A Zurich court is expected to rule on the case in March. Whatever the outcome, Palantir has already lost the only contest that matters: the one for public perception. For a company that sells the ability to see around corners, they apparently never thought to search “The Streisand Effect.”
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.. I can’t sign it - but maybe you can?
Congratulations on saying the biggest number, Paramount. $111B for a company that a year ago had a market cap of around $20B. For a company that shrunk in their most recent quarter, and in fact, for the entire year, with revenue down 5% to $37.3B. Paramount may not be buying the Titanic, but only because they already own that IP.
I wrote yesterday that I’d give you the links …
If you prefer reading - 🔗 My Dinner with Jeffrey - by Douglas Rushkoff - but really - though I am a ‘read first - listen maybe’ kinda guy - listen.
Suddenly I have the lens where it all makes perfect sense. Sad - but finally …
When I diagram I often default to circle and spirals and avoid triangles.
Maybe I have unknowingly been channeling my inner Omoiyari❓
🔗 LLMs Generate Predictable Passwords - Schneier on Security
Password generation seems precisely the thing that LLMs shouldn’t be good at. But if AI agents are doing things autonomously, they will be creating accounts. So this is a problem.
We’re screwed aren’t we?
🔗 How close are we to a vision for 2010?
What strikes me most about the possible futures discussed isn’t their optimism nor their missteps - it’s that most of these things could be possible today if there were sufficient open standards which the public and private sector adopted.
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Anyone who has read “The Entrepreneurial State” knows that these things take significant public investment. We’ve reached a point where the private sector has generated wealth from previous public research, but seems unwilling to invest in any long-term research itself. That’s short-changing our future.
🔗London Stock Exchange: Raspberry Pi Holdings plc
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🔗🤓 Times New Resistance - Abby Haddican
Too good - though I think we can provide many more to build out the list.
🔗 Agentic swarms are an org-chart delusion
If you believe the future is agent management, you’ll build tools for orchestrating fleets of specialized bots. You’ll create dashboards for monitoring your marketing agent separately from your sales agent separately from your dev agent. You’ll recreate Salesforce, but for robots.
If you believe the future is unified execution, you’ll build tools that let one person express intent and get outcomes across every domain from a single surface. The interface collapses. The abstraction layers disappear. You don’t manage agents any more than you manage the individual transistors in your laptop.
I need to revisit - I mean she’s talking org charts.