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Jordan Novet
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Technology reporter @cnbc.com in San Francisco. jordan.novet@nbcuni.com
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this website has got a way to go in the US www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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transfer of risk www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Microsoft hearts Anthropic now
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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yeah that's one way to cut costs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
screenshot of Bloomberg article. here is the text: Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners. The pharmacy chain eliminated six paid holidays for hourly store workers, cutting hundreds of dollars from their paychecks, according to interviews and records reviewed by Bloomberg News. Walgreens informed workers of the change in early October. That was a little over a month after it was acquired by private equity firm Sycamore Partners. Walgreens didn’t respond to requests for comment. Sycamore declined to comment.
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Warren Buffett, at 95, says he's in the office five days a week www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/w...
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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wonder if we'll break past 2001 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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going to take me a good long time to get hip to the new Excel and Word icons
Screenshot of two icons on the Apple MacOS dock. white outlines for both, rounded edges of a square, on a dark background. the Word icon is blue, the W is in white against a dark blue background, and the larger icon shows three horizontal blue stripes that become progressively darker with each lower stripe. the Excel icon shows the X in white against a green background. the larger icon includes squares that appear like the cells of a worksheet. the top two cells are lighter, and the lower sections are darker
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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"The stock market incorporates both real economic activity per capita and prices; job openings do not. So as living standards rise and inflation occurs, I’d expect the series to drift apart." @econberger.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/macromos...
November 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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emailed directions in 2004 were kind of intense
October 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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not Sweetgreen going aggro about a specific IT supplier in a promotional push notification
October 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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nothing to see here www.wsj.com/business/aut...
October 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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still thinking about what Nick Clegg said www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
screenshot of Bloomberg article. the highlighted text says. "everybody’s kind of following the same trend. And that’s what's going to happen again, because guess what? The political weather will change." the full quote is as follows: Are you suggesting there’s been an overcorrection toward the US? Yeah, but that’s what Silicon Valley does: It always overcorrects. Silicon Valley is a place of stampedes and fads. The funniest thing is that Silicon Valley is a place that prides itself on challenging orthodoxy, conformity and conventional wisdom — and yet in many ways, it’s the most conformist place I've ever lived in my life: Everyone dresses the same, they drive the same cars, they listen to the same podcasts, they claim to read the same books. You get this extraordinary herd behavior and everyone thinks they’re being super insightful, but in fact everybody’s kind of following the same trend. And that’s what's going to happen again, because guess what? The political weather will change! Politics is always fluid.
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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in 1999, Oracle employed the slogan "The Internet Changes Everything" web.archive.org/web/20030212...

on Monday, Oracle executives discussed the appointment of the company's two new CEOs on a webcast entitled "AI Changes Everything"
screenshot of Q4 webcast from Oracle. at the center is an image showing a building with a red Oracle sign near the top. In white text in the clouds there are the words "AI Changes Everything"
September 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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lol try again Bing
screenshot of Bing. search query is "nvidia to buy arm." the headline of the AI-generated title says "NVIDIA has officially acquired Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion, aiming to create a leading computing company for the age of AI." below that is an overview of the deal. it says "NVIDIA announced a definitive agreement to acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank Group Corp. in a transaction valued at $40 billion. This acquisition is seen as a strategic move to combine NVIDIA's AI computing platform with Arm's extensive ecosystem, enhancing innovation across various technology sectors, including smartphones, PCs, and self-driving." and then it cuts off. a "read more" button is below.
September 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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welcome to the Find the Stargate Data Center game
screenshot of OpenAI blog post announcing Stargate momentum. the highlighted sentence says "The three new sites—located in Shackelford County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and a site in the Midwest, which we expect to announce soon; combined with an additional potential expansion of 600 megawatts near the flagship Stargate site in Abilene, Texas—can deliver over 5.5 gigawatts of capacity." the full paragraph in the screenshot says: In July, OpenAI and Oracle entered an agreement to develop up to 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate capacity. This represents a partnership that exceeds $300 billion between the two companies over the next five years. The three new sites—located in Shackelford County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and a site in the Midwest, which we expect to announce soon; combined with an additional potential expansion of 600 megawatts near the flagship Stargate site in Abilene, Texas—can deliver over 5.5 gigawatts of capacity. Together, these sites are expected to create over 25,000 onsite jobs, and tens of thousands of additional jobs across the U.S. We remain in the process of evaluating additional sites.
