Tag: technology
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Google Will Blow Through New Cookie Deadline As Well
The new Google timeline for phasing out 3rd-party cookies -the first four months of 2025- is unrealistic as well. There are just too many issues that are still unresolved. I’ve written before about the IAB Tech Lab stating that many functionalities the Privacy Sandbox is supposed to support don’t work. None of these items have…
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Tesla Hits Reset Button as Reality Catches Up
Today was a rough day for Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk. The electric vehicle pioneer announced layoffs of around 10% of its workforce, or more than 14,000 employees. While Tesla has had sizable layoffs in the past, this latest round signals that the company’s reality check has arrived. The heady days of Tesla being…
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What HubSpot Acquisition Would Mean For Google – And For Salesforce And Adobe
In recent news, there have been rumors that Google is eyeing an acquisition of HubSpot, a cloud-based customer relationship management (#CRM) and marketing automation platform with an estimated market value of $35 billion. This deal could have significant implications for both companies and the broader tech landscape. Upsides for Google: If this deal goes through,…
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Will Apple Use Google’s Gemini LLM To Power Search And Siri?
I would find it surprising if @Apple decided to use Gemini as an extension to its $20B-a-year deal to license search from Google, or, beyond that, to use Gemini to power #Siri. That is for two reasons: One, it has only been three weeks since Gemini showed us the female pope and female Asian Nazi…
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TikTok Will Stay After Likely Sale, Remain Channel Into Young Demos
At this point, the fracas over TikTok will likely play out like this: The bill forcing TikTok-owner ByteDance to either sell the service or be banned will be passed into law after the November 2024 election. ByteDance will challenge the new law in courts. This may take a couple of years to settle, but eventually…
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House passes bill To Force TikTok Sale Or Ban – What’s Next?
Today, the house passed a bill forcing the sale or ban of TikTok. Remarkably, this was a bipartisan vote. @AOC voted with @mattgaetz. A passage of the bill in the senate will be more complicated, with the outcome uncertain. @POTUS has said he would sign the bill if passed in the senate. A sale of…
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Google’s Gemini: What Is “True”? And Who Decides?
Critics of Google Gemini suggested that the chatbot should just simply “tell the truth” after it produced biased responses. Just tell the truth – fair enough. But – what is true? And who decides? In Western culture, we establish truth in a collaborative process. Free speech and public debate are designed to eventually arrive at…
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What Will Google Do Next About Gemini – And Will It Be Enough?
Yesterday evening, @Google CEO @SundarPichai addressed the botched launch of the company’s @Gemini #chatbot in an email to employees. This was a message intended to boost internal morale and plot a course forward, but also a message to the public at large. The email mainly consisted of finely polished corporate talk, being rather vague on…
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After The ‘Gemini’ Fiasco – What Can Google Do?
$67 billion lost from @Alphabet’s market capitalization today, with the stock down 3.8% at 3 ET. It took the market a while to figure out just how serious the @Google #Gemini launch fiasco is for the company. #LLMs threaten to erode Google’s bread-and-butter business, search, threatening the existence of the company in its current form.…
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Business Implications of Google’s Botched Gemini Chatbot Release
About a week ago, Google released the version 1.0 Ultra and 1.0 Pro of its AI chatbot Gemini (nee Bard). Tech folks immediately took to taking Gemini through its paces. The results were mixed. On the one hand, testers hailed its advanced capabilities, especially in coding and in text understanding, and its ability to process…
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