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Meta's Reality Labs unit lost another $4.6 billion in Q2, bringing its cumulative losses since 2020 up to $87 billion. We've never seen a public company light money on fire to this extent. $META
🇫🇷 Just days ago in Narbonne: 17-year-old Louis was lured to a construction site, brutally beaten by a group of 5 immigrants.
Today his mother revealed: “They targeted only his head.”
She said it’s “not the time for mourning — it’s the time for war.”
All 5 suspects are in custody on murder charges.
Rest in peace, Louis.
Gavin Newsom’s new software tax goes way beyond corporate softwares, California Democrats are going to tax everything
They expect to make over $2 billion per year from this new tax, “They now define pre-written software as everything from Microsoft Office, Gmail accounts, Android operating systems — it has a computer, it has pre-written software. California is now going to tax that. Wow”
I put together a list to give you an idea of how far this goes
• Microsoft Office / 365 subscriptions
• Gmail / Google Workspace
• Slack
• Workday
• QuickBooks / Intuit products
• Adobe Creative Cloud / Acrobat
• Android operating system licenses (in applicable contexts)
• Cloud-based CRM/ERP systems
• Accounting/financial software (SaaS versions)
• Project management tools (e.g., Asana, Monday. com)
• Antivirus/security software (digital downloads/subscriptions)
• Productivity suites (e.g., Zoom, Teams)
• Database software (pre-written)
• Graphic design/photo editing tools (cloud)
• Operating system access/subscriptions (where pre-written)
• Enterprise software platforms
• HR/payroll SaaS tools
• Marketing automation software
• Collaboration/communication apps
• Many mobile/desktop apps sold digitally
So basically everything
Jumper jumps: Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence, is leaving the company to join Anthropic https://t.co/Lgvxz7PloQ
Bugmageddon Confidential: He sounded the alarm about AI threats—and now he’s part of a team arguing for the latest models to be released #CarliniLoop#Bumageddon#Mythos5#Fable5 https://t.co/XK7G4bwYT0 via @WSJ