The DV Monthly ?? - #78

Each month, we share?The DV Monthly????.

It's a curation of content from that month we found most interesting.?Along with books we are reading and emerging trends we are watching. To get The DV Monthly????directly in your inbox, sign up?here.

"It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers…At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control." - Alan Turing

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???Reads this month:

1.?Podcast:?Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO On GPT-4 And Future Of AI

A rare and timely interview with Altman by Lex Fridman , who has sparked the greatest advancement in AI to date. Talking the dramatic change ahead, Artificial General Intelligence, building in public and the challenge?of?deploying safeguards.

2.?AI Is Dreaming Up Drugs That No One Has Ever Seen. Now We've Got To See If They Work.

Pharma and the entire biotech industry is chasing the prize of drug discovery, in-silico?testing and development using superior intelligent machines. Written by Will Douglas Heaven with MIT Technology Review .

3.?The Largest Black Hole Ever Discovered Can Fit 30 Billion Suns

Hubble Telescope reveals a black hole at the upper limit of how large astrophysicist believe they can theoretically become.

4.?Podcast:?Lesson From A Titan w/ Doug Leone

Always the straight shooter, Douglas Leone , the man responsible for Sequoia Capital 's continued dominance of the VC landscape shares his journey and hard lessons learnt.

?? Portfolio In The Press

1.? Prescient AI Raises $4.5M To Help DTC Brands Advertise On A Privacy-first Internet ( Refresh Miami )

Online advertising is set for a major reset when user tracking cookies are phased out and a privacy-centric internet emerges. Fortunate for brands, Prescient is built to maintain ad spend profitability and closed a Seed round to power its growth. Congrats Michael and Cody Greco !

2.?Video:?Can AI Tell How You're Feeling?

Kintsugi CEO Grace Chang is interviewed about her background and pioneering working in voice biomarker technology to detect signs of clinical depression and anxiety from short clips of speech.

???Books on our nightstand:

1. Scaling People?by? Claire Hughes Johnson

Early at Google and then COO at Stripe, overseeing its rapid growth, Claire shares a practical guidebook on effective leadership in a high-growth environment.?

2.?High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil

Now an industry classic, prolific technology investor Gil shares his experience on scaling startups from 10 to 10,000 people.

?? What caught your eye this month? We’d love to find out!

Quick reminder:?We,?Darling Ventures, are a pre-seed firm 
investing up to $750K into software startups across North America.