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Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that can replace all software, but so far, most of its users only pick it up every week or two, and far fewer have made it part of their lives. Is that a time problem or a product problem?
Software ate the world. Uber and Airbnb didn’t sell software - they disrupted and redefined markets. But what kind of disruption are we talking about ?
It matters that Apple’s new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn’t realise. Is it more than that?
OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it breaks. But it breaks in really interesting ways.
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EV adoption by major platforms is at low single digits as infrastructure gaps and costs derail climate goals.
An incompetent, selfish, inwardly focused administration is making America less of an obstacle to China's rise.
Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America’s cultural and linguistic nuances.
Checking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back.
Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing nobody at all.
