of coal for electricity production decreased to the lowest level in half a century. Investments in solar and wind energy have increased.
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