2025-10-28
There should be some kind of metric published for AI models: the degree to which they're just a compressed version of key reference works, like Wikipedia. In some ways they are just a giant zip file with fast non linear retrieval. — bsky.app/profile/tech... [embedded post]
Washington Post
Grokipedia, a Grok-based encyclopedia, launches with 885K+ articles, drawing from Wikipedia content; Elon Musk called it “a massive improvement” over Wikipedia
The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative, but it went down after about an hour.
The scale of Apple's business sometimes isnt clear unless spelt out. Just its Services business - so iCloud, Apple Care, Apple Pay, and the Music and TV subscription businesses - generate $108bn in revenue/year now. That alone is bigger than all of Disney or Tesla. — www.ft.com/content/3687...
Financial Times
Visible Alpha: Apple's Services unit revenue is set to hit $108.6B in the year to September, its first time above $100B and up 13% YoY, ahead of its Q4 results
Tech giant's high-margin unit has doubled in size over the past five years — Apple is set to top $100bn in annual revenues …
There should be some kind of metric published for AI models: the degree to which they're just a compressed version of key reference works, like Wikipedia. In some ways they are just a giant zip file with fast non linear retrieval. — bsky.app/profile/tech... [embedded post]
The Verge
xAI's Grokipedia says Grok fact-checked its entries and some “content is adapted from Wikipedia”; some pages, like the PS5's, are almost identical to Wikipedia
Some of Grokipedia's pages say that content is ‘adapted’ from Wikipedia.