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Wed. 10/23 – Strong ARM Tactics
23 oktober 2024 · 18 min
A huge dispute in the semiconductor space has gone nuclear with implications that are crazy. Anthropic’s new AI app can control your computer for you. Runway’s new model lets you do your own motion capture. And farewell to Foursquare, the OG version at least.
Links: Lees meerArm to Scrap Qualcomm Chip Design License in Feud Escalation (Bloomberg)
Anthropic’s new AI can use computers like a human, redefining automation for enterprises (VentureBeat)
Apple Sharply Scales Back Production of Vision Pro (The Information)
Runway’s Act-One uses smartphone cameras to replicate facial expression motion capture (Silicon Angle)
‘This is a game changer’: Runway releases new AI facial expression motion capture feature Act-One (VentureBeat)
Farewell to Foursquare’s app (TechCrunch)
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Tue. 10/22 – The Next Gen Snapdragon
22 oktober 2024 · 18 min
Qualcomm has unveiled its big, next gen Snapdragon SoC which will someday be in all the phones. Except iPhones, of course. Is Netflix pulling back on its gaming strategy? Why a new marketplace from Epic might actually point the way to the metaverse. And how are various people trying to get AI to have a better personality?
Links: Lees meerSnapdragon 8 Elite deep dive: A return to custom CPUs and much more (Android Authority)
Scoop: Netflix shuts down 'AAA' Team Blue gaming studio, amid gaming shake-up (Game File)
Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio (Engadget)
Hulu and Disney+ No Longer Support Signups and Payment Using App Store (MacRumors)
Epic’s ambitious digital asset shop is now open (The Verge)
Biden administration proposes new rules governing data transfers to adversarial nations (The Record)
How AI groups are infusing their chatbots with personality (Financial Times)
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Mon. 10/21 – Google Get’s A Stay
21 oktober 2024 · 17 min
Google’s strategy of keeping it in the courts is already going to plan. New AI agents from Microsoft. New Open Source models from IBM. Perplexity is looking to raise again. How far behind Apple thinks it is in AI. And what it’s like to use your AirPods as hearing aids.
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Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors — for now (The Verge)
Microsoft unveils new autonomous AI agents in advance of competing Salesforce rollout (GeekWire)
AI Startup Perplexity in Funding Talks to More Than Double Valuation to $8 Billion (WSJ)
IBM debuts open source Granite 3.0 LLMs for enterprise AI (VentureBeat)
Apple’s New iPad Mini Highlights the Company’s Secret AI Advantage (Bloomberg)
Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound (The Verge)
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(Bonus) Goldeneye 007 With - John Gruber
19 oktober 2024 · 54 min
Did Nintendo try to kill GoldenEye 007 before it was completed? Why did Shigeru Miyamoto keep telling the development team to tone down the violence. And why did the famous multiplayer aspect of the game almost didn’t happen? It’s slappers only on Rad History, because we’re diving into the history of THE game of the late 1990s, GoldenEye 007.
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Fri. 10/18 – Netflix Wins
18 oktober 2024 · 19 min
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Thu. 10/17 – Sigh Of Relief From Chip Stocks
17 oktober 2024 · 18 min
Now Amazon is building some modular nuclear reactors. TSMC’s results cheer up the chips industry. Uber but for buying plane tickets. No, I mean, really, use Uber to buy plane tickets. And the controversial reason Meta is reportedly laying off some folks.
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Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors (CNBC)
TSMC Hikes Revenue Outlook in Show of Confidence in AI Boom (Bloomberg)
The FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership (The Verge)
Uber explored takeover bid for Expedia (FT)
Meta is laying off employees at WhatsApp, Instagram, and more (The Verge)
Meta fires staff for abusing $25 meal credits (FT)
Analogue’s 4K Nintendo 64 launches next year for $249 (The Verge)
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Wed. 10/16 – Color Kindles
16 oktober 2024 · 17 min
Kindles come roaring back, with significant updates to the Paperwhite and the Scribe, but also, for the first time ever, a Kindle with a color screen. Why has ASML suddenly plunged so much if chips are so hot right now? Android 15 is beginning to roll out. And Sonos is back to releasing new speakers again.
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Amazon’s new seven-inch Kindle Paperwhite is bigger and faster than ever (The Verge)
Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe takes another step toward pen and paper (The Verge)
Amazon finally has a color Kindle, and it looks pretty good (The Verge)
Global Chip Stocks Erase $420 Billion After ASML Sales Warning (Bloomberg)
YouTube takes a baby step toward labeling authentic video (The Verge)
Android 15 is now available for Pixels (The Verge)
Sonos announces ‘breakthrough’ Arc Ultra soundbar and Sub 4 (The Verge)
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Tue. 10/15 – Tech Going Nuclear
15 oktober 2024 · 18 min
The Nuclear Energy sector is clearly getting back in business, thanks to big tech and their AI needs. The latest back and forth in the Wordpress brouhaha. The US is considering caps on the chips Nvidia can deliver to a bunch of countries worldwide. And is Tether getting deeper into the global finance game?
