The dudes who have been giving us the most epic manels for decades get to talk about "saving humanity"?
BIG TECH
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Crypto Billionaires Funding Tech Doomsday Narratives in Media
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So mainstream media is giving a platform to people who have crypto billioanire endowed institutes to worry about the "cosmocalypse" "if we don't improve technology"?
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PicPlz Instagram Drama Echoes in Early iPhone App Wars
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If you remember what happened with the PicPlz/Instagram weird drama back in the early days of the iPhone, this one should sound a little familiar. Full story can be found here:
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New AI Wave: Investors Navigate Competition Beyond MLops Stack
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Now that we're entering a NEW AI hype wave, investors are finding themselves with a growing dilemma: avoiding competition with the last one. In the last wave (we'll call it 2019-2022) a whole ecosystem of startups sprouted around picking off individual pieces of the MLops stack.
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Bigtable handles 6 billion requests per second at peak
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Not that many systems handle 6B QPS. "Bigtable has been in continuous production use at Google for more than 15 years now, processing over 6 billion requests per second at peak and with over 10 exabytes of data under management. "
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Elon Musk and Tech Leaders: Consciousness Extension Debate
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Jack did say "Elon is the singular person I trust to extend the light of consciousness" Maybe they can all go to outer space and "extend" away.
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Journalists claiming AI expertise on ChatGPT rebuilding
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Suddenly journalists have become AI experts >> this title:
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Fear to Action: Confronting Big Tech and Environmental Crisis
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Really tired of being scared of big oil. And the data brokers. And the bigots. Trying to shift the fear to a form of “don’t take any shit” kindness. Where the madness stops first where we may have a slim chance of saving the planet.
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AWS customers can now pay for Hugging Face products
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Any AWS customers here? This is quite cool You can now pay for all @huggingface products from your AWS account Blogpost: https://
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NVIDIA Interns Complete Summer Internships in AI Tech
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Our interns around the globe are wrapping up their summer internships, taking on real-world assignments to develop their careers, while having some fun along the way. #NVIDIAlife https://
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