Tue. 08/04 – Last Hurrah? iMacs Get A Major Update

Tue. 08/04 – Last Hurrah? iMacs Get A Major U...

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Our Shoe Company Is Now An AI Company

Snap is cutting 16% of its workforce—about 1,000 people—as Spiegel blames AI for making everyone more efficient (read: expendable). Allbirds, the shoe company that sold for $39M, is pivoting its shell to become an AI compute provider called NewBird AI. OpenAI drops a cybersecurit ...  Show more

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