Keynotes (Product Announcements)
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Made by Google 2025, AI Trade-offs, Google and the Long-Term
Google’s latest Pixel event re-imagined launch events; it was appropriate given that Google is truly re-imagining the smartphone.
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Apple Retreats
Apple’s WWDC was a retreat from not just last year’s WWDC, but potentially a broader reset for the company. That’s why it was a great presentation.
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Google I/O, The Search Funnel, Product Possibilities
Google I/O was impressive and overwhelming, but the only product that impressed was Search.
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An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About Chip Controls, AI Factories, and Enterprise Pragmatism
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about new problems, including chip controls and China, and new opportunities, including AI Factories and enterprise pragmatism.
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Airbnb’s New App, Experiences and Services, Chesky’s Founder Mode
Airbnb has a new app with new offerings for experience and services; I’m not sure the economics make sense for either.
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An Interview with Google Cloud Platform CEO Thomas Kurian About Building an Enterprise Culture
An interview with Google Cloud Platform CEO Thomas Kurian about Google’s infrastructure advantage and building and enterprise service culture.
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Nvidia GTC and ASICs, The Power Constraint, The Pareto Frontier
Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote was a compelling argument in favor of Nvidia’s position relative to ASICs when it comes to inference.
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Alexa+, A Brief History of Alexa, Amazon — and Apple’s — Mistake
Alexa+ looks amazing, and that’s exactly my problem with it: Amazon is trying to do too much, must like Apple did with new Siri
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Nvidia at CES, Cosmos and Omniverse, Digits
Nvidia’s keynote at CES demonstrated how it is becoming the transformer company.
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ChatGPT Pro, o1 Pro, Sora
OpenAI is now offering ChatGPT Pro for $200/month, along with the full release of its o1 model. It also released Sora, its video generation model. The usefulness will depend on the individual.