Mike Nizza

Love to do weird stuff like take history lessons from ChatGPT while running, but this 90-second quiz showed me how I feel about the future of AI writ large.

Take it! www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Musk’s Empire Tells Its Own DOGE Story Investors in his companies believe he stands to gain financially from his proximity to Trump, raising questions about inherent conflicts of interest.

Investors in Musk’s business empire believe he stands to gain financially from his proximity to Trump, raising questions about inherent conflicts of interest.

Here’s what our columnists found:

What are the odds that all of the drones over New Jersey — flying close to Trump properties — involve Homeland Security and the Secret Service mapping security perimeters for the future president’s visits?

Congratulations to @parmy.bsky.social, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology, for winning the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award.

“Supremacy" is about the AI visionaries who helped consolidate power among corporate giants

Jim Bankoff dishes on Vox Media's digital strategy and reveals 2024's toughest challenge and most pleasant surprise The Vox Media boss spoke to Status about the tough reality digital publishers are facing, with "compounding changes in technology, platforms, consumer behaviors, societal shifts and audience tastes."

VOX CEO: “.. The dramatic growth of Bluesky and Threads is really interesting and shows that audiences are hungry for competition ..”

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Google DeepMind hits new milestone in AI weather forecasting GenCast tool outperforms traditional methods on predictions up to 15 days

NEW:

Google DeepMind hits new milestone in AI weather forecasting

GenCast tool outperforms traditional methods on predictions up to 15 days

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Things: Getting weird

Awesome, wow!

But it could also allow other rivals to build better alternatives: search engines less cluttered with advertising; less likely to serve AI slop, less dominated by unscrupulous search engine optimizers. It could allow rivals to build search engines that celebrate the concept of a free and open internet, and don’t see what remains of the web as merely a substrate to build the AI you eventually hope to replace it with. These search engines are bound to be smaller and less profitable than Google. But I can also imagine some people preferring them. And I think they could serve as a necessary counterweight to Google’s push into AI by creating real economic incentives for people to keep making websites — incentives that I once took for granted, and no longer do.

The DOJ's plan to force Google to share search queries and results with rivals might be one of the best things that could happen to the web. Suddenly, we might have viable search engines that are more interested in preserving the web than replacing it: www.platformer.news/google-antit...

Target Trims Profit Outlook on Inventory Buildup, Higher Costs Target Corp. shares plunged in early trading Wednesday after the retailer trimmed its full-year earnings outlook, warning that a flat sales quarter and a buildup in inventory hurt profitability.

Wow, down 20%! 😱

My biggest takeaway from Target is we’re in a sell first / questions later market. Zero tolerance for negative surprises.

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sickos

Phone charger companies: Do you think we care about your absurdly specific needs for “lightning” cables or whatever?

Just buy this box of random stuff and figure it out yourself

We aren’t talking enough about turkey wing inflation

The Most Popular Box on the Bangor Daily News is amazing: