Episode 505: There Could be Extra Innings
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This chapter features entertaining stories about the superiority of Belgian waffles over American ones, along with a discussion on a unique zine about discarded couches in Portland. The speakers also deliver a humorous take on Tesla's stock performance and the peculiar language used by financial analysts.
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This week, we discuss cloud’s never-ending “early innings,” OpenAI Canvas vs. Gemini, and Dell’s RTO reversal. Plus, is there such a thing as too much optimism?
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Runner-up Titles
- Fastball to the head
- Not enough AI eggs
- Toxic Positivity
Rundown
- Cote’s Early Innings Research
- Cloud Revenue
- Microsoft Q2 cloud revenue falls short of expectations, sending the stock lower
- Alphabet shares drop as much as 9% on revenue miss, soaring AI investments
- Google parent Alphabet’s earnings disappoint Wall Street amid stiff AI competition
- DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts
- DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts
- Dell RTO Timeline
- 5 Signs Your Optimism Is Hurting Your Team
Relevant to your Interests
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- Can We Build a Five Gigawatt Data Center?—Asterisk
- Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office
- 'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio
- What Elon Musk should learn from Larry Ellison
- DOGE, Software, and Government
- DOJ sues to block HP Enterprise from buying Juniper Networks
- Mark Zuckerberg to employees in leaked all-hands meeting: ‘buckle up’
- There’s Something Very, Very Wrong With Tech Today.
- Microsoft Enforces Tougher Layoff Rules: No Severance, Immediate Termination
- Apple reportedly gives up on its AR video glasses project
- uBlock Origin is dead for Chrome, but ad blockers live on
- Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries
- Palantir soars 24% to record high as AI powers strong earnings and guidance
- 'Eternal' 5D memory crystal capable of storing 360 TB of data for billions of years now holds a full human genome
- AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications
- OpenAI's nightmare: Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi
- Why Chinese AI has stunned the world
- Why the AI world is suddenly obsessed with a 160-year-old economics paradox
- OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Ue
- Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data
- Gurman: Apple is launching new iCloud service as soon as this week, codenamed "Confetti" - 9to5Mac
Nonsense
- Funny note from JP Morgan Analyst about Tesla
- Waffle House is passing along the sky-high cost of eggs to diners with a 50-cent surcharge
- Optimized Charging
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