Hello,

'tis the season to shop for your favorite geek, including yourself, so this issue of the newsletter has a smattering of gift ideas for giving this holiday season.

If you spend too much on gifts, today's blog helps you earn it back in prize money in DARPA's latest challenge.

Bill also gives us an overview of "AI factories" - an ecosystem of nothing building nothing. I find myself pining for the days of hammers and chisels where we crafted and built actual, useful, physical, things instead of this circular, closed, equities-based, economy that feeds a few fat cats on hype and starves everyone else out to the point of the billionaires counting on drones to fix poverty the nasty way.

happy holidays,

AndyT