#benthompson — Public Fediverse posts
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Employment Hero looks to make Canadian business profitable following takeover https://www.byteseu.com/1592335/ #BenThompson #Canada #EmploymentHero #humi #Jobs #KevinKliman #ontario #saas #Toronto
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🥳 Wow, Ben Thompson has once again unlocked the secrets of tech with his groundbreaking revelation: companies like #Google, #Nvidia, and #OpenAI exist! 🚀 His article bravely tackles the age-old mysteries of the universe, like how tech is totally changing the suburbs (spoiler alert: it’s not) and the riveting drama of working with your in-laws. 📈💡
https://stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai/ #BenThompson #TechSecrets #SuburbanTech #HackerNews #ngated -
🥳 Wow, Ben Thompson has once again unlocked the secrets of tech with his groundbreaking revelation: companies like #Google, #Nvidia, and #OpenAI exist! 🚀 His article bravely tackles the age-old mysteries of the universe, like how tech is totally changing the suburbs (spoiler alert: it’s not) and the riveting drama of working with your in-laws. 📈💡
https://stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai/ #BenThompson #TechSecrets #SuburbanTech #HackerNews #ngated -
🥳 Wow, Ben Thompson has once again unlocked the secrets of tech with his groundbreaking revelation: companies like #Google, #Nvidia, and #OpenAI exist! 🚀 His article bravely tackles the age-old mysteries of the universe, like how tech is totally changing the suburbs (spoiler alert: it’s not) and the riveting drama of working with your in-laws. 📈💡
https://stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai/ #BenThompson #TechSecrets #SuburbanTech #HackerNews #ngated -
🥳 Wow, Ben Thompson has once again unlocked the secrets of tech with his groundbreaking revelation: companies like #Google, #Nvidia, and #OpenAI exist! 🚀 His article bravely tackles the age-old mysteries of the universe, like how tech is totally changing the suburbs (spoiler alert: it’s not) and the riveting drama of working with your in-laws. 📈💡
https://stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai/ #BenThompson #TechSecrets #SuburbanTech #HackerNews #ngated -
Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
https://stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai/
#HackerNews #Google #Nvidia #OpenAI #Stratechery #BenThompson
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Ben Thompson's latest "masterpiece" ⏳ is a riveting journey through the labyrinthine world of US intelligence, which no one asked for, and fewer will finish. 😴 It's a veritable buffet of tech jargon and self-importance, sprinkled with references to #ChatGPT because, apparently, quoting Wikipedia is so 2024. 📚✨
https://stratechery.com/2025/u-s-intel/ #BenThompson #Masterpiece #USIntelligence #TechJargon #BookReview #HackerNews #ngated -
DeepSeek FAQ | Stratechery by Ben Thompson | …a fine post which I largely agree explains why to *ignore* most of the DeepSeek hype
Others will disagree — especially “national security” jingoists — but I think Ben has a decent perspective: what to pay attention to vs: what to ignore. I’m particularly taken by his observation that DeepSeek’s relative success is a consequence, rather than in spite of, export controls on China; e.g.
This is something which elsewhere is framed as “the internet perceives censorship as damage and routes around it” but more generally: if there is a lack of resource, the geek community tend to view it as a challenge rather than a limitation — this e.g. is why BitTorrent exists, because upstream bandwidth from ADSL is poor for individuals, but huge if cleverly aggregated, and development of such solutions sometimes leads to new evolutions.
Thus, Ben:
I noted above that if DeepSeek had access to H100s they probably would have used a larger cluster to train their model, simply because that would have been the easier option; the fact they didn’t, and were bandwidth constrained, drove a lot of their decisions in terms of both model architecture and their training infrastructure. Just look at the U.S. labs: they haven’t spent much time on optimization because Nvidia has been aggressively shipping ever more capable systems that accommodate their needs. The route of least resistance has simply been to pay Nvidia. DeepSeek, however, just demonstrated that another route is available: heavy optimization can produce remarkable results on weaker hardware and with lower memory bandwidth; simply paying Nvidia more isn’t the only way to make better models.
