Corey Quinn
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Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
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How upscale are the Groq offices? Just wondering how fancy next year’s Spirit Halloween is gonna be.
Disruptive CEO Alex Davis says Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq for $20B in cash; leaked email: Jensen Huang says Nvidia is not acquiring Groq (David Faber/CNBC)
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December 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
How upscale are the Groq offices? Just wondering how fancy next year’s Spirit Halloween is gonna be.
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oh man, I can't believe I missed out annually on slightly less than a bank makes from a single returned check
![An ad proclaiming "You could have saved [33 USD] in the past year with Amazon Business"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i4s26pdwhk4t2hnyvfv7ogky/bafkreidahxvodf5lhnzavo2bcrqdpfroc7ilg7fv3uhfuobnhzkib7pghi@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
oh man, I can't believe I missed out annually on slightly less than a bank makes from a single returned check
Microsoft, even more than most companies, comes off as if they’re legit mad for having to deal with us in order to get to our money.
Xbox had a terrible 2025: Microsoft canceled games and raised console and Game Pass prices, Costco stopped selling Xbox, and Valve's Steam Machine upstaged it (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
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December 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Microsoft, even more than most companies, comes off as if they’re legit mad for having to deal with us in order to get to our money.
Casino buys new slot machine.
Coinbase agrees to acquire prediction markets startup The Clearing Company for an undisclosed sum; the startup was founded in 2025 and raised a $15M seed (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
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December 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Casino buys new slot machine.
“Except for the ones that just stopped in intersections for funsies. Who among us…”
Waymo resumes robotaxi service in San Francisco after a blackout, and says most active trips were completed before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over (CNBC)
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December 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“Except for the ones that just stopped in intersections for funsies. Who among us…”
Thou shalt not embarrass the regime
Sources: The US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA staffers who were suspended in July misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph, which he failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
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December 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Thou shalt not embarrass the regime
I’m not sure what publishers need to hear this, but a pull quote from @scalzi.com on a book cover is an instant read.
December 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I’m not sure what publishers need to hear this, but a pull quote from @scalzi.com on a book cover is an instant read.
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Here's @quinnypig.com to help you decode today's Amazon reorg: www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/j...
Amazon's big AGI reorg decoded by Corey Quinn
: Amazon bets that by making AI its own group, it can outpace Microsoft and Google
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Here's @quinnypig.com to help you decode today's Amazon reorg: www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/j...
Blue Owl Capital bucks current trends by having two neurons to bang together and make a spark.
Sources: Blue Owl Capital will not invest in Oracle's $10B, 1GW data center in Michigan after funding talks stalled due to concerns over debt terms and delays (Financial Times)
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December 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Blue Owl Capital bucks current trends by having two neurons to bang together and make a spark.
Man with no ideas attempts to lead the herd from behind.
Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's all-in bet to make Meta an AI leader, with some saying Alexandr Wang finds Zuckerberg's micromanagement of AI work suffocating (Financial Times)
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December 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Man with no ideas attempts to lead the herd from behind.
Enterprise can't wait to sign contracts with company who famously views contractual obligations as mere suggestions.
Sources: xAI has created an enterprise AI sales group, but xAI's lack of experience in selling to big businesses is holding potential customers back (Theo Wayt/The Information)
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December 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Enterprise can't wait to sign contracts with company who famously views contractual obligations as mere suggestions.
Company that can’t get AI to clearly explain its own data transfer pricing is gonna take a whack at summarizing “Finnegan’s Wake.”
Amazon rolls out Ask This Book to the Kindle iOS app, letting readers ask questions about plot or characters; authors can't opt out (Will McCurdy/PCMag)
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December 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Company that can’t get AI to clearly explain its own data transfer pricing is gonna take a whack at summarizing “Finnegan’s Wake.”
This is gonna be an unmitigated disaster.
Amazon rolls out Ask This Book to the Kindle iOS app, letting readers ask questions about plot or characters; authors can't opt out (Will McCurdy/PCMag)
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December 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is gonna be an unmitigated disaster.
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@quinnypig.com in @theregister.com writing about an AWS keynote. Has snarkmas come early? www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/a...
AWS re:Invent keynote: Matt Garman bores, then thrills
: But the 25 announcements in the last 10 minutes included a few well worth waiting for
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December 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
@quinnypig.com in @theregister.com writing about an AWS keynote. Has snarkmas come early? www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/a...
Curtains for business Zoosha?
Delivery Hero Chair Kristin Skogen Lund backs CEO Niklas Östberg as the group explores asset sales amid shareholder pressure over its falling stock price (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
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December 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Curtains for business Zoosha?
Sucks to suck.
Broadcom's shares fell 11% on December 12, their biggest single-day drop since January, after the company's AI sales outlook fell short of investor expectations (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
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December 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Sucks to suck.
They can pay hundreds of millions to produce the shows but they can’t afford to pay some intern to watch them and then write a brief summary?
Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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December 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
They can pay hundreds of millions to produce the shows but they can’t afford to pay some intern to watch them and then write a brief summary?
When @jeffbach.bsky.social tells me a cert is expired on one of my sites:
December 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
When @jeffbach.bsky.social tells me a cert is expired on one of my sites:
Meanwhile I have both US and EU member state passports and I shouldn’t be allowed to secure a chicken coop. Make it make sense.
Also because I'm a US immigrant, but not a green card holder, and the UK is no longer in the EU, and I don't live in the UK, I'm basically considered a foreign persons by like every country's definition so I'm just not allowed to secure their network lol
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Meanwhile I have both US and EU member state passports and I shouldn’t be allowed to secure a chicken coop. Make it make sense.
When you have to report your status at work, but you spent the entire day jorkin:
Google adds new pinch and wrist gestures to the Pixel Watch 4 and says Watch 3 and Watch 4 will now use an on-device Gemma-based AI model for Smart Replies (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
When you have to report your status at work, but you spent the entire day jorkin:
Taken at face value, does it justify the insane amount of money OpenAI is trying to raise?
An OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: it saves workers ~40 to 60 minutes per day on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M business clients (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
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December 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Taken at face value, does it justify the insane amount of money OpenAI is trying to raise?
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Have you ever wondered what @quinnypig.com would say if AWS finally released Savings Plans for RDS? Well wonder no more, just listen to the the end of the latest LWIA episode for a hilarious 3 minute diatribe! www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0U4...
Corey Quinn Crashes Out
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December 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Have you ever wondered what @quinnypig.com would say if AWS finally released Savings Plans for RDS? Well wonder no more, just listen to the the end of the latest LWIA episode for a hilarious 3 minute diatribe! www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0U4...
Byron Cook is incredibly sharp, and just a nice guy in general.
A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks (John Pavlus/Fast Company)
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December 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Byron Cook is incredibly sharp, and just a nice guy in general.
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