When Amazon brought me to Seattle to help build AWS, almost everyone at the org was an immigrant. The ratio was probably ~20:1. This “visa abuse” was what was necessary to create the biggest American companies in the history of commerce. The Seattle metro area became one of the wealthiest regions in the world because of this, but let’s shut the whole system down that made this possible.
Woah. Bernstein says Apple iPhone 18 Pro/18 Pro Max U.S. demand is down low single digits y/y and revenue for first two months of quarter are tracking to "modestly below" expectations.
If you add surging memory chip prices crimping margins, you could have a double whammy happening.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
"He who went towards the mosque in the morning or evening, Allah would arrange a feast for him morning or evening in Paradise."
📚 Sahih Muslim 669
…I shall forgive him. And if I grant him recovery, then he will emerge with a body whose sins have been forgiven, with no sin upon him.’”
al Silsilah al Ṣaḥīḥah no. 16
@jukan05 I will go with OpenAI as I have overall trust issues surrounding Facebook and Data. Zuck have had full time attendance in congress now regarding Facebook lol.
Cant say anything about the second question. Competetion breeds innovation i guess. They might do it better. Who knows?
UPDATE!: When Lisa Su took over, AMD was nearly bankrupt. The chipmaker is now worth $1 trillion - an incredible run and one of the all-time great business turnaround stories.
The one who has enough CPUs and DRAM to support millions of users
The reason why Meta didn't launch Muse in WhatsApp is cuz they simply don't have enough hardware (CPUs, GPUs, DRAM, SSDs) to support agents for 2 billion people
The Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said:
"Every day two angels come down from Heaven and one of them says, 'O Allah! Compensate every person who spends in Your Cause,' and the other (angel) says, 'O Allah! Destroy every miser.' "
-(Sahih al-Bukhari 1442)