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A year ago, OpenAI seemed like it had an untouchable lead in the AI race.It was by far the dominant AI platform for consumers. Competitors like Meta were scrambling — and spending a gazillion dollars on new hires — to catch up. Sam Altman had enough cash, and clout, to…
Amazon raised prices for several key AI cloud offerings, the latest sign that memory chip shortages are driving up the cost of some technology.Amazon Web Services recently announced price increases for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. This is a cloud service that lets companies reserve GPUs in advance.The changes mean…
It’s possible that AI will bring us all kinds of amazing things in the future.In the present, AI is making things more expensive.And Apple just showed us how much more expensive: It is raising prices on some of its Macs and iPads by at least 15% and directly attributing the…
Sometimes, the US government’s concerns that a powerful new tech product could fall into the wrong hands can be a marketing opportunity. Just look at Steve Jobs and Apple back in 1999.In August of that year, Jobs, who was then Apple’s interim-CEO, took the stage to unveil the company’s new…
