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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Here's how Amazon is bringing Prego and Kraft Mac & Cheese to Whole Foods, using screens on the shelves and robots in a "micro-fulfillment center." This was reported recently by @wsj.com and officially confirmed today, with a video showing how it works. My take: www.geekwire.com/2025/how-ama...

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Whole Foods Market + Amazon: The new one-stop shopping experience

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

10 years ago today ... www.geekwire.com/2015/amazons...

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Funny twist on the old "did not respond to a request for comment." www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

One document references a $30,000 payment. The allegations were never proven. I would absolutely listen to a podcast about this, if someone were to report it out and make one. Would also be a great magazine article.

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This led to an internal CIA investigation into the possibility that the agency itself was paying Hunt to write these novels, apparently as part of some attempt to influence public opinion about the agency and U.S. intelligence.

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Back in the 1960s, a specialist in U.S. intelligence literature, Walter Pforzheimer, did some sleuthing to figure out that future Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt was writing spy novels under a pseudonym, David St. John. The novels featured "America's most ingenious spy, playboy Peter Ward."

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

1/ For an evening diversion, I couldn't help but start putting the newly released JFK files into Google's NotebookLM, in batches, to see what turned up. I'll leave the real reporting to the experts in the field. But here's a fascinating story that the AI turned up, unrelated to the assassination.

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Ali Farhadi joined the @geekwire.com podcast with @toddbishop.bsky.social to talk about: 🧠 The state of AI industry post-DeepSeek 📈 The building momentum around truly open AI 📲 Why on-device AI was a priority with OLMoE 💡 How we will use AI to solve real problems in 2025 Listen: buff.ly/41kjuoR

"We are a science-driven institute... What we're doing for 2025 and beyond is we're trying to understand - what does it mean to fill in the gap from an AI model to a solution? We're after impact - making the world a better place with AI technologies." Ali Farhadi, CEO of Ai2

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Interesting, can you remember which podcast the ads are on? Would be fun to hear.

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geekwire.com @geekwire.com · 15/02/2025

‘Open source will win’: Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi on the new era of artificial intelligence www.geekwire.com/2025/open-source-w…

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geekwire.com @geekwire.com · 13/02/2025

Researchers led by University of Washington Nobel winner achieve a scientific breakthrough www.geekwire.com/2025/researchers-l…

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

4/ The company reported 1,556,000 full- and part-time employees as of Dec. 31, up 2% year-over-year. (This number does not include contractors or temporary personnel hired for seasonal work.) This chart always fascinates me for the story it tells over time.

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

3/ Sales by major segment: Online Stores = $75.5B, up 7.1%. Third-party seller services = $47.5B, up 9%. Advertising = $17.3B, up 18%. Subscriptions, including Prime = $11.5B, up 9.7%. Physical stores = $5.6B, up 8%.

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

2/ AWS growth was slightly lower than expected, with sales of $28.8 billion, up 19%, vs. expectations of 19.3%. Although AWS sales ($28.8B) were ~15% of Amazon's total sales ($187.8B), operating profits ($10.6B) were >50% of Amazon's overall op. profits of $21.2B for the quarter.

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

1/ Amazon beat expectations with $187.8B in net sales, up 10%, and came in well ahead on the bottom line, with earnings of $1.86 per share, vs. expectations of $1.48. Quarterly profits surpassed $20 billion for the first time, up more than 88% from a year ago.

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Trying something new here: Amazon's quarterly results for the three months ended Dec. 31 2024, in four charts.

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Here is Microsoft's new bid to boost enterprise AI adoption: A new Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat experience, announced Wednesday morning, will give business users free access to basic AI features, and to AI agents on a pay-as-you-go basis, without paying $30/user/month. www.geekwire.com/2025/microso...

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Microsoft’s free 365 Copilot Chat will let business users access AI agents in bid to expand adoption

Microsoft is looking to boost usage of its Copilot AI tools for businesses. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is adding a new wrinkle to

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Dr. Rhythm meets AI: I had fun over the holiday break blending a vintage 1980s drum synthesizer from my youth (a Boss DR-110, circa 1983) with my own plunking and strumming on guitar, and an AI music generator.

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Can anyone explain the reason for the everpresent hard-rock music bed that plays during the highlights on @espn.com SportsCenter?

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

In case anyone is wondering, it's common for Satya Nadella to get in the range of 94% approval, less than other board members. My hypothesis is that it's due to a subset investors who want more separation between board and management.

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Microsoft released the results of shareholder voting today, from its annual meeting. None of the shareholder proposals was approved, but it's interesting to look at the numbers. Almost no support for investing in Bitcoin, whereas a call for scrutiny of AI data sources received the most votes (36%).

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

It would be a great use of AI! We end up shooting so many photos at these events, and only use a fraction of them in the live coverage. I end up going through manually afterward looking for additional shots for our library. Takes a while. Would be nice to automate, to some degree.

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I use OneDrive, Google Photos, etc. I have access to Photoshop if I make the effort but I'm not a regular user of it.

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Looking for a good AI tool to easily and quickly identify the best/clearest photos from a large set like this. Any advice?

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Hi Sally, nice to reconnect with you.

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Todd Bishop @toddbishop.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Hello Bluesky! I'm using the "Sky Follower Bridge" plugin for Chrome/Edge to find the people I forgot I followed on another platform. Is that the right way? Anyway, feels like a reunion. This newcomer welcomes any and all advice from vets about making the most of it. Look forward to reconnecting.

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