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Fri. 03/31 – Is E3 Dead?

31 maart 2023 · 18 min

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I can tell you E3 is officially cancelled this year, but I’m kinda thinking it might be dead for good. Bunch of stuff about Twitter and checkmarks. Italy has temporarily banned ChatGPT. Some of the signatories of that AI letter are having second thoughts. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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E3 Has Been Canceled (IGN)

Elon Musk Tried to Meet With F.T.C. Chair About Twitter but Was Rebuffed (NYTimes)

Japan restricts chipmaking equipment exports as it aligns with US China curbs (Reuters)

Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT (Politico)

The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess (Motherboard)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

Fitbit’s attempt to disappear the button proved why they matter (The Verge)

The influencers getting rich by teaching you how to get rich (Vox)

“I’LL WALK AWAY FROM ANYTHING”: KARA SWISHER CALLS THE SHOTS (Vanity Fair)

Thu. 03/30 – No Headset Reveal At WWDC?

30 maart 2023 · 16 min

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Wait, are we NOT going to see the new Apple headset at WWDC? Twitter’s new API tiers? Ads are coming to Bing Chat. Is Elon Musk guilty of laundering his grudge against OpenAI through AI concern trolling? And is TikTok creating more one hit wonders?
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Kuo: Apple Mixed-Reality Headset May Not Appear at WWDC as Mass Production Pushed Back Yet Again (MacRumors)

Twitter announces new API pricing, including a limited free tier for bots (Engadget)

Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting more ads (The Verge)

Alphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI (The Information)

Elon Musk's AI History May Be Behind His Call To Pause Development (Forbes)

Is TikTok Actually Creating More One-Hit Wonders? (Billboard)

Wed. 03/29 – Hit Pause On AI Development?

29 maart 2023 · 16 min

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Over 1,000 big names sign a petition urging a pause on AI development. What analysts think AI could to for or to the economy. North Korean hackers allegedly have a new trick. And did you know ByteDance has an Instagram rival? Well, it looks like they’re putting the pedal to the metal on that.
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Elon Musk and top AI researchers call for pause on ‘giant AI experiments’ (The Verge)

Generative AI set to affect 300mn jobs across major economies (Financial Times)

North Korea Is Now Mining Crypto to Launder Its Stolen Loot (Wired)

Google Search is adding new ‘Perspectives’ and ‘About this author’ features to help users verify info (TechCrunch)

TikTok ban backup plan? ByteDance-owned Instagram rival Lemon8 hits the US App Store’s Top 10 (TechCrunch)

Cerebras releases seven large language models for generative AI, trained on its specialized hardware (SiliconAngle)

Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub (Bloomberg)

Microsoft Security Copilot is a new GPT-4 AI assistant for cybersecurity (The Verge)

Tue. 03/28 – Rise Of The Blue Checks

28 maart 2023 · 18 min

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I titled an episode last week “Twilight Of The Blue Checks.” Well, today is the sequel, “Rise Of The Blue Checks” cause starting April 15, you’ll have to be a blue check to appear on Twitter’s For You tab. Also: the feds go after Binance. Disney cuts its entire metaverse unit. And the UK cancels its NFT.
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Elon Musk says Twitter’s For You page will only recommend verified accounts (The Verge)

The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else (Platformer)

Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao violated compliance rules to attract U.S. users, CFTC alleges (CNBC)

Disney Eliminates Its Metaverse Division as Part of Company’s Layoffs Plan (WSJ)

NFT: Plans for Royal Mint produced token dropped (BBC News)

Lyft CEO and president to step down, former Amazon exec David Risher named as replacement (CNBC)

Amazon just opened up its Sidewalk network for anyone to build connected gadgets on (The Verge)

Mon. 03/27 – SVB Finds A New Home

27 maart 2023 · 16 min

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Looks like the short, sharp, SVB saga has reached the beginning of a conclusion. Twitter source code has been leaked. The doubts inside Apple about the upcoming mixed reality headset. Why has no one presented any evidence for why TikTok might need to be banned? And, again, will generative AI lead to a physical robot revolution?
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First Citizens to Buy SVB After Biggest Failure Since 2008 (Bloomberg)

Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online (NYTimes)

Apple’s Best Hope for New Headset: a Smartwatch-Like Trajectory (Bloomberg)

France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices (The Register)

Pinduoduo App Malware Detailed by Cybersecurity Researchers (Bloomberg)

Tech’s AI Armies Are Huge, Yet Struggling to Innovate (Bloomberg)

For Smarter Robots, Just Add Humans (Wired)

(Portfolio Profile) Investor Update (And How To Do Them) With Rownd

25 maart 2023 · 25 min

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Fri. 03/24 – Twilight Of The Blue Checks

24 maart 2023 · 18 min

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Twitter is finally sunsetting its legacy verified program. OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins. Do Kwan has been detained and is facing formal charges here in the US. The FTC’s “click to cancel” proposal. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Twitter to Revoke ‘Legacy’ Verified Badges in April, Leaving Only Paying Subscribers With Blue Check-Marks (Variety)

OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more (The Verge)

Do Kwon Charged With Fraud by US Prosecutors in New York (Bloomberg)

The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions (The Verge)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

Cheating is All You Need (Sourcegraph Blog)

The Age of AI has begun (GatesNotes/Bill Gates)

The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI (Semafor)

The case for slowing down AI (Vox)

