The problem is that the users are growing exponentially. So tradeoffs must be made. At Microsoft we had to do anti-customer things to serve the Windows group. We called them "strategy taxes." Everyone knew they sucked. But we did the best to make the customers happy despite
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Anthropic’s Policy Pushes Users Toward Competing AI Platforms
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No other major AI competitor currently requires this. Anthropic just made switching to ChatGPT or Gemini feel like the privacy-forward choice. That's a hard position to have landed in.
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Anthropic’s Safety Filters Align with Their Long-Term Vision
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Anthropic explicitly built around safety from the start. Stronger filters are consistent with what they always said they would do. Being surprised by it now means you weren't reading what they were publishing three years ago.
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Anthropic’s Incremental Releases and Marketing Mismatch
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Incremental releases feeling incremental is not a scandal. The problem is Anthropic's marketing implies otherwise and then users feel misled.
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Apple’s Role in Mainstream Technology Adoption and Consumer Trust
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Yeah, eventually they get accepted as utility increases. Will be interesting to see how Apple's are received. Most people are changing attitudes toward them and with Apple enough people will have them, and Apple is the most trusted company so they expect freaky stuff won't
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Most Powerful AI Models Now Publicly Available
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Point 7 is already wrong. The most powerful models are publicly available right now and the gap between consumer and enterprise tiers is smaller than it's ever been.
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Neuralink brain implants face public acceptance barriers
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Neuralink will lead to much deeper super powers, but most find the idea of having a robot sticking wires on their brains to be highly distasteful.
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Creator Dependency on Notion Platform Signals Tech Concentration Risk
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At this point, I go down as @NotionHQ goes down
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Google’s Competitive Strategy Against OpenAI Mirrors Microsoft’s Netscape Tactics
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Google is doing to OpenAI what Microsoft did to Netscape.
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Disney’s Hidden Evolution into AI and Robotics Pioneer
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Disney is not “becoming” an AI and robotics company.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 17 avril 2026
In some very important ways, it already is.
That is what I think many people still miss.
For decades, Disney mastered something most tech companies never truly understood:
how to make movement feel alive.
A pause. A tilt of… pic.twitter.com/L73azCDQXQDisney is not “becoming” an AI and robotics company. In some very important ways, it already is.
That is what I think many people still miss. For decades, Disney mastered something most tech companies never truly understood:
how to make movement feel alive. A pause. A tilt of