Here's my Friday story about the @AmazonAds updates, which come as advertisers put more pressure on adtech vendors to provide more URL-level reporting. The updates follow the recent @AdalyticsHQ report and letters from @MarshaBlackburn & @SenBlumenthal
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Amazon Ads Updates Address URL-Level Reporting Pressure
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Rare Earths Strategic Role in Ukraine Conflict Resolution
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La question des terres rares s’invite dans le débat sur la guerre en Ukraine et pourrait être une clé de résolution du conflit. Et cela n’est pas un hasard :
— Rafik Smati (@RafikSmati) 25 février 2025
En effet, ces ressources minérales sont essentielles à notre civilisation technologique (énergie, IA, etc.). Or la Chine… pic.twitter.com/h51r4ZvwrTLa question des terres rares s’invite dans le débat sur la guerre en Ukraine et pourrait être une clé de résolution du conflit. Et cela n’est pas un hasard : En effet, ces ressources minérales sont essentielles à notre civilisation technologique (énergie, IA, etc.). Or la Chine
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AI Transforming Finance: Predictions, Trading, and Risk Management
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AI is transforming finance! Stock Market Predictions Smart Sales Forecasting AI-Driven Trading Personalized Banking Automated Workflows Fraud Detection & Risk Management Credit & Loan Decisions AI = Smarter, Faster, Safer Finance! Are you
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The Search Bar Wars: Google Faces Multiple AI Competitors
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The war for the Internet was really the war for the search bar. There hasn’t been a real contender to Google in decades and now there are multiple at once. https://t.co/b6btcAiBAM
— Aaron Ng (@localghost) 25 février 2025The war for the Internet was really the war for the search bar. There hasn’t been a real contender to Google in decades and now there are multiple at once.
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AI Energy Boom: Tech Giants Fund Nuclear and Alternative Power
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AI is a power hungry beast. Hydrogen, fusion, fission, geothermal, SMRs…they're seeing hundreds of millions from OpenAI's Sam Altman, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. @jordannovet and I talk to six energy start-up CEOs about the spending spree. piped.video/JIjJtyRjiOI?si=pJzT…
→ View original post on X — @jordannovet, 2025-02-24 19:23 UTC
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Wealthy Americans Drive Nearly 50% of U.S. Consumer Spending
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Households making $250,000+ now account for 49.7% of all U.S. spending. "Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%. All this means that economic growth is unusually reliant on rich Americans continuing to shell out." This chart that accompanies @WSJ
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Apple’s $500B US AI Infrastructure Investment Strategy Unveiled
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Apple’s $500 billion investment in the U.S. over the next four years is the biggest story in AI and geopolitics right now. This is deliberate, massive push by @apple to build and own their entire AI infrastructure from the ground up: custom-designed chips, a new Houston
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Sonnet Model Pricing Remains Unchanged at $3/$15 per Million Tokens
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Pricing is the same as previous Sonnet models as well. $3 per million input tokens/$15 per million output tokens
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How to Find Work You Love with Bob Moesta
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Listen now 👇
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 24 février 2025
– Spotify: https://t.co/jH9SOBGE1I
– Apple: https://t.co/riH0wLyD2L
– YouTube: https://t.co/9hhJrotkZ1 pic.twitter.com/Rqvt4qlVwlListen now – Spotify: https://
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Apple invests $500bn in US AI infrastructure, creates 20,000 jobs
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Amidst uncertain global outlook, Apple understands it needs to bring its AI infrastructure home. $500bn (huge) investment to build AI infra on US soil, and 20,000 new jobs.