The generative AI wars are heading home, starting with Amazon’s big debut of smart devices powered by Alexa LLM. My story about yesterday’s announcements:
BIG TECH
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Cisco Acquires Splunk for $157 Per Share in Cash
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Oooo good morning to you Cisco https://
cnbc.com/2023/09/21/cis
co-acquiring-splunk-for-157-a-share-in-cash.html
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AI Power Shift: Nation-States Losing Ground to Companies
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AI isn’t just a game changer… it’s rewriting the rules. if policymakers don’t catch up, power will shift from nation-states to AI companies I discussed this dynamic with my good friend @ianbremmer
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Panasonic Commits to Human-Centric Trustworthy Tech Innovation
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Panasonic highlights its commitment to human-centric tech, underscoring a commitment to global responsibility through trustworthy products – blending individual wellness with ethics and sustainability. More > https://
bit.ly/44Zd6BX Paid partnership with @PanasonicEurope
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Google Plans to Design Own AI Chips to Cut Broadcom Costs
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To Reduce AI Costs, Google Wants to Ditch Broadcom as Its TPU Server Chip Supplier via @theinformation What's going on here:
Google is planning to end its relationship with Broadcom and design its own AI chips in-house by 2027 to save billions in costs. What does this mean? -
Google Bard Gets More Powerful With New Extensions
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Google’s Bard Just Got More Powerful. It’s Still Erratic. https://
nytimes.com/2023/09/20/tec
hnology/google-bard-extensions.html?smid=tw-share
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Google Reduces AI Costs by Ditching Broadcom TPU Supplier
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“Google is also using a significant number of TPUs to train Gemini, its collection of advanced LLMs, which will soon power all of its key AI products for consumers and enterprises” https://
theinformation.com/articles/to-re
duce-ai-costs-google-wants-to-ditch-broadcom-as-its-tpu-server-chip-supplier
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Chinese E-commerce Uses AI Deepfakes for Livestream Influencers
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fascinating story by @ZeyiYang https://
technologyreview.com/2023/09/19/107
9832/chinese-ecommerce-deepfakes-livestream-influencers-ai/
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Twitter TweetDeck paywall reduces user engagement significantly
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wonder how much less time i'm spending on this thing after they pulled TweetDeck away from us free users. i would guess about 10-30% less