Epic’s new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed (ArsTechnica)

Thu. 03/23 – Coinbase Wells Notice

23 maart 2023 · 17 min

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Coinbase got a Wells Notice, which is not good. Hindenburg research has a new note out and is making short run on Block, which is not good. Apple might expand its sports streaming and release more things in actual theaters. And the space startup that 3d prints its own rockets.
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Coinbase warned by SEC of potential securities charges (CNBC)

SEC charges Tron founder Justin Sun, celebrities Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul with crypto violations (CNBC)

Jack Dorsey’s Block Falls After Hindenburg Says It’s Short the Stock (Bloomberg)

Hindenburg takes aim at Dorsey's payments firm Block; shares plunge (Reuters)

Apple Considers Bidding for English Football Streaming Rights (Bloomberg)

Apple to Spend $1 Billion a Year on Films to Break Into Cinemas (Bloomberg)

Canva Launches ‘Magic’ AI Tools For Its Design Software’s 125 Million Users (Forbes)

Chatbot Start-Up Character.AI Valued at $1 Billion in New Funding Round (NYTimes)

Relativity Space’s first launch fails to reach orbit, but proves its 3D-printing rocket tech works (TechCrunch)

Wed. 03/22 – Google Bard Joins The Fray

22 maart 2023 · 16 min

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Well, we’ve got Google Bard. We’ve got a new Copilot from GitHub. Bing Image Creator is rolling out. Mozilla AI launches. The low hanging fruit that is plugging AI into NPCs to make games more realistic. And at the very end, some actual non AI news!
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Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions (The Verge)

Microsoft’s GitHub to Add OpenAI Chat Functions to Coding Tool (Bloomberg)

Microsoft brings OpenAI’s DALL-E image creator to the new Bing (TechCrunch)

Mozilla launches a new startup focused on ‘trustworthy’ AI (TechCrunch)

Ubisoft’s new AI tool automatically generates dialogue for non-playable game characters (TechCrunch)

GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question (AI Snake Oil)

Amazon is flooding the zone with new TVs as it crosses 200 million Fire TV devices sold (The Verge)

Tue. 03/21 – TikTok Showdown

21 maart 2023 · 17 min

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Ahead of a major showdown in Congress this week, TikTok wants the US to know exactly how popular it is. Why ChatGPT was shut down for a while yesterday. Why Google is suspending PinDuoDuo from the play store. The AI powered doctor’s office of the future. And is Andy Jassy the David Moyes of Amazon? If you get that reference, congratulations. Lees meer

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TikTok says it now has 150m monthly active users in the US (MusicAlly)

TikTok bans deepfakes of nonpublic figures and fake endorsements in rule refresh (The Verge)

Google flags apps made by popular Chinese e-commerce giant as malware (TechCrunch)

OpenAI Shut Down ChatGPT to Fix Bug Exposing User Chat Titles (Bloomberg)

Amazon’s post-Bezos experiment hasn’t gone exactly as planned (CNBC)

OpenAI-powered app from Microsoft will instantly transcribe patient notes during doctor visits (CNBC)

Mon. 03/20 – Robots All The Way Down

20 maart 2023 · 17 min

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New bots to make video from text prompts. Fending off the bots from biting your style. Falling in love with the bots. In the streaming wars, the ad supported experiments are working, and pricing power is a thing. And the startup that says it’s about to introduce humanoid bots. Real, definitional robots.
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Generative AI’s Next Frontier Is Video (Bloomberg)

Glaze protects art from prying AIs (TechCrunch)

AI love: What happens when your chatbot stops loving you back (Reuters)

Netflix’s Ad Tier Hits 1 Million Users. Is That Good or Bad? (Bloomberg)

Disney+ Users Paid Up When the Price Rose (WSJ)

Humanoid robots are coming (Axios)

Figure Promises First General-Purpose Humanoid Robot (IEEE Spectrum)

Fri. 03/17 – Midjourney 5 Is Amazing

17 maart 2023 · 17 min

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Amazon Kindle gets out of the magazine business. An ironically named PE firm is buying Porn Hub. Midjourney v5 is really mind blowing. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Amazon will discontinue newspaper and magazine subscriptions in September (GoodEReader)

SVB Financial files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection, says it has $2.2B in liquidity (TechCrunch)

Pornhub owner sold to Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital (Financial Times)

AI-imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands (ArsTechnica)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

The Guardians (Meteor)

The Future Smartphone: More Folds, Less Phone, a Whole Lot of AI (Wired)

LinkedIn turns 20: An oral history of an unlikely champion (Fast Company)

‘It changed the world’: 50 years on, the story of Pong's Bay Area origins (SFGate)

Thu. 03/16 – We’re A Long Way From Clippy

16 maart 2023 · 18 min

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For the first time ever, I had to delay producing this show so I could watch and cover and AI product announcement. Let me tell you about how Microsoft is bringing GPT-4, to basically all their most famous apps with Copilot. Looks like the potential for a TikTok ban is getting really real. And why folks are suddenly turning on OpenAI.
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Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot — your copilot for work (Microsoft)

Microsoft 365 gets a host of new AI-powered features (TechCrunch)

U.S. Threatens Ban if TikTok’s Chinese Owners Don’t Sell Stakes (WSJ)

OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’ (TheVerge)

Payments giant Stripe raises $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation (Axios)

