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Microsoft – Advertisements for all

Turns out this stuff is expensive. Microsoft is moving to add advertising to its Bing GPT-4-powered chat service in a clear indication that large language models (LLMs) are very expensive...

Alibaba – The empire breaks up

State oversight is the driver. Shareholder value has little to do with Alibaba’s decision to reorganize and much more to do with providing the state with better visibility and control...

Lyft – Founder flounder

New CEO looks wrong for the job. Lyft’s founders have stepped back from running their company and have appointed a new CEO who, on the surface, appears to be wholly...

TikTok – Chewed up.

Judged guilty before proceedings started. TikTok has been eviscerated by both sides of the house in what was a pretty unfair hearing that looks likely to end in an outright...

Tencent Q4 2022 – Somewhat green

Chinese tech remains hostage to the economy. Tencent reported mediocre results and said that it was well positioned for an economic recovery but signs of this recovery and action from...

Nvidia GTC– Flavour of the month

Jensen executes perfect timing. With perfect timing, Nvidia has launched some new products and services that would have barely caused a ripple a year ago but in this environment, Nvidia...

Tech Newsround– Nvidia & Microsoft

Nvidia: early signals of pick-up. The current AI craze is already bearing fruit for lead supplier Nvidia as it appears to have turned the taps back on at TSMC as...

Google Hardware– The hits keep on coming

Yet another black eye for its floundering hardware business. Google has identified 18 zero-day vulnerabilities related to Samsung Exynos modems the four most serious of which would allow a hacker...

Microsoft – The pitfalls of success

Generative AI could hurt Office 365 margins. Everyone is much too busy adding generative AI to their products in order to be part of the new AI crowd and so...

GPT-4 – The law of diminishing returns

Many more monkeys. Still no Shakespeare. Open AI has launched GPT-4 upon the world but while it records steady improvements in performance it refuses to disclose how many parameters or...