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Google Backs New Nuclear Plants to Power AI (WSJ)
DHH's Original Post
Matt Mullenweg's Original Response
Matt's 2nd Response
Apple Unveils New iPad Mini With A17 Pro Chip and Apple Intelligence (MacRumors)
US Weighs Capping Exports of AI Chips From Nvidia and AMD to Some Countries (Bloomberg)
Crypto Company Tether Talking to Commodity Traders About Lending Them Its Billions (Bloomberg)
The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over (Wired)
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Mon. 10/14 – Adobe Unleashes Firefly
14 oktober 2024 · 16 min
Adobe unleashes its Firefly AI video model broadly. Mark Gurman lays out Apple’s headset strategy going forward. What’s been going on with the Internet Archive. What the heck IS going on with WordPress? VC deals are dropping precipitously. And a review of the Meta Quest 3S.
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Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro (The Verge)
Apple Has a New Smart Home Strategy: Screens Everywhere (Bloomberg)
The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks (The Verge)
In latest move against WP Engine, WordPress takes control of ACF plugin (TechCrunch)
Venture capital deal activity is slowing down (Axios)
Meta Quest 3S review: Impressive VR for $300 (Engadget)
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(Bonus) The Rise And Fall Of Blockbuster Video
12 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 24 min
Why was Blockbuster so successful? Was it the DVD that killed Blockbuster? What was the deal with late fees? Is there any way Blockbuster, not Netflix, could have won out in the end?
Special guest: Venture Capitalist and Writer MG Siegler!
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Fri. 10/11 - Cybercab
11 oktober 2024 · 17 min
All the headlines from Tesla’s robotaxi event. AMD unveils the chip it wants to use to go toe to toe with Nvidia. Are people actually making money building GPTs or not so much? And in the longreads, rebuilding Notre Dame as period accurately as possible.
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Tesla reveals 20 Cybercabs at We, Robot event, says you’ll be able to buy one for less than $30,000 (TechCrunch)
Tesla's Cybercab Is Here (Wired)
Tesla Robovan has something the Cybertruck definitely does not (T3)
AMD launches AI chip to rival Nvidia’s Blackwell (CNBC)
Xbox will sell games directly in the Android app next month (The Verge)
OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Left Some Developers in the Lurch (Wired)
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Google’s Nobel Haul Puts Spotlight on Changing Focus of Scientific Research (Bloomberg)
The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame (GQ)
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Thu. 10/10 – OpenAI Won’t Be Profitable Until When?
10 oktober 2024 · 18 min
Apple TV+ finally comes to Prime Video Channels. OpenAI says they’ve been disrupting AI election influence campaigns. But they won’t be profitable until when? How Google plans to beat the regulation rap. And a review of basically the highest end smartwatch you can buy.
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Amazon Adds Apple TV+ to Its Channels Store for Streaming (Bloomberg)
OpenAI says bad actors are using its platform to disrupt elections, but with little ‘viral engagement’ (CNBC)
OpenAI Projections Imply Losses Tripling to $14 Billion in 2026 (The Information)
Apple’s Dan Riccio, Key Executive in Both the Jobs and Cook Eras, to Retire (Bloomberg)
Competition and the clock: how Google plans to deflect and delay a historic break-up threat (Financial Times)
Garmin Fenix 8 review: only kind of smart (The Verge)
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Wed. 10/09 – Big Podcast Announcement
9 oktober 2024 · 21 min
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The government says it does, in fact, want to break up Google. The Nobel Prize sure does love AI this year. Could Substack win by becoming the default way for creators to monetize? And listen to the end of the show today for a big announcement from me.
Links: Lees meerUS Weighs Google Breakup in Historic Big Tech Antitrust Case (Bloomberg)
Unmasking Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto—Again (Wired)
Google DeepMind Scientists Share Nobel for AI Protein Work (Bloomberg)
X Cleared to Return in Brazil After Musk Bows to Judge’s Demands (Bloomberg)
Substack wants to do more than just newsletters (Semafor)
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Tue. 10/08 – Epic’s Win V. Google
8 oktober 2024 · 17 min
Crack… at least for the Google Play store. Two AI scientists have won the Nobel Prize for physics?! Samsung is in a similar boat to Intel, just not quite as severely. And an unfortunate reminder that government mandated back doors are bad doors.
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Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge (The Verge)
Apple Potentially Facing Worst Leak Since iPhone 4 Was Left in a Bar (MacRumors)
‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton Among Nobel Prize Winners (Bloomberg)
Samsung Electronics apologises for disappointing profit as it struggles in AI chips (Reuters)
The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite (TechCrunch)
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Mon. 10/07 – Apple Intelligence Gets A Date
7 oktober 2024 · 16 min
We finally have a date for Apple Intelligence. Meta has a new text to video AI model. Google could soon drop under 50% in the search ads market. More hope for level three automated driving. And how AI bots could revolutionize online dating.