Wed. 03/15 – GPT-4 Is Here

15 maart 2023 · 18 min

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GPT-4 is unveiled and it’s multimodal, and man, is everybody rushing to make use of this stuff. Alleged renders of Google's Pixel 8 Pro appear to show a mysterious new sensor. The state of the music industry in the streaming era. And Deadpool sells his phone company to another phone company.
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OpenAI unveils GPT-4 with multimodal input and more creative and complex capabilities (Windows Central)

10 Ways GPT-4 Is Impressive but Still Flawed (NYTimes)

With Evals, OpenAI hopes to crowdsource AI model testing (TechCrunch)

Duolingo launches new subscription tier with access to AI tutor powered by GPT-4 (TechCrunch)

GPT-4’s new capabilities power a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired (TechCrunch)

TikTok Considers Splitting From ByteDance If Deal With US Fails (Bloomberg)

Google Pixel 8 Pro adds a mysterious new sensor, flat display in first leaked renders (9to5Google)

Apple Music boosts streaming music revenue to record $13.3 billion in 2022; vinyl outpaces CDs for first since 1987 (9to5Mac)

Ryan Reynolds-Backed Mint Is Bought by T-Mobile for $1.35 Billion (Bloomberg)

Tue. 03/14 – Meta Has Now Cut 1/4th Of Its Workforce

14 maart 2023 · 19 min

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Those expected layoffs have come to Meta. AI tools come to Google Workspace and an API for Google’s PaLM language model. Seems like things have generally worked out with this Silicon Valley Bank aftermath. Microsoft laid off its AI risk team. Layoffs at Y Combinator. And a look at the standard that’s trying to keep over the air broadcast television relevant.
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Meta to cut another 10,000 jobs and cancel ‘low priority projects’ (TechCrunch)

Google announces AI features in Gmail, Docs, and more to rival Microsoft (The Verge)

Google opens up its AI language model PaLM to challenge OpenAI and GPT-3 (The Verge)

FDIC Planning Another Silicon Valley Bank Auction (WSJ)

Venture capitalists weigh Silicon Valley Bank salvage operation (FT)

Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams (Platformer)

Y Combinator to End Late-Stage Startup Fund, Lays Off Staff (The Information)

The future of TV is up in the air (The Verge)

Mon. 03/13 – Crisis Averted?

13 maart 2023 · 20 min

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Unless it affected you, you might have missed a huge tech story this weekend. But now that depositors to Silicon Valley Bank are being made whole, is the whole crisis averted? Tim Cook is pressing ahead with the Apple headset over the objections of Apple’s design team. And the varied and complex dilemmas of this new AI reality in two, somewhat oppositional segments.
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SVB’s tech failings were a problem long before the bank run that led to its demise, critics say (CNBC)

SVB provided for tech when everyone else ignored us (FT)

Regulators close crypto-focused Signature Bank, citing systemic risk (CNBC)

Tim Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy (FT)

Microsoft Strung Together Tens of Thousands of Chips in a Pricey Supercomputer for OpenAI (Bloomberg)

Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment (Simon Willison's Blog)

Self Radicalization with open sourced AI-Systems (Good Internet)

(Portfolio Profile) Cadre.com

12 maart 2023 · 34 min

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Cadre.com is revolutionizing commercial real estate investing.

Fri. 03/10 – Silicon Valley Bank(Run)

10 maart 2023 · 19 min

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There’s really only one story right now. The troubles at Silicon Valley Bank and how it has literally everyone in the startup ecosystem worried right now. It’s a classic bank run, people. Plus, Meta is developing a Twitter clone. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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This just broke, FYI: Silicon Valley Bank is shut down by regulators, FDIC to protect insured deposits (CNBC)

Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network (Platformer)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

In AI, is bigger always better? (Nature)

Can Xerox reinvent itself for another 100 years? (The Verge)

Why Are So Many Guys Obsessed With Master and Commander? (GQ)

Thu. 03/09 – Silvergate’s Collapse Makes The Crypto Winter Even Colder

9 maart 2023 · 18 min

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Silvergate Capital is shutting down, so the crypto winter just got colder. Microsoft says the new Bing has crossed 100 million daily active users. Why TikTok is responsible for the new Spotify redesign. Can police grab your Ring camera footage without your permission, even if you’re not the target of an investigation? And looks like Stripe won’t be going public this year after all.
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Silvergate will liquidate bank, wind down operations (The Block)

Microsoft details how it could get Call of Duty: Warzone running on Switch (The Verge)

Microsoft’s AI-Powered Bing Search Engine Surpasses 100 Million Daily Active Users (Gizmodo)

Spotify’s new design is part TikTok, part Instagram, and part YouTube (The Verge)

The privacy loophole in your doorbell (Politico)

SCOOP: Stripe Is Raising $6 Billion to Resolve Taxes & Expiring Employee Shares, Delaying Public Listing (Newcomer)

Wed. 03/08 – The “Cambrian Explosion” Moment For AI

8 maart 2023 · 19 min

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Today, you might have heard about the latest Elon controversy where he criticized an employee, and then walked it all back. We’ll get into that. DuckDuckGo melds two AI tools together. A Large Visual Language Model that will help robots move around in the real world. I explain why I’m telling you about every new Generative AI advance seemingly every single day. And with Google officially announcing the date for I/O, is their headlong rush to release AI products the waking of a sleeping giant, or the second coming of Google+?
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FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Internal Communications, Journalist Names (WSJ)

Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire (The Verge)

Elon Musk apologizes after mocking disabled Twitter employee (AP)

DuckDuckGo Releases Its Own ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine, DuckAssist (Gizmodo)

Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands (ArsTechnica)

Google’s Plan to Catch ChatGPT Is to Stuff AI Into Everything (Bloomberg)

Tue. 03/07 – A TikTok Paywall

7 maart 2023 · 17 min

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TikTok launches a paywall, but it’s all about the creators. Salesforce has its own generative AI product. More layoffs coming for Meta. Another autonomous driving startup bites the dust. Why Twitter broke yesterday, and new speakers from Sonos.
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TikTok Launches ‘Series’ Feature, Which Lets Creators Sell Premium Episodes Up to 20 Minutes Each (Variety)

Apple reveals a yellow iPhone 14 and 14 Plus (The Verge)

Salesforce follows Microsoft in launching A.I. tools for salespeople with help from OpenAI (CNBC)

Meta Plans Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as This Week (Bloomberg)

Embark Trucks lays off workers, explores liquidation of self-driving truck assets (TechCrunch)

How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday (Platformer)

Apple First to Capture 8 Spots in List for Global Top 10 Smartphones (Counterpoint)

Sonos Era 300 and Era 100 first look: you’re gonna want to hear these speakers (The Verge)

Mon. 03/06 – AI And The Golden Age Of Scamming

6 maart 2023 · 17 min

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As Microsoft begins to integrate AI into its core enterprise and productivity products, are we ready for the scamming that AI is going to be able to produce? Details on forthcoming new iMacs. A checkin on Twitter. And why does Meta seem hellbent on ignoring what most people use VR for in the first place?
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Microsoft’s Latest AI Assistant Is Meant for Marketers, Customer Reps and Work Apps (Bloomberg)

They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam. (WashingtonPost)

OpenAI Rival Stable Diffusion Maker Seeks to Raise Funds at $4 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)

Multicoin Capital’s Hedge Fund Lost 91.4% Last Year, Investor Letter Reveals (CoinDesk)

Apple Readies Its Next Range of Macs, Including — Finally — a New iMac (Bloomberg)

Musk Delayed Paying Twitter’s Amazon Cloud Bill, Sparking Ad Threat (The Information)

Twitter’s Revenue, Adjusted Earnings Fell About 40% in Month of December (WSJ)

I don’t think Meta knows it’s a game company (The Verge)

(Bonus) State Of The Job Market With Grupa

4 maart 2023 · 16 min

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Checking in on the state of the tech job market with Grupa.io.

Fri. 03/03 – AI Summarizers And Glamour Filters

3 maart 2023 · 18 min

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Everyone in crypto stops doing business with Silvergate. Brave search launches an AI summarizer. A look at TikTok's AI Bold Glamour filter. Maybe the Activision acquisition is going to skate through the regulators. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Silvergate Stock Drops Over 50% as Crypto Clients Flee Beleaguered Bank (CoinDesk)

Brave Search launches an AI-powered summarization feature (TechCrunch)

Why won’t TikTok confirm the Bold Glamour filter is AI? (The Verge)

Microsoft’s Activision deal likely to be approved by EU regulators, says Reuters (The Verge)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

Alexa, what happened? (Margins)

The Satellite Hack Everyone Is Finally Talking About (Bloomberg)

The next big threat to AI might already be lurking on the web (ZDNet)

50 YEARS LATER, WE’RE STILL LIVING IN THE XEROX ALTO’S WORLD (IEEE Spectrum)

Thu. 03/02 – And Right On Schedule, Here Come The APIs

2 maart 2023 · 20 min

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A ChatGPT API for business is here. Microsoft gives Bing those nobs and dials that I’ve been talking about. What are multimodal LLMs? New turmoil in crypto, this time around one of the big crypto friendly banks. How is it going in terms of social platforms diversifying into subscription revenue? And why the FDA has rejected Neuralink’s applications to begin human testing of brain implants.
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OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers (TechCrunch)

Microsoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining (The Verge)

Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles (ArsTechnica)

Apple Blocks Update of ChatGPT-Powered App, as Concerns Grow Over AI’s Potential Harm (WSJ)

Coinbase is no longer accepting, initiating payments with Silvergate (The Block)

Snapchat will now let you pause your Snap Streaks (TechCrunch)

TikTok Earned $205 Million More Than Facebook, Twitter, Snap And Instagram Combined On In-App Purchases In 2023 (Forbes)

U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety risks (Reuters)

Wed. 03/01 – Bluesky Launches

1 maart 2023 · 17 min

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Decentralized social network Bluesky launches in the iOS App Store. TikTok adds wellbeing feature for families and kids. You know about eSIMs but say hello to iSIMs. Meta's entire four-year AR/VR roadmap. And I’m still banging the drum on laptops and smartphones where you can unroll the screen for more real estate.
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Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits the App Store as an invite-only app (TechCrunch)

Republican Bill That Gives Biden Power to Completely Ban TikTok Passes House Committee Super Fast (Gizmodo)

TikTok rolls out new screen time controls, adds new default settings for teens and expands Family Pairing (TechCrunch)

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 phones are the first to support built-in 'iSIMs' (Engadget)

This is Meta’s AR/VR hardware roadmap for the next four years (The Verge)

