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Amazon – 6 years late

Alexa might finally deliver on a 6-year old promise. Amazon’s annual Alexa event was dominated by generative AI, but the reality is that Amazon promised all this 6 years ago...

Artificial Intelligence – Whoops Microsoft

Microsoft accidentally makes the case for edge AI. A simple mistake by employees exposed terabytes of Microsoft’s internal data to the world underlining that generative AI is still at the...

Unity – Russian roulette

Unity gambles with its market position and brand. Unity’s financial requirements have led it to alienate its customers which if left unresolved could cause its dominant position to erode and...

Meta Platforms – Business talks

WhatsApp Business is the only real opportunity. WhatsApp cost $22bn to acquire but has so far delivered very little although the indirect value that it has created in terms of...

Arm – Table debate

SoftBank takes most of the value. At $51 per share, investors are being asked to pay for much of the growth that the company says it should be able to...

Apple & Qualcomm – Gritted teeth

Apple grudgingly extends its contract. It turns out that cellular radio is difficult (5G particularly) as Apple has been unable to create a high-quality 5G radio of its own which...

SoftBank & Arm – All the stops pt. III

SoftBank is making things difficult. The final details of Arm’s IPO have now been made clear with SoftBank cutting back on the price in a sign that this deal has...

Chatbots – Galloping obsolescence

Alexa, Google Assistant et al have no value. After many years of wrangling, there is finally a smart speaker in the market that supports both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant...

OpenAI – ChatGPT Enterprise

The feature is the bug.  ChatGPT Enterprise looks like a marketing gimmick to make money rather than a serious attempt to offer generative AI services to corporations as, in my...

Nvidia & Peloton – Chalk and cheese

Two very different sets of results. Nvidia Q2 2023 – As good as it gets. Despite results that substantially beat expectations, the shares jumped much less than they did last...