"The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s," Slok wrote in a note that was widely circulated online.
"Castillo's flinty satire of the tech industry [transforms] into a sultry romance novel. As we watch Girlie's defenses melt, the book shows a woman slowly surrendering to human experiences that can't be controlled." - The Atlantic
Aravind Srinivas stated that using AI coding tools has dramatically reduced prototyping time from three or four days to literally one hour for engineers.
Girlie's effective moderation at Reeden stems from her stoical capacity for labour, revealing the human cost of navigating a high-stakes tech industry haunted by mental toll and superficial support.
“These agentic tools can learn from advertising inputs, including datasets, landing pages, assets, and real-time campaign performance, to take the guesswork out of achieving business goals.”
Microsoft's Threat Intelligence announced a crackdown by suspending 3,000 Outlook and Hotmail accounts created by North Korean IT workers to disrupt a global fraud scheme.
The part of the bill of most interest to the tech industry was its provision for a moratorium on state-level regulation of AI, which would have rendered all AI regulation that didn't come from the federal government unenforceable for 10 years.
The proposed freeze on state and local governments' ability to regulate generative AI would prevent enforcement of laws aimed at curbing harms such as deep fakes and algorithmic discrimination.
Join us at Book Passage for an author event in celebration of Stefanie Leder's new book, Last Night in San Francisco: Tech's Lost Promise and the Killing of Bob Lee. Stefanie will engage in conversation with Christina Passariello, weaving together themes of romance, action, humor, and the quest for integrity in an unjust world.