The AI code wars are heating up
…SaaSpocalypse, and predicting a fundamental rethinking of the way we value software. Others think we’re due for a new generation of successful startups, which offer AI-native ways to do everything…
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A first look at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface Dev Box
…Instead, it’s focusing on the creators and developers that would buy a laptop like this, especially for local AI compute where you won’t have to pay an AI cloud provider…
AI won’t save advertising, says Digitas’ Amy Lanzi
…If you follow Shelly Palmer, he published something recently about AI being electricity and how electricity is really what fundamentally changed the industrial revolution. The companies that were fast — and he…
Why your Whoop might tell you to up your testosterone
…To make sense of this massive amount of data, inject AI into the process. To justify adding AI, hop on wellness trends and frame this as a more personalized way to take…
What’s the role of a simple fitness band in the AI health era?
…fundamental problem in the health tech space. I can’t argue with Google’s health game plan on paper. The thing I want to gently challenge, however, is the concept of AI…
Electric Cars
…The reasoning is that EV owners need to help pay for road and infrastructure improvements, since they don’t pay the gas tax that funds the Highway Trust Fund. But EV advocates…
The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes
…Reality Defender is effectively training AI to combat AI. The company uses an “inference-based model” to detect deepfakes, CTO Alex Lisle told me. “Our foundational model uses something called a student…
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
…They were AI product reviews, making sure we are intentional about how we apply this technology, where we apply it, and to review everything firsthand, that anything to do with AI, which…
How Iran out-shitposted the White House
In the early days of the war on Iran, while the White House was busy posting Call of Duty memes and AI slop of dancing bowling pins, the Iranian regime’s state…
Data centers are coming for rural America
…Rural towns are often “outgunned” when trying to negotiate deals with large data center builders, said Anthony Elmo, public education funding defender at Good Jobs First, a nonprofit research center focused on…