has anyone asked Jay Powell for comment apnews.com/article/us-m...

Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI. www.wired.com/story/google...

yeah that's one way to cut costs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Jerome Bouyer, vice president of retail operations for Save A Lot, a discount-grocery chain with hundreds of stores, said consumers in recent weeks shifted away from fresh meat and produce to more-processed items like hot dogs, deli meats, ramen and pasta" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...

Warren Buffett, at 95, says he's in the office five days a week www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/w...

wonder if we'll break past 2001 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"clanker" is clearly the much better choice, not least because it's actually a single word www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

11/10 would slather

among today's headlines: Job openings in October slumped to the lowest level since February 2021, Indeed measure shows www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/j... First-time homebuyers are older than ever www.axios.com/2025/11/04/h...

"As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation, we also honor the legacy of the newspaper that has focused on uniting America as we evolve to be the platform that powers its voice." -Mike Reed, CEO of Gannett, which will rebrand to USA Today www.businesswire.com/news/home/20....

going to take me a good long time to get hip to the new Excel and Word icons

"The stock market incorporates both real economic activity per capita and prices; job openings do not. So as living standards rise and inflation occurs, I’d expect the series to drift apart." @econberger.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/macromos...

Only two World Series have ever been won on walkoff home runs. The last was by the Blue Jays in 1993.

"It’s also a fully functional toilet" abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

"Qinghai’s Talatan solar project dwarfs these. It has a capacity of 16,930 megawatts of power, which could run every household in Chicago." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

emailed directions in 2004 were kind of intense

not Sweetgreen going aggro about a specific IT supplier in a promotional push notification

(turns on Weezer's "In the Garage")

"A senior Indian official told Reuters the government believed AI would ultimately have little impact on overall employment. ... Jefferies predicted in September that India's call centers would face a revenue hit of 50% ... from AI adoption over the next five years." www.reuters.com/world/india/...

nothing to see here www.wsj.com/business/aut...

"Three accounts at Polymarket that had mainly placed bets on Machado, made a combined profit of about $90,000, according to Finansavisen." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Almost every company in our survey (99%) reported financial losses from AI-related risks ... . On average, the financial loss to companies that have experienced risks is ... an estimated total loss of US$4.3 billion across the 975 respondents" www.ey.com/en_gl/insigh...

terrific account

"Today, Stanford University announced a 14.3% investment return in its Merged Pool for the year ending June 30, 2025, bringing its five- and 10-year annualized return to 11.7% and 9.4%, respectively." news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

"We face challenges with non-text data (embedded tables and spreadsheets), accuracy evaluation methods, and currently lag behind competitors in conversational experience that customers seem to be delighted with." -Amazon on the Q Business assistant, March 2025 www.businessinsider.com/amazon-q-sig...

"I probably talk to LLMs like 10 times more than I talk to people." -Jake Adler, 21, founder of Pilgrim, a defense biotech startup sfstandard.com/2025/10/02/f...

"Other Samsung group companies, including Samsung SDS Co., Samsung C&T Corp. and Samsung Heavy Industries Co., will also partner with OpenAI to explore future technologies. Those include floating data centers and collaboration in data center design." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Many firms aren’t replacing workers who quit or retire because they’re paralyzed by the uncertainty around President Donald Trump’s trade policies, said Michael Hicks, an economics professor at Ball State University in Indiana and director of its Center for Business and Economic Research."

still thinking about what Nick Clegg said www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

"Many of the laws don’t cover generic chatbots like ChatGPT, which are not explicitly marketed for therapy but are used by an untold number of people for it." apnews.com/article/ai-t...

hmm

"About half of retail investors say they would use AI tools such as ChatGPT ... or Google's Gemini to pick or alter investments in their portfolio, and 13% of them already use these tools, according to a survey from broker eToro, which polled 11,000 retail investors" www.reuters.com/business/fin...

"I came here in an Uber this morning and asked the guy what street we were on. He had no clue. He said, 'I just follow it.'" -Rodney Brooks to @om.co crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/29/i...

"The streams of Alaska’s Brooks Range lie within a vast (~14M ha) tract of protected wilderness and have long supported both resident and anadromous fish. However, dozens of historically clear streams have recently turned orange and turbid." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Increasingly, we're finding that when we launch innovative new things at Reinvent it's valuable if we can actually launch them, as opposed to just pre-announce them." Matt Garman, CEO, Amazon Web Services www.reuters.com/business/fin...

try not to run dirty clothes through the dryer. it's a good idea to put them in the washer first

"Between 2018 and 2022 big tech firms hired an average of 133 graduates from four top MBA programmes. Last year they hired 50." www.economist.com/business/202...

in 1999, Oracle employed the slogan "The Internet Changes Everything" web.archive.org/web/20030212... on Monday, Oracle executives discussed the appointment of the company's two new CEOs on a webcast entitled "AI Changes Everything"

emerging profession: workslop cleaner

"In our time together, I hit only one roadblock: Deep into the night, when I tried to bring up politics, Johnson raised his glass and clinked it on mine. 'Sam, brother, you’ve asked a lot of great questions today,' he said. 'What’s your next one?'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/m...

lol try again Bing

welcome to the Find the Stargate Data Center game

A burst of activity is powering the US IPO market toward its busiest month since the final innings of a manic 2021. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Executives have called equity the most expensive way to fund data centers, and they say the startup is preparing to take on debt to cover the remainder of the expansion."

today a retiree informed me that *82 still works

feels like something Nathan Fielder should take up www.nbcnews.com/business/rcn...

"The median monthly owner costs for U.S. homeowners with a mortgage increased to $2,035 in 2024 from $1,960 (inflation-adjusted) in 2023." www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...

getting a lot of replies in the vein of "is this real" so will add a few details that didn't make it into the story: - Musk said he is having "Microhard" painted on the roof of Colossus 2, his new data center in Memphis - xAI execs said the next Grok model after Grok 4 would be Grok 420...

Nvidia has hired talent from Enfabrica, backed by Arm and Cisco, in the latest non-acquisition. from me and @lorak.bsky.social and @kif.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/n...

new: Microsoft says it has committed $4 billion for a second data center here in Wisconsin. it's on top of recent commitments in the UK and with Amsterdam's Nebius Group. i'm here in Wisconsin today to poke around www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/m...