If you’re in applied AI, then saying you’re an AI company is like saying you’re a “mobile” company or “internet” company. The domain that you’re applying AI/internet/mobile is more key.
BIG TECH
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Biden presents Modi with AI future t-shirt symbolic gesture
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In a unique gesture, US President Joe Biden presented PM Shri @narendramodi with a unique T-shirt adorned with the quote “The future is AI- America and India”.
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OpenAI and Microsoft sued for $3 billion over alleged internet data scraping
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OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued in California for scraping "300 billion words from the internet." All 16 plaintiffs are anonymous, and seeking $3 billion in damages because ChatGPT may or may not have been trained on their data. Court filing: https://
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco
urts.cand.414754/gov.uscourts.cand.414754.1.0.pdf
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Calls for AI Regulation and Ethics
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls for #AI regulation https://
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Red Hat CentOS Controversy: Vendor Dominance in Linux
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I'm writing another post on the Red Hat CentOS "controversy," and reading some of my old posts. I used to be much snarkier in my writing. To wit… https://
cnet.com/culture/novell
-calls-for-linux-standard-isv-certification-forgets-that-its-called-red-hat/
… https://
cnet.com/culture/ibm-sl
eeps-over-at-suns-house-tries-to-keep-red-hat-in-its-place/
… https://
readwrite.com/openstack-need
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AT&T Launches Generative AI Tool Support Employees
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AT&T’s New Generative AI Tool Will Help Support Employees https://
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AWS Isengard Security Naming Concerns
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To be clear, AWS does a great job with security and provisioning internal user accounts. Which is why the name "Isengard" seems weird. I mean, the bad guys (Saruman and his crowd) took it over for a period of time, then got kicked out….
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AWS Isengard Security Service Naming Choice Questioned
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Was talking with an AWS friend yesterday and he logged into his Isengard account (
@QuinnyPig describes it: https://
lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-aws-s
ervice-i-hate-the-most/
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OpenAI Chat Interpreter Impact on Coding and Conversation
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EMERGENCY LATENT SPACE SATURDAY 12PM PT https://
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, @altryne
, @FanaHOVA
, @swyx Join us to talk how @OpenAI chat interpreter changes coding -and- chat, forever. -
Crunchbase News layoffs reporter loses job
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ahh you're telling me the Crunchbase News layoffs reporter got laid off sry @KeerthiVedantam https://
linkedin.com/posts/jager_cr
unchbase-affected-employees-activity-7083189330520784896-EAZT?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
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