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carnage4life

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Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.

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The real problem OpenAI has created for Google is that it has damaged the virtuous cycle of websites making free content for Google to index so Google sends them traffic in return.

Now Google’s AI results will provide answers instead of sending sites traffic and the web withers

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When negotiating with others, there are two broad buckets they fall into. Those who see negotiation as one party trying to take advantage of the other and those who see it as trying to create a win-win situation for those involved.

It’s more pleasant to be & work with the latter

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When I worked on the Metaverse, I talked with developers about whether generative AI would make creating games cheaper and they disagreed.

They also quoted the example of CGI in Hollywood movies. It simply raised the bar on expectations versus enabling cheaper special effects.

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Two things are true.

  1. Skill based immigration is great for a country’s economy.
  2. People have the right to decide racial/ethnic hegemony is more important than having a better economy.

This is the choice the UK made with brexit and the US is making now with skilled immigrants

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It must be really awkward hosting Q&A’s with the staff celebrating record profits to the tune of billions of dollars only for employees to ask why you’re doing layoffs every quarter then?

This is why CEOs can’t wait to replace their pesky employees with AI.

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In honor of Hideo Kojima talking about seeing Mad Max: Fury Road over a dozen times. What’s your list of movies you’ve seen 2+ times in theaters? Mine

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• All the John Wick movies
• All the Spider-Verse movies
• All the Avengers movies even Age of Ultron

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Trump coming out for crypto while Biden's SEC tries to regulate it out of existence will be the tipping point in Silicon Valley VCs shedding the pretense of being liberal and going all in on MAGA.

A bunch of them have taken baby steps but now it's on.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/10/trump-crypto-biden-00157051

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Tesla shareholders should rejoice. The Biden administration is planning on increasing tariffs on Chinese EVs from 25% to 100% which is as good as banning them.

Similar tariff hikes are planned for solar panels.

Geopolitics >>> The Environment

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

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Fining AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile less than $4M each on average for falsely advertising their data plans as unlimited seems like a slap on the wrist.

I’m confident they made way more than that from the consumers they tricked into purchasing those plans.

Maybe they’d have been fined more than that if it was a lawsuit about misleading shareholders instead. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Scammers tried to trick execs at WPP to send them money by pretending to be the CEO on a Microsoft Teams call using voice cloning and deepfakes from public YouTube videos.

We now have to ask coworkers to show us their hands on video calls to prove they aren’t AI. 😫

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Apple execs tried ChatGPT last year and came to the conclusion Siri is antiquated.

A functional digital assistant that can actually understand conversations and complete tasks would be a good reason for users to buy Android devices instead of iPhones. So they’ve panicked.

They also plan to tout on-device AI as more private than cloud-based AI. The question is if it will be as useful? 🤔

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/business/apple-siri-ai-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q00.IV5N.67nNsQJiprKV&smid=url-share

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I continue to be fascinated by the fact that when Jack Dorsey looks back at his time at Twitter, his only regret is that it was technically possible for him to ban the Nazis so people nagged him to do so.

So now his ideal social network is one where the moderators can’t ban Nazis.

https://www.engadget.com/jack-dorsey-claims-bluesky-is-repeating-all-the-mistakes-he-made-at-twitter-234326121.html

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Every earnings call, WB’s CEO confirms that the things we thought were bad ideas were actually bad ideas.

A game where the Suicide Squad kill Superman, Batman and the rest of the Justice League is such a terrible. Who wants to play Captain Boomerang killing Batman? Who? 🤷🏾‍♂️

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This is like reading a news headline about responsibly generating forest fires.

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The gaming industry slowdown continues. Roblox stock is down -30% in pre-market trading after missing Q1 expectations ($801M in revenue vs $918M expected) and cutting revenue estimates for the year from $4.28B to $4.1B.

The gaming industry is suffering from a post-COVID & post-ATT hangover. There are too many sources of entertainment competing for people’s attention and acquiring new mobile users is worse now than it was a few years ago thanks to Apple’s ATT.

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@Chuck_ORourke App Tracking Transparency

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I saw a headline saying RFK Jr had brain worms but didn’t realize until just now that it was a true statement. A worm literally ate part of his brain. 🙀

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The streaming wars were a zero interest rate phenomenon as it was unsustainable having so many services chasing after subscribers while losing money.

Paramount is now looking for a buyer. Disney+, Hulu & Max are now a bundle. It’s going to be Netflix and 2-3 bundles at the end.

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2024 in a nutshell

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Microsoft really spent $68.7B acquiring Activision only to realize their gaming division is now too big and costly so they’re doing layoffs every quarter 🤦🏾‍♂️

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-08/xbox-studio-closures-microsoft-plans-more-cost-cutting-measures-after-layoffs?embedded-checkout=true

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This feels like the first ad that is a tone deaf miss from Apple. An ad showing beautiful tools of human creativity being crushed to be replaced by the newest and thinnest gadget feels antithetical to Apple.

I’d expect this from an AI company not Apple.
https://youtu.be/ntjkwIXWtrc?si=VGoNknBw7VNkvuwO

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It must be tough to hit financial difficulties because the US government says the products you make are too good to be sold to Chinese companies.

De-globalization is going to hit more and more companies as it spreads from chips to AI.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-08/intel-sees-revenue-falling-below-midpoint-after-us-huawei-ban?embedded-checkout=true

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This is an angle I didn’t expect. Instead of Tesla being investigated for misleading consumers by naming its features AutoPilot and Full Self Driving, it’s being investigated by prosecutors for misleading investors.

That actually has more teeth in America given that while consumer protections are week, the US doesn’t play around when you screw investors. Just ask Elizabeth Holmes or Martin Shkreli.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-autopilot-probe-us-prosecutors-focus-securities-wire-fraud-2024-05-08/

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Last week, a Nigerian PM that I mentor mentioned layoffs happening at Microsoft in Nigeria but I didn’t expect them to shut down the entire development center and lay off everyone.

It’s not surprising given the layoffs across the industry but it is disappointing.

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Truly nuts that these are the last two tweets from a game studio that Microsoft just shut down.

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