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Times up for TikTok – or is it? A whirlwind of news in AI this week. And an incredible story of the creativity of those who keep legacy tech alive. All this and more on the “firehose” edition of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host, Jim Love.

Pushing back against rising cloud costs – one CEO make big savings, Microsoft makes it clear that it doesn’t want Windows 11 on older hardware, Apple’s Vision Pro is showing disappointing early results and Google makes it clear that it needs to up its game. All this and more on the “we’re not gonna take it” edition of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host, Jim Love.

Deutche Telekom is using what they call “digital humans” for customer service and claiming great results. Mark Zuckerberg gives some insight into Meta’s different approach to AI strategy in recent interviews and Elon Musk suffers quality issues on two offerings which may have been rushed to market.” All this and more on the “Murphy was an optimist” edition of Hashtag

Capital Gains tax in Canada gets criticized by tech sector. Amazon drops 100,000 jobs while vastly increasing its use of robots. Tesla’s luxury Cyber Truck faces a huge recall. AI Rapidly Catching Up to Humans Across Benchmarks, AI Hallucinations Could Be Solved Within a Year, Was the AI incident with Air Canada’s chat bot really AI? All this and more on the “take the mon

We’ve heard a lot about Quantum computing and somehow it seems like it’s nuclear fusion - there’s all of these great advances that make the news, but the idea of actual use in business seems a long way off. For me, it seems… I understand it conceptually. I just can’t figure out why its possible. Maybe its’ because I grew up being able to see transistors and how they wor