Today is a sad day. I'm hearing of people I really love at AWS that lost their jobs. I hate these things. Of course they'll be fine in the longer term, but short term this stinks.
BIG TECH
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Anthropic Partners with Scale to Expand Claude Availability
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Our CEO Dario Amodei says: “Partnering with Scale allows us to bring our useful model, Claude, to more customers in a thoughtful, scalable way…. I'm excited about this partnership and the work we'll do together to positively shape the future of AI.”
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Cloud War Escalates: Microsoft and Google’s AI Infrastructure Arms Race
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The cloud war is on for Microsoft and Google: A new arms race Willing to spend whatever is required for dominance $GOOGL $MSFT $ANET $NVDA $DLR $EQIX $CSCO $CIEN $JNPR $AMD $INTC https://
thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/the-
cloud-war-is-on-for-microsoft-and-google-a-new-arms-race
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Snapchat ChatGPT Integration: Safety Concerns for Children
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#Snapchat & #ChatGPT – Is It Safe For Kids? This article discusses the potential benefits of early #AI exposure, while highlighting the importance of parental vigilance in mitigating risks associated with misinformation, #privacy, and online interactions https://
forbes.com/sites/bernardm
arr/2023/04/26/snapchat-debuts-chatgpt-powered-snap-ai–but-is-it-safe-for-kids/
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Fintech Trends 2023: Key Developments in Financial Technology
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Here is an article > https://
forbes.com/advisor/in/inv
esting/fintech-trends-2023/
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PwC invests $1 billion in generative AI with Microsoft OpenAI
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@PwC
LLP plans to invest $1 billion in generative #AI in its U.S. operations over the next three years, working with
@Microsoft
and ChatGPT-maker
@OpenAI
to automate tax, audit, consulting #CIO
@angusloten
https://
wsj.com/articles/price
waterhousecoopers-to-pour-1-billion-into-generative-ai-cac2cedd
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AWS Cloud Strategy vs Competitors SaaS Market Positioning
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I agree with that (and have noted it constantly over the years). On the other hand, I guess it *is* fair game to count SaaS as "cloud." Just happens that AWS hasn't been very good at that part while the others have. It's all gamesmanship though.
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Google’s Success: A Positive Perspective on Big Tech
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Zack, it's ok to just be glad that Google is doing well.
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Tech Giants Withdrawal from Europe Economic Impact Analysis
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si ils décidaient de ne plus fournir leurs service en Europe, je pense que ça ferait encore plus mal, pas forcément pour eux.
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DINOv2: Meta’s Self-Supervised Vision Model Breakthrough
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DINOv2 by Meta AI is the first method for training computer vision models that uses self-supervised learning to achieve results matching or exceeding industry standards. More details and a demo