I guess maybe you throw GitHub copilot and 365 on top? Are they really making that much? This is all pretty stinky. Also $10bn is OpenAI

.......wait. Analysts believe Microsoft will only make $11.5bn this year in AI services.

Microsoft themselves said they were at "$13bn in annualised revenue" in their January earnings!

Maybe this is why they didn't report their ARR last earnings?

www.microsoft.com/en-us/invest...

The clearest example yet that AI is the new crypto:

OpenAI’s Stock Compensation Reflect Steep Costs of Talent Wars OpenAI has signaled it will hike pay for some employees in the wake of a raid by Meta Platforms on its artificial intelligence researchers. That could mean a significant increase in the billions of do...

OpenAI spent $4.4B on employee stock compensation in 2024 which was higher than its annual revenue of $3.7B.

And that’s before the current talent wars where 9 figure paychecks are rumored.

everything old is new again.

(some of the earliest apps for the iPod touch where bluetooth based peer2peer messaging apps.

Hello, sharks. What if there was a newspaper with an opinion section, and the opinions were good? With your help, we can make this a reality...

Anyone not from early Bluesky will never know the pain of someone you blessed with an invite code unfollowing you three months later because there were only 300 people on the website and we all hated each other

There is no nuclear weapons program. Fetterman’s pals in the Trump administration - including DNI Gabbard - have confirmed there is no nuclear weapons program.

Fetterman is lying. Openly. Demonstrably. Shamelessly.

Israel’s Crimes of the Century How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.

New York magazine publishing a cover story about Israel's war crimes in Gaza seems like a pretty strong indication that the liberal pro-Israel consensus is gone and never coming back: nymag.com/intelligence...

This wasn’t supposed to be a prediction!!

Swindon

Implementing the General Terms of The United States of America-United Kingdom Economic Prosperity Deal By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency

Here’s the Executive Order for the UK-US deal:

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Why the best journalists on YouTube are all former Vox employees The company became a skunk works incubator that invented its own language of visual storytelling.

Vox became an accidental training ground for YouTube’s best video journalists. With creative freedom and no reliance on Facebook metrics, they built skills fast. But without a solid business model, they left, taking their talent and reshaping online journalism on their own terms.

Babou, a Bengal cat

Good morning Babou!

My former team shrank by half from '23-'25. But the team's metrics targets were raised by 20% every year, and partly the increase was justified by "improved productivity with AI."

Now that AI's productivity boost was measured, let me just plug it into my calculator here to see if the math works...

This is not OK!

As context, immigration attorney @asgvisalaw.bsky.social posted yesterday that the public has a "right to access immigration proceedings in most cases."

Earth could cross a key climate threshold in two years. Here’s why it matters. A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the world’s most famous climate goal.

An underappreciated aspect of the new WMO report -- if the temperature predictions are correct, the world will pass 1.5C in as a long-term average (i.e., the _actual_ Paris goal) in 2027.

In just two years.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Trump subverting the census is one of the biggest threats to democracy.

Congressional & legislative redistricting & Electoral College apportionment depend on it.

The 2030 census takes place just over a year after Trump’s term ends. Even if a Dem won in 2028, they may not be able to undo the damage

Union contracts cannot be changed by executive orders. That’s not a thing. The problem with just litigating this stuff is, management will just stop adhering to the contract in practice. The solution is to stop working.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

being an academic in 2025 means setting up google alerts for your name to make sure government robots aren't hallucinating citations to nonexistent papers to legally justify their new Make Everyone Dead policy

This sociopath destroyed countless lives and made life worse for millions of Americans, sneering at them as he indulged his narcissistic impulsivity. But now he has feelings. What are they and will he feel better soon? We asked in a six-part series. Today in the New York Times

They attacked, traumatized and fired the competent public servants, and now want your sympathy for being out of their depth.

Watching some of the world's hugest a-holes get everything they ever wanted and find out they hate it is cold comfort in this nightmare timeline but i'll take it.

It’s Happening Again: Town Hall Crowd Boos GOP Rep for Backing Trump Iowa’s Ashley Hinson was booed and jeered when she backed President Trump on Wednesday.

Rep. Ashley Hinson told an Iowa town hall audience that God saved Trump’s life last July. She was met with an overwhelming chorus of boos.

https://trib.al/roGtK6n

The US has never interfered more brazenly and directly in E Europe’s politics than it’s doing now. All the CIA-sponsored ops from the Cold War era are peanuts by comparison—and they were more or less covert or had a front!

BookTok Has Turned On Creator Luke Bateman Over Book Deal | marie claire After overnight success on TikTok Luke Bateman landed a book deal. Despite his virality, BookTok isn't happy - and we can't blame them.

Would like to once more remind BookTokers not to hate the player when the game is so fucked up: when major publishers care more about earning a quick buck than developing actual writing talent. www.marieclaire.com.au/life/enterta...

This new report from @brandonsilverman.bsky.social and @naomishiffman.bsky.social is great. It documents numerous concrete cases in which platform transparency (or scraping-based research) has had significant real-world impact.

iddp.gwu.edu/sites/g/file...

And a Tesla supplier seems to be one of the worst offenders. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

This one is worth a read: