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"There’s nothing inherent to the internet that makes the “search to get linked somewhere else” model have to make sense. Historically, that’s how things have been done. But if you could have an automated system simply give you directly what you needed at the right time, that would probably be a better solution for some subset of issues. And, if Google doesn’t do it, someone else will, and that would undermine Google’s market."

Exakt mein Argument, das ich schon öfter im Nexus-Briefing auf neunetz.com aufgeschrieben habe. Eigentlich ein No-Brainer. -> Decentralized Systems Will Be Necessary To Stop Google From Putting The Web Into Managed Decline

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„ „Best-in-Class“ heißt im Business-Kontext für gewöhnlich: Alle, die besser sind oder auf Dauer unangenehm werden könnten, sind nicht in der Klasse. Ein bewährtes Prinzip bei Legacy-Anbietern. Entsprechend definiert sich Zalando seine Klasse – ohne Boohoo, Shein, Trendyol & Co.“

Autsch. -> Strategie-Update: Wo steht Zalando im B2B-Geschäft?

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„Was im Frontendbereich fehlt, ist ein Paradigmenwechsel, ein radikales Umdenken. Statt Bestehendes zu verbessern, bräuchte es komplett neue Denkansätze.“ -> Warum wir frontendseitig nicht weiterkommen

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"Nvidia's stepping into the AI chatbot game, but with a twist. Their "Chat with RTX" demo lets you run a powerful chatbot right on your own PC (if you’ve got one with 8 Gigs of VRAM + other specs)

This is an unpolished demo, you can download it but not something you can rely heavily upon (yet). Nvidia's throwing the dev doors open so we can see what’s possible in terms of local AI." -> Nvidia is building chat with PDF apps. I'm not joking.

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„ But while it’s important to recognize the very real pain and anxiety that many media professionals are experiencing, I do think it’s a bit myopic to measure the industry’s health on the financials of legacy outlets and a handful of high-profile, VC-funded digital upstarts. If you instead widen the lens to include the media’s “long tail” — a group that includes tens of thousands of bootstrapped outlets, creators, nonprofits, advocacy organizations, academics, and even non-media companies that significantly invest in content marketing — then you’ll come away with a much more optimistic take on the state of media.

It would probably take a full month for me to research and quantify the true size of the media long tail, but you don’t have to look too far and wide to conclude that it’s absolutely huge. YouTube alone, for instance, is paying out upwards of $10 billion a year to creators via its ad revenue share. Substack announced a year ago that it crossed 2 million paid subscriptions, a -> The long tail of media is thriving

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Browser + KI:

Arc bekommt Perplexity als weitere Auswahl für die Default-Suche, Brave bekommt einen Chat-Bot basierend auf Mixtral 8x7B.

Hier entsteht etwas Neues, was auch immer es dann sein wird. -> Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations

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"Once proximity wasn't possible in an all-remote setting, the company began hiring workers with more training. Buying talent instead of building it." Hmm. -> Does working from home boost productivity? We're starting to get answers

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„Impressively, Stable Code 3B can run offline on common laptops without a GPU, bringing robust AI coding to more developers.

Offering 60% of the performance of Code Llama 7B at a fraction of the size, Stable Code 3B represents a massive efficiency breakthrough.“ -> Stablity Releases an AI Coding Assistant that Can Run Offline on Laptops Without a GPU

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„ Expertise in batteries and a vast domestic market give Chinese firms an edge“

China hat, wie vorhergesagt wurde und seit Jahren offensichtlich war, die Skaleneffekte im eigenen Markt genutzt, um eine eigene kompetitive E-Autobranche entstehen zu lassen. Während den Deutschen immer noch Erfahrungswerte fehlen, kommen die Chinesen damit jetzt u.a. nach Europa. -> Western firms are quaking as China’s electric-car industry speeds up

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„Die KI-Anwendung lädt nicht augenblicklich und das Telefon wird handwarm. Die macOS-Version der Universal-App unterstützt bereits eine Auswahl aus verschiedenen Modellen, von denen einige zukünftig auch auf iPhones und iPads zur Auswahl stehen sollen.“ -> Private LLM: ein Offline-LLM in der Westentasche

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„For the first time in history, humans had a world-altering fact forced on them; sentences do not imply sentience. The crown-jewel of our species, the quality that supposedly entitled us to our special moral status: the ability fluently to manipulate highly complex, abstract language about a near-infinite number of subjects is, undeniably, no longer confined to humans. ChatGPT did what parrots with large vocabularies and chimps that have learned ASL could not. It produced language that might pass as human-created. It did so not in a philosophy hypothetical or computer lab, but in real-time, to hundreds of millions of people.“ -> The Unperson Of 2023

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„I didn’t have “get excited about social media again” on my 2023 bingo card, but here we are.“ -> The Case for the Fediverse

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„From there on, it snowballed into a headline competition, as noted by the Center for Data Innovation: “Once news media first get wind of a panic, it becomes a game of one-upmanship: the more outlandish the claims, the better.”“ -> 2023: The Year Of AI Panic

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""Following mounting pressure from regulators in the UK and EU, Adobe and Figma announced on Monday that both companies are mutually terminating their merger agreement, which would have seen Adobe acquire the Figma product design platform for $20 billion."

Da freuen sich sicher viele Designer:innen. Ich hatte damals nach der Ankündigung mit kosmar im neunetzcast darüber gesprochen: https://neunetz.fm/neunetzcast-92-warum-kauft-adobe-figma-ueber-multiplayerapps-saas-netzwerkeffekte-in-software-und-pfadabhaengigkeiten/ -> Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma

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"The company's FunSearch can solve highly complex math problems. Miraculously, the solutions it generates aren't just accurate; they're entirely new solutions that no human has ever found." -> Google DeepMind Solves Unsolvable Math Problem With AI

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„while the deal isn’t a complete victory for the Canadian government, it’s still a loss to the open internet. As with Australia’s News Bargaining Code (and a similar deal by Google and Meta there), it only serves to inspire other countries to pass similar “bribe us too!” laws.“ -> Google Caves In Canada: Agrees To Pay $100m News Bribe To Avoid Direct Link Tax

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„However, because so many people think that they’re supporting creators and “sticking it” to Big Tech in supporting these copyright lawsuits over AI, I thought it might be useful to play out how this would work in practice. And, spoiler alert, the end result would be a disaster for creators, and a huge benefit to big tech.“ -> If Creators Suing AI Companies Over Copyright Win, It Will Further Entrench Big Tech