Gennaro Cuofano

Based on Amazon’s notice on mturk.com and reporting by CNBC and Reuters. Amazon is closing the 21-year-old microtask marketplace on September 30 — not because AI ended the demand for human judgment, but because that demand moved up-market to a better-funded, higher-skill generation of labeling companies. Mechanical Turk — 21 Years 2005 Amazon launches Mechanical […]

Based on the Qwen and Z.ai release posts and reporting by Bloomberg. Performance and price figures below are the vendors’ own claims, not independent benchmarks. Alibaba and Z.ai released open-weight models on the same day — all performance and price figures below are the vendors’ own self-reported claims, not independent evaluations — and the structural

Based on the Rhine Group, the European Commission’s Draghi report, and reporting by CNBC. Mario Draghi and Patrick Collison co-chair a new convening body for European competitiveness — the diagnosis is sharper than ever; the execution gap is the only question that matters. How We Got Here September 2024 Draghi publishes The Future of European

Based on Perplexity’s product announcement and reporting by VentureBeat and Gizmodo. Business Engineer Beyond the Nvidia Tax — the compute layer economics Read → Perplexity and Nvidia are moving the local/cloud boundary — running agents on owned hardware by default and escalating to the paid cloud only on permission. The economics behind the move are

As reported by Bloomberg (via Investing.com) and The Next Web. These are ongoing funding talks; deal terms have not been finalized and Lambda has not confirmed them. The Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider is stacking equity, chip debt, and a reported pre-IPO raise — a capital structure that tells you exactly what kind of business a