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- Google Plans to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic
It used to be that Anthropoic and AWS were BFFs. But now AWS has OpenAI models. And Google is getting cozy with Anthropic. Everyone needs the money, and everyone needs access to…
- Bottled Water Contains Previously Undetected Nanoplastics - Bloomberg
The more we learn about plastic the more problematic it is, and yet we keep putting our food in it. To overcome that challenge, the study’s co-authors invented a new microscopy…
- What’s the Best Use for Crypto? AI Will Figure It Out - Bloomberg
The headline is a bit misleading here, the point is that digital money can be used not just by people, but systems and code as well. Smart Contracts can hold and manage money.…
- Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance | Bloomberg LP
Domain specific Generative Pre-trained Transformers are an obvious next step. This data was augmented with a 345 billion token public dataset to create a large training corpus…
- Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws
- MicroStrategy Boosts Bitcoin-Linked Junk Bond to $500 Million - Bloomberg
They originally were going to raise $400 million, but took $500 million. Even more they "received about $1.6 billion in orders for the offering". There is a strong appetite for…
- JBS Cyber Hack: Meat Supplier Shuts Down Some Slaughterhouses After Attack - Bloomberg
It feels like these kind of attacks are just getting started.
- Beeple NFT Sold to Metapurse Crypto Fund in Christies Digital Art Auction - Bloomberg
This headline grabbing $69.3 million digital artwork sale does look to be more publicity stunt than anything else. Metakovan has a lot of incentive to bring a lot of light to the…
- This Is How Tim Cook Transformed Apple After Steve Jobs - Bloomberg
This is an interesting read about how Tim Cook has evolved Apple, and put his fingerprint on it in so many ways. It also highlights how deft of a negotiator and communicator he…
- Facebook’s Zuckerberg Vows to Review Content Policies - Bloomberg
Nobody should believe any of this. I thought that Zuckerberg had decided to no longer do any "Apology Tours". I suspect this is because of pressure from Facebook employees. But…
- WeWork Founder Adam Neumann Is Still a Billionaire After Bailout - Bloomberg
This would be the definition of a Golden Parachute. SoftBank Group Corp.’s proposed rescue package of WeWork involves Neumann selling about $1 billion of stock and getting a $185…
- Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown - Bloomberg
$4.6 billion writedown. This was always a bad idea. It makes one wonder where does the support for something like this come from?
- Larry Page Is a No-Show With Google Under a Harsh Spotlight - Bloomberg
This seems like an incredibly bad decision on Google's part. When the hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee began on Sept. 5, a black leather chair reserved for him sat…
- Here's How America Uses Its Land
I like the illustrations of land use in the United States. Plus you learn some things about our country. Cows use a lot of our land. 🤔
- America’s Millennials Are Waking Up to a Grim Financial Future - Bloomberg
I wish these graphs looked better.
- The Legend of Nintendo - Bloomberg
An in-depth background on Nintendo. I find Nintendo a very interesting company with such a rich history. I’m happy that the Switch is experiencing strong growth. Nintendo, for me,…
- The David Rubenstein Show: Tim Cook – Bloomberg
The more I hear from Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, the more impressed I am with him.
- Apple Tries to Stop Developers From Sharing Data on Users’ Friends - Bloomberg
I continue to see Apple pushing privacy as a long term strategy. Even if this is hard to enforce, putting it in place sets the guidelines and makes expectations clear.
- The Numbers Behind WeWork’s Growing Empire - Bloomberg
This doesn't read like a healthy company. CEO Adam Neumann has 65% of the voting shares, and in the last two years has paid $9.8 million in leases to properties owned by officers…
- Palantir Knows Everything About You
Interesting article that highlights Palantir, a company that originally started by servicing defense and government functions, and the spying it can enable. This tidbit was…
- Instagram Looks Like Facebook’s Best Hope - Bloomberg
Remember, Instagram == Facebook. Most Instagram users are unaware of all this. The service is widely seen as an escape from Facebook, so Instagram has to tread carefully to…
- Trump’s Campaign Said It Was Better at Facebook. Facebook Agrees - Bloomberg
Wow — 5.9 million different versions of ads? That is incredible. Trump ran 5.9 million different versions of ads during the presidential campaign and rapidly tested them to spread…
- Under Armour Says 150 Million MyFitnessPal Accounts Hacked - Bloomberg
Another massive breach. This should be yet another reminder that adopting strict password hygiene, and never using the same password on multiple sites is critical.
- Amazon Agrees to Buy Smart-Doorbell Startup Ring - Bloomberg
$1 billion dollars? Wow, that makes no sense to me. 💰
- How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software - Bloomberg
Apple realizing that they need to slow down a bit. Articles like this serve as a reminder to me that nobody has this technology thing figured out. The largest sites on the planet…
- Mall game
Fun and insightful way to show the challenges of managing an American Shopping Mall. Learn by playing!
- The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought - Bloomberg
The background leading up to the ouster of the Uber CEO and Founder. What an incredible mess and how self-destructive.
- How Duterte Turned Facebook Into a Weapon—With Help From Facebook - Bloomberg
When I read The Master Switch I was particularly struck by the claim that large monopolies are really helpful for governments to manage and control things. It makes sense, if the…
- Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models Into This Year’s Holiday Parties - Bloomberg
First off, this is a service you can buy? 🤦🏼♂️ Second, we've got a long ways to go in the tech industry.
- Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People - Bloomberg
Wow. This incident doesn't take along to start thinking of words like "criminal intent". Add this to the long stack of reasons why I don't use Uber. Without Bullshit has a good…
- How Many Robots Does It Take to Fill a Grocery Order? - Bloomberg
This is worth looking at just for the video of the robots on an elevated grid or matrix moving around and picking things. I strongly believe we are just seeing the beginning of…
- America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning
Enlightening read on the debt issues that many retailers are facing. Also a great example of telling a story with charts.
- How Apple Plans to Change the Way You Use the Next iPhone - Bloomberg
Interesting suggestions of new gestures for the upcoming iPhone. These are pretty big changes. It will be interesting to see if this pans out.
- Here’s How Unicorns Trick You Into Thinking They’re Real - Bloomberg
News flash -- private valuations aren't very accurate. In other news, the sky is blue. 😲
- Why So Few Women Break Through Tech's Bro Culture - Bloomberg
Some powerful data on the gender imbalance in technology organizations. When you read this keep in mind that there is negative unemployment in technology. We have to make…
- Russian Cyber Hacks on U.S. Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known - Bloomberg
Try to approach this topic outside of the partisan noise going on right now and you may, like me, come to the conclusion that attacks against digital election systems have such an…
- Apple Is Manufacturing a Siri Speaker to Outdo Google and Amazon - Bloomberg
- Serial Killers Should Fear This Algorithm - Bloomberg
Thomas Hargrove is building software to identify trends in unsolved murders using data nobody’s bothered with before.
- Inside the Trump Bunker, With 12 Days to Go - Bloomberg
- Your E-mail Font Is Ruining Your Life - Bloomberg
Working Americans spend almost a third of the workweek checking and reading e-mail. In a 40-hour week, that's over 11 hours a week reading online communications in fonts that…
- Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill With DeepMind-Powered AI - Bloomberg
- Russian Hackers of Dow Jones Said to Have Sought Trading Tips
A group of Russian hackers infiltrated the servers of Dow Jones & Co., owner of the Wall Street Journal and several other news publications, and stole information to trade on…
- Paul Ford: What is Code? | Bloomberg
- Coca-Cola Disconnects Voice Mail at Headquarters - Bloomberg
Office voice mail at the world’s largest soft-drink maker was shut down “to simplify the way we work and increase productivity,” according to an internal memo from Chief…
- How Americans Die
- While You Were Getting Worked Up Over Oil Prices, This Just Happened to Solar - Bloomberg
The reason solar-power generation will increasingly dominate: it’s a technology, not a fuel. As such, efficiency increases and prices fall as time goes on. The price of Earth’s…
- NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years - Bloomberg
- Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales- Bloomberg
- How America Ceded Capitalism’s Bastion to German Boerse
The NYSE’s domination of U.S. stock trading is gone, too. Once it handled 82 percent of the share volume involving companies it listed, with most of those deals done by brokers in…