AI spending was responsible for a third of America’s growth in Q2 2025.
BUSINESS
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Engineer’s Arrogance: The ‘I Could Do That’ Mentality Explained
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Engineer’s view of every other profession: I could do that if I wanted to. I just don’t want to.
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Shift from Hype to Practical Productivity in AI Tools
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2025 marks a shift in AI: from hype-driven growth to tools that drive real productivity habits. Baidu Wenku’s success isn’t a marketing headline it’s millions of users voting with loyalty. The platform has proven that AI productivity tools win long-term when they truly solve
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Autonomous trucks now operating highways between Dallas Houston
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Autonomous trucks are now driving highways at night, hauling food and dairy between Dallas and Houston #RiseoftheRobots https://
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CEOs and Technical Debt: Understanding Future Payment Obligations
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CEOs take on technical debt all the time, that's why it's a useful metaphor: you can chose to take on technical debt, but you have to acknowledge that payments will come due
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OpenAI Doubles Revenue to $12 Billion, Reaches 700M Users
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OpenAI is still on a huge growth trend: -OpenAI has doubled its revenue to $12 billion annualized – that's currently around $1 billion in revenue per month, up from $500 million in early 2025. -User numbers are growing rapidly: 700 million weekly active users, up from 500
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Mistral, French talent to support despite its limitations
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My title starts with 'Mistral, the talent…' because yes, it's our French and even European champion. We must support them, particularly by stopping putting obstacles in their way with absurd regulations. But let's be clear-eyed: Mistral still lags behind
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Stargate Norway to Deliver 100k NVIDIA GPUs by 2026
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100k NVIDIA GPUs for Europe Stargate Norway is planned to deliver 230MW of capacity, with ambitions to expand by an additional 290MW. The facility will target to deliver 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by the end of 2026, with the intention to expand significantly in the years ahead.
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AI Job Displacement Predictions Validated by Microsoft Study
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Interestingly, an economics paper that came out in 2023 predicting which jobs would overlap most with AI turned out to be right. A new Microsoft study of actual AI use by workers (more on that in another post) found a 90% correlation between real world overlap & the predictions.
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AI Powers Business Applications: Manuals, Retail Analytics, Risk Detection
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It can power impactful business applications such as interpreting product manuals, retail analytics, or analyzing real-world industrial scenes for risk detection.