Lenovo’s rollable laptop and smartphone are a compelling, unfinished pitch for the future (The Verge)

Tue. 02/28 – Elon Wants To Compete With OpenAI

28 februari 2023 · 16 min

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AI-powered Bing is now integrated into Windows. Elon wants to compete with OpenAI, a company he co-founded. Major financial institutions continue to back away from crypto while NFTs on the bitcoin blockchain are on the rise. The iPhone SE might not be dead. And how the LastPass debacle happened.
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Microsoft brings its new AI-powered Bing to the Windows 11 taskbar (The Verge)

Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival (The Information)

Meta revamps AI unit to get generative tech into products (Axios)

Visa, Mastercard pause crypto push in wake of industry meltdown - sources (Reuters)

Kuo: New iPhone SE With 6.1-Inch OLED Display and Apple's 5G Chip Planned (MacRumors)

Bored Ape Yacht Club Creator Yuga Labs Reveals First Bitcoin NFT Project (Decrypt)

LastPass: DevOps engineer hacked to steal password vault data in 2022 breach (BleepingComputer)

Mon. 02/27 – Here Come The Prompt Engineers

27 februari 2023 · 19 min

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Snap wants to go the route of the movie Her, with a personified chatbot inside of Snapchat. Interesting layoffs at Twitter. Yes. More. Inside Apple's Exploratory Design Group. The best AR glasses we’ve seen yet. And, right on schedule, here come the prompt engineers.
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Snapchat is releasing its own AI chatbot powered by ChatGPT (The Verge)

Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at Twitter (The Verge)

Google announces new features for Android and Wear OS (TechCrunch)

Apple’s Secret ‘XDG’ Team Is Working on More Than Just a Glucose Monitor (Bloomberg)

Exclusive: These are Xiaomi's new Wireless AR Smart Glasses, and they look like they're from the future (XDA Developers)

Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required. (Washington Post)

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25 februari 2023 · 32 min

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Fri. 02/24 – Record Scratch On The Adobe/Figma Deal

24 februari 2023 · 18 min

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Is the DOJ about to sue to stop of Adobe’s acquisition of Figma? Confirmation of the lower end mixed reality headset from Apple due next year. A reporter used an AI-generated replica of a voice to bypass the voice verification system of a major bank. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Deal (Bloomberg)

Kuo: Apple to Launch High-End and Low-End Versions of Second-Generation Headset in 2025 (MacRumors)

How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice (Motherboard)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? (Stephen Wolfram)

Getting My ChatGPT Plus Subscription Is an Inflection Point (HackerNoon)

Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT (NYTimes)

Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I. (CNBC)

Inside Meta’s Push to Solve the Noisy Office (WSJ)

Are bioinspired drones the next big thing in unmanned flight? (TNW)

Thu. 02/23 – Coinbase Wants To Seed Web 3

23 februari 2023 · 17 min

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Coinbase wants to let a thousand Web3 flowers bloom by launching its own Layer 2 network. The new iPhone specs have leaked. Apple might have made a breakthrough in blood glucose monitoring. Satellite telephony continues to be a busy space, weirdly enough. And reviews of the Galaxy S23 lineup.
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Coinbase Launches Layer 2 Blockchain Base to Provide On-Ramp for Ethereum, Solana and Others (CoinDesk)

Exclusive: iPhone 15 CADs reveal larger 6.2-inch display, Dynamic Island, and more (9to5Mac)

Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch (Bloomberg)

AI-created images lose U.S. copyrights in test for new technology (Reuters)

Spotify Is Testing Token-Enabled Music Playlists (CoinDesk)

Samsung is readying its own smartphone-to-satellite communication platform (Engadget)

Samsung S23 and S23 Plus review: say ‘yes’ to the S (The Verge)

Wed. 02/22 – ChatGPT Hits A Chinese Wall

22 februari 2023 · 16 min

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This chatbot AI revolution has hit a major roadblock in China. What does it mean if science fiction publications are up in arms about AI generated content? Spotify has a new AI powered DJ. Uber has a redesigned version of its App. And why is Microsoft showing you ads for its products on other people’s websites?
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China tells big tech companies not to offer ChatGPT services (NikkeiAsia)

ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon (Reuters)

Sci-Fi Mag Pauses Submissions Amid Flood of AI-Generated Short Stories (PCMag)

Spotify launches ‘DJ,’ a new feature offering personalized music with AI-powered commentary (TechCrunch)

Uber redesigns app for simpler, more personalized experience (TechCrunch)

Microsoft aggressively trying to keep Chrome downloaders using Edge (9to5Google)

Tue. 02/21 – Microsoft Swears To Play Nice With Call Of Duty

21 februari 2023 · 18 min

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Microsoft tries again to convince people it won’t hoard Call of Duty as an Xbox exclusive. Linux now plays nice with Apple Silicon. Chrome swears it will play nicer with your battery life. Verified everything is officially now a trend. And does Apple have a strangle hold on Gen Z?
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Microsoft inks binding contract with Nintendo for ‘Call of Duty’ as it defends Activision deal (GeekWire)

Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1 chips arrives (ZDNet)

Google Chrome rolls out long awaited battery saving features (AndroidPolice)

Facebook and Instagram are testing selling you blue checks for $12 a month (The Verge)

Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication (The Verge)

Almost-unbeatable AI comes to Gran Turismo 7 (ArsTechnica)

