NEW @BW caper about the Microsoft engineer who stole 152,000 Xbox gift cards + was living off the proceeds in a $1.6 million home with plans to buy a ski chalet, yacht, and seaplane.

RT @Techmeme: As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and d….

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RT @asallen: Deep dive by Bloomberg connecting the history of skeuomorphism → flat → fluid in software design with a few quotes from me and….

Some thoughts on post-flat design and the future of skeuomorphism, with Airbnb's @bchesky & Not Boring's @asallen:.

Lovely to see how deep Apple is taking spatial UI with its new "liquid glass" redesign. Feels like the next generation of the translucency + parallax effects introduced with iOS 7. The depth seems much more immersive now yet it's still a very measured move beyond the flat era.

RT @asallen: Our !Camera launch poster is of course an homage to the famous 1999 iMac "Yum" poster. At a time when everyone else was obsess….

RT @pingroma: If you only want to read one article about DeepSeek, read our cover story for the June issue of @BW:. I traveled to Hangzhou….

Relevant primer before Satya Nadella's Microsoft Build keynote today. Very curious to see if Microsoft shows off any third-party (and non-OpenAI) model integrations or more in-house efforts on the "Pareto frontier" from @mustafasuleyman.

RT @dinabass: Here's a gift link to read our piece on how Microsoft's AI strategy has evolved, how corporations and consumers are receiving….

RT @dinabass: So why is Microsoft back to pouring resources into training its own large language models? When will it use them as versus Op….

RT @Techmeme: Deep dive on the evolution of Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, from its $1B investment in 2019 through Copilot rollouts….

RT @12exyz: codex achieves sota on swebench, making it a great option for drafting your unauthorized modifications to your company’s codeba….

RT @business: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on DeepSeek, in-house AI models and competing with ChatGPT

When Dina started covering Microsoft in 1999, her first interview was with @satyanadella. Fittingly, 26 years later, her last interview on the $MSFT beat is with Satya, too. Congrats on an epic run of coverage, @dinabass.

RT @BW: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on DeepSeek, in-house AI models and competing with ChatGPT

RT @dinabass: 2 years ago Microsoft set out to spin an early GenAI lead (courtesy of the OpenAI deal) into corporate & consumer AI gold. @….

Satya Nadella on @Microsoft's new "MAI-2" models, embracing @deepseek_ai, and competing with ChatGPT while supporting @OpenAI .

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New deep dive on @DeepSeek_ai founder Liang Wenfeng for our next cover story, charting his history all the way back to when he just ran a small quant fund in China:

RT @sebkrier: Interesting excerpts from Bloomberg's recent piece on DeepSeek:

RT @Techmeme: Former employees, analysts, VCs, and executives detail how DeepSeek works and how it fits into China's broader AI ambitions (….