meanwhile, Microsoft says it will give out cash awards to employees in the senior director rank and lower
@jordannovet
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Microsoft Cloud Growth Disappoints Investors in Q4 Fiscal Results
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Microsoft fiscal Q4 cloud growth is light and investors are not liking it
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Global M&A Activity Declines in Q2 2026
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'In Q2, global M&A reached nearly $690 billion across 7,911 deals, though PitchBook estimates an additional 3,297 deals not yet disclosed. That's compared to $734.5 billion across 9,451 in the year-ago quarter.'
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Delta Hires Antitrust Counsel David Boies Against Tech Company
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Delta has hires David Boies to get damages, Phil is reporting. Boies was the Department of Justice's special trial counsel in United States v. Microsoft (1998)
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Delta seeks compensation from Microsoft CrowdStrike over outage
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our @Lebeaucarnews is reporting that Delta will seek compensation from Microsoft and CrowdStrike following the outage
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Apple Continues Google Cloud Platform Use for AI Training
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Apple is clearly still using Google Cloud per this @kifleswing report on TPUs. we reported on Apple's use of GCP for iCloud in 2018 https://
cnbc.com/2024/07/29/app
le-says-its-ai-models-were-trained-on-googles-custom-chips-.html
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cnbc.com/2018/02/26/app
le-confirms-it-uses-google-cloud-for-icloud.html
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Fine-tuning Generative AI APIs Costs Millions Annually
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Gartner estimates that customizing generative AI APIs through fine-tuning costs $5 million to $6.5 million up front and then costs 8,000 to $11,000 per person per year https://
gartner.com/en/newsroom/pr
ess-releases/2024-07-29-gartner-predicts-30-percent-of-generative-ai-projects-will-be-abandoned-after-proof-of-concept-by-end-of-2025
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Ransomware Negotiators Emerge as New Cybersecurity Job Role
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the Bureau of Labor Statistics regrettably not does not currently estimate the number of 'ransomware negotiators' in the US https://
economist.com/1843/2024/07/2
4/secrets-of-a-ransomware-negotiator
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Sequoia Capital Investment Culture: Apple and Nvidia Leaders
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new breakfast octopus dropped https://
fortune.com/2024/07/25/seq
ouia-capital-roelof-botha-investment-culture-apple-nvidia/?mlr456
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