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Sources: Amazon is planning a marketplace where publishers can sell content to companies offering AI products; Microsoft has rolled out a similar service (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-discusses-ai-content-marketpla…

Amazon Discusses AI Content Marketplace With Publishers
Amazon has indicated to publishing industry executives that it is planning to launch a marketplace where publishers can sell their content to firms offering AI products, according to two people who spoke with Amazon about the project. Those discussions come as publishers and AI companies are ...

Electrification of transport is essential to ensure Europe's energy resilience and achieve climate targets. This requires public #EV charging infrastructure in the right places, at the right time and at the right prices.
In this new Regulatory Assistance Project report we present 7 key building blocks:

User: Rovo, can JIRA be used for project planning?
Rovo: Yes, absolutely. It's actually best for that ... bla bla bla
User: How do I specify temporal dependencies between tasks and identify the critical path?
Rovo: Jira can't actually do that.
#WTF #AI

I've recently been planning out a research project where I am writing a full spec, then deleting the section content and asking Claude to fill them in, then comparing what it came up with versus what I did. And it does occasionally find a few (not hugely important, but not unimportant) things!

"UK government approves record 800 MW solar plant over local opposition"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy

UK government approves record 800 MW solar plant over local opposition
The 800 MW PV project with battery storage has been granted planning approval by the Energy Secretary, despite local councils and campaigners raising objections. Springwell Solar Farm expected to connect to new National Grid substation being built to accommodate flurry of local grid-scale solar projects.

RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719
It should also be noted that beyond the ethical, political and environmental issues with this is that it doesn't work:
1. There is on average no mid to long term productivity gain with actual real-world software development that isn't just a "wow see what it can do" demo. (Multiple studies have shown that now.)
2. It won't help with 90% of the work when professionally making software, which, believe it or not, isn't coding. 90% of the work is designing and planning the software (these are things that happen both upfront and during development).
Maybe you have seen the recent Microsoft thing rolling back features in Windows they added?
E.g. Copilot in Notepad. What they did is essentially outsourcing project management to developers who then outsourced it to LLMs. But an LLMs can't plan and design software, and arguably barely can even generate code that works (as in reliable and performant). So now they have a buggy mess with features no one wants and they're rolling it back.
There's no silver bullets in software development.