Linkowisko #134 | TECHNOFOBIA

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Artur Kurasinski & Maciej Marek
May 05, 2024

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Najważniejsze artykuły i newsy, jakie wybraliśmy dla Ciebie:

Gramy w ping-ponga o godz. 4 nad ranem. Tak cicho, żeby nie zbudzić fiskusa

Na przebijaniu piłeczki w środku nocy pod Warszawą można całkiem nieźle zarobić. W tle bukmacher z Karaibów. Traci polski fiskus.


warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,30883407,gramy-w-ping-ponga-w-o-4-nad-ranem-tak-cicho-zeby-nie-zbudzic.html

The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV

It’s got a great cast. It looks cinematic. It’s, um … fine. And it’s everywhere.

www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/arts/television/mid-tv.html

Walmart puts its IRL product shelves in the metaverse

Walmart is testing out stores within Roblox where users can browse for and buy real items that the retailer will ship to them like any other online order.

futureparty.com/walmart-roblox-virtual-stores

How Will AI Investment Affect Big Tech Profits? It May Be Hard to Find Out

The four big tech firms that reported earnings results in the past 10 days—Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Amazon—posted substantially richer operating profit margins than they have in several years. Investors shouldn’t get used to it. That boost to profits, a result of layoffs and other ...

www.theinformation.com/articles/how-will-ai-investment-affect-big-tech-profits-it-may-be-hard-to-find-out

Briefing: Amazon Announces General Availability For AI Assistant Q

Amazon announced on Tuesday that it is now making its AI-powered assistant, Q, generally available to customers. Q helps developers generate, test and debug code and also allows employees to ask questions about their company’s data in natural language. Q is the latest example of big tech companies developing “AI agents,” or AI-powered software that can complete complex, multi-step tasks

www.theinformation.com/briefings/amazon-announces-general-availability-for-ai-assistant-q

Twilio Founder Jeff Lawson Has Some Serious Plans for The Onion

For quite some time, Jeff Lawson has kept up a running joke among friends and family. “Bezos bought The Post, Benioff bought Time—well, Jeff Lawson is going to buy The Onion,” said Lawson, billionaire founder of Twilio, an unsexy enterprise software company that he ran until a recent series of ...

www.theinformation.com/articles/twilio-founder-jeff-lawson-has-some-serious-plans-for-the-onion

How Notion Does Marketing: A Deep-Dive Into its Community, Influencers & Growth Playbooks

We peel back the layers of Notion’s multifaceted marketing strategy, diving deep into three distinct channels that have helped power its meteoric rise: community, influencer marketing, and growth and analytics.

review.firstround.com/how-notion-does-marketing-a-deep-dive-into-its-community-influencers-growth-playbooks

New EU regulations target Shein’s counterfeit fashion problem

New regulation comes as Shein looks to go public in the US.

www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141330/shein-fast-fashion-eu-digital-services-act-counterfeit-intellectual-property

Eight newspaper publishers sue Microsoft and OpenAI over copyright infringement

Eight newspaper publishers alleged that Microsoft and OpenAI used millions of their articles without payment or permission to train AI models like ChatGPT.

www.cnbc.com/2024/04/30/eight-newspaper-publishers-sue-openai-over-copyright-infringement.html

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees

Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much "work around the work" as he laid off 17% of the group's workforce in December.

fortune.com/europe/2024/04/23/spotify-earnings-q1-ceo-daniel-eklaying-off-1500-spotify-employees-negatively-affected-streaming-giants-operations

How to Decide What to Build?

A Framework for Product Leaders & Aspiring Entrepreneurs

medium.com/swlh/how-to-decide-what-to-build-c7c3a6893854

The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner

Film and television writers face an existential threat

harpers.org/archive/2024/05/the-life-and-death-of-hollywood-daniel-bessner

The soft life: why millennials are quitting the rat race

Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Meet the women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism and burnout

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/02/soft-life-why-millennials-are-quitting-the-rat-race?