Amazon’s earnings suggest that the shift away from training towards inference and agents means their bet on Trainium is paying off. Plus, additional notes on ads, agents, and sports rights. Subscribe ...

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In January 2025, Doug O’Laughlin at Fabricated Knowledge declared that o1 and reasoning models marked the end of Aggregation Theory: I believe that there is no practical limit to the improvements of ...

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One way to track the AI era, starting with the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT, is by which Big Tech company was, at a particular point in time, thought to be most threatened. At the beginning ...

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