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Apple Slowly Moves Away From Its Annual Product Release Strategy (Bloomberg)
Meta Unveils AI Video Generator, Taking On OpenAI and Google (Bloomberg)
Google’s Grip on Search Slips as TikTok and AI Startup Mount Challenge (WSJ)
GM is working on an eyes-off, hands-off driving system (TechCrunch)
Uber and Lyft drivers use Teslas as makeshift robotaxis, raising safety concerns (Reuters)
Grindr Aims to Build the Dating World’s First AI ‘Wingman’ (WSJ)
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Fri. 10/04 – AI Slop Comes To Podcasting
4 oktober 2024 · 17 min
Google has updated Lens and is taking a page out of Perplexity’s book. OpenAI’s new canvas workspace. Why an upcoming iPhone SE might have some interesting internals. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links: Lees meerGoogle Lens now lets you search with video (The Verge)
Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search (TechCrunch)
OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects (TechCrunch)
iPhone SE 4 to feature Apple’s first 5G modem, A18 chip, same cameras as iPhone 15 (9to5Mac)
159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates (TechCrunch)
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Saving Cyberpunk 2077: How CD Projekt Red recovered from one of video games' most disastrous launches (EuroGamer)
The Flying Car Is Finally Here. It’s Slightly Illegal. (Intelligencer)
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Thu. 10/03 – The Monster OpenAI Raise
3 oktober 2024 · 16 min
OpenAI raised their round, and it basically broke all the records. The whole Wordpress mess has gotten so crazy that WPEngine is suing. Using Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses to dox people in real time. And you’ll never guess the reason why you’re about to see more ads on streaming video. Hint: you’ll endure it.
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OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in largest VC round ever (Axios)
OpenAI asks investors not to back rival start-ups such as Elon Musk’s xAI (Financial Times)
OpenAI feels competitors breathing down its neck (Financial Times)
WP Engine sues WordPress co-creator Mullenweg and Automattic, alleging abuse of power (TechCrunch)
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers (404Media)
Spotify adds a new, automatically updating playlist for offline listening (TechCrunch)
Amazon to increase number of advertisements on Prime Video (Financial Times)
Venture Dealmaking Reflects Selective Tastes of Investors (Bloomberg)
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Wed. 10/02 – A Tech Angle To The Hurricane
2 oktober 2024 · 30 min
Catching you up on a bunch of other Microsoft announcements we missed yesterday. Is Nvidia trying to break open the black box of AI? It’s absolutely wild that there’s still no viable YouTube app for the Vision Pro. And we were worried about disruption to the semiconductor industry if a typhoon hit Taiwan, but it turns out, a hurricane hitting North Carolina can be bad too.
Links: Lees meerMicrosoft is using AI to improve Windows search (The Verge)
Microsoft starts paying publishers for content surfaced by Copilot (TechCrunch)
Telegram CEO Downplays Service Term Changes Amid French Probe (Bloomberg)
Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4 (VentureBeat)
Threads users can now see who follows them from other fediverse servers (TechCrunch)
Christian Selig’s unofficial YouTube app for the Vision Pro just got taken down (The Verge)
Hurricane Helene Will Send Shockwaves Through the Semiconductor Industry (Wired)
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Tue. 10/01 – Running This Pod Through NotebookLM
1 oktober 2024 · 33 min
Do we have the first IPO of the AI era? Do we have the first AI model beyond the transformer architecture? Microsoft has a bunch of new AI tools inside Windows. We try to explain that whole controversy around PearAI. And what about that NotebookLM feature that lets you create a two-hander podcast out of any text.
Links: Lees meerAI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO to take on Nvidia (CNBC)
MIT spinoff Liquid debuts non-transformer AI models and they’re already state-of-the-art (VentureBeat)
Microsoft Copilot can now read your screen, think deeply, and speak aloud to you (TechCrunch)
Oura Nears $500 Million in Annual Revenue and Readies New Ring (Bloomberg)
Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup (TechCrunch)
NotebookLM’s automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective (Simon Willison's Blog)
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Mon. 09/30 – Controversial AI Bill Vetoed
30 september 2024 · 17 min
That controversial AI bill in California has been vetoed by Governor Newsom. Is even Apple now thinking that its Vision Pro strategy might need a rethink? What really is OpenAI’s situation right now, and this time I’m talking money-wise? And the strange resurrection of the point and shoot camera.
Links: Lees meerCalifornia’s Gavin Newsom Vetoes Controversial AI Safety Bill (WSJ)
California Passes Law Protecting Consumer Brain Data (NYTimes)
Meta’s New Headsets Show Apple Has Lost Its Way With the Vision Pro (Bloomberg)
OpenAI’s Complex Path to Becoming a For-Profit Company (WSJ)
Songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, Many More Blocked by YouTube in Legal Dispute (Variety)
This Camera Went Viral Two Years Ago. You Still Can’t Buy One (Bloomberg)
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Fri. 09/27 – Sam Altman Declines To Go “Founder Mode”
27 september 2024 · 17 min
Founder Mode? Not for me, says Sam Altman, but we will see. A few new gadgets from Samsung. Maybe ARM should buy Intel. Are AI startups hitting revenue traction faster than SaaS startups did? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links: Lees meerSam Altman tells OpenAI staff there’s no plan for him to receive a ‘giant equity stake’ in company (CNBC)
Samsung Galaxy S24 FE goes official starting at $649 – is it still a ‘Fan Edition?’ (9to5Google)
Arm Is Rebuffed by Intel After Inquiring About Buying Product Unit (Bloomberg)
Exponential growth brews 1 million AI models on Hugging Face (ArsTechnica)
AI start-ups generate money faster than past hyped tech companies (FT)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
McDonald’s touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers. Instead, something surprising happened (CNN)
Apple Rolls Back Its Big Plans to Release Movies in Theaters (Bloomberg)
The 27-Year-Old Economic Adviser for Gen Z (WSJ)
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Thu. 09/26 – The Orion Smartglasses
26 september 2024 · 17 min
There’s only two stories really. If you can believe it, more executive departures at OpenAI, as it looks like they’re serious about going for profit. And yes, Meta announced a new Quest headset, but the real headlines are the Orion smartglasses, which you can’t actually buy. What? I’ll explain.
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OpenAI considering restructuring to for-profit, CTO Mira Murati and two top research execs depart (CNBC)
Exclusive: OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity (Reuters)
Meta’s cheaper Quest 3S might just be an upgrade (The Verge)
A Few Brief Thoughts on Meta Connect 2024 (Daring Fireball)
Meta pitches VR to mobile developers with new support for Android apps on Quest (TechCrunch)
Meta’s big tease (The Verge)
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Wed. 09/25 – Caroline Ellison Sentenced
25 september 2024 · 17 min
Caroline Ellison benefits from being cooperative. Has your company unknowingly hired remote workers from North Korea? What is going on with this WordPress back and forth? Why OpenAI has to let people look at their training data. And why is everyone upset at Marquess Brownlee?
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Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years in prison for her role in FTX scandal (Axios)
Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report (The Record)
The DOJ sues Visa for locking out rival payment platforms (The Verge)
Automattic sends WP Engine its own cease-and-desist over WordPress trademark infringement (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Training Data to Be Inspected in Authors’ Copyright Cases (The Hollywood Reporter)
Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app (The Verge)
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Tue. 09/24 – Sam Altman’s Few Thousand Days
24 september 2024 · 16 min
Sam Altman has a manifesto. Kinda. Telegram is beginning to walk things back a bit. Cloudflare wants to help you block the AI bots. New streaming device from Roku. And I guess TikTok can’t win at everything.
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The Intelligence Age (Sam Altman)
Sam Altman catapults past founder mode into ‘god mode’ with latest AI post (TechCrunch)
OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in “a few thousand days” (ArsTechnica)
Some Kaspersky customers receive surprise forced-update to new antivirus software (TechCrunch)
Telegram CEO Durov Says App to Provide More Data to Governments (Bloomberg)
New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free (Wired)
The new Roku Ultra is faster, has better Wi-Fi, and comes with a backlit remote (The Verge)
Spotify’s AI playlist builder is now available in the US (The Verge)
TikTok to Shut Down its Music Streaming Business in November (Bloomberg)
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Mon. 09/23 – Qualcomm To Buy Intel?
23 september 2024 · 17 min
Qualcomm as a white knight to save Intel? A huge bitcoin heist gets busted for the usual reasons. What if the US bans imports of all cars from China? And why can’t US car makers keep up when it comes, simply, to software?
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Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days (WSJ)
Intel Gets Multibillion-Dollar Apollo Offer as Qualcomm Circles (Bloomberg)
Chip Giants TSMC and Samsung Discuss Building Middle Eastern Megafactories (WSJ)
Suspects behind $230 million cryptocurrency theft arrested in Miami (BleepingComputer)
US proposes banning Chinese software and components in vehicles (FT)
Israel’s Pager Attacks Have Changed the World (NYTimes)
Toyota and VW fall further behind in the software race (FT)
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Fri. 09/20 – MacOS 15 Sequoia Is Breaking Things
20 september 2024 · 18 min
You might want to hold off on updating to macOS 15 Sequoia. What, exactly, is Europe trying to get Apple to do? The AI energy crunch means they’re turning Three Mile Island back on. Could AI usage mean we use up all our 5G capacity? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Apple’s new macOS Sequoia update is breaking some cybersecurity tools (TechCrunch)
EU to tell Apple how to do interoperability, DMA style (TechCrunch)
Microsoft AI Needs So Much Power It's Restarting Site of US Nuclear Meltdown (Bloomberg)
AI is stressing networks out - Nvidia thinks AI can help (Fierce Network)
Huawei 'super fans' fuming as left empty handed by $2,800 phone launch (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
American Vulcan - Palmer Luckey (TabletMag)
The Death of the Minivan (The Atlantic)
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Thu. 09/19 – Pokémon: No!
19 september 2024 · 17 min
Looks like they finally got around to suing that Palworld game. Google volunteered to break up some of its businesses but the EU said no. AI is coming to YouTube in a big way. A new social media platform that is ENTIRELY AI. And Amazon wants to get into the Shark Tank business.