September 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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so much for the cut being baked in
screenshot of CNBC chart of S&P 500 shows spike after 11 a.m. PT after Fed announces cut
September 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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cheeky Apple ad
Screenshot of LinkedIn app on iOS. Ad from Apple has a blue background like Microsoft Windows hour screen of death. The ad copy in white says :) Your PC needs a security update. Switch to Mac
September 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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othered again
screenshot of a form. the question is, "What is your job role?" many options are shown including executive, developer, marketing and sales, but journalist is not an option. i'll go with "other"
September 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Screenshot of Fortune article on smartphone. Headline says "Bosses admit they’re using return-to-office mandates to trim down teams—without needing to announce layoffs." Dated 9/10/25 Screenshot of Microsoft blog about return to office for Puget Sound employees. Highlighted sentence says: "Importantly, this update is not about reducing headcount."
September 12, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Microsoft now markets Visual Studio Code as "The open source AI code editor"
screenshot of the top of the Visual Studio Code homepage. top navigation includes links for Docs, Updates, Blog, API, Extensions, MCP, FAQ and Dev Days. there is a search bar and a big blue download button in the top right corner. a banner says "Join a VS Code Dev Days event near you to learn about AI-assisted development in VS Code." the largest text in this screenshot is in the center in sans-serif typeface. it says "The open source AI code editor." Below that display text is a button that says "Download for macOS"
September 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Dylan Field is currently using Figma's earnings call to give a demo to analysts
September 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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the part that stuck
Screenshot of mobile version of Bloomberg article with this section highlighted: Otherwise I rarely observed the students checking its outputs. A couple of times, I saw errors or biases go apparently unnoticed, and in class debates some cited comments from “the AI” as evidence supporting their claims.
September 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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RIP Knoller www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-kn...
screenshot of one paragraph of a CBS News obituary. the paragraph says: "Mark Knoller was the hardest-working and most prolific White House correspondent of a generation," Tom Cibrowski, president and executive editor of CBS News, said. "Everyone in America knew his distinctive voice and his up-to-the-minute reporting across eight Presidential administrations."
August 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/b...
Screenshot of chart embedded in New York Times article. title is "A.I. Infrastructure Has Overtaken Office Construction." subtitle is "Spending on building data centers has ballooned in recent years – and that’s not even counting the equipment that goes into them." x axis is 2017 through 2026. the 2025 to 2026 section is in gray. y axis is 0 to $50 billion. there are two lines in the chart, light blue for data centers coming up especially in 2023-2025. the dark blue line is has been higher from 2017 to 2025 but in late 2025 in the forecast the data center line starts to clearly outpace spending on traditional offices. data source is Dodge Construction
August 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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2018: we at Google don't need multiple cameras on a smartphone, we can do same thing in software with AI

2025: the Google Pixel 10 has an advanced triple rear camera
screenshot of a paragraph from a Wired article. The text says: The rear camera is still a single-lens camera, one of the elements of the Pixel 3 that's definitely outdated. But it still has a depth-adjustment feature for photos snapped in Portrait mode, same as the new smartphone cameras from Apple and Samsung. When asked why Google hadn't included a dual-lense camera on the Pixel 3, Google vice president of product management Mario Queiroz says the team didn't feel it was necessary. "What we've been able to do with machine learning, to produce better image and video quality, surpasses the need for us to add more [lenses]," Queiroz says. screenshot of the the official product description page of the new Google Pixel 10 for 2025. the screenshot shows the camera area of the overview section of the page. it shows a photo of the top of the phone, with the camera bar and multiple little circles visible inside the dark area to the left of the flash. below the photo are some camera specifications. they say: " Advanced triple rear camera 48 MP wide10 13 MP ultrawide10 10.8 MP telephoto10 20x zoom Front camera 10.5 MP with autofocus 4K video"
August 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM