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Dan Barker

@danbarker
14 posts
2024-08-25
@pitdesi @modic123 they're the most amazing business. 10% of profit goes on funding educational startups, etc, via a foundation. The owner - Dieter Schwarz - is a phantom. There are only 2 known photos of him (& the one most frequently used is not actually him).
2024-08-25 View on X
Financial Times

A look at Germany-based discount retailer Lidl's foray into offering cloud computing services, signing up clients like SAP and generating €1.9B in sales in 2023

A unit of Europe's largest retailer is offering IT services to companies wary of big providers such as Amazon and Google X: @nilocobau , @raaleh , @modic123 , @trungtphan , @pitdes...

2024-04-03
Amazon Fresh is killing off its ‘Just Walk Out’ technology, and has admitted it relied on 1,000 staff in India to check purchases before sending receipts. I'd suggested this in 2021, based on the odd time gap between shopping & getting a receipt. https://gizmodo.com/... [image]
2024-04-03 View on X
The Information

Amazon plans to remove Just Walk Out from most of its grocery stores and add more grocery stores with Dash Carts, which let shoppers scan items while they shop

and want you to scan all your groceries instead Gintaras Radauskas / Cybernews.com : Amazon phasing out “Just Walk Out” at its Fresh grocery stores Jak Connor / TweakTown : Amazon ...

2023-11-20
OpenAI's board gave themselves the prime duty to ‘protect humanity’ from AI, but seem to have ended up inadvertently handing much control of that to Microsoft. [image]
2023-11-20 View on X
TechCrunch

Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI

Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …

2023-03-15
I think these are the 2 changes in GPT-4 that will pick up most interest: 1) It can write 25,000 words of output - you could generate a unique, short novel in 10 seconds 2) It can pass the Uniform Bar Exam - the exam to determine readiness to practice law - with a top 10% score https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-15 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that has a waitlist

Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation …

2022-11-17
Odd proof that it is possible to make (and lose) billions and join the highest of society, without much of a clue what you're doing. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-17 View on X
CoinDesk

Bankruptcy filings: FTX CEO John J. Ray III, who oversaw Enron, condemns SBF's “unprecedented” management, describing a “complete failure of corporate controls”

The former FTX CEO's unconventional style is under the spotlight as bankruptcy professionals pore over the exchange's collapse.

2022-02-05
The 2 guys who run this project, who up until now were pseudononymous (other than partnering with Guy Oseary, who famously manages Madonna & U2), were just named by BuzzFeed. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-05 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Investigation reveals the identities of two main founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection: Greg Solano, aka “Gargamel”, and Wylie Aronow

The buzzy NFT collection has raked in millions and the eager support of dozens of celebrities.

2021-10-25
Social media has turned “top-down control of information on its head” says Nick Clegg, whose company owns the top down algorithms controlling lots of the world's information. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-25 View on X
New York Times

How Frances Haugen maximized the impact of her leaked Facebook documents, rolling them out to WSJ and then broadening the circle to a large group of outlets

In a time of mega-leaks, journalists' sources have become power players.  Frances Haugen, the former Facebook executive …

2021-10-10
Must be kind of weird to start an online yearbook tool & a few years later find that people are using it to sell the rainforest. https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-10 View on X
BBC

Following a BBC investigation, Facebook bans buying and selling Amazon rainforest land in ecological conservation areas on Marketplace

Facebook says it will begin clamping down on the illegal sale of protected areas of the Amazon rainforest on its site.

2021-05-19
Odd irony: Google have created a new language system (LaMDA) &, using expert knowledge of language, they've given it basically the same name as a tool from their main cloud competitor. (Google Lamda, Amazon Lambda) https://blog.google/... https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/
2021-05-19 View on X
The Verge

Google announces LaMDA, a language model for dialogue applications that it says represents a “breakthrough” for having natural conversations with AI

2020-01-09
This is so useful from @boztank, a Facebook VP, on why he thinks Facebook actually helped Donald Trump win the election, & the reality of Cambridge Analytica. There is a small error, but the rest is gold. Do read. (link to full Facebook post from here: https://twitter.com/...) https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-09 View on X
New York Times

Facebook says it won't back down from allowing lies in political ads but will give users the option to see fewer political ads in their feed and in Instagram

The company was under intense pressure to adjust its policies.  But in this presidential election year, no big changes are planned.

2020-01-08
This is so useful from @boztank, a Facebook VP, on why he thinks Facebook actually helped Donald Trump win the election, & the reality of Cambridge Analytica. There is a small error, but the rest is gold. Do read. (link to full Facebook post from here: https://twitter.com/...) https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-08 View on X
New York Times

Internal Facebook memo from longtime exec Andrew Bosworth says he “desperately” wants Trump to lose in 2020, but Facebook should not tilt the scales against him

In an internal memo, Andrew Bosworth said he “desperately” wanted the president to lose.

2019-11-17
Beautifully written article on FaZe by @TaylorLorenz. One of many reminders that some parts of 2019 have turned out pretty much like a William Gibson novel. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-17 View on X
New York Times

Profile of FaZe Clan, an esports and gaming lifestyle media org with 34 content creators, 15 pro esports players, 11 players/entertainers, and over 214M viewers

They already make every moment into consumable content.  What can it become?  —  This article is part of our continuing Fast Forward series …

2019-11-15
Free broadband, free computers, free digital training = all things that could massively push forward UK business in the medium term. Silly to throttle UK progress in this area, when it's one of the few areas where we *can* realistically lead the world & bring in £ from outside. https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-15 View on X
BBC

UK's Labour party pledges free broadband for all by 2030, by nationalizing part of BT and introducing a tax on tech giants, if it wins the general election

Labour has promised to give every home and business in the UK free full-fibre broadband by 2030, if it wins the general election.

2019-09-17
Supermarkets place own brand product in more prominent positions. The BBC runs a disproportionate number of news articles about their own TV shows. Millions of Google searches favour their own products. Past a certain size, it is rare for companies *not* to do this kind of thing. https://twitter.com/...
2019-09-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Amazon changed its search algorithm last year to boost items that were more profitable for it, overriding internal dissent from lawyers and engineers

Jeff Bezos opened his 2016 letter to Amazon shareholders like this: Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : WSJ: Amazon changed search results to boost profits despite internal dissent Victor...