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Alibaba FQ3 25 – Unhappy Hostage.

Alibaba remains captive to China’s poor economy. The performance and outlook at Alibaba are a strong indication that in reality, the Chinese economy remains moribund and that a lot more...

Apple – Bottom of the Barrel.

Apple looks like it has run out of ideas. It looks like growth is becoming a real problem at Apple as it is considering entering segments where its competitors have...

Artificial Intelligence – Scaling Debate

Scaling laws appear to be dying. There are more signs that the “scaling laws” that have underpinned the AI explosion (and all of the hype attached to super-intelligent machines) are...

Google vs. OpenAI – The Hits Keep Coming

Google on the back foot. Open AI has launched a competitor to Google which performs reasonably well in a strong indication that the barriers to entry in the search business...

Meta vs. Everyone – Independence Day

Meta pushes harder for independence. Meta’s difficult experience with Android and iOS has left it so determined to be self-reliant that in addition to AI, it is now having a...

Artificial Intelligence – Hard Times in China

A potential benefit of hardship.  China’s lack of cutting-edge silicon and limited amounts of cash to spend on compute is forcing it to innovate in ways that may allow it...

Artificial Intelligence – Reasoning Debate pt. III

Still no sign of reasoning. Apple has stuck the knife into the idea that large language models (LLMs) can reason with a research paper demonstrating LLMs making the sorts of...

Google – The Long Game

Things might look very different in 3-4 years.  However the legal games play out, Google is not going to be broken up any time soon and with market share loss...

Google – The back foot

Google is on the defensive. E-marketer expects that Google’s market share in US search advertising will drop below 50% in 2025 mainly as others properly monetise their traffic, but this...

AI Ecosystem – Voice part II

This time it should work properly. OpenAI is not launching a new model this year, but it is joining everyone else in declaring that voice assistants are the next big...