Apple was granted a patent last month on a matte black finishing technique. I guess we're seeing it first hand here. Looks great.
BIG TECH
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Apple’s Black MacBook Pro: Rare Color Returns After 20 Years
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Black MacBook Pro is gonna sell so well. Pretty rare color, too. Last black MacBook was the 2006 model.
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AI Executive Order: Balancing Industry Interests and Civil Liberties
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Today's AI executive order has impressive scope. It also reads like the smashing-together of papers written by contrasting groups, one that adopts wholesale the talking points of AI firms, another that centers civil liberties. @matteo_wong & my analysis.
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Google CEO Testifies Before Congress on AI Regulation
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Wish I’d been in Washington today for Google’s CEO’s testimony.
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Multiple Companies Building High-Performance AI Compute Clusters
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more than two companies have clusters with those FLOPs. quite a handful.
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Meta on Content Moderation and Government Regulation Responsibility
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My name is not Mark Zuckerberg.
This was about asking governments for definitions of what constitutes acceptable or unacceptable content online.
Meta doesn't see itself as having the legitimacy to do so.
But in the absence of regulation, it has to do so.
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Stock Market Decline Amid Middle East Conflict and Earnings
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The TL Podcast for October 29th: Stocks fall apart The stock market has turned decidedly sour in late October, following the war in Israel and Gaza, and a very mixed start to earnings season. https://
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AI Strategy: Benefits for Humanity Through Product Platform
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Words and the legal structure of the organization are one thing. Hopefully we will be able to show people with our actions as well. I would argue in many ways we are already pushing for AI to benefit all of humanity. The core product + platform strategy is important to this.
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Noteworthy antitrust research paper published
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Excited to read this noteworthy new antitrust research paper published yesterday.
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Meta’s AI Strategy and Social Networks’ Future Transformation
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Yes, this could be true. With Meta's massive user base, they are in a different game than other AI companies. But if social networks don't survive the next 10 years in the form they are, then their game changes, too. My hypothesis is that people will use AI assistants as the