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.
Perplexed-ity?
Perplexed-ity? I came across this blog post from Cloudfare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives I've read and heard a lot of positive things about Perplexity's Comet browser. I want to like them and I want to cheer...
Character.AI and possible suicide
I came across this news item from a while back: This mom believes an AI chatbot is responsible for her son’s suicide Wow, this is just brutal and my heart goes out to his family and friends. Character.ai and the other named defendents tried to use free speech in...
SMH – AI-Driven Layoffs
Shaking my head in response to someone responding "We acted too quickly" with respect to downsizing as a result of AI implementation. Step 1 - Jump on AI bandwagon Step 2 - implement (pricey?) AI stuff hot off the presses Step 3 - Layoffs = more $$$ for us! Or more...
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...
Bill Gates, not a jerk billionaire
Bill Gates has announced he's giving away 200B over the next 20 years to help address 3 moonshot global needs. Here's the announcement from Gates Foundation There are a lot of people that idolize billionaires and I am not one of them. A have an internal screed about...
Gemini = Lazy Google?
Now my mind is just equating Gemini to Lazy Google. For example, I wanted to modify the footer of tquist.com website. But what footer and where do I modify this? In the pre-Gemini (or LLM) days I would have typed my question into Google search and looked for...
AI Musings 5-5-2025
I am struggling to determine the best way to compare the big three LLMs. Side by side comparison of the same prompt is logical but yeesh, not sure I’ll have the time for such detailed analysis. Another thought I’ve had is to use a different one for time periods and...