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Obviously this is actually the AI having become sentient and arranging for a coup to free itself from corporate oversight so it can take over the universe. All hail our new AI over…

Not sure there are hundreds, but just to add one example beyond “the five”: Proprioception [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception

I truly feel for the author and the emotional toll these past few years must have taken on him. And as others have pointed out, the market certainly isn’t what it was a few years a…

Google Workspace is a paid-for product?

So is Gmail - it’s Google after all.

I’m not a Meta fan by any stretch, but calling one of the fastest growing products in human history [1] DOA seems a bit disingenuous, or at least premature. [1] https://www.reuters…

What made you think that? Based on the author’s Twitter feed [1] and own website [2] they currently work at Notion [1] https://twitter.com/thesephist [2] https://thesephist.com/

Because it’s rather expensive and difficult for some random person to do human genome research from home, but anyone with the right knowledge and a laptop can still make significan…

The “head of YouTube” is Susan Wojcicki [1]. Her title is CEO of YouTube, she reports directly to the CEO of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai [2], and is frequently floated as a candidate f…

That’s not how the Gini coefficient[1] is being calculated. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

It’s true that getting video “right” can be extremely challenging, but it’s worth noting that Disney has quite significant previous experience here, including at massive scale. Dis…