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Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair (The Verge)
Exclusive: Google offered to sell part of ad tech business, not enough for EU publishers (Reuters)
YouTube will use AI to generate ideas, titles, and even full videos (The Verge)
Apple Gets EU Warning to Open Up iPhone Operating System (Bloomberg)
Musk's satellites 'blocking' view of the universe (BBC)
SocialAI offers a Twitter-like diary where AI bots respond to your posts (TechCrunch)
Amazon’s New ‘Shark Tank’-Style Show Gives Winners Top Billing in Its Store (WSJ)
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Wed. 09/18 – New Messages, New Headsets
18 september 2024 · 17 min
Messages between Android and iOS are about to be encrypted. A new XR headset from HTC and new Spectacles from Snap. A big movie studio has signed up to use AI. Neuralink has implants for blindness. And why I’m kinda NOT gonna do a review roundup of the new iPhones.
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RCS texts on the iPhone aren’t encrypted now, but that could change (The Verge)
Here’s how green bubbles are getting upgraded in iOS (The Verge)
HTC Vive's Focus Vision is a $999 stab at high-end VR and mixed reality (Engadget)
Snap’s new Spectacles inch closer to compelling AR (The Verge)
Instagram, Facing Pressure Over Child Safety Online, Unveils Sweeping Changes (NYTimes)
Lionsgate, Studio Behind ‘John Wick,’ Signs Deal With AI Startup Runway (WSJ)
Musk's Neuralink gets FDA's breakthrough device tag for 'Blindsight' implant (Reuters)
Apple iPhone 16 Pro review: small camera update, big difference (The Verge)
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Tue. 09/17 – Intel Has A Plan
17 september 2024 · 17 min
Intel announces a bunch of ways its hoping to turn its business around sooner rather than later. Is OpenAI about to have its chat bots query you? The whole TikTok divestment case is coming to a head right now. And speaking of turn arounds, darn if Netflix didn’t pull ITS turnaround off perfectly. Hollywood, not so much.
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Intel stock jumps on plan to turn foundry business into subsidiary and allow for outside funding (CNBC)
Intel to Make Custom AI Chip for Amazon, Delay German Plant (Bloomberg)
EssilorLuxottica extends smart glasses partnership with Meta (Reuters)
OpenAI Says It's Fixed Issue Where ChatGPT Appeared to Be Messaging Users Unprompted (Futurism)
TikTok is about to get its day in court (The Verge)
Judges Show Some Skepticism of TikTok’s Fight Against Potential U.S. Ban (NYTimes)
How Netflix won the streaming wars (FT)
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Mon. 09/16 – A Bunch Of Apple Stories
16 september 2024 · 17 min
A bunch of Apple stories today. FDA approval for sleep apnea detection for the watch. Signs of poor pre-order sales for the phone. And a quick review of the new Airpods. Also, how did Intel lose out on making the chips for the next gen Playstation. And are dating apps responsible for income inequality?
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Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval (TechCrunch)
iPhone 16 first weekend pre-order analysis: estimated total sales of about 37 million units; Pro series demand lower than expected (Ming-Chi Kuo)
France picks Sejourne as nominee for EU Commission after Breton clash (Reuters)
Slack now lets users add AI agents from Asana, Cohere, Adobe, Workday and more (VentureBeat)
Exclusive: How Intel lost the Sony PlayStation business (Reuters)
Apple AirPods 4 review: defying expectations (The Verge)
Online Dating Caused a Rise in US Income Inequality, Research Paper Shows (Bloomberg)
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Fri. 09/13 – The First Strawberry is o1
13 september 2024 · 19 min
The first of the Strawberry models is here. YC plans to have four cohorts a year, but each one is getting smaller. Waymo is already ready to expand to more pretty big markets. And in the long reads, a deep dive look into the options Intel has at this point in time.
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OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities (The Verge)
Notes on OpenAI’s new o1 chain-of-thought models (Simon Willison's Weblog)
OpenAI's new models 'instrumentally faked alignment' (TransformerNews)
Apple AirPods Pro granted FDA approval to serve as hearing aids (TechCrunch)
Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator to Double Number of Cohorts Per Year (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Intel Has Only Tough Options After Its Long and Stinging Fall From Grace (Bloomberg)
Link to the twitter poll about ads
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Thu. 09/12 – OpenAI’s Big New Raise
12 september 2024 · 17 min
As expected, OpenAI is in talks for a new capital raise at a $150B valuation. More layoffs in Microsoft’s gaming division. More holes poked in our creaking internet infrastructure. The tiny SpaceX competitor who’s stock has been soaring lately. And a look at what Apple’s recent AirPods announcement could do to the hearing aid industry.
