Bill Gates with your answer

No worries, we've all been there. I'd just note the cover line is part of an AI issue, so more stories to come. The 'what's next' = more DeepSeek models, homegrown chips, MiniMax/Moonshot/etc, US co's reacting. Or maybe you'd prefer the cover line: "DeepSeek was just a one-off, let's move on" : )

Sorry, you missed the stuff on Huawei/Baidu chips rivaling Nvidia's? Or our reporters in Hangzhou/Beijing describing other AI dragons? Or Xi's tech embrace, Ma's return & the national startup pride that doesn't exist here? Or the whole theme about China *not shoveling* money into LLMs like the US?

Funny to hear relief on Boston radio this week that it wasn't Bezos...WEEI folks were worried he'd be too profit-driven and wouldn't care if Massholes hated him 😅

Still mad that Apple yanked my Flappy Bird into the cloud at some point...it worked for a long time after the dev originally killed it

Still being able to open these things brings back strong memories. I am sure @dens.nyc has way more digital artifacts than me, but Foursquare is one I will surely miss and never delete.

They did have an Nvidia chip, incidentally

Fwiw, it was actually the startup (Cooler Screens) that raised $170m to disrupt fridges. Walgreens could be on the hook for $200m in their ongoing lawsuit. The founder told me ~$50m of their abandoned smart doors are lying in a Texas warehouse. Perhaps they could be converted to Hans Solo carbonite!

Our kiddo is the same:

Just a bit outside

Seems to be a common reaction among some: The initial novelty was eye-catching, but if shoppers ran into glitches or opened the smart doors and saw different products, the novelty quickly wore off. Walgreens says they frequently flicked, crashed, showed the wrong inventory, or even caught fire : x

If you don't like locked-up shelves, may I interest you in Walgreens' high-tech refrigerators??

New Businessweek feature on the wildly glitchy smart doors that sparked a $200 million lawsuit with Walgreens:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...