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The ad debuted during the 98th Academy Awards, showcasing a heartwarming father and son story.Read More

From a record-breaking AI seed in Paris to Croatian drones and Lithuanian food tech, Europe’s startup ecosystem had a busy week. The week of 9-15 March was, by any measure, an exceptional one for European venture capital. Two deals alone, one in London, one in Paris,accounted for nearly three billion dollars. But beyond the headline […]

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You’re at the Zoom meeting, on time, and no one is there. Are you the ghost or is everyone else?

We needed a word for this existential minor dread, and now we have one.

Coordination is hard.

PS the Ides of March are overrated as a threat. It’s the chronic conditions that really get us in the end.

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The feature, announced at SXSW by co-CEO Gustav Söderström, lets Premium listeners see and shape the data model powering their recommendations, starting with a beta rollout in New Zealand For a decade, Spotify’s recommendation engine has worked largely in silence. It watched what you played, noted what you skipped, inferred meaning from the time of […]

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We have all heard about model context protocol (MCP) in the context of artificial intelligence. In this article, we will dive into what MCP is and why it is becoming more important by the day. When APIs are already available then why do we need MCP? Although we have seen a large rise in popularity […]

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The AI company he founded three years ago has lost six co-founders, is slashing staff, and trails badly in coding benchmarks. Musk’s remedy: rebuild from scratch, for the second time. In March 2023, Elon Musk launched xAI with 12 co-founders and a stated ambition to build “the most powerful AI in the world.” Three years […]

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Ask Maps lets users query the world in natural language. Immersive Navigation rebuilds directions in 3D. Together, they mark the most significant overhaul of Google Maps since Street View. The question Google is now asking its users to ask Maps is: “My phone is dying, where can I charge it without a long wait for […]

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The Uber founder re-emerges with Atoms, a stealth robotics venture that quietly employed thousands before going public, and a philosophy about ‘gainfully employed robots’ that sounds a lot like Uber, but for warehouses. For eight years, Travis Kalanick ran a company whose thousands of employees were not allowed to list their employer publicly. On March […]

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When an organization is known for speed and quality, it’s likely that if times get tough, quality will suffer before speed does. That’s because customers notice speed right away, but it takes a while to come to a conclusion about quality.

If a musician or politician is known for showmanship and wise insights, the showmanship will probably outlast the wisdom.

When we measure and compare the easily visible, we may be setting ourselves up for disappointment.

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