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People Mentioned
- Michael Dell (Founder of Dell Technologies) - Donated $6.25 billion to jumpstart investment accounts for 25 million children in America.
- Michael and Susan Dell - Donated $6.25 billion to jumpstart investment accounts for 25 million children in America.
- Brad Gerstner (CEO of Altimeter) - Driving force behind the "Invest in America" initiative.
- Larry Ellison (Co-founder of Oracle) - Backing Paramount's bid for Warner Brothers Discovery.
- David Ellison (CEO of Skydance Media) - Backing Paramount's bid for Warner Brothers Discovery.
- John Giannandrea (Apple's Head of AI) - Stepping down from his role at Apple.
- Pat Gelsinger (Former Intel CEO) - Serves as executive chairman at X-Light, a chip startup receiving investment from the US Commerce Department.
- Malcolm Gladwell (Host of Smart Talks with IBM podcast) - Interviewed IBM's chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna.
- Arvind Krishna (IBM's Chairman and CEO) - Discussed how companies can use AI to its fullest potential in an interview with Malcolm Gladwell.
- Humaine Amit Jain (Co-founder and CEO of Luma AI) - Discussed Luma AI's global expansion and vision for AI.
- Demis Hassabis (CEO of Google DeepMind) - Mentioned in the context of researchers from DeepMind joining Luma AI.
- Sanjay Bakta (Conde Nast's Chief Product and Technology Officer) - Discussed Conde Nast's use of AI and cloud infrastructure.
Organizations & Institutions
- Amazon - Mentioned for its AWS reinvent event, new AI chips, models, and agents, as well as its delivery services.
- Anthropic - A core customer of Amazon's Trainium servers.
- OpenAI - Has a deal with AWS and its models are integrated with AWS, also mentioned for its deal with Conde Nast.
- Google - Mentioned in the context of its TPU chips and AI labs like DeepMind.
- Microsoft - Mentioned for its heavy spending on AI.
- Meta - Mentioned for its heavy spending on AI.
- Apple - Mentioned in the context of its head of AI stepping down and its generative AI efforts.
- Warner Brothers Discovery - Receiving new bids, including one from Netflix.
- Netflix - Made a mostly cash offer for Warner Brothers Discovery.
- Comcast - Bid for parts of Warner Brothers Discovery.
- Paramount - Bid for the entire Warner Brothers Discovery company.
- Altimeter - Brad Gerstner's firm, driving the "Invest in America" initiative.
- US Department of Treasury - Recipient of Michael Dell's $6.25 billion donation for the "Invest in America" initiative.
- American Bitcoin Corp - Bitcoin miner whose shares experienced volatility.
- AWS (Amazon Web Services) - Hosted the Reinvent conference, debuted new AI chips and models.
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia - Used AWS's devops agent to debug a complex networking stack.
- SmugMug - Photo company automating security operations using AWS security agent.
- IBM - Mentioned for its podcast "Smart Talks with IBM" and its chairman and CEO's views on AI.
- Luma AI - Known for its Dream Machine video generator, expanding globally with a new London office, and focusing on multimodal AGI.
- Conde Nast - Discussed its use of AWS for personalization and its relationship with OpenAI.
- X-Light - A chip startup receiving investment from the US Commerce Department.
Websites & Online Resources
- bon appetit - Conde Nast's website where an AI-based recipe search using OpenAI has been launched.
Other Resources
- Trainium 3 - Amazon's latest generation AI accelerator chip.
- Nova 2 - Amazon's updated in-house foundation model.
- Omni - A variant of Amazon's Nova 2 model that can take multimodal inputs.
- Amazon Connect - Amazon's contact center application, now seen as an agentic product for customer experience.
- Nova Sonic - AI voice technology used in Amazon Connect.
- Kiro - AWS's software development frontier agent.
- AWS Security Agent - AWS's frontier agent for security.
- AWS DevOps Agent - AWS's frontier agent for devops.
- Galaxy Z Trifold - Samsung's first trifold smartphone.
- Dream Machine video generator - Luma AI's flagship creative product.
- Ray 3 - Luma AI's reasoning video models.
- Bedrock - Amazon's foundation model service.
- ChatGPT - OpenAI's language model, used internally at Conde Nast.
- Amazon Alexa - Amazon's voice assistant, integrated with Conde Nast content.