Recurrent Patterns
Recurrent Patterns is a venture exploring strategies and insights around leading-edge companies, technology and cultural trends. Vaclav engages with leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, authors and others who can share their perspectives in long-form conversations.
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OpenAI is anything but open
OpenAI keeps expanding the list of forbidden names, of which it pretends it knows nothing. Perhaps we should then consider the word 'open' in the name of the company an oxymoron.
MS Copilot. Flying straight into the mountain
Microsoft wants everyone to have a constellation of autonomous AI agents helping them at work. Sounds nice, but what happens when one of them crashes? While Microsoft will embed itself further in the enterprise, the IT department will have to deal with another nightmare they didn't ask for.
The fight for your desktop
Big Brother is coming to your desktop. First it was Microsoft with Recall. Now Google with Anthropic are releasing tech that will be taking screenshots of your computer and controlling your mouse and keyboard.
Microsoft’s Total Recall
Microsoft's 'Recall' will be taking screenshots of your PC all day long. Are you ready to offload your memory? Are you ready for Totall Recall?
Why does it always have to be a button?
Microsoft's new 'Copilot Key' promises a so-called keyboard revolution, but it's the startups truly transforming AI search that are catching my eye. In this week's newsletter, I look at the companies that might just set a new recurrent pattern, and leave Microsoft's attempts in their wake.
Clippy, the dead are walking again
Microsoft's latest unveiling, Microsoft Copilot, is already like reading from The Book of the Dead, where the legendary Clippy is guiding Copilot to the afterlife.