Gerrit De Vynck

AI adoption is accelerating in 2025 Comments and perspective from the front line of enterprise adoption

this is where the numbers come from originally
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like, the period in which they were becoming Big Tech

The AI spending boom could have real consequences for the U.S. economy As revisions to U.S. jobs numbers call into question economic growth, Big Tech is becoming an even more important part of American prosperity.

Lots of ways to show how huge Big Tech's AI spending spree is but my fav is probably that it's bigger than all the money they spent from 2010-2022
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Wapo is not dead
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we need a feature length movie about these two paleontologists feuding over half a femur for 30 years

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.

One of the hard lines on facial recognition technology in the U.S. has been using it to do live searches on real-time cameras. The Washington Post reports that's been happening in New Orleans, however, by a police-adjacent nonprofit called PROJECT NOLA. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Chatbots All The Way Down You’re going to use A.I., like it or not.

You get a chatbot! And you get a chatbot! And you get a chatbot! With @gerritd.bsky.social slate.com/podcasts/wha...

sam altman went to congress and did the meme

new pope followed every millennial parent and chose Leo as the name

still thinking about all the people who took time to tell us their stories even as they began to piece their lives back together

very excited and honoured to have had the chance to spend time in Western North Carolina and contribute to this work

our reporting literally explains the situation Tom www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

the washington post story does mention it
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The Washington Post wins two Pulitzer Prizes. The honors are for breaking news reporting and illustrated reporting and commentary.

The Washington Post wins two Pulitzer Prizes in breaking news reporting and illustrated reporting and commentary.

Post reporters were also finalists in three categories, including national and international reporting as well as commentary. wapo.st/4mkkGkT

Google Can Train Search AI With Web Content Even After Opt-Out Google can train its search-specific AI products, like AI Overviews, on content across the web even when the publishers have chosen to opt out of training Google’s AI products, a vice-president of pro...

During its antitrust trial Google confirmed that websites opting out of AI crawling only affects Gemini. Google search still uses your content to power AI overviews.

The only way to opt out of your content showing up in AI overviews in search is to opt out of being shown in Google search results.

someone check in on Dan Ives

Exclusive | Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Failed Negotiations to End Antitrust Case The FTC wanted $30 billion to drop its case. Zuckerberg offered much less and hoped Trump would back him up.

Lina Khan: "Mark bought his way out of competing, so I’m not surprised that he thinks he can buy his way out of law enforcement, too. His proposed remedy, like his market strategy, is: ‘let my illegal monopoly keep monopolizing'" www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

It’s Legal to Pay US Workers With Disabilities as Little as 25¢ an Hour Whether it stays that way is up to Trump.

In America, it's completely legal to pay people with disabilities as little as 25 cents an hour. Josh Eidelson spent months working on this story. It's really worth reading. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

celebrating the end of the Google antitrust investigation/trial I started covering when I was 27

A Mexican cop captured U.S. fugitives in Mexico. It cost her life. Abigail Esparza Reyes, a member of an elite police unit known as “Gringo Hunters,” chased U.S. fugitives in Mexico. She was fatally shot this week.

Baja California Police Cmdr. Abigail Esparza Reyes devoted her career to capturing fugitives from U.S. justice. She’s the Abigail in Kevin Sieff's 2022 Post report on the Gringo Hunters.

She saw her job as protecting Mexico from American criminals.

She was shot to death Wednesday.

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Trump team cites wolf ‘de-extinction’ as reason to cut endangered species list The interior secretary hailed a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf, while the administration and GOP push to roll back species protections.

Don't miss this story from my colleague Dino Grandoni, looking at how a company's claims of dire wolf "de-extinction" (which scientists question) are being interpreted as a reason to scale back legal protections for endangered species: wapo.st/3R88Yvc

what MJ Lenderman would sound like if he had good posture

YouTube video by Ford Australia Introducing Ranger Super Duty

another perfect truck they won't let us have here www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt-F...

Apple built iPhones on globalization. Trump’s tariffs threaten that. Consumers are rushing to buy iPhones before the tariffs hit the company, which makes its products in China, Vietnam and India.

"The iPhone is in many ways the ultimate symbol of the age of globalized supply chains ... Trump has declared an 'economic revolution' that seeks to wipe away that system."

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Trump Threatens Huge Tariffs on China in Response to Its Retaliation The president said he would counter Beijing’s tariffs — which came in response to Mr. Trump’s own levies — with even more tariffs on Chinese imports.

NEW: It's another wild day as the world scrambles in reaction to President Trump's tariffs.

The latest:

--Trump threatens massive new tariffs on China if it proceeds with retaliation
--Markets remain in flux, esp after an erroneous report about a tariff pause

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President Lai delivers remarks on US tariff policy response-News releases-News & activities｜Office of the President Republic of China(Taiwan) Office of the President Republic of China(Taiwan)

Taiwan response to tariffs - no reciprocal tariffs, will work to take down "non-trade barriers," essentially telling Trump what he wants to hear. But they will also push to diversify their exports to other countries more. english.president.gov.tw/NEWS/6935

Big Tech bet on Trump. It’s still waiting for the payoff. Sweeping tariffs are hitting tech giants hard, shaking the industry’s confidence in a president they hoped would boost their fortunes.

The tech titans who lined up to kiss Trump’s ring are among the biggest losers from his tariffs. They’re still holding out hope he’ll deliver for them.

Gift link to our story today: wapo.st/4ckrKsM

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares National Emergency to Increase our Competitive Edge, Protect our Sovereignty, and Strengthen our National and Economic Security PURSUING RECIPROCITY TO REBUILD THE ECONOMY AND RESTORE NATIONAL AND ECONOMIC SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that foreign trade and

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Semiconductors are actually exempt, per White House fact sheet released after the speech. Most US tech companies import finished tech products assembled in other countries, so looks like those will still be hit www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...