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Matt Day
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Driving and riding a series of compounding s-curves. Writing about Amazon, Microsoft and tech for Bloomberg News in Seattle. [email protected] mattday.65 on signal.
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 9h
Amazon to hot startup: Stop making purchases on my web site.*
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*but AI, so it's all a little strange.
Amazon Demands Perplexity Stop AI Agent From Making Purchases
Amazon.com Inc. has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity AI Inc. demanding that the artificial intelligence search startup stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases online f...
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Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 1d
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

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according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 1d
Amazon will help power OpenAI. A seven-year, $38 billion deal to supply Nvidia chips: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Inks $38 Billion Deal With OpenAI to Supply Nvidia Chips
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit has signed a $38 billion deal to supply a slice of OpenAI’s bottomless demand for computing power.
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 5d
Cloud spending: still large
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 5d
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans, a dramatic drop announced Thursday that effectively suspends America’s traditional role as a haven for those fleeing war and persecution.
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 5d
this is a good interview: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Nigel Farage: Britain Has Had ‘Too Many Unifiers’
The Reform UK leader on dismantling consensus politics, Britain’s future relationship with the EU, and deporting migrants “nicely.”
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 6d
"Frankly, are we in a bubble?”
The large data center spending numbers are getting larger:
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Meta, Microsoft Test Investors’ Patience With AI Spending Spree
The largest technology companies are betting on an AI future powered by gigantic complexes of data centers filled with humming servers.
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 6d
lol, the fire pit bow ties
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 6d
Not a banner day for the Microsoft Investor Relations page, as the company's cloud continues to suffer from a service outage. An hourish until they report earnings.
A dated capture of a Microsoft investor relations page that you find via the top Bing hit for "Microsoft IR." Helpfully informing us of some coming events in August and September 2024. Service Unavailable - DNS failure Above a dropdown menu to browse past earnings release dates.
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 6d
The trouble with Front Door As A Service is sometimes Front Door goes down:
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Microsoft Is Investigating Outages of Office, Game Applications
Microsoft Corp. has suffered an outage in its Azure cloud service that has disrupted its own products and the operations of several companies, including Alaska Airlines.
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 7d
Microsoft gets two more years with OpenAI's models, and relief from a provision that had raised the prospect OAI could declare AGI and cut them off: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft to Get 27% of OpenAI, Access to AI Models Until 2032
Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI finalized a new agreement in a long-negotiated partnership, removing a layer of uncertainty for both companies’ investors and paving the way for the ChatGPT maker to restruc...
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 7d
Oof: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon to Cut 14,000 Jobs as CEO Jassy Taps AI to Reduce Costs
Amazon.com Inc. plans to eliminate roughly 14,000 corporate jobs just months after Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy warned that AI will shrink the company’s workforce.
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 11d
Amazon's cloud is under pressure (it's not just Monday's outage).
From newly serious competitors, from a homegrown bureaucracy, and from an artificial intelligence wave threatening to upend a market that Amazon Web Services invented.

On AWS in the AI era:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Amazon’s AWS Shows Signs of Weakness as Competitors Charge Ahead
The company that basically invented the cloud business is widely perceived as trailing its rivals in artificial intelligence.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 12d
SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average.

This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.

Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 13d
Amazon confirms it's testing AR glasses to guide its contract delivery drivers: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Turn-by-turn directions now, maybe dog warnings or "oops, wrong porch" capabilities in the future.
Amazon Tests AR Glasses to Help Drivers Find Right Delivery Spot
Amazon.com Inc. is considering equipping its contract delivery drivers with augmented-reality glasses that would help them find the right spot to drop a package.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 14d
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s pay package jumped to $96.5 million for fiscal 2025, his highest compensation since he took over the company more than a decade ago, with the board citing the company’s progress in AI. bloom.bg/3WCmf1X

📷: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 15d
Lotta pagers beeped today: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Says Problems Still Affect AWS Service as Recovery Drags
Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider, said issues continued to plague its operations after a widespread outage degraded services for a range of customers including government agenci...
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 19d
Hello computer. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 21d
Best part of this delicious looking @bethanyjeanclement.bsky.social recipe is carrots in all caps & with the dash makes it look like a dateline.

BJC here, reporting from CARROTS

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Skip Ad By Bethany Jean Clement Seattle Times food writer CARROTS — WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE?! Our household eats a lot of them, mostly raw, cold from the fridge, as orange as anything besides an actual orange can be, and always faultlessly crunchy.
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 22d
Amazon has fired an employee who criticized the company's ties to Israel over its war in Gaza, in a series of Slack messages and protests on campus: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Fires Employee Who Protested Company’s Ties to Israel
Amazon.com Inc. has terminated an employee who protested the e-commerce giant’s ties to the Israeli government.
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 25d
He's got a Chase or two in him.
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 25d
Used to call an outing like that a shut-out, back in the days when the numbers were stitched and there weren't ads on the helmets and you let a starter who was cooking break 70 pitches.
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 25d
etc www.geekwire.com/2025/neil-yo...
Neil Young plans to pull his music off Amazon as he calls out Jeff Bezos for supporting Trump
The 79-year-old rocker is encouraging his listeners to reject "big corporations who have sold out America" and instead "buy local."
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 25d
Neil Young has had a change of heart.
2019 Amazon press release, including this bit: “Earth will be changed forever when Amazon introduces high quality streaming to the masses,” said rock icon Neil Young. “This will be the biggest thing to happen in music since the introduction of digital audio 40 years ago.” "FORGET AMAZON AND WHOLE FOODS FORGET FACEBOOK BUY LOCAL BUY DIRECT BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT"
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Matt Day @mattmday.bsky.social · 26d
For a year and a half, Microsoft has told investors on quarterly calls that it didn't have enough capacity to meet customer demand. That deficit looks like it's going to be around for the rest of the year, @brodyford.bsky.social scoops: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Forecasts Show Data Center Crunch Persisting Into 2026
Microsoft Corp.’s data-center crunch will continue for longer than the company has previously outlined, underscoring the software giant’s struggles to keep up with cloud demand.
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