Tag: microsoft
-
How to raise money without profit, and then profit
Winning in the court of opinion, and all that: Musk, to be clear, has already succeeded. Regardless of what actually happened and what’s decided from here, he’s inflicted real pain. The trial has been an opportunity to make Altman and OpenAI’s founders look like greedy, sociopathic liars, which is a narrative that much of the…
-
Two theories of the AI investor spook-out
First, there is the fear that AI generated apps will replace existing software companies. This from Benji Edwards at Ars: These releases occurred during a week of exceptional volatility for software stocks. On January 30, Anthropic released 11 open source plugins for Cowork, its agentic productivity tool that launched on January 12. Cowork itself is…
-
Be well known around the company, do some personal marketing, “have an impact” on other teams and make sure people know about it. // When there’s blood on the boardroom floor, there is no “I” in team. 🔗 Microsofts Ex-VP of HR Shares How to Avoid the ‘Underperformer’ Label
-
Debating AI dicks is pointless
He’s never been a fan of AI: I’ve stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs…this is still a crowd that is explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical.” Going all “but it works great for me” even as the industry burns around you and the “it” is a right-wing political project…
-
Facebook shutting down metaverse. It’s fine to use your mountains of spare cash (and voting control) to try out new things. We’re all about innovation and expect it; you have to embrace lots of failure, giant failure. The actual problem is then discarding all the people you hired to help you. It shucks the “with…
-
“What do you think about Windows 8, Mary? Have you thought about it much?” 2012.
-
Tech DEI programs on decline
Major employers including Meta and Google suspended minority hiring targets and dropped some references to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from their websites and regulatory filings around the time of Trump’s order. Meta and Google also significantly reduced funding for DEI initiatives, such as events, training, and recruiting drives aimed at improving representation of minority groups,…
-
“we now have more than 7 million total ChatGPT for Work seats (up 40% in just 2 months).”
A big deal: more than 800 million weekly users already familiar with ChatGPT, adoption and ROI within businesses is realized more rapidly–pilots are shorter and rollouts face less friction. We’re seeing this with the growth of ChatGPT for Work–we now have more than 7 million total ChatGPT for Work seats (up 40% in just 2…
-
AI is not for experts
Emma Thompson does not need Clippy Jr.: “When I’ve written something and put it into a Word document, it’s constantly saying, ‘Would you like me to rewrite that for you?’” Thompson said. The UK national treasure added: “I don’t need you to [expletive deleted] rewrite what I’ve just written. Will you [expletive deleted] off. Just…
-
Hockey stick on wheels
Great, if cynical phrase: hockey stick on wheels: “Consider a team which presents their forecasts in the form of a hockey stick graph,” said Chen on Tuesday. “They come back the next year with their revised forecasts, and they are the same as last year’s forecast, just delayed one year. If you overlay this revised…
-
‘the code’s use of a “taste-driven development (TDD) paradigm.”‘
‘the code’s use of a “taste-driven development (TDD) paradigm.”’ Microsoft touts ‘Vibe Working’ in Office apps
-
Enterprise AI not legible. If you can’t measure it, you can’t ROI it
Enterprise AI not legible. If you can’t measure it, you can’t ROI it: “It’s easy for an employee to say, ‘Yes, this will help me,’ but hard to quantify how. And if they can’t quantify how it’ll help them … it’s not going to be a long discussion” over whether the software is worth paying…
-
Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty – Great picture too.
-
The Satya of Satya’s Layoff Memo – Reading between the lines/translating corporate-speak.
-
Microsoft is pushing Copilot, but everyone just wants ChatGPT – The ChatGPT brand is strong: “OpenAI has said it has 3 million paying enterprise customers, and that number is growing fast. Microsoft told employees that “multiple dozens” of customers have over 100,000 paying users, which would work out to a floor of 2.4 million paying…
-
‘We’re done with Teams’: German state hits uninstall on Microsoft –
-
Starbucks to roll out Microsoft Azure OpenAI assistant for baristas – ”Instead of flipping through manuals or accessing Starbucks’ intranet, baristas will be able to use a tablet behind the counter equipped with Green Dot Assist to get answers to a range of questions, from how to make an iced shaken espresso to troubleshooting equipment…
-
A behind the scenes glimpse of the launch of GPT-4 – Fun anecdotes about OpenAI figuring out that ChatGPT was a big deal, and then marketing around it. // “Another little detail about the launch video is that we didn’t use titles for any of the OpenAI employees. Even to this day OpenAI is an…
-
Trying Times for Tech – “Microsoft is trying to socialise the costs of its AI investments because people largely don’t care about AI and don’t want to pay for it. Microsoft really doesn’t want The Line to notice how little demand there is for AI and would prefer to force customers to pay back the…
-
Cloud market share shows vendors eyeing a $1T opportunity – “the revenue shares for our eight cloud companies in the combined IaaS/PaaS cloud market at nearly $300 billion projected for 2024. AWS has 36% of this combined market, Microsoft 23% and Google 7%. Alibaba, Oracle Tencent Huawei and IBM combine for around 14% of the…
You must be logged in to post a comment.