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Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo: A Global Pricing Mirage !
Apple loves to market the new MacBook Neo at $599, a number engineered to sound disruptive and "for everyone." But let's have a more thorough look at the numbers: 📍 The US gets a shiny $599 sticker. Sounds great, until you realize that's before tax. A buyer in New York actually pays $652 after sales tax. Still reasonable? Now let's fly across the Atlantic: 📍 🇨🇭 Switzerland: CHF 579 (~$731) | +22% | VAT 8.1% Europe's lowest VAT, most stable currency. Still $132 more than t

Federico Carrasco
2 days ago2 min read


AI skills' dominance, or AI Theocracy?
In a recent conversation, Jensen Huang clearly states to Lex Fridman's show that: 📢 "If I have a choice between a new college graduate with no clue what AI is and one that is expert in using AI, I would hire the one who's expert in using AI." This statement is hardly controversial, it reflects the direction the market is heading and a reasonable point: knowing the tools of the era matters. From the other side, let’s be cautious not to generalize it into something broader tha

Federico Carrasco
3 days ago2 min read


Μοιράζομαι την πρόσφατη εμφάνισή μου στο @MilitaireNews, το κορυφαίο podcast άμυνας στην Ελλάδα.
💡Διερευνώ τη σημασία της τρέχουσας σύγκρουσης με το Ιράν, τονίζοντας την πολυπλοκότητά της ως έναν πολυδιάστατο πόλεμο που περιλαμβάνει τεχνολογία αιχμής, βαθιά ριζωμένες ιστορικές εντάσεις και παγκόσμιες μετατοπίσεις ισχύος. 💡Ενώ η Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη, ο κυβερνοπόλεμος και η προηγμένη επιτήρηση επαναπροσδιορίζουν τα σύγχρονα πεδία μαχών, το ανθρώπινο στοιχείο και οι γεωπολιτικοί υπολογισμοί παραμένουν καθοριστικοί. 💡Το αποτέλεσμα της σύγκρουσης θα επηρεάσει τις παγκόσμιες σ

Federico Carrasco
Mar 201 min read


Negative "Sentiment" in 3 out of 4 YouTube AI-Related videos!
An impressive result after analyzing the top 100 most-viewed videos on YouTube, published after January 2023. In Graypes GmbH we recently...

Federico Carrasco
May 13, 20242 min read


How to sink your company's stock price using AI !
On January 25, 2024, in a desperate attempt to restore confidence among clients and in the markets, Alex Chriss, who assumed the role of...

Cyclyst
Jan 26, 20241 min read


4 top use cases of LLMs for text processing!
Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on massive datasets of text, allowing them to understand and generate natural language,...

Cyclyst
Jan 25, 20242 min read


Rotation for the Magnificent 7?
The current composition of the Magnificent 7, the famous group of high-performing stocks, might undergo a significant shift. 📌 TSLA and...

Cyclyst
Jan 25, 20241 min read


Something is rotten in the state of Denmark? ( ... and into the Energy Business?)
A peculiar (but not so unexpected) outcome popped up while evaluating the business model of an energy-related SaaS company. Denmark is...

Cyclyst
Feb 16, 20231 min read


How my 16yo daughter can cause the resignation of Google's CEO!
Google has the best business model ever invented in the history of capitalism. Still, sooner or later, competition becomes challenging....

Cyclyst
Feb 13, 20231 min read


28 out of 30 VCs (93.33%) in the Travel SaaS industry are clueless!
This is what Ariel Cohen, CEO & co-founder of Navan (ex. TripActions) implies in his video, related to his fundraising experience during...

Cyclyst
Feb 8, 20231 min read


After a two years irrational investment spree, global venture financing sinks in 2022!
The latest Q4-2022 KPMG quarterly report on Venture Pulse depicts the clear decline of the overall venture financing, from its pick of...

Cyclyst
Feb 5, 20231 min read


WEF Davos 2023!
WEF at Davos, could not be considered this January of 2023, a joyful place to relax, enjoy fondue, hot chocolate, and your glamourous...

Cyclyst
Jan 23, 20231 min read


Crypto Pump and Dump (during also this weekend)?
Just before starting this new week, after my previous one, visiting the WEF-23 at Davos, I had a quick look at BIT, ETH trades and they...

Cyclyst
Jan 20, 20231 min read


WEF is always a source to predict the future
You just expect the exact opposite of what the politicians foresee! Being a regular visitor of the WEF, I have many reasons to enjoy...

Cyclyst
Jan 13, 20232 min read


Airbnb
It's late 2008. The global financial crisis (code name: Subprime Mortgage). The Airbnb team is desperate. They have already launched...

Cyclyst
Dec 11, 20221 min read


Show me the regulators!
FTX's collapse, Credit Suisse's rotting: financial disasters rooted in totally incompetent leadership! Still, responsible is also the...

Cyclyst
Nov 30, 20221 min read


. B O O M
"Take the money and run." Woody Allen B O O M (...and this is not Putin's nukes) Exactly one year ago, on November 2021, some prominent...

Cyclyst
Nov 10, 20222 min read


Energy in the verge of Disruption
"In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity." Albert Einstein This 2022 global energy crisis is a "Chronicle of a Death...

Cyclyst
Oct 27, 20221 min read


Productivity or Innovation
"If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." Henry Ford (1863 – 1947), Founder of Ford Motor...

Cyclyst
Aug 2, 20222 min read


Top tools to create your SaaS
In our digital era there is a plethora of software tools, assisting innovators creating even for free, their SaaS prototype or SaaS product.

Cyclyst
Jul 18, 20226 min read
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