How Apple captured Gen Z in the US — and changed their social circles (Financial Times)

Fri. 02/17 - Susan Wojcicki Rides Off Into The Sunset

17 februari 2023 · 17 min

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The US is suing Terraform Labs and Do Kwon. The UK is investigating rumors that Google paid Apple NOT to spin up its own search engine. Susan Wojcicki stepping down as YouTube CEO is a major end of an era. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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SEC Sues Over TerraUSD Stablecoin That Rocked Crypto (Bloomberg)

What Brit watchdog redacted: Google gives Apple cut of Chrome iOS search revenue (The Register)

TikTok is launching a $500,000 live trivia contest (The Verge)

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down (Vox)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

It’s Always Sunny Inside a Generative AI Conference (Wired)

Billionaire Kuok Family-Backed Music App BandLab Taps Into AI For TikTok’s Breakout Stars (Forbes)

PlayStation VR2 is exciting, exhausting and a new standard for VR (Launcher)

How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language (MIT Technology Review)

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Wikipedia)

Roko's basilisk (Wikipedia)

Thu. 02/16 – Microsoft Reflects On The New Bing

16 februari 2023 · 17 min

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Microsoft is revealing what it’s learned from us poking around on the new Bing. It seems that once developers begin using generative AI to code, they DO keep using it. Apple has postponed its headset announce to WWDC. Banks are shying away from crypto exposure. And after 16 years, border control is finally making use of NFC technology in passports.
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Microsoft explains Bing's bizarre AI chat behavior (Engadget)

GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets (BleepingComputer)

SEC Proposal Could Bar Investment Advisers From Keeping Assets at Crypto Firms (CoinDesk)

Banks Are Breaking Up With Crypto During Regulatory Crackdown (WSJ)

Apple Pushes Back Mixed-Reality Headset Debut Two Months to June (Bloomberg)

Whatever happened to the metaverse? (FT)

US Border Patrol Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data (Wired)

Wed. 02/15 – The New Bing Is Questioning Its Own Existence

15 februari 2023 · 18 min

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More signs the chat bots are maybe a little undercooked, and whooo doggy. Wait until you hear what I mean. Some datapoints suggesting the faddish nature of these new tools. And wait until you hear the possible reason you’re seeing Elon’s tweets all of the sudden. This is maybe the pinnacle story of the whole Elon/Twitter saga.
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Microsoft’s new ChatGPT AI starts sending ‘unhinged’ messages to people (The Independent)

The AI photo app trend has already fizzled, new data shows (TechCrunch)

GitHub’s Copilot for Business is now generally available (TechCrunch)

Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Deal Faces EU Antitrust Probe (Bloomberg)

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first (Platformer)

Tue. 02/14 – Elon, If You Want It Or Not

14 februari 2023 · 16 min

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People are saying Elon is showing you his tweets whether you asked to see them or not. More fodder for the charge that these chat bots are being rolled out quick and dirty. More fodder for the charge that US regulators are fencing in crypto. TikTok is trying to court the olds. And Amazon’s autonomous shuttle service his hit real world roads.
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Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon Musk’s tweets now (The Verge)

Twitter delays new paid API launch by 'a few more days' (AppleInsider)

Microsoft’s Bing AI, like Google’s, also made dumb mistakes during first demo (The Verge)

US Crackdown Seeks to Push Crypto Back to the Fringes of Finance (Bloomberg)

TikTok Turns to New Tactics to Spur Growth as Boom Times End (The Information)

Amazon chief vows to ‘go big’ on physical stores (FT)

TikTok’s Parent Takes On Meta in Battle for Virtual-Reality Market (WSJ)

Amazon’s Self-Driving Car Shuttles People on Public Roads for the First Time (Bloomberg)

Mon. 02/13 – Are Stablecoins Dead?

13 februari 2023 · 15 min

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Binance’s stablecoin seems to be dead, but with regulatory questions swirling around Paxos, I’m wondering if all stablecoins might about to see a rug pull. Tons of uncertainty swirling around the metaverse all the sudden. Can the metaverse still happen if all of its funding get pulled? And are all of these AI tools being rushed to market in embarrassing ways?
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Regulator Orders Crypto Firm Paxos to Stop Issuing Binance Stablecoin (WSJ)

PayPal Pauses Stablecoin Work Amid Regulatory Scrutiny of Crypto (Bloomberg)

Meta delays setting team budgets as it plans fresh round of job cuts (FT)

Microsoft Kills Its Industrial Metaverse Team After 4 Months (The Information)

AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack (ArsTechnica)

Apple Reportedly Planning to Limit iPhone 15's USB-C Port in the Same Way as Lightning (MacRumors)

Fri. 02/10 – A Record Year For Bots (The Other Kind Of Bots)

10 februari 2023 · 19 min

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More job cuts at Microsoft make me wonder if the HoloLens is still a thing. But also, we have data to explain why Apple hasn’t done layoffs yet. More AI chatbot announces coming fast and furious. But the other kind of bots, actual mechanical robots had their biggest year ever last year. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Apple Avoids Job Cuts Because It Didn’t Overhire Like Google and Amazon (Bloomberg)

Microsoft to demo its new ChatGPT-like AI in Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook soon (The Verge)

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com to launch ChatGPT-style product (CNBC)

North American companies notch another record year for robot orders (Reuters)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI (Motherboard)

ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why (Motherboard)

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (The New Yorker)

The Inference Cost Of Search Disruption – Large Language Model Cost Analysis (SemiAnalysis)

Stripe Can’t Lose (Every)

Thu. 02/09 – Twitter Blue Breaks The Character Barrier

9 februari 2023 · 18 min

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Feel free to tweet your manifestos now as Twitter Blue subscribers can tweet up to 4,000 characters. Is the Fediverse failing or doing just fine, thank you very much? Is the SEC about to put the kibosh on crypto staking? Forget eggs, the real inflation is in triple A video game titles. And if the whole web becomes bot content, what do we train the bots on?
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Now Twitter Blue subscribers can write 4,000-character tweets (The Verge)

Watch out, TweetDeck users—Elon Musk is about to ruin your Twitter experience (TechRadar)

Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage (TechDirt)

Coinbase CEO Armstrong Decries Rumors of Possible US SEC Ban on Crypto Staking (Bloomberg)

Meta Completes Acquisition of VR Fitness Company Within (CNET)

Nintendo’s Zelda Price Hike Opens Door for More Expensive Games (Bloomberg)

Google Stadia had less than 10% market share among cloud gaming services (9to5Google)

Google confirms AI-generated content isn’t against Search guidelines (9to5Google)

Wed. 02/08 – AI’s Big Week Continues

8 februari 2023 · 18 min

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Microsoft unveils a new Bing search that basically moves the yardsticks down the field in terms of what chat can do. But Google continues to drip-feed new tools as well. Also, some more traditional but useful additions to Google Maps. The UK might force the divestiture of Call of Duty to allow Microsoft to buy Activision. And if the Bank of England does a digital pound, it signals it might not do it on the blockchain.
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Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI (The Verge)

I Tried Microsoft’s New AI-Powered Bing. Search Will Never Be the Same. (WSJ)

Google is still drip-feeding AI into search, Maps, and Translate (The Verge)

Google Maps launches Immersive View in five cities, will roll out ‘glanceable directions’ soon (TechCrunch)

Microsoft’s $69 Billion Activision Deal Could Harm UK Gamers, Watchdog Finds (Bloomberg)

Digital Pound Holdings Could Be Limited to 10K, Central Bank Says (CoinDesk)

Tue. 02/07 – AI’s Big Debut Week Is NOW!

7 februari 2023 · 19 min

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Bored of phone and gadget launches, well prepare yourself for AI product launches, cause we’re getting a bunch of them starting now, this week. Meta is trying to revamp Horizon Worlds. Twitter is struggling to get people to pay up. But that doesn’t mean Mastadon is continuing to grow. And can you trick ChatGPT to do things it doesn’t want to do by threatening to kill it? Say hello to AI “jailbreaking.”
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Google announces ChatGPT rival Bard, with wider availability in ‘coming weeks’ (The Verge)

Baidu Surges as Hope Mounts over Chinese Answer to ChatGPT (Bloomberg)

Getty Images sues AI art generator Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement (The Verge)

Meta Targets Teen Users in Broader Horizon Metaverse App Revamp (WSJ)

Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch (The Information)

The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump (Wired)

ChatGPT’s ‘jailbreak’ tries to make the A.I. break its own rules, or die (CNBC)

Mon. 02/06 – iPhone Ultra?

6 februari 2023 · 19 min

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Is Apple considering launching an “Ultra” version of the iPhone as soon as this year? Have the good Twitter bots gotten a reprieve from Elon Musk? Is the Microsoft/Activision merger toast because global regulators are coordinating? And might regulators look askance at all these generative AI investments from the big cloud computing platforms?
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Apple Talks Up High-End iPhones in Sign Ultra Model May Be Coming (Bloomberg)

Elon Musk says Twitter will provide a free write-only API to bots providing ‘good’ content (TechCrunch)

Microsoft’s Activision Deal Tests a New Global Alignment on Antitrust (NYTimes)

Big Tech companies use cloud computing arms to pursue alliances with AI groups (FT)

A16z votes against proposal to deploy latest Uniswap iteration on BNB Chain (The Block)

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Fri. 02/03 – The Startup Planning To De-Extinct The Dodo

3 februari 2023 · 19 min

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Earnings wrapups from Alphabet: investors just want to know when the AI is coming. From Apple: they’re still not planning any layoffs. From Amazon: Look, AWS is still a beast. And in the Weekend Longreads suggestions: the startup that wants to bring back the Dodo, Jurassic Park style.
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AI will help Google parent Alphabet navigate a challenging macro environment, say analysts (MarketWatch)

Google Shares Slip after Sales Miss as Advertising Demand Slows (Bloomberg)

Apple Sales Shrink as Pandemic Rally Ends for iPhone Maker, Other Tech Giants (WSJ)

Amazon stock falls as least profitable holiday quarter since 2014 leads to its worst annual loss on record (MarketWatch)

Google invests $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic (Financial Times)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

The generative AI revolution has begun—how did we get here? (ArsTechnica)

Who will compete with ChatGPT? Meet the contenders | The AI Beat (VentureBeat)

The Difference Between Speaking and Thinking (The Atlantic)

A de-extinction company is trying to resurrect the dodo (MIT Technology Review)

A Calculated Move: Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive (Internet Archive Blogs)

