Matt Day
@mattmday.bsky.social
Driving and riding a series of compounding s-curves. Writing about Amazon, Microsoft and tech for Bloomberg News in Seattle.
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Area Companies Discussing Deal
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OpenAI May Raise $10 Billion From Amazon, The Information Says
OpenAI is in initial discussions to raise at least $10 billion from Amazon.com Inc. and use its chips, a potential win for the online retailer’s effort to broaden its AI industry presence and compete ...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Area Companies Discussing Deal
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“The software determines the cookie’s ‘strength.’”
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The Cracks in Crumbl’s Cookie Empire Are Showing
The trendy chain has Instagrammy treats and private equity backing. But layoffs, chaotic operations and paper-thin margins may be leading it down a familiar path.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“The software determines the cookie’s ‘strength.’”
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"Amazon continues to sell to and maintain contracts with entities engaged in rights-violating applications of its AI and related technologies, suggesting misalignment between its policies and practice," a group of Amazon shareholders say: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Shareholder Resolution Targets AI Work With Israel, DHS
Amazon.com Inc.’s business ties with Israel’s military and the US Department of Homeland Security are the focus of a shareholder proposal demanding that the company investigate whether such contracts ...
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December 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Amazon continues to sell to and maintain contracts with entities engaged in rights-violating applications of its AI and related technologies, suggesting misalignment between its policies and practice," a group of Amazon shareholders say: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"We won’t continue to develop a system that has the potential to run away from us." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Executive Vows to Halt AI Work If It Imperils Humanity
Microsoft Corp. consumer artificial intelligence chief Mustafa Suleyman is bent on creating a super intelligence that’s “aligned with human interests” and pledged to halt such work if it posed a threa...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"We won’t continue to develop a system that has the potential to run away from us." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Incentives, incentives.
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Uber Pulls Back From Electric Cars, Slashing Incentives for Drivers
After long pushing for government policies to speed adoption of electric cars, Uber embraced Trump's EV-battering legislation.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Incentives, incentives.
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Bit of an evergreen thought experiment for Big Tech: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Bit of an evergreen thought experiment for Big Tech: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
nice throwback from Word here. Lemme grab a floppy and move over some old files so you can render Calibri for me.
December 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
nice throwback from Word here. Lemme grab a floppy and move over some old files so you can render Calibri for me.
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I wrote a story to which you can reply in comment "Hot diggity dog!" and be scientifically accurate
Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story
Setting the record straight, 33 years later.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I wrote a story to which you can reply in comment "Hot diggity dog!" and be scientifically accurate
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DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
Excellent read on the staying power of Excel:
www.bloomberg.com/features/202... “It’s just a very powerful way to organize information. You can use spreadsheets to run your Little League team, and you can use them to operate the Pentagon.”
www.bloomberg.com/features/202... “It’s just a very powerful way to organize information. You can use spreadsheets to run your Little League team, and you can use them to operate the Pentagon.”
Microsoft Is the House That Excel Built
The ubiquitous spreadsheet software is expensive, derivative and depressing. It’s also the software the world can’t quit, even in the era of AI tools.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Excellent read on the staying power of Excel:
www.bloomberg.com/features/202... “It’s just a very powerful way to organize information. You can use spreadsheets to run your Little League team, and you can use them to operate the Pentagon.”
www.bloomberg.com/features/202... “It’s just a very powerful way to organize information. You can use spreadsheets to run your Little League team, and you can use them to operate the Pentagon.”
“There’s quite a lot of perfume here, for free.” www.reuters.com/technology/e...
December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“There’s quite a lot of perfume here, for free.” www.reuters.com/technology/e...
In August, the Guardian and partners published a scoop that Microsoft servers held a trove of intercepted Palestinian phone calls. The next day, the owners of cloud storage accounts associated with the Israeli military asked Microsoft for more data transfer capacity.
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In August, the Guardian and partners published a scoop that Microsoft servers held a trove of intercepted Palestinian phone calls. The next day, the owners of cloud storage accounts associated with the Israeli military asked Microsoft for more data transfer capacity.
News: An activist group is accusing Microsoft of helping Israel remove evidence of its surveillance of Palestinians out of European data centers. They say that violates EU privacy law, and filed a GDPR complaint in Ireland this morning: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Is Accused of Helping Israel Hide Palestinian Tracking
An activist group has filed a complaint accusing Microsoft Corp. of violating the European Union’s data protection law, citing allegations from the company’s employees that it helped remove evidence o...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
News: An activist group is accusing Microsoft of helping Israel remove evidence of its surveillance of Palestinians out of European data centers. They say that violates EU privacy law, and filed a GDPR complaint in Ireland this morning: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon got its latest Trainium AI chip to market ~12 months after its predecessor. (“The main thing we’re gonna be hoping for here is just that we don’t see any kind of smoke or fire,” an engineer joked when it was fired up.)
