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SIMONWILLISON.NET 1 month ago

Simon Willison Is Drinking the Kool-Aid (A Little)

Simon Willison, in his piece, I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit: Companies spending $200+/month/user will get you there a whole lot faster—and as noted above, as a power-user I’m at ~$1,000/month in API costs per vendor already. Coding agents really did change everything. These are tools which burn vastly more tokens, but […]

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MEDIUM.COM 1 month ago

Wikipedia Fired Union Organizers While Sitting on $296 Million

Jake Orlowitz, in his piece Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia: The Wikimedia Foundation closed last fiscal year with $208.6 million in revenue. It holds $296.6 million in reserves, 17.1 months of operating expenses. The Wikimedia Endowment, a separate fund, sits on $169.4 million in net assets, up $25 million in a single year. […]

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