Microsoft:
- Announces record profits this week.
- Fires 9000 employees.
- Hikes Microsoft 365 price to families from €99 to €129 (about 30%).

Quite a shameful monopolistic behavior, imho.

Kinda biased article covered with anonymous (why?) critics. As it spent alone in any policy is meaningful. What matters is impact. And military procurement of EU countries is pretty abysmal. Before throwing down that bucket the equivalent to many times any other public policy save pensions, fix that

The speed of the academic publishing process, for better (peer review, etc) or worse (relevance), means we are glancing now studies on AI effects mostly concluded in 2023.

Can we start a Kickstart in case they get discouraged by thr 9.99 monthly subscription. Lord Jesus!