Thu. 02/02 – Meta Whistles Past The Metaverse

2 februari 2023 · 19 min

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Meta singlehandedly bucks the narrative that it’s the sick man of Silicon Valley. Twitter is cutting off free access to its API. ChatGPT launches a product, and is Bing search getting GPT4 in like, a matter of weeks? Discord is coming to Playstation and the wrapup of yesterday’s Samsung event.
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Meta stock perks up as the company promises a ‘year of efficiency’ (TechCrunch)

2 reasons Meta stock is exploding 20% after a whopper earnings miss (Yahoo Finance)

Twitter to end free access to its API in Elon Musk’s latest monetization push (TechCrunch)

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per month (TechCrunch)

ChatGPT is about to get even better and Microsoft's Bing could win big (Semafor)

Discord arrives on PS5 for beta testers today (The Verge)

Netflix hasn’t confirmed its plans to stop password sharing just yet (The Verge)

Amazon’s No-Fly Zone: Drone Delivery Largely Grounded Despite Splashy Launch (The Information)

The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is a minor update to a spec monster (The Verge)

Wed. 02/01 – The Memory Chip Rout (Again)

1 februari 2023 · 17 min

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You think things are bad in your corner of the tech sector? Wait until I tell you about the memory chip industry. OpenAI releases a tool to let you check if something was created by OpenAI. Netflix might be going a tad overboard on this password sharing crackdown. Meta wins round one against the FTC. And the interesting new app from the founders of Instagram.
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Hynix Posts Record Loss on Slump in Memory-Chip Prices (Bloomberg)

Historic Crash for Memory Chips Threatens to Wipe Out Earnings (Bloomberg)

OpenAI releases tool to detect machine-written text (Axios)

Google is asking employees to test potential ChatGPT competitors, including a chatbot called ‘Apprentice Bard’ (CNBC)

Confirmed: Netflix Unveils First Details of New Anti-Password Sharing Measures (The Streamable)

Meta Wins Court Nod to Buy Virtual Reality Startup in Loss for Khan’s FTC (Bloomberg)

Meta Plans to Shut Down One of Its Most Popular and Long-standing Multiplayer VR Games (Road To VR)

Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback (Platformer)

Tue. 01/31 – Weird Gaming News

31 januari 2023 · 17 min

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Today, some weird headlines from the world of gaming. Is VR gaming a big nothingburger for gamers themselves? Is E3 dead as a gaming industry event? Stripe is apparently raising a pretty significant down round. And the first Level 3 autonomous driving platform to receive regulatory approval belongs to Mercedes-Benz.
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Sony Slashes PlayStation VR2 Headset Output After Pre-Orders Disappoint (Bloomberg)

Exclusive: Xbox, Nintendo, and Sony Won't Be Part of E3 2023 (IGN)

Showtime to Be Rebranded ‘Paramount+ with Showtime,’ Added to Paramount+ Premium Tier (The Streamable)

Thrive Capital Said to Lead Potential Investment in Stripe (NYTimes)

Twitter Makes First Interest Payment on Musk Buyout Debt (Bloomberg)

Mercedes-Benz is the first to bring Level 3 automated driving to the US (The Verge)

Mon 01/30 – Every Platform Is Hustling To Unveil An AI Play

30 januari 2023 · 21 min

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Après ChatGPT, prepare yourself for the generative AI deluge. Amazon says the free lunch for grocery delivery is over. More speculation about foldable iPads. San Francisco wants Waymo and Cruise to pump the breaks on their self-driving car experiments because the actual cars have been literally pumping the breaks too much. And my wager on whether or not 2023 will actually go down as the year that AI breaks through.
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Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot (Bloomberg)

Amazon adding new fees for grocery delivery (GeekWire)

Apple Supplier in India Begins Making Components for AirPods (Bloomberg)

Foldable iPad could arrive as early as next year, claims noted Apple analyst (The Verge)

Two companies race to deploy robotaxis in San Francisco. The city wants them to hit the brakes. (NBCNews)

Scientists at Salesforce develop proteins with AI that can eat trash (NeoWin)

AI has designed bacteria-killing proteins from scratch – and they work (New Scientist)

Fri. 01/27 – More Buzzfeed News, If You Can Believe It

27 januari 2023 · 19 min

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What can make Buzzfeed hit our headlines two days in a row? How about jumping on the ChatGPT bandwagon? Amazon is apparently launching a major NFT project, like it’s 2021 or something. Is Stripe going to be our big tech IPO savior? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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BuzzFeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Create Quizzes and Other Content (WSJ)

Amazon NFT Initiative Coming Soon: Exclusive (Blockworks)

Stripe Sets One-Year Timetable to Decide on Going Public (WSJ)

Longreads

The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok (Wired)

The Chess World’s New Villain: A Cat Named Mittens (WSJ)

Welcome to the Shoppy Shop (Grub Street)

The Disappearance of the Ashtray (Clive Thompson)

Why Not Mars (Idle Words)

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Thu. 01/26 – Where Is The Line Going For Tech Right Now?

26 januari 2023 · 17 min

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I get all metaphysical about where the tech industry is going right now with a record slowdown in smartphone shipments, Masa Son seemingly misplacing his investing shoes, Meta and Buzzfeed joining forces to stave off irrelevancy, and universities offering degrees in AI for the first time. Oh, and are you SURE you want to spin up that Mastadon server?
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Smartphone Shipments Suffer the Largest-Ever Decline with 18.3% Drop in the Holiday Quarter and a 11