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What I shared on Twitter, and a bit more…
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://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/binance-ex-ceo-warns-95-of-crypto-investors-wont-survive He is probably right. It’s very hard to beat BTC. It’s kind of like investors can’t easily outperform S&P or DJIA consistently. “90% of Retail investors do not beat…
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…
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/12/mac-studio-with-512gb-ram-delivery-delayhttps://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1j8r2nr/m3_ultra_512gb_does_18ts_with_deepseek_r1_671b_q4/https://x.com/alexocheema/status/1899735281781411907 Whoever says Apple is not focused on AI, you are wrong. Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB is the proof of that. A big leap from maximum 196GB RAM of…
https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino Not disagreeing that the delay in Siri features was disappointing. But John Gruber shouldn’t get so upset about these. Apple is a hardware company and they make the bulk…
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/26/infosec_bytes Still very much about open vs closed systems. Who can govern the way we use our tools? Government? Company? Users? AI will be able to help with filtering obvious…
https://www.techspot.com/news/106920-microsoft-cancels-data-center-contracts-ai-enthusiasts-caught.html We have seen it all before. Dotcom, Mobile, VR, Metaverse, Drones, Cloud, SaaS, etc, etc. All had similar patterns. Don’t expect any of them to make money directly. They…
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-co-founder-says-60-hour-weeks-needed-to-achieve-agi?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other It’s not just about working 60 hours a week. If Google don’t do anything impressive in the next couple of years, their core business might not be around. AI…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-06/apple-s-three-year-modem-road-map-company-plans-to-beat-qualcomm-by-2027https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/apples-c1-modem-in-the-iphone-16e-is-proof-that-we-dont-need-qualcomm-for-5ghttps://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-reveals-first-custom-modem-chip-shifting-away-qualcomm-2025-02-19/ Apple isn’t the first one to make their own 5G modems, in fact they are late to the game. Samsung and Huawei both have their own modem chips. Other…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k1321nedo It’s not just about forming a rival to BYD. It’s about the existence of Japanese auto industry. Many will end up just having a brand value and be sold…