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https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-talent-poaching-spree-leaked-messages/ It’s still too early to declare a winner in the AI arms race, but one thing is clear: the competition is accelerating, and OpenAI may struggle to maintain its…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg75zv4gny2ohttps://electrek.co/2025/03/23/everyones-missing-the-point-of-the-tesla-vision-vs-lidar-wile-e-coyote-video/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W1JBAfV4Io Not here to debate whether Elon Musk is right to insist on self-driving using vision-based AI only, but the logic is straightforward: if it’s a vision-based system, avoid using…
https://www.ted.com/talks/audra_a_diptee_the_records_the_british_empire_didn_t_want_you_to_see In his thought-provoking book Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari explores the concept of historical records being erased as a means of political change. This phenomenon is not new; throughout history,…
https://www.creativebloq.com/photography/photo-editing-software/after-25-loyal-years-adobes-price-hike-has-forced-me-to-say-goodbye We have become accustomed to the reality of rising costs. However, we often fail to consider the broader implications of these price increases, especially when it comes to subscription…
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33777https://futurism.com/time-workers-save-ai-jobs A research working paper pointing to LLM not having a big impact. And not improving salary even if it helped with productivity of workers. It’s just 2 years in…
https://openai.com/sam-and-jony Jony Ive made a lot of money since leaving Apple, more than what he could have made at Apple. $6.5B is a great deal for him, the new entity…
https://www.wsj.com/tech/they-paid-3-500-for-apples-vision-pro-a-year-later-it-still-hurts-496de341 It’s not surprising that “some” or even many early adopters of Vision Pro “regret” about their purchase. It’s kind of like a bet, if it works out and become…
In Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, as well as in several of his recent interviews, he repeatedly emphasizes that money is one of the greatest stories humanity has ever invented. While it…
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/18/tech/google-wiz-acquisition/index.html Google is still very much an advertising company, only around 20% by revenue from non-ads related business. They are good with indexing data. Should you really trust them with…
https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-proposals-for-the-us-ai-action-plan If you can allow freedom for AI to learn from all content, including copyrighted ones. That is essentially giving up the ability to protect IP rights. Just need smart…