Links: Lees meerOpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion (Bloomberg)
The AI Spending Spree, in Charts (WSJ)
Microsoft Lays Off Another 650 Staff From Its Video Game Workforce, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Sends Memo to Staff (IGN)
Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have (ArsTechnica)
Adam Neumann’s Climate Company Is Issuing Refunds After Failing To Launch Crypto Token (Forbes)
SpaceX’s Tiny Rival Soars 1,300%. Now Comes the Satellite Launch (Bloomberg)
Apple turning AirPods into hearing aids underscores effort to crack massive health market (CNBC)
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Wed. 09/11 – Mistral Goes Multimodel; And An AI Model Mystery
11 september 2024 · 17 min
Mistral goes multimodal for the first time. Meta admits to scraping the data of every adult Australian. The details on the new PS5 Pro. Wouldn’t it be wild if, through stablecoins, crypto BECOMES the banking system instead of replacing it. And a weird mystery in AI land.
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Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model (TechCrunch)
Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option (ABC News)
The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive (The Verge)
Exclusive Hands-On: I Played Sony's All-New PS5 Pro (CNET)
Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023 (Reuters)
Payments in Singapore With Stablecoins Rise to Almost $1 Billion (Bloomberg)
Reflection 70B model maker breaks silence amid fraud accusations (VentureBeat)
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Tue. 09/10 – Strawberries In 2 Weeks?
10 september 2024 · 17 min
Apple loses its longest standing regulatory battle in the EU. Some drips and drabs from yesterday’s iPhone event. Would a phone you can fold three times be more enticing than a phone that folds two times? And are we about to see that new Strawberry AI model from OpenAI by the end of the month?
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Apple must pay 13 billion euros in back taxes, EU’s top court rules (CNBC)
iPhone 16 battery life: How much better is it? (9to5Mac)
Huawei launches $2,800 trifold phone hours after Apple debuts iPhone 16 (CNBC)
Oracle’s Missteps in Cloud Computing Are Paying Dividends in AI (WSJ)
New Details on OpenAI’s Strawberry; Apple’s Siri Makeover; Larry Ellison Doubles Down on Data Centers (The Information)
Audible to Start Generating AI Voice Replicas of Select Audiobook Narrators (Bloomberg)
JPMorgan Plans to Report Customers Who Exploited TikTok ‘Glitch’ to Authorities (WSJ)
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Mon. 09/09 – The iPhone 16 Event
9 september 2024 · 20 min
All the headlines from today’s iPhone event. It IS interesting the degree to which Elon’s various businesses have potential synergy. The Times digs into the content on Telegram and says, it ain’t pretty. And e-bikes seem to be back. In London, at least, anyway.
Links: Lees meerApple Announces iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max with Larger Displays, New Camera Control, and More (MacRumors)
Apple announces iPhone 16: camera button, new colors, AI features (9to5Mac)
AirPods Pro 2 adds ‘clinical grade’ hearing aid feature (9to5Mac)
Musk’s xAI Has Discussed Deal for Share of Future Tesla Revenue (WSJ)
How Telegram Became a Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists (NYTimes)
London e-bike boom leads to clashes with councils (Financial Times)
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Fri. 09/06 – Telegram Blinks.
6 september 2024 · 19 min
Pavel Durov speaks, and Telegram blinks, both for the first time since the French arrest. Are XR glasses tethered to smartphones the next big product category? What if your smartphone could cure your vision problems? And in the longreads, if Waymo is about to scale, what, exactly, is the business model, long-term?
Links: Lees meerPavel Durov: Telegram founder says France arrest is ‘misguided’ (The Guardian)
Exclusive: Qualcomm explores acquiring pieces of Intel chip-design business (Reuters)
Qualcomm says it’s working on mixed reality smart glasses with Samsung and Google (CNBC)
Review: Honor Magic V3 (Wired)
Exclusive: Honor's latest devices use AI to try to reverse nearsightedness (Android Central)
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Waymo’s Robot Taxis Are Almost Mainstream. Can They Now Turn a Profit? (NYTimes)
When the Bitcoin Scammers Came for Me (The Atlantic)
Among the Idlers (Curbed)
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Thu. 09/05 – The DOJ Takes Down An Election Influence Campaign
5 september 2024 · 16 min
The DOJ says it has taken down a big election influence campaign allegedly directed by Russia. The Internet Archive loses a big case. Android 15 is here. And two really interesting new gadgets, one I probably need to buy and one I want to buy but probably won’t.
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Biden administration announces major actions to tackle Russian efforts to influence 2024 election (CNN)
The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case (Wired)
Android 15 will be available on supported Pixel devices in the coming weeks (TechCrunch)
DJI Neo hands-on: A powerful and lightweight $200 drone (Engadget)
The Remarkable Paper Pro is as outrageous as it is luxurious (The Verge)
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Wed. 09/04 – Elon Blinks In Brazil
4 september 2024 · 17 min
SpaceX has agreed to block access to X, in Brazil, on Starlink. Looks like YubiKeys are hackable. Who is the mystery platform looking to expand AI datacenters at an historic scale? And the Catch 22 that Intel is in. They need CHIPS Act money, but can their troubles mean the CHIPS Act money shouldn’t be spent on them?
