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The 2020s Mirror 1970s but at Accelerated Speed
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The 2020s are like the 1970s, except everything happens a lot faster. https://t.co/vxmZ2xazRi
— Pedro Domingos (@pmddomingos) 29 avril 2026The 2020s are like the 1970s, except everything happens a lot faster.
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Mistral Medium 3.5 positioning strategy among Asian LLM competitors
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Mistral Medium 3.5 is interesting less for the benchmarks and more for the positioning. Look at who they're comparing against: Kimi, Qwen, GLM, Claude (Sonnet). Not GPT, not Gemini. And i dont mean that in a negative way! With Aleph Alpha being acquired by Cohere last week,
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Stripe Sessions Celebrates Indie Hackers Alongside Big Tech Leaders
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Me and all my friends @marckohlbrugge @jackfriks @yasser_elsaid_ @johnonolan @marclou @phuctm97 @sobedominik @tdinh_me among the biggest tech companies at @patrickc
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AI Content Creator Raises Rates for Tweet Monetization
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$15,000 for a single tweet?! I need to adjust my rates
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AI Sovereignty: Strategic Implications for Countries and Businesses
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The concept of AI sovereignty is gaining traction not just among countries, but also businesses. @StanfordHAI Research Fellow @juannicopava offer some insights on the topic via @ITBrew
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Big Tech Semiconductor Strategy: Google and Amazon Lead the Race
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With a semiconductor renaissance spanning years, winners and losers are in some sense defined by how they apportion their resources for that years-long battle. Google and Amazon have been more astute about that than Meta and Microsoft. So, who’s the belle of the ball and who’s
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Legacy Tech Giants Hide Decline Through Cost-Cutting Strategies
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Lot of truth here. “Meanwhile, these companies aren't actually innovating. They're legacy businesses trying to hide decline through cost-cutting. All the pressure, none of the upside.”
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Humanoid Robots for Package Handling: Genuine Application or Marketing
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Surely this isn't a genuine application for humanoids? Amazon, FedEx, etc already handle a lot of packages like this using much cheaper robot arms and actuators. I'm saying this is AI generated (although it does look like it might be sped up) but I wonder if might be more of a
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Harvard Survey: AI Adoption High but Value Lags Without Workflow Integration
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New Survey from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services Finds AI Adoption Remains High, Yet Value May Lag Without Modernization and Workflow Integration https://
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