🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-09-17
The numbers this week are once again big numbers.
These three stories caught my eye.
https://www.techmeme.com/240917/p29#a240917p29
💰 + 🤖 $100B+ is an interesting number (now that $30B+ has been raised within this AI specific fund) and it goes to show that even companies like Microsoft that could tap their cash reserves alone are facing funding crunch needs that require multiple parties. 🤔
https://www.techmeme.com/240916/p30#a240916p30
💰 + 🤑 Oh. Well. This is awkward. So, from a Microsoft perspective, AI is expensive… and so is a stock buyback program. Got it. Cool. Cool. 😳
https://www.techmeme.com/240913/p7#a240913p7
💰 + 🤖 Spatial is fascinating, and it reminded me of how spatially dumb our smart phones (still?) are today — I still have fond memories of Fei-Fei Li on stage at a conference many years ago where the Googler entourage in the first several rows had not yet figured out their new Android OS updates for silence settings and it was HILARIOUS hearing their devices all chirping, dinging, ringing, etc. as they frantically tried to turn them off or make them go silent (unsuccessfully). 😂
