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Groupthink versus Tulips: AI Market Rationality Questioned
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Amazon’s Massive Investment in Alexa Development and Resources
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I don’t think people realize the scale of the very largest tech companies & the resources they can deploy.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 21 avril 2024
Amazon has spent between $20B & $43B on Alexa alone & has/had 10,000 people working on it. https://t.co/S0FBYmdVVyI don’t think people realize the scale of the very largest tech companies & the resources they can deploy. Amazon has spent between $20B & $43B on Alexa alone & has/had 10,000 people working on it.
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Big Tech’s Defense Contractor Role and State Surveillance Provision
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Extremely important research. It's not possible to understand the state of BigTech, or its pathologies at the moment, without understanding these companies' transformation into defense contractors, in addition to their central role as surveillance providers to the state.
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Government Dependence on BigTech Undermines Antitrust Efforts
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Those fighting to reduce BigTech's concentration need to recognize that integration of BigTech infra into gov–via Military contracts, gov't surveillance, etc–is contrary to their aims. The more gov is dependent on BigTech, the harder it will be to check their size/power.
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Foreign Media Ownership and Democratic Protection Debate
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Rhetorical tweet.
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 21 avril 2024
Why do “free speech” defenders equate forcing a foreign government to divest from a media platform with banning free speech?
It’s not about banning TikTok—it’s about protecting our democracy from external manipulation but that part keeps getting downplayed in… pic.twitter.com/87VSXPHWdhRhetorical tweet. Why do “free speech” defenders equate forcing a foreign government to divest from a media platform with banning free speech? It’s not about banning TikTok—it’s about protecting our democracy from external manipulation but that part keeps getting downplayed in
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Google Enhances Demand Gen Visual Storytelling with Generative AI
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Enhance visual storytelling in Demand Gen with generative AI @google https://
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Apple-Baidu Partnership Risks China’s Generative AI Influence
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Apple-Baidu Partnership Risks Accelerating China’s Influence Over the Future of Generative AI @Diplomat_APAC https://
thediplomat.com/2024/04/apple-
baidu-partnership-risks-accelerating-chinas-influence-over-the-future-of-generative-ai/
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Musk sues OpenAI over proprietary shift from open-source roots
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#AI has produced a new fight between open and proprietary #tech. Elon Musk sued ChatGPT creator #OpenAI, claiming that what he had donated to as an #opensource organisation had become a “closed-source de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft. #GenAI #IoT https://
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Google’s Brilliant Olympic Medalist Recruitment Strategy
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Google, in its early days, had a brilliant, yet unstated, recruitment practice. If you were an Olympic medalist, you could enter a Google office, and they would try to find a job for you. This was ingenious. Success is largely an outcome of hard work, perseverance, and character.
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Optimus Versus Unitree: The Humanoid Robot Showdown
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Let’s do it. @elonmusk
: Optimus Vs Unitree.