overheard in SF: Is your body battery okay?
@jordannovet
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Media Companies Chase NYT Success with Game Acquisitions
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today @harrymccracken puts LinkedIn games in the context of media companies that want some of the goodness the NYT has gotten by buying Wordle
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US IPO Market Projected to Surge 32% in 2026
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'Proceeds for companies selling shares for the first time in the US will probably be between $40 billion and $50 billion next year, according to Eric Benedict, BMO’s co-head of global equity capital markets. That would mark a pick up of at least 32%'
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US CISO Average Compensation Reaches 1.6 Million in 2023
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'US average total compensation, including cash base, bonus, and equity, was reported to be $1,648,000 in 2023' -2024 Global Chief Information Security Officer Organization and Compensation Survey https://
heidrick.com/-/media/heidri
ckcom/publications-and-reports/2024-global-ciso-organization-and-compensation-survey.pdf
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Translators Among Hundreds of AI Letter Signatories
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hundreds of these signatories are translators
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Majority of Customers Oppose AI in Customer Service
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'Sixty-four percent of customers would prefer that companies didn’t use artificial intelligence (AI) in their customer service, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc.'
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ChatGPT Powered by Hidden Human Workers on Upwork
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ChatGPT but it's actually Upwork and Mechanical Turk people doing the work
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Excel’s Enduring Dominance: Why Spreadsheets Won’t Disappear
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the best part of this Economist article on the 40th anniversary of the release of Excel is that it cites data from a 'spreadsheet consultancy' https://
economist.com/business/2024/
10/15/why-microsoft-excel-wont-die
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Companies Being Transparent About Executive Departures
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i like when companies just come out and say it when executives go on gardening leave
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Databricks and Snowflake Adopt Microsoft’s Cobalt 100 ARM VMs
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Databricks and Snowflake both say they're adopting Microsoft's Arm-based Cobalt 100 VMs in Azure