Straightforward discussions on why often we disagree with the current hype, without filters or buzzwords.
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Alphabet Inc.'s avant-garde technology lab/innovation center X is trimming its team/ Most importantly, Alphabet is seeking to externalize risk, pivoting towards a structure that allows its moonshot projects to emerge as independent startups, with financial backing from both Alphabet and external partners. Alphabet’s Moonshot X Lab
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It hit me yesterday. We're used to seeing Apple launching a V1 product, not completely knowing what will be the killer app and fishing for the market's return. The iPad is a relative failure from this point of view (after years of trying to use it
Apple is going forward with launching their mixed reality headset in February. Still no clear use case, still no precise demographics. That tech enthusiasts will buy it makes no doubt, but they are called innovators and early adopters for a reason: they're not the core market. And Apple
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The New York Times has launched legal actions against OpenAI and Microsoft to claim copyright rights on how ChatGPT was trained. This is not the first trial in that regard, but it promises to be momentous as it will mostly establish jurisprudence in the U.S. for what can be
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While we were enjoying Christmas and the end of the year, Richard Branson decided to put Hyperloop out of its misery and declare it officially dead. Despite buying through $450 million in venture capital since 2014 and volumes of hype (remember going from LA to San Francisco in less than
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While the U.S. Congress is doing whatever, the European Union has reached a comprehensive deal on AI regulation for generative AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard. The first key point imposed on the tech sector is about safeguards and exemptions on faces live
Sorry for all the acronyms. The question concerns two highly hyped technologies of these last five years: augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). These technologies have been slowly falling out of the hype train as they still fail to deliver any opposable value to any market (if you disregard
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Withings is a French consumer electronics company that was among the first to explore health and fitness-connected devices in a different way. Beyond creating the first WiFi scale in 2009 and later an FDA-cleared blood pressure monitor, for me, their most remarkable device is their watch. Withings Unveils a Slick
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An interesting link from the venerable Daring Fireball about the perception from within Google of how the company is going, quoting an engineer who worked there for 18 years: Much of these problems with Google today stem from a lack of visionary leadership from Sundar Pichai, and his clear lack
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While everyone is discussing the minute-by-minute live-action, let's step back and see the big picture for every business starting to invest (and depend) on AI in 10 bullet points. 1. OpenAI structure was a clown car (imagine if Mozilla was running Google) and still is. This is terrible
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I'm shamelessly stealing the title of a Vox Media podcast about the project of a few Silicon Valley billionaires planning to build a whole new utopian city in California. California Forever was created to bring back the California Dream. We want to do that by building a new
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Let me sell you something. It's a small smartphone with no screen that can talk back to you, record sound, and clip to your lap. Also, it costs $699 with a monthly $24 subscription. Are you excited yet? No? Still hesitant? In that case, let me convince you