🖥️ AI Boosts Tech Giants; Porsche Embraces Google; Startup Insight
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Tech Titans Rebound From Tough Times as AI Fuels Optimism. The tech giants are shaking off the postpandemic blues. Microsoft, Amazon.com, Meta Platforms and Google parent Alphabet last week delivered quarterly reports showing strong growth and improving margins in areas from digital advertising toto e-commerce to cloud computing. By Preetika Rana via Wall Street Journal
𝕏: AI fuels strong earnings for Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta, and with them, optimism for growth. Income and profit margins for each, released last week, were at the highest they have been in at least 21 months. - Kevin O'Keefe 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@kevinokeefe)
Porsche is adding Google to its cars as VW's software problems worsen. Porsche said today that future models would include native versions of popular Google apps, like Maps and Assistant. The German automaker is the latest to support Google built-in, enabling native Android apps with over-the-air (OTA) software updates. By Andrew J. Hawkins via The Verge
𝕏: Porsche is adding Google to its cars as VW’s software problems worsen - Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt)
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Understanding operations intelligence can transform a startup. Driving becomes second nature quickly: You insert the key, grip the wheel, press the gas pedal, and off you go. Just like that, we navigate complex machines through muscle memory and experience. Going to work feels the same — we assume everything runs smoothly in our complex environments. By Amitai Gilad via TechCrunch
𝕏: Understanding operations intelligence can transform a startup - TechCrunch (@TechCrunch)
RedPajama-Data-v2: an Open Dataset with 30 Trillion Tokens for Training Large Language Models A new version of the RedPajama dataset, with 30 trillion filtered and deduplicated tokens (100+ trillions raw) from 84 CommonCrawl dumps covering 5 languages, along with 40+ pre-computed data quality annotations that can be used for further filtering and weighting. Together AI
𝕏: Biggest pretraining dataset Ive ever seen lol. This is >2x what GPT-4 is said to have been trained on - Teknium (e/λ) (@Teknium1)
TikTok Is Inane. China's Imperial Ambition Is Not. It’s hard to get past the initial sheer inanity of TikTok.
I spent half an hour trying to make sense of the endless feed of video snippets of ordinary people doing daft things with their dogs or in their kitchens or in the gym. By Niall Ferguson via Bloomberg
𝕏: As I told you in 2020 - Niall Ferguson (@nfergus)
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