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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 11h

He's got a Chase or two in him.

Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 12h

Used to call an outing like that a shut-out, back in the days when the numbers were stitched and there weren't ads on the helmets and you let a starter who was cooking break 70 pitches.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 16h

etc www.geekwire.com/2025/neil-yo...

Neil Young plans to pull his music off Amazon as he calls out Jeff Bezos for supporting Trump

The 79-year-old rocker is encouraging his listeners to reject "big corporations who have sold out America" and instead "buy local."

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 16h

Neil Young has had a change of heart.

2019 Amazon press release, including this bit: “Earth will be changed forever when Amazon introduces high quality streaming to the masses,” said rock icon Neil Young. “This will be the biggest thing to happen in music since the introduction of digital audio 40 years ago.”

"FORGET AMAZON AND WHOLE FOODS
FORGET FACEBOOK
BUY LOCAL
BUY DIRECT
BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT"

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 1d

For a year and a half, Microsoft has told investors on quarterly calls that it didn't have enough capacity to meet customer demand. That deficit looks like it's going to be around for the rest of the year, @brodyford.bsky.social scoops: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Microsoft Forecasts Show Data Center Crunch Persisting Into 2026

Microsoft Corp.’s data-center crunch will continue for longer than the company has previously outlined, underscoring the software giant’s struggles to keep up with cloud demand.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 1d

Meet Quick Suite, Amazon Web Services' latest effort to break into the office: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Now, with More AI!

Amazon Reboots AI Agent for Workers, Taking on ChatGPT, Copilot

Amazon.com Inc. is rolling out an updated version of its main artificial intelligence tool for business, the latest effort to grab a slice of the market for software designed to automate and speed up ...

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 1d

And subsequently left for Redmond, then returned to occupy a handful of massive towers and employ thousands downtown, then left again. The road is long.
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Tech Companies Can’t Get Enough of This Picturesque Seattle Suburb

Amazon, TikTok and OpenAI are among the firms taking office space in Bellevue, Wash., where rents are higher than in Seattle.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 1d

Always up for a good Which Puget Sound City Has The Upper Hand yarn, but if you're trendspotting Bellevue, it's worth reckoning with the fact that the Micro-Soft Corporation moved it's headquarters there in 1979.

WSJ headline: Tech Companies Can’t Get Enough of This Picturesque Seattle Suburb

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Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 8d

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 8d

Microsoft is planning to use the data center capacity its renting from Nebius as part of that enormous recent ~$19 billion deal to build its own AI models, @brodyford.bsky.social scoops: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Microsoft Bets $33 Billion on Neoclouds like Nebius to Ease AI Crunch

Microsoft Corp.’s deal with neocloud company Nebius Group NV will provide computing power to internal teams creating large language models and a consumer AI assistant, according to people familiar wit...

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 9d

News: Microsoft sales czar Judson Althoff is getting a bigger new job: Commercial CEO. He'll take on marketing/operations teams to free up Satya Nadella & Co. for technical work. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Microsoft Promotes Sales Chief Althoff to Help Free Up Nadella

Microsoft Corp. is giving its longtime sales chief oversight of marketing and operations in a reorganization designed to free up Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella and his engineering leaders to de...

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 10d

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Amazon Is Overhauling Its Devices to Take on Apple in the AI Era

Under Microsoft veteran Panos Panay, the company looks to add polish to its gadgets at every price level.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 10d

Panos is assembling a team.

To reshape Amazon’s hardware group, Panay has brought in collaborators from his Microsoft days, as well as veterans from Amazon itself. The team includes Aidan Marcuss, who worked on Windows until last year and now heads Amazon’s TV business, as well as J Allard, the co-inventor of Xbox who now leads a team focused on new form factors. Ring creator Jamie Siminoff, meanwhile, returned earlier this year. Perhaps the most significant addition is the German-born Groene, who left his Microsoft role when Panay exited.

When Groene joined Amazon eight months ago, his first order of business was bringing all of the company’s designers — across hardware, software and user experience — under one roof. That created a structure similar to the way Apple develops its products.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 10d

Echoes, too: Amazon Revamps Echo Speakers, Displays in Hardware Reboot www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon Revamps Echo Speakers, Displays in Hardware Reboot

New speakers include revamped look, upgraded silicon and integration with Alexa+ subscription service.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 10d

Then, some Fire TVs, some Kindles. You know.

Amazon Launches $40 4K Fire TV Stick and 4K Ring Security Cameras

Ring cameras are getting a new Search Party feature to help triangulate lost pets.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 11d

Loitering at Amazon's new hardware launch event in NYC. First, some new Ring cams: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon Launches 4K Ring Security Cameras and Pet-Finding Feature

Company also introduces new smart home devices from its Blink brand.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 12d

Via @austincarr.bsky.social
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OpenAI Floats the Promise of a More Useful Personal AI

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Austin Carr looks at OpenAI’s effort to offer ChatGPT users a personal d...

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 12d

The world's biggest supercomputer, and many of its best minds, working feverishly to invent a newfangled Yahoo dot com landing page.

Earlier this year, for instance, I sought to make a habit of checking in with Copilot Daily, a morning digest Microsoft Corp. added to its consumer chatbot app featuring widgets for weather and headlines. While refreshingly colorful compared with the stark AI interfaces I was accustomed to, the habit didn’t stick. An AI-generated voice briefing of news sounded like an eerie substitute for human equivalents accessible from countless media outlets, and Copilot’s list of suggested MSN links and conversation topics (“tips to maximize your travel fun”) was too often generic.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 15d

"The newspaper and other news organizations reported that Israel’s military intercepted millions of Palestinian mobile phone calls, stored them on Microsoft servers and used the data to select bombing targets in Gaza."
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Microsoft Disables Some Israeli Use on ‘Mass Surveillance’ Rules

Microsoft Corp., disabled some use of its software by the Israeli military after an investigation spurred by news reports that the company’s products were involved in the surveillance of civilians.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 15d

Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle an FTC case that it tricked shoppers into signing up for Prime and made it hard to cancel. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon, FTC Reach $2.5 Billion Deal in Prime Subscription Case

Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $2.5 billion in penalties and refunds and change its process for how to cancel its Prime subscription to settle a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 16d

Microsoft Copilot: Now, with models from the Pepsi to OpenAI's Coke. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Microsoft Partners With OpenAI Rival Anthropic on AI Copilot

Microsoft Corp. will start using artificial intelligence models from Anthropic to help power its workplace AI assistant, adding a significant partner to a product that has so far been predominantly dr...

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 17d

Amazon Prime on trial in Seattle: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon Heads Into FTC Jury Trial Over Prime Cancellation Claims

Amazon.com Inc. squared off in court against the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that the company duped customers into signing up for the Prime subscription service and then made it too hard...

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Will James @willjames.bsky.social · 18d

Many Cascade PBS journalists I admire are losing their jobs. Seattle is also losing a valuable piece of its news ecosystem. I think of the many journalists scattered throughout local newsrooms who passed through Cascade PBS/Crosscut at some point, freelanced there, or got their start there.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 18d

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 19d

Whole Foods is taking its 365 house brand international. Singapore tomorrow, with plans for more expansion to other countries where Amazon's organic grocer doesn't operate any stores stores: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon Introduces Whole Foods 365 Line to Singapore in Brand Test

Amazon.com Inc.’s Whole Foods Market is taking its house brands to Singapore, a test of how the private-label goods will fare in a market where the grocer has no brick-and-mortar presence.

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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 20d

I have some notes

Big sign over a grocery store. "America Northwest Seafood" over images of a crab and the state of Maryland.

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