NY Times / AMZN deal
Here’s an article from The Verge about The New York Times recent deal with Amazon do deliver its “editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,”
I shudder to think how little The Gray Lady is getting paid. However, I hope the AI Experience delivering sports news (?) and recipes!!! to Alexa users is good.
I read over the comments and one person asked why didn’t Amazon just license this content from The Washington Post, the newspaper Bezon owns? I think it’s the recipes, which are very popular and even I at times with I had a NYT subscription to access.
I suppose then if my Doppelganger (his name is Bill Winters by the way) is at BestBuy considering whether he should buy a Google Home or Alexa he might choose Alexa, becaue he would gain access to New York Times recipes. Or will it be a separate upsell ontop of Alexa? I’m not sure and in full disclosure I own a Google Home device. “Meh” is how I find Google Home Speaker, but the dull details behind that are fodder for a different blog post.
Oh the Humanity!’s Last Exam!
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Oh the Humanity!’s Last Exam!
Humanity's Last Exam Benchmarks are interesting. Here's the deep thought - at what point in the overall benchmark process will AI inject bias into the benchmark test? And to what end? Maybe not so deep a thought. Humanity's Last Exam has been bantered about...
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Copilot Summarizes just the page
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SMH – AI-Driven Layoffs
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TEDs v 2.what?
I came across this TechCrunch article covering the recent news that Google is committing 150M to develop AI glasses with Warby Parker: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/google-commits-150m-to-develop-ai-glasses-with-warby-parker/ My immediate thought was a new take on...