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Stratechery on Microsoft technology decisions in relation to Crowdstrike:
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3rd-party developers could do anything, including “patching the kernel” [..]
Two of the companies seizing this opportunity in the 2000s were Symantec and McAfee;
"""I find particularly interesting the way failure modes differ, fail closed vs fail open.
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The Great Flattening by Ben Thompson.
Ben makes the case that the Internet and various Apple products, aren't reductive, but rather empowering and positive. Decentralisation is at the core.
I believe this wasn't just Jobs-era marketing but a reality, one I and my family grew up benefiting from. GarageBand!
But, does Apple still believe that today? It seems with every release, my devices can do less with things I own, music, files, etc
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Random #GoldenAge scan tonight. Cover artist #BenThompson
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I just listened to a recent episode of the #SharpTech podcast in which #BenThompson made a great point about #AI #hallucinations.
Computers are logical constructs that should produce outputs based on logic. 🤖 When AI hallucinates, we tend to see that as a bug. But is it?
A device that is supposedly bound by logic is making stuff up that seems feasible. That's pretty creative, and not dissimilar to the stuff we humans come up with on a daily basis.
Sure, we want accurate answers from AI. At the same time, when it starts making stuff up, that's pretty incredible too. 🤔
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I just listened to a recent episode of the #SharpTech podcast in which #BenThompson made a great point about #AI #hallucinations.
Computers are logical constructs that should produce outputs based on logic. 🤖 When AI hallucinates, we tend to see that as a bug. But is it?
A device that is supposedly bound by logic is making stuff up that seems feasible. That's pretty creative, and not dissimilar to the stuff we humans come up with on a daily basis.
Sure, we want accurate answers from AI. At the same time, when it starts making stuff up, that's pretty incredible too. 🤔
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I just listened to a recent episode of the #SharpTech podcast in which #BenThompson made a great point about #AI #hallucinations.
Computers are logical constructs that should produce outputs based on logic. 🤖 When AI hallucinates, we tend to see that as a bug. But is it?
A device that is supposedly bound by logic is making stuff up that seems feasible. That's pretty creative, and not dissimilar to the stuff we humans come up with on a daily basis.
Sure, we want accurate answers from AI. At the same time, when it starts making stuff up, that's pretty incredible too. 🤔
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I just listened to a recent episode of the #SharpTech podcast in which #BenThompson made a great point about #AI #hallucinations.
Computers are logical constructs that should produce outputs based on logic. 🤖 When AI hallucinates, we tend to see that as a bug. But is it?
A device that is supposedly bound by logic is making stuff up that seems feasible. That's pretty creative, and not dissimilar to the stuff we humans come up with on a daily basis.
Sure, we want accurate answers from AI. At the same time, when it starts making stuff up, that's pretty incredible too. 🤔
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I just listened to a recent episode of the #SharpTech podcast in which #BenThompson made a great point about #AI #hallucinations.
Computers are logical constructs that should produce outputs based on logic. 🤖 When AI hallucinates, we tend to see that as a bug. But is it?
A device that is supposedly bound by logic is making stuff up that seems feasible. That's pretty creative, and not dissimilar to the stuff we humans come up with on a daily basis.
Sure, we want accurate answers from AI. At the same time, when it starts making stuff up, that's pretty incredible too. 🤔
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#BenThompson
#Stratechery
#TheNextBigThing
#SVBMy take away from this article by Ben Thompson is that
1) There is no Next Big Thing in technology
2) This has changed the way Silicon Valley denizens view their economy from an inevitably expanding ecosystem to a Zero Sum Game.https://stratechery.com/2023/the-death-of-silicon-valley-bank/
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The four horsemen are not doing so well!
#BenThompson
#Stratechery
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Is Knotel poised to turn WeWork from a Unicorn into an Icarus? - The day of reckoning for the ‘flexible office space as a startup’ is coming, and it’s coming up fast... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/FvQCK6b7zHo/ #venturecapital #benthompson #realestate #amolsarva #coworking #geocities #startups #facebook #funding #myspace #amazon #google #knotel #wework #ebay #aws #tc
