🔮 💥 The end of Windows; AI & the end of ; future work; China's social credit, renewables, Bible, and consciousness++ #160

Dept of the near future

📍 AI is really upending the old tech industry. Ben Thompson on how last week’s Microsoft reorganisation around AI means the end of Windows.

🙅 Having poached Google’s top AI exec to become a direct report of Tim Cook, Apple is looking to ditch Intel and develop its own chips.

💼 Walmart’s new workforce: robots and the gig economy. …