Google announced some solid improvements last week to its Workplace (previously G Suite, previously Google Apps) product line. You can read what they have announced in the blog post, but I am more interested in how best to make these kinds of announcements. There is a lot of cool stuff in there; I especially like…
It’s in the news all the time – regulators are looking at big tech. The European Commission threatens big tech with violations of competition law. In the US, the FTC and DoJ are conducting anti-trust investigations. It’s time to break up big tech, right? Wrong – it ain’t gonna happen. Now why is that…
The Department of Defense (DOD) awarded underdog Microsoft a massive cloud computing contract on October 25, 2019. This announcement was an enormous surprise to IT analysts and the cloud industry. This award was stripped down from the original Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) $10B cloud plan to a $1million guarantee for Microsoft work. It leaves…
Should we be patient given disappointing AI implementation rates? Is AI smart enough? What can we learn from fruit fly brains? What else should you know about facial recognition technology? How are Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, and FaceBook progressing on their AI work? How valuable is AI to FinTech? What other newsletters are in the works? And where in the world will I be in March and April?
Should you believe any technology today is artificially intelligent? There’s a battle shaping up over standardized interfaces for voice interface technologies. Who’s going to lead the defacto standard? Two stimulating developments: Cassie Kozyrkov, the head of Decision Intelligence at Google, wrote another brilliant blog post: Artificial Intelligence: Do stupid things faster with more energy! According…
