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Amazon & Baidu Q2 17A – Back to basics

Reply to this post           Amazon and Baidu get back to what they do best. Amazon – Not making money Amazon reported disappointing results and guided...

Facebook Q2 17A – Cash community

Reply to this post           Community is about cash generation. Facebook reported another set of excellent results and laid out pretty concrete plans of how it...

Facebook – Empty head

Reply to this post           Another smart speaker that badly needs a brain. It looks like Facebook is joining the ever more crowded smart speaker bandwagon,...

Alphabet – Other people’s money

Reply to this post           Core businesses showing signs of maturity. Alphabet reported good Q2 17A results but the fact that it has having to share...

Baidu – Talking machines.

Reply to this post           The way in China is wide open for Baidu. Baidu’s strategy around its AI platform and its Duer OS has become...

Alibaba – Virgin home

Reply to this post           Another day, another home assistant. Alibaba is moving to launch a home speaker, much like Amazon Echo, that should direct users...

Digital sensors – Eyes and ears.

Reply to this post           Sensors are the eyes and ears of AI. Data is the raw material of artificial intelligence (see here) meaning that will...

Facebook – Dial M pt. II

Reply to this post           Very little AI in the assistant that has launched. Now that Facebook’s digital assistant is available in the wild, one can...

Alphabet – Goodbye blue sky pt. II.

Reply to this post           Homeless robots find permanent shelter. Alphabet has reached a deal to sell both Boston Dynamics and Schaft to SoftBank leaving it...

Samsung Bixby – Failure to launch

Reply to this post           Bixby is not fit for purpose. Samsung has once again delayed the roll out of the voice component of its digital...