WILD: Sources say WR Dozie Ezukanma was BEATEN in the locker room by Jacob Fields and remains hospitalized.
Ezukanma is unlikely to play in the Aug. 29 opener 😳
Ben Thompson says the real money in AI is being made by Meta, not OpenAI or Anthropic
"The biggest impact of the models, the biggest monetization right now is probably not in Anthropic or OpenAI. It's the incremental gain that is happening for Google and Meta."
"They can actually validate their image creation and their text creation in a way no one else can. Their validation is the ad marketplace, like running a gazillion A/B tests to see what works. Most ads don't convert.”
"What do LLMs do? LLMs predict. We're going to move to this world where Meta is going to look at people and say, this person probably wants to see this next. And they're going to go find that thing and show it to them."
"The potential upside in terms of just showing people better ads that are more relevant to them, they only need to increase like a few percentage points for the returns to be billions and billions of dollars. This alone is worth them investing in being on the leading edge."
"This is why advertising is great. And Meta's advertising in particular is awesome. I get frustrated that Meta doesn't talk about that. Mark Zuckerberg has never really talked about the societal benefits of advertising except in passing in 20 years."
Wow, seems like Google is buying Spirit Airlines' enterprise data for $10m (outbidding Mercor at $7.5m).
Basically includes every internal document, email, workflow, and codebase for a once $6B company.
Honestly, $10m for 34 years of operational data really seems like a steal.
What is Flock Safety? How do its cameras track vehicles and share data across the country?
Atlanta-based Flock Safety has built one of the nation's largest license plate reader networks, used by more than 7,000 law enforcement agencies.
While reporting on the latest episode of "Curiosities of the South," AJC producer Fraser Jones found himself returning again and again to Flock Safety and the questions surrounding its growing surveillance network.
In this episode, Fraser explores how Flock's cameras work, how data is shared between agencies, the privacy concerns raised by critics and what the company says it has done to address those concerns.
Editor's note: On Aug. 13, Flock announced it is changing its default ALPR data retention period from 30 days to seven days, though agencies can still choose longer retention periods.
Watch the full episode now and subscribe to the AJC's YouTube channel: https://t.co/zsvltAP2yz
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Don't forget they had Wood Harris perform a lifetime performance playing Spencer Haywood. This might be one of the best monologues in TV history. Winning Time was elite television!