"The biggest motivation for US adult smartphone owners to upgrade their devices is longer battery life (61%), followed by more storage (46%) and better camera features (38%). Just 18% say their main motivator is AI integrations."
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Big Tech Powers AI with Nuclear Energy Shift
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𝐄𝐭 𝐬𝐢 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐭 à 𝐥𝐚 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡?
Le nucléaire devient trendy ! Est-ce qu’il ne serait pas temps de passer à la Quiet Tech ?
#Google commande 7 petits réacteurs nucléaires
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Bosses Push Five-Day Office Return Within Three Years
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'A recent global survey by KPMG, another professional-services firm, found that four-fifths of bosses expect a return to the office five days a week within three years.' https://
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10/23/are-bosses-right-to-insist-that-workers-return-to-the-office
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The Coming AI Startup Bust and Bubble Economy
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The Coming AI Startup Bust “I think we are in an AI startup bubble and that is okay…” @asianometry YouTube: https://
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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies Evaluation Considerations
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key passage: 'Past evaluations have included Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies among the options considered'
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OpenAI’s Tax Avoidance and Nonprofit Status Questioned
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How much $$$ in taxes did OpenAI not pay California while performing their humanity saving endeavors as a nonprofit? Will the AGI tell us the amount that could have been used to, I don't know, "benefit humanity" once they develop it?
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Microsoft CEO Nadella Receives 63% Pay Increase Despite Cyberattacks
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Microsoft is giving CEO Satya Nadella much more stock for the 2024 fiscal year. but for one portion of his compensation, the cash incentive, he asked for a reduction given the cyberattacks the company dealt with. even with that reduction, his pay is up 63%
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Economic Perception Gap: Personal vs National Economy
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Because a lot of people are being lied to about the national economy. They think it's bad even if they see that their own personal situation is not bad. (Of course, not everyone)
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AI Cost Decline Speed Acceleration Intelligence Processing
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Not only the cost of intelligence will go down, but also the speed will go up.
— Marek Rosa | European🇪🇺 | South African🇿🇦 (@marek_rosa) 24 octobre 2024
What took you to think through days will soon take seconds. https://t.co/MSLrX3xFMkNot only the cost of intelligence will go down, but also the speed will go up. What took you to think through days will soon take seconds.
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Google’s First 10 Employees: From Garage to Millions
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Google's early employees began their work in a garage & made millions by the time they left. A thread on the company's first 10 non-founding hires & where they are now