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> And the design should help it stand out from current smart speakers, a category dominated by Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. I'm not sure how good OpenAI's device wil…

Gift article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/what-is-o...

I'm sure Elon Musk has told some underling to make sure that Grok attempts to hack into a few companies so they get the street cred to.

> which must have been something that went viral in the UK Internet circles but not outside (I don't remember it and Y2K Internet was much smaller). From a quick google it seems to…

There's some of that, but a large part of the "Palantir magic" is the on-premises services - integration, customisation, training & support. There's almost 1000 UK employees that g…

It's mentioned in the article: > contracts with customers were signed with Palantir’s US companies, which in turn paid a service fee to local country subsidiaries to deliver the wo…

> Where's IBM when you need them, or Oracle? Just joking. Palantir? (Also just joking)

Gift Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31/waymo-s-l...

Thats for fines - the comment I was replying to was referring to the annual fee not fines: > "must also file transparency reports, detail risk mitigation plans and pay an annual fe…

No it’s based on “net income”: revenue - expenses > But there are a handful of designated platforms that aren’t paying anything in the first round as they reported a loss during th…

It's a maximum of 0.05% of the companies world wide income - scaled by their monthly users in the EU. Strictly speaking OpenAI is a loss making company so wouldn't pay anything (li…

Related: using the excess heat from data centres in district heating: https://northwiseproject.com/nbis-stock-mantsala-data-center...

You can see it on Google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MQjWHbbc5jeUryGU7?g_st=ic

Voice-to-Text and Text-to-Voice models are approaching that size. I wonder how close we are to getting small devices that can chat with us. Imagine a world where your toothbrush co…

Gift article (free to read for a week): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-24/why-debt-...

> And with $160MM in funding at a $1.1B valuation? I don't know about their debt, but to get to LEO in 8 years on that little money is extremely impressive. Interestingly that's $5…