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Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator (Reuters)
No X in Brazil? No problem, Brazilians say. (Washington Post)
Microsoft to announce ‘next phase of Copilot’ on September 16th (The Verge)
YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel (ArsTechnica)
Nvidia Gets DOJ Subpoena in Escalating Antitrust Probe (Bloomberg)
Two AI Developers Are Plotting $125 Billion Supercomputers (The Information)
Exclusive: Intel manufacturing business suffers setback as Broadcom tests disappoint (Reuters)
Intel’s Money Woes Throw Biden Team’s Chip Strategy Into Turmoil (Bloomberg)
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Tue. 09/03 – The X Ban In Brazil
3 september 2024 · 18 min
We missed a pretty big story this weekend. X getting banned in Brazil. I’ll try to catch you up on all the contours of this. Canva’s raising prices and it’s pissing people off because, I mean, they are REALLY raising prices. And the two pretty big success stories in crypto this year that we haven’t spoken about yet.
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Brazil’s Most Powerful Judge Is in the Spotlight—Again (Americas Quarterly)
How Brazil’s Experiment Fighting Fake News Led to a Ban on X (NYTimes)
Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase (The Verge)
HP to Pursue $4 Billion Damages After Mike Lynch Yacht Death (Bloomberg)
Pump.fun surpasses $100 million in revenue as Polymarket outshines NFTs in August (The Block)
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Fri. 08/30 – Who ISN’T Investing In OpenAI?
30 augustus 2024 · 18 min
At this point it would be quicker to name the big tech company that’s NOT investing in OpenAI’s latest round. Amazon’s new Alexa service is just going to be Anthropic’s Claude in drag disguise I guess. I’m starting to get really worried about Intel y’all. And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links: Lees meerOpenAI Funding Round Tempts Nvidia as Big Tech Leans on ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (WSJ)
Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp (Reuters)
ChatGPT’s weekly users have doubled in less than a year (The Verge)
Intel Weighs Options Including Foundry Split to Stem Losses (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Sunk cost (the Open Sea story) (The Verge)
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes (eieio.games)
I Watched Footage of Jerry Lewis’s Unreleased 1972 Holocaust Film (The New Republic)
End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell (AnandTech)
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Thu. 08/29 – Nvidia Earnings… Are Ok…
29 augustus 2024 · 17 min
Nvidia’s earnings were huge but because they didn’t manage to beat the biggest expectations out there, it’s kind of a miss? Pavel Durov has been formally charged by France. Does TikTok fall outside of Section 230 protection? And it seems like the effort by the car companies to wean themselves off of smartphone tech is… not going great.
Links: Lees meerNvidia’s CEO Says New Chip Will Have ‘Lots and Lots’ of Supply (Bloomberg)
Telegram CEO Charged in France for Crimes Committed on His App (Bloomberg)
TikTok must face lawsuit over 10-year-old girl's death, US court rules (Reuters)
OpenAI in Talks for Funding Round Valuing It Above $100 Billion (WSJ)
Top Movie Piracy Ring Taken Down, Major Studios’ Enforcement Group Claims (The Hollywood Reporter)
GM's 'Google Built-In' Is Glitchy, Requires A Subscription To Use Google Maps (Jalopnik)
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Wed. 08/28 – Strawberry Emoji
28 augustus 2024 · 17 min
I explain why everyone has been posting strawberries in AI circles. It’s cause of a potential new breakthrough at OpenAI. Cerebras launches the first new AI chip competition to Nvidia. China has reportedly burrowed into US ISPs. And continuing interesting details pouring out of that Pavel Durov situation.
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OpenAI Shows ‘Strawberry’ AI to the Feds and Uses It to Develop ‘Orion’ (The Information)
OpenAI Races to Launch ‘Strawberry’ Reasoning AI to Boost Chatbot Business (The Information)
Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fastest’ AI inference service (SiliconAngle)
Chinese government hackers penetrate U.S. internet providers to spy (Washington Post)
Google Meet’s automatic AI note-taking is here (The Verge)
Instagram adds what photos have always needed: words (The Verge)
Telegram Founder Was Wooed and Targeted by Governments (WSJ)
Can Tech Executives Be Held Responsible for What Happens on Their Platforms? (NYTimes)
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Tue. 08/27 – More On Pavel Durov
27 augustus 2024 · 17 min
As more details come out about the arrest of the founder of Telegram, a deeper look at Pavel Durov himself. We have the date of the iPhone event. We have a new record gaming number from Steam. And are Apple’s experiment with big budget Hollywood movies losing them bucket loads of money?
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Telegram Founder’s Arrest Part of Broad Investigation, French Prosecutors Say (NYTimes)
Macron loves Telegram. French judges hate it. (Politico)
How Telegram’s Founder Went From Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg to Wanted Man (NYTimes)
Steam surpasses 37 million concurrent users for the first time ever thanks to Black Myth: Wukong (PC Gamer)
Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick (TechCrunch)
Apple Rethinks Its Movie Strategy After a String of Misses (NYTimes)
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Mon. 08/26 – Telegram CEO Arrested
26 augustus 2024 · 16 min
French authorities have arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. Chinese tech companies are spending like crazy on AI too, btw. What are the smart glasses and VR gear Meta is poised to give us next month? And Nvidia might make you rich, but it still seems like a bear of a place to work at.
