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Focus feedOpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it.
Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers.
A quarter century after ‘don't be evil’ a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search.
Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back.
Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices aren’t good enough or cheap enough and the user base is flat.
Apple has showed a bunch of cool ideas for generative AI, but much more, it is pointing to most of the big questions and proposing a different answer - that LLMs are commodity i…
How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a technology that gets things ‘wrong’?
How do we think about a fundamentally unknown and unknowable risk, when the experts agree only that they have no idea?
Generative AI means things that were always possible at a small scale now become practical to automate at a massive scale.
We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for?
Can you write laws, or lay down ethical principles, for a technology that will be used in entirely different ways, for different purposes, in different industries?
Tech regulation gets a lot of headlines, and seems like a big deal, but most people in tech don’t seem to care much.
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