• Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs.  (The Verge)
  
  Not replacing them with AI.  Just...  Not replacing them.
  
  
  
• Apple and Microsoft have both passed the $4 trillion market cap line.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Joining Nvidia among the most valuable companies in the world.
  
  Google's parent company is valued at $3.25 trillion, and Amazon is at $2.42 trillion.
  
  Google's parent company Alphabet is valued at $3.25 trillion, Amazon is at $2.42 trillion, and Facebook's parent Meta is at $1.89 trillion.

• How to watch the GTC 2025 keynote.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  What's GTC?  This is mentioned nowhere in the article.
  
  
  
• How to watch the fake AI generated crypto scam GTC 2025 keynote.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Still no mention of what GTC actually is.
  
  
  
• OpenAI's ChatGPT-based web browser, Atlas is...  Not a web browser.  At all.  (Anil Dash)
  
  It queries ChatGPT and assembles things that look like web pages, but have no provenance and no links.
  
  There's nothing to click on.  You type your queries into ChatGPT and you wait for it to generate your slop.
  
  
  
• The Python Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant due to the strings attached.  (The Register)
  
  The "strings" were don't be racist.
  
  For some reason the Python Foundation found that requirement a bridge too far.
  
  
  
• The US Senate is hard at work...  On a bill that would ban AI tamagotchis for children.  (NBC)
  
  Priorities, people.
  
  
  
• OpenAI wants to get to a $1 trillion per year infrastructure spend.  (Axios)
  
  Same.

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, October 29 2025 09:58 PM (1zWbY)

Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, October 30 2025 08:27 AM (oJgNG)

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