links

A collection of interesting links that made me go, WTF?

Sep

20

Link: CelesTrak: SpaceX controls 62%+ of all active satellites in orbit, ~10x more than closest rival OneWeb, after launching its 7,000th Starlink satellite on Sep. 5 (Anthony Cuthbertson/The Independent)

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Sep

20

Link: A writer who works for a tech company describes how he helps train AI models how to write, by making up pretend responses to hypothetical chatbot questions (Jack Apollo George/The Guardian)

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Sep

20

Link: Dreamforce 2024 takeaways: Salesforce upgrades all customers from Einstein Copilot to Agentforce, Slack is positioned as an agentic AI-enhanced work OS, more (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

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Sep

20

Link: Layoffs.fyi: tech companies have laid off ~137,000 people since January 2024; Indeed.com: software development job postings are down 30%+ since February 2020 (Wall Street Journal)

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Sep

20

Link: Amazon's new competition TV show, debuting October 30, will have entrepreneurs pitch judges, including Amazon execs; finalists' product will be sold on Amazon (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)

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