Michael Chui
@mchui.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at McKinsey leading research on the impact of AI and technology trends. Opinions expressed are my own.
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Periodic Labs, a start-up in San Francisco, aims to build A.I. that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields. More than 20 researchers have left their work at Meta, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other big projects in recent weeks to join the start-up.
Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for New Start-Up
Founded by a co-creator of ChatGPT, Periodic Labs aims to build artificial intelligence that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields.
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September 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Periodic Labs, a start-up in San Francisco, aims to build A.I. that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields. More than 20 researchers have left their work at Meta, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other big projects in recent weeks to join the start-up.
Deploying agentic AI successfully isn’t easy. Here’s what we’re learning about how to get it right. Crucially, agents aren’t always the answer. www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
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September 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Deploying agentic AI successfully isn’t easy. Here’s what we’re learning about how to get it right. Crucially, agents aren’t always the answer. www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
‘It’s like buying a car “and then running it into a tree after a few years, just to save the price of tank of gas,”’ via @sachimulkey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...
Two Valuable Satellites Are in ‘Perfect Health.’ They May Be Scrapped.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
‘It’s like buying a car “and then running it into a tree after a few years, just to save the price of tank of gas,”’ via @sachimulkey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...
AEP and Sempra received requests to connect projects, many of them data centers, requiring almost 400 GW, more than half the peak demand in Lower 48 states on two hot days in July (potential projects being double counted by different utilities) via @jenhiller.bsky.social www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Data Centers That Don’t Exist Yet Are Already Haunting the Grid
Utilities see a massive opportunity in artificial intelligence but realize that many proposed data-center projects will never be built.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
AEP and Sempra received requests to connect projects, many of them data centers, requiring almost 400 GW, more than half the peak demand in Lower 48 states on two hot days in July (potential projects being double counted by different utilities) via @jenhiller.bsky.social www.wsj.com/business/ene...
It’s a tough time to be a young person looking for a job—unless you’re in artificial intelligence www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-j...
August 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It’s a tough time to be a young person looking for a job—unless you’re in artificial intelligence www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-j...
A pragmatic look at what general-purpose robots can—and can’t yet—do in the workplace
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Will embodied AI create robotic coworkers?
A pragmatic look at what general-purpose robots can—and can’t yet—do in the workplace.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
A pragmatic look at what general-purpose robots can—and can’t yet—do in the workplace
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Drowning is largely preventable and costs the U.S. economy over $50 billion a year. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Drowning prevention program comes to a halt at the CDC
A few years in, a CDC drowning prevention program was ready to share its findings on how to mitigate the leading cause of death among young children. Then the administration terminated that staff.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Drowning is largely preventable and costs the U.S. economy over $50 billion a year. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
The work of adapting large-language models to be useful for everyday tasks remains in its infancy. "you have to change a lot more than just, ‘Here’s a tool that a few of your workers can use,... All of that change is really hard.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ais-...
AI’s Big Leaps Are Slowing. That Could Be a Good Thing.
Large language models’ pace of improvement has moderated, but investors shouldn’t panic.
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August 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The work of adapting large-language models to be useful for everyday tasks remains in its infancy. "you have to change a lot more than just, ‘Here’s a tool that a few of your workers can use,... All of that change is really hard.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ais-...
"Automation and collaboration are not opposites, and are frequently packaged together." Via @davidautor.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
A Better Way to Think About AI
AI can be used to automate tasks—and entire jobs. But it could also be designed to collaborate with humans. David Autor and James Manyika on why we should focus on the latter:
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August 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"Automation and collaboration are not opposites, and are frequently packaged together." Via @davidautor.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
If cases continue to accumulate through January of next year, the US could lose its measles elimination status.
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Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US | CNN
There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago.
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July 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If cases continue to accumulate through January of next year, the US could lose its measles elimination status.
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Most of these are not humanoid www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-...
Exclusive | Amazon Is on the Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans in Its Warehouses
The number of robots in Amazon facilities just surpassed one million, the most the e-commerce giant has ever had.
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July 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Most of these are not humanoid www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-...
Reposted by Michael Chui
A salmon made from from cells grown in tanks became the first cell-cultured seafood to receive safety approval from the FDA.
Kann, a Haitian restaurant in Portland, is the first restaurant to offer it to diners.
Kann, a Haitian restaurant in Portland, is the first restaurant to offer it to diners.
Lab-grown seafood is hitting restaurant menus. Would you eat it?
Wildtype’s cell-cultivated salmon is the first seafood to earn FDA approval, marking a significant milestone for the alternative protein industry.
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June 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A salmon made from from cells grown in tanks became the first cell-cultured seafood to receive safety approval from the FDA.
Kann, a Haitian restaurant in Portland, is the first restaurant to offer it to diners.
Kann, a Haitian restaurant in Portland, is the first restaurant to offer it to diners.
AI isn’t just for efficiency anymore. It can accelerate innovation and double the pace of R&D to unlock up to half a trillion dollars in value annually www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
The next innovation revolution—powered by AI
R&D has been getting more difficult and more expensive. We look at how AI can accelerate the process and usher in a new era of growth across industries.
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June 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
AI isn’t just for efficiency anymore. It can accelerate innovation and double the pace of R&D to unlock up to half a trillion dollars in value annually www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
Reposted by Michael Chui
OPT is the program that allows foreign students graduating with STEM degrees stay and work for up to three years. Because of the oversubscribed H-1B lottery, OPT is one of the main ways that foreign students manage to transition to jobs in the US.
Ending it would destroy a major STEM pipeline.
Ending it would destroy a major STEM pipeline.
They're terminating OPT.
Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US.
6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com
Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US.
6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com
Skilled immigration on the chopping block? Effects of eliminating "Optional Practical Training" in the US
The White House has taken numerous steps to sharply reduce the number of immigrant workers, with or without legal status, in the US economy. These policies, so far, typically target immigrants with le...
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May 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
OPT is the program that allows foreign students graduating with STEM degrees stay and work for up to three years. Because of the oversubscribed H-1B lottery, OPT is one of the main ways that foreign students manage to transition to jobs in the US.
Ending it would destroy a major STEM pipeline.
Ending it would destroy a major STEM pipeline.
Advertising to AI www.wsj.com/articles/wal...
Walmart Is Preparing to Welcome Its Next Customer: The AI Shopping Agent
As consumers begin to use AI agents to do their shopping, retailers are trying to figure out how to market to bots in addition to humans.
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May 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Advertising to AI www.wsj.com/articles/wal...
Square peg in a round hole www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95
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May 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Square peg in a round hole www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
