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Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead by Hayden Field
Microsoft will remain OpenAI’s “primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities.” But OpenAI can “now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider.” That lets OpenAI pursue its goals of courting enterprise customers as it reportedly prepares to go public — opening the door to working with Amazon or Google, for instance, and attempting to relieve restraints on its compute that have led to spats with Microsoft. Microsoft appears to still receive a cut of revenue from these outside agreements.
No more AGI requirement in the deal either.
Finland rebrands: 'Making happiness happen'
In the strategy, we underscore that Finland's happiness is built on trust, equality, freedom and a society that works. While Finland is not a perfect country, it stands out internationally by, for example, giving people the space to live life on their own terms. These are the messages we want to share about Finland with the world," Mikko Koivumaa, the board's chair, said in the release.
Every year when Finland is declared the happiest nation on the planet, there is this counter argument about Finland’s problems. There are problems of course, Finland is not a perfect country, but the happiness index measures different things.
It makes sense to lean into this branding. With Indians, for example, I have been seeing a lot of celebrities making a trip to Rovaniemi. We could draw in more people.
Cook has transformed Apple in his own image. The company is much more predictable now than it ever was, or could have been, under Jobs. It now runs on an annual schedule that can be printed on a calendar. There is far less drama, and no scandal. And there is seemingly no drama, at all, in this particular transition, despite the incredibly high stakes and the (justifiably) large egos in Apple’s leadership team. Cook inherited the greatest company in the world. He’s handing it over to Ternus in even better shape than what Jobs handed to him. Even the timing of the announcement and the transition, on Apple’s annual calendar, seems perfect. Cook oversees one last WWDC in June, then Ternus takes the helm on the cusp of Apple’s announcement of new iPhones in September. It’s hard to imagine a more orderly, confidence-inspiring, exciting-but-not-at-all-surprising, this-feels-right way to do this.
Cook will be stepping down as CEO and become chairman. Ternus will be new CEO. Srouji will be the new chief of hardware - which seems like a new made up position. Kind of reminds me of how Jony Ive was chief of design. Hopefully it does not blow up similarly.
Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI by Let's Data Science
Atlassian will begin collecting customer metadata and in-app content from Jira, Confluence, and other cloud products by default on August 17, 2026, to train its AI offerings including Rovo and Rovo Dev
Well if you don’t have your data, the company that has it, can make changes like this anytime they want. And they have a strong motivation to do so.
And so they did.
Flags fly to honour Finland's internally displaced
Monday marks Evacuees' Flag Day (Evakkojen liputuspäivä), which honours Finns who had to flee their homes during wartime, either temporarily or permanently.
