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Funny infographic of startup theater

Top 1 is about an ISP’s liability for packets: Windstream Fighting Claims It’s Liable For Subscriber Piracy: “Late last year a Virginia federal jury ruled that ISPs could be held liable for the file sharing behavior of customers on their network, contrary to the belief that ISPs are protected from liability via safe harbor provisions embedded in the DMCA.”

Next up is the FCC business data services docket (BDS, formerly branded “special access” services).
The ILECs are lining up against INCOMPAS and surprisedly Verizon in a fight over special access at the FCC. See HERE and Fierce media.

Then there is the Pole Access fight. Frontier teams with AT&T to block Google Fiber access to utility poles – from ARS and Fortune mag.

Lastly, ho hum… 8×8 is suing Star2Star – for employee hiring with a non-compete in Florida.

Apparently AI is growing. Robert Scoble is keeping his eyes on AI and VR.

Check out The Economist this week, for instance.

Google has announced a huge shift internally to AI-based systems.

Google’s futurist, Ray Kurzweil, is very bullish on AI HERE.

Google’s chairman, too, says we should stop freaking out about AI. He goes on to detail why AI is so powerful, particularly when it comes to tasks like driving. FORTUNE mag

Google isn’t the only one. Lately on my world tour, [Robert Scoble] I’ve met some of the people bringing artificial intelligence to life. Here are four companies doing that:

Sentient Technologies, a company in San Francisco using AI for ecommerce and stock market predictions.

Digital Bridge, a Manchester, UK-based company, which uses AI to recognize walls, photos and furniture in your house, and then lets you redecorate.

Zebra Medical Vision, and Israeli company using AI to recognize cancer in MRI scans.

Agrible, based in Illinois, which uses farm data to grow virtual crops and predict how a farm will do. It then sells that data back to farmers and tells them what to do on their farms.

Rober Scoble concludes, “If you look at all these examples, you’ll see a clear pattern: teams of people are training artificial intelligence systems to learn to do various tasks. In the video with Hodjat, he shows how the algorithms work and gets us all up to speed. New jobs are looking at human behavior and looking for ways to apply machine learning.”

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Ever wonder about telecom capital expenditures?

Telecom Carrier Spending Entering New Era Marked by Diverse Regional Trends: “Worldwide telecom service provider capital expenditures grew 2.9 percent year-over-year in 2014, to US$352 billion, according to the latest IHS Infonetics.”

Bench-marking a best practice in telecom capital allocation: there is an interesting paper to download from PWC (consulting firm)

What does the process look like for a carrier on CAPEX? PWC Telecom CAPEX expenditure process

2013 CBEY $ 15M per quarter; “Total capital expenditures were $14.2 million during the first quarter of 2014, of which $12.9 million were cash capital expenditures.” On about $450M in annual revenue ($111M per quarter so about 11% of revenue on CAPEX) [SEC]

Some of these books have been sitting there since late 2014. It’s like a pile of broken promises that I see every day.

Currently , I have about several ebooks open on my Kindle:

• Steal the Show by Michael Port
• Keller’s Fedora by Lawrence Block
• Notes from Seth Godin’s Conferences

I also have a library book out, Living Forward by Michael Hyatt.

Money by Tony Robbins  is the one I want to finish by the end of July. I heard his podcast with James Altucher and I was hooked.

To Sell is Human by Dan Pick will be next because I heard his podcast too.

Others in the pile (excluding the fiction books) include:

• Influence
• Product Launch
• Cracking Sales Management
• Revenue Growth Habit
• Lawrence Block on Writing  (help writing my first fiction book)
• Icarus Deception by Seth Godin (there is always a Seth book!)
• Challenger Sale
• Dot Com Secrets
• Wealthy Barber
• Choose Yourself guide to wealth

What are you reading?