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Telegram CEO Held Over Alleged Child Protection Failures on App (Bloomberg)
Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France (Reuters)
Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? (Matthew Green)
China’s tech giants splash out on AI despite US restrictions (Financial Times)
Apple Explores Robotics in Search of Life Beyond the iPhone (Bloomberg)
Nvidia Rally Mints Millionaires Too Busy to Bask in New Wealth (Bloomberg)
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(BNS) The Crowdstrike Thing (With Overmind.tech)
24 augustus 2024 · 24 min
Breaking down the Crowdstrike outage with Overmind.tech
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Fri. 08/23 – The Bolt Saga
23 augustus 2024 · 20 min
Microsoft deprecating a feature that it launched back in 1985. There’s a pretty big loophole that is still letting China use H100 chips. The weird saga evolving over at Bolt. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links: Lees meerMicrosoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon (Neowin)
Exclusive: Chinese entities turn to Amazon cloud and its rivals to access high-end US chips, AI (Reuters)
AI-powered coding pulls in almost $1bn of funding to claim ‘killer app’ status (Financial Times)
Bolt investors baffled by massive new deal proposal (Axios)
Ryan Breslow’s ‘Lead Investor’ Blindsided By $450 Million Bolt Fundraise: ‘We Were Never In This Deal’ (Forbes)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
New Breed of EV Promises 700 Miles per Charge (Just Add Gas) (Bloomberg)
Popping the Bubble of Noise-Cancelling Headphones (The New Yorker)
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Thu. 08/22 – The Mike Lynch Saga
22 augustus 2024 · 16 min
As Mike Lynch’s body is recovered off Sicily, a deeper look at what was a roller coaster of a life. More cross posting for Meta’s apps. We have a date for the re-release of Recall. Interesting executive shuffle at Apple. And more data showing the degree to which free streaming is upending the Streaming Wars.
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Bodies of Mike Lynch and four yacht guests pulled from Bayesian wreck (Financial Times)
Mike Lynch’s journey from tech founder to long legal battle (Financial Times)
Meta lets you cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads. Here’s how to do it. (TechCrunch)
Microsoft’s Recall AI feature won’t be available for Windows testers until October (The Verge)
Neuralink Says Second Brain Device Implant ‘Went Well’ (Bloomberg)
Apple’s App Store Head to Leave in Reorganization Amid Global Scrutiny (Bloomberg)
Report: “FAST correcting issues that VoD created” (Advanced Television)
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Wed. 08/21 – AI Grabs The Spotlight Back
21 augustus 2024 · 17 min
AI news has been a bit quiet for a little while now, but the headlines came roaring back today. More evidence Waymo might be having some sort of tipping point. Can we really get 3D without the need to wear glasses? And the the interesting raise startup that is actually, literally, going to the moon, not in a figurative sense.
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Gemini in Gmail can now help polish up your drafts (The Verge)
Microsoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and more (VentureBeat)
OpenAI makes fine-tuning for GPT-4o customization generally available (SiliconAngle)
Waymo says it has doubled its weekly paid robotaxi trips to 100,000 since May (CNBC)
Samsung’s new Odyssey monitor lets you play games in glasses-free 3D (The Verge)
Microsoft Teams’ new single app for personal and work is now available (The Verge)
Big Tech’s bid to rewrite the rules on net zero (Financial Times)
Starpath accelerates moon water mining plans with $12M in funding (TechCrunch)
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Tue. 08/20 – Checkin On How The Vision Pro Is (Or Is Not) Coming Along
20 augustus 2024 · 18 min
New Raspberry Pi 5. Waymo’s rolling out its new self-driving tech. A major developer draws plaudits for going anti-AI. The tragic and odd story of that tech exec who is missing after his yacht sank. And after six months, how is the Apple Vision Pro evolving? What if it kind of isn’t?
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Raspberry Pi 5’s new 2GB model benchmarked: Do you need 2, 4 or 8GB? : We test against the 4 and 8GB versions (Tom's Hardware)
Waymo is developing a roomier robotaxi with less-expensive tech (CNBC)
Procreate’s anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives (The Verge)
Search continues for British tech magnate and 5 others after luxury superyacht sinks off Sicily (AP)
Apple Vision Pro review: six month stasis (Apple Insider)
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Mon. 08/19 – Everything Eventually Becomes An Advertising Business
19 augustus 2024 · 18 min
Is X closing up shop in Brazil? Remember how Apple is trying to make their own modems? How’s that going? Why is the online dating sector suddenly struggling? And could the next big advertising platform actually be Walmart?
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X says it’s closing operations in Brazil (TechCrunch)
AMD Buys AI Equipment Maker for Nearly $5 Billion, Escalating Battle With Nvidia (WSJ)
Apple Is Playing the Long Game With Switch From Qualcomm Modems (Bloomberg)
‘Bumble fumble’: online dating apps struggle as people swear off swiping (The Guardian)
How Walmart became a force in a $54bn retail advertising industry (Financial Times)