That and more AWS re:Invent news here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
That and more AWS re:Invent news here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Rushes Latest AI Chip to Market to Take on Nvidia, Google
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit raced to get the latest version of its artificial intelligence chip to market, renewing efforts to sell hardware capable of rivaling products from Nvidia Corp. and Google.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Amazon got its latest Trainium AI chip to market ~12 months after its predecessor. (“The main thing we’re gonna be hoping for here is just that we don’t see any kind of smoke or fire,” an engineer joked when it was fired up.)
That and more AWS re:Invent news here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
That and more AWS re:Invent news here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Checking in on whether AI chatbots can nail holiday shopping for you: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (Spoiler: not yet.)
Sorry Mom. The Shopping Bots Suggested a Bathrobe for Christmas
Amazon.com Inc.’s AI-infused Rufus shopping assistant has new features that make it a “faster, more useful, state-of-the-art shopping companion.” Google’s agentic checkout feature “can do the heavy li...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Checking in on whether AI chatbots can nail holiday shopping for you: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (Spoiler: not yet.)
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scoop: An Amazon Prime Air drone snapped an internet cable in Waco, TX last week, prompting the FAA to open a probe into the matter.
We obtained video of the incident, which shows the drone shearing a wire line then landing in a customer's yard.
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We obtained video of the incident, which shows the drone shearing a wire line then landing in a customer's yard.
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Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas
The probe comes as Amazon faces stiffer competition from Walmart, which has also begun drone deliveries.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
scoop: An Amazon Prime Air drone snapped an internet cable in Waco, TX last week, prompting the FAA to open a probe into the matter.
We obtained video of the incident, which shows the drone shearing a wire line then landing in a customer's yard.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/a...
We obtained video of the incident, which shows the drone shearing a wire line then landing in a customer's yard.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/a...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Sir Elton's out here doing ads for gold, the metal
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Sir Elton's out here doing ads for gold, the metal
Amazon's cloud is powered by more than 900 data centers, according to documents seen by Bloomberg and SourceMaterial. That includes hundreds of colos, rented space that provides about a fifth of AWS's total capacity: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Data Center Tally Tops 900 Amid AI Frenzy, Documents Show
Amazon.com Inc.’s data center operation is much larger than commonly understood, totaling more than 900 facilities in more than 50 countries, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg and investiga...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Amazon's cloud is powered by more than 900 data centers, according to documents seen by Bloomberg and SourceMaterial. That includes hundreds of colos, rented space that provides about a fifth of AWS's total capacity: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon's Ring is ordering previously remote customer service workers to relocate to central hubs in the US and UK: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Ring Workers Ordered to Relocate Amid ‘AI-Powered’ Push
Amazon.com Inc.’s Ring division has ordered hundreds of customer service workers to relocate to central hubs in the US and UK amid a companywide push to streamline and automate operations.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Amazon's Ring is ordering previously remote customer service workers to relocate to central hubs in the US and UK: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft's in-house chips effort could get some help from OpenAI: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft to Use OpenAI’s Custom Chip Work to Help In-House Effort
Microsoft Corp. plans to use access to OpenAI’s development of custom AI semiconductors to help its own chip effort.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Microsoft's in-house chips effort could get some help from OpenAI: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post has a slightly different take:
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post has a slightly different take:
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ICE agents detained the wrong people in Oregon, then stranded one in Mississippi
Feds also kept a gold chain one of the immigrants had received from his mother, as well as his cell phone.
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Feds also kept a gold chain one of the immigrants had received from his mother, as well as his cell phone.
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ICE agents detained the wrong people in Oregon, then stranded one in Mississippi
Homeland Security confirmed the agents were looking for someone else when they broke into the men’s Gresham apartment.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
ICE agents detained the wrong people in Oregon, then stranded one in Mississippi
Feds also kept a gold chain one of the immigrants had received from his mother, as well as his cell phone.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Feds also kept a gold chain one of the immigrants had received from his mother, as well as his cell phone.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman's new superintelligence push comes wrapped in a humanist manifesto:
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Microsoft Aims at ‘Superintelligence’ After Revising OpenAI Ties
Microsoft Corp. is pursuing a more powerful form of AI called “superintelligence” it hopes will be capable of making advances in areas like medicine and materials science.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman's new superintelligence push comes wrapped in a humanist manifesto:
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