The Hunt for Human Exhaust
From bankrupt airlines to secondhand books, AI’s search for human data is getting weird
The Change Constant
In tech and business, as in life, the only constant is change. Weekly teardown of the biggest news in tech and finance, with some wisdom along the way.
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Watermark My Words
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Revenge of the Wrappers
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Open models, personal superintelligence, and Meta’s bid to become the people’s AI company.
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Agents escape containment, Microsoft controls the stack, Amazon roars back
Prime Time for AWS
Amazon’s AI flywheel shifts from capex promise to revenue proof