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Amazon
A collection of 19 issues
Presenting a Tapas Menu of Recent Tech News
Each week, we’re swamped by events and information. It’s hard to keep up. We do our best to remain apprised of what matters to us, but relevant developments can evade the notice of even the most diligent observer.
What follows are news items that caught my attention but
Treading Carefully on Oracle's AI-Inspired Growth Narrative
Are Troubled Restaurants Canaries in the Consumer-Economy Coal Mine?
Market Frenzy Pressures AI Engineers to Burnout and Despair
You may have heard that we’re in the midst of an AI market frenzy. You might choose to call it an AI gold rush, or, if you’re less favorably disposed, an AI mania. Whatever you choose to call what’s happening today, I think we can all agree
AI’s Runaway Capex Raises Questions, Signifies Big Changes Ahead
Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, and Meta were among the companies posting quarterly financial results this week. (Amazon will report next week.) The market responded enthusiastically to results from Google and Microsoft, but Meta’s results aroused ambivalence followed by deep concern.
Beyond the respective revenues and earnings of the technology behemoths
The Datacenter Energy Crunch: More Opportunity Than Threat
Lately, I’ve spent some of my now-copious free time pondering the future of datacenters, suddenly pressured by AI to quicken their evolutionary pace. As you may have heard, AI is notorious for its voracious appetite for energy and its unquenchable thirst for water.
Today’s post is relatively brief,
Big Tech Sheds Office Space, Intensifying a Trend with Other Tech Consequences
When reading articles and doing research, the goal is obviously to clearly understand the information you receive. If you’re serious about learning and gaining knowledge, however, you also consider what the information implies but not does state expressly. You take in the information in front of you, of course,