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Aaron Holmes

@aaronpholmes.bsky.social

tech reporter at The Information email: aaron@theinformation.com signal: 706 347 1880

512 Followers  |  146 Following  |  19 Posts  |  Joined: 26.04.2023  |  1.7055

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Google CEO Expected to Meet with Trump Thursday Google CEO Sundar Pichai is expected to fly to the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.,Thursday to meet with President-elect Donald Trump, according to a person briefed on the plans. The meeting comes...

Destination: Mar-a-Lago

Google's CEO is set to meet with Donald Trump in Florida after the president-elect selected antitrust officials who have criticized the company.

www.theinformation.com/articles/goo...

From @aaronpholmes.bsky.social and @sylviavo.bsky.social

12.12.2024 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Microsoft’s New Sales Pitch for AI: Spend Less Money on Humans Microsoft has a new pitch to persuade businesses to spend money on artificial intelligence–powered services: If you use them, you won’t need as many employees. The potential of AI to replace human wor...

NEW: It's somewhat taboo for AI sellers to pitch the technology as a way to replace jobs.

But as Microsoft tries to convince more companies to spend on its AI software, the pitch is getting more explicit: spend less money on humans.

www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...

09.12.2024 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Microsoft’s AI Software Sales, OpenAI Deal Targeted by FTC Probe As the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ramps up its sweeping new antitrust investigation into Microsoft, FTC officials have been asking Microsoft's rivals about the impact of its artificial intelligence...

NEW details on the FTC probe into Microsoft: Antitrust regulators have been asking rivals about Microsoft's deal with OpenAI, AI sales, and more (plus, why some believe Trump’s FTC will keep pursuing the probe): www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...

03.12.2024 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Microsoft’s Brad Smith Sees Trump Boost to Data Centers, AI As Republicans sweeping to power in Washington call for bringing the great tech powers to heel, one of those big companies has mostly escaped their wrath: Microsoft. Brad Smith, the company’s presiden...

Exclusive: Microsoft President Brad Smith is optimistic about the Trump administration’s tech policies, seeing a potential boost to data centers and AI.

www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...

From @aaronpholmes.bsky.social

21.11.2024 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Signing back into bluesky after 18 months and this is still relevant

20.11.2024 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reading my notes trying to come up with my next story idea

30.05.2023 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

That’s okay, I’ll still keep eating that garbage.

11.05.2023 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The quality of sweetgreen salads has really fallen off a cliff lately… high interest environment claims another victim I fear

11.05.2023 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Probably with curvy thighs and a really unsettling facial expression

01.05.2023 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can’t log into Twitter on my computer anymore so I’m back over here for today. Hey guys

01.05.2023 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Having 2k followers was a prison actually

28.04.2023 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

While you were busy skeeting and skooting I was studying the blade

28.04.2023 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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It doesn’t feel like a friday..

28.04.2023 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Omg they’re definitely cousins

28.04.2023 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We asked AI to generate what it would look like if SALΓ’: THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM was directed by Wes Anderson - and the results are stunning! 😍

28.04.2023 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

King omg

28.04.2023 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
28.04.2023 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I’m on here reading all your skeets and not saying anything

27.04.2023 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

genuinely, i think mastodon failed because it discouraged shitposting

27.04.2023 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 22

Eating a disgusting salad for lunch ❀️

27.04.2023 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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just setting up my blsky

27.04.2023 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

heyyy

27.04.2023 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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