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Skype, at one time Microsoft's biggest acquisition, is shutting down in May: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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SCOOP > HHS fired lawyers who were defending and implementing the Medicare drug price cuts enabled in Biden's Inflation reduction Act. @rachelcohrs.bsky.social & John Tozzi www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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"Affected users need to hold Meta to account. Never before has there been such a clear-cut case of the company’s algorithm actively working to traumatize its users." -- my take for @opinion.bloomberg.com on Instagram's gore "error" that has hit an unknown (but seemingly not small) group of users.

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Amazon boss Andy Jassy on coming Alexa devices, chip export controls, and more: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Amazon joins the "we, too, have quantum computing hardware" party: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Hey, Alexa www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Today's Amazon Is A Conglomerate signpost is Andy Jassy kicking off the Alexa launch in NY, in front of the assembled consumer tech press, touting Amazon's AI infrastructure chops. "as you get to scale, the inference gets expensive’ "you have customers who are pining for better price performance"

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It's "big tech company grabs random New York event space" season. Come meet Alexa with AI, friends.

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Google Cloud has secured a $2.5 billion contract with Salesforce (normally a mostly-AWS shop), plus a bunch of product integration work meant to help Google and Salesforce better compete with Microsoft Office and Microsoft AI tools. Story with @brodyford.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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what does the paint store know...

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When it comes to companies tamping down DEI initiatives, "I don’t have to outrun the bear. I just have to outrun the person next to me. That type of calculus I think is really at play here."

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Microsoft says it's taken a big step toward productizing quantum computing: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (or: "Years, not decades," as the exec who leads their quantum efforts has told all of us in the media today)

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I have been trying to identify the administrator all weekend. I have asked the White House for a name and have received no answer. I keep hearing from USDSers that whenever they ask who the acting administrator is, they get no answer from their leaders.

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Meta joins the humanoid robot race: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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This happens to be the most Amazon has ever paid for a doc.

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I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

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For a third straight day, an AP reporter was blocked from attending an Oval Office event, I'm told.

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Layoffs in the works at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos's rocket venture: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Blue Origin is bracing for a large reduction in its workforce, people familiar with the matter said, in a sign the Jeff Bezos-backed space company is looking to cut costs and focus resources on ramping up rocket launches after years of R&D work.

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NEW: The General Services Administration, staffed at its upper levels by Elon Musk associates, plans to sell 500-plus buildings—some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators. This one from @leahfeiger.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/gsa-se...

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The Small Business Administration sent employees a letter saying that they had been fired. Then it sent them an email saying that the email was a mistake. Then it sent some of them another email saying actually they were fired www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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There is no content on the doge website other than a name and motto

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A couple of weeks after workers at an Amazon-owned Whole Foods in Philly voted to unionize, workers at a company warehouse in North Carolina are voting on whether to join an upstart union: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @bbgequality

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The world's first year above 1.5C is a sign it's "virtually certain" we're entering a 20-year period where the planet breaches that threshold

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EXCLUSIVE: Candidates for national security roles in the new administration have been posed loyalty questions, such as: Was Jan. 6 an inside job, and Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? They were asked to give straight "yes" or "no" answers. Here's our story. wapo.st/3EF3aWN

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the human cost www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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Amazon has removed language from its annual report about its commitment to diversity and inclusion, and equity in hiring and promotion.

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I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

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Amazon spent about $83,000,000,000 on property and equipment in 2024. And more than $300 billion in the last 5 years. Easy to get desensitized to big numbers writing about big tech but holy moly.

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www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

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so, -elected officials determine it's in the public interest to have a place for folks in mental health crisis to go -voters agree -facility built -the company that would operate it backs out because there is no profitable business model for this -??? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Getting a promotion -- or filling the job of the person who left with someone of similar experience -- is feeling harder at Amazon these days as the company takes out layers of middle management and tries to cut costs: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Google then: We Will Not Build AI Bombs Google now: Democracies Must Control the AI Bombs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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It Takes All of Us

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"On Monday morning, USAID employees received a mass email saying the headquarters would be closed for the day and instructing most of them to work remotely. "Further guidance will be forthcoming," it said." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Since 2005, New Jersey has lost 129 papers, or 58 percent of its print options — more than any state other than Maryland, according to Zachary Metzger, director of Medill’s State of Local News Project. About 3,650 newspaper jobs have disappeared in the past decade, he said.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...

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Amazon's $10 billion data center investment in Mississippi is looking more like a $16 billion data center investment, according to state documents with new spending figures for the AWS complex: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... AI and the cloud are expensive, cont'd. w/ @brodyford.bsky.social.

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Kudos to David here for giving as an example that NPR couldn't run an ad saying you should buy a Toyota Tercel, which is 1) the best vehicle, and 2) hasn't been made in more than 20 years.

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The Trump–Musk federal buyout plan assumes there's a ton of fat to cut from the federal government. But looking closely at workforce data, that's hard to find www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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we did have very good core motions

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