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1. Charlie Munger, Buffett partner and Berkshire vice-chair, dies at 99
Berkshire has grown 20% a year since the duo took over in 1965.
Famous for his great quips and insights: āWarren, think it over and youāll agree with me because youāre smart and Iām right.ā
Poor Charlie's Almanack, a compilation of 11 talks by Munger, is being republished by Stripe Press, out Dec. 5
2. Amazon Q, AI chatbot for enterprise, launches in preview at $20/user/mo
Amazon.
Same price as ChatGPT Plus, cheaper than Microsoft 365 and Google Duet AI at $30/user/mo.
āUses various foundation models from Amazon Bedrock.ā
Amazon also unveiled its new AI chips: Trainium2 (for training) is said to be 4x better than its previous version, while Graviton4 (for inferencing) has 30% better compute performance.
Available āsometime next year.ā
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4. OpenAI's new board not expected to include Microsoft, investors
