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 them and how they are MONEY HOARDERS (old school caps for emphasis). I don’t respect that behaviour when the obvious suffering blah blah blah – no one wants to hear the screed here.
Bill Gates is really the only one that has a gotten pass from me. He has actively worked through his Gates Foundation to try to make the world a better place. I admire that.
Musings – Prompting, productivity, and context
Prompting, Productivity and Context Finish the following sentence: "Blogging is so ..." and yet here I am. Prompting I've been trying to engage people close to me as to their AI experiences and uses, either professionally or personnally. I find myself reminding...
Alexa, cook me some eggs!
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...
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...
Rollups best left to fruit
The Neuron newsletter served up this TechCrunch article about Read the article https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/early-ai-investor-elad-gil-finds-his-next-big-bet-ai-powered-rollups/. Here's a quote from the article: "The idea is to identify opportunities to buy...
Copilot Summarizes just the page
I saw a headline Windows dashboard about a popular internet provider that filed for Chapter 11. I was curious and decided to check it out and clicked the story. The news item is from "TheStreet" and the initial page does not show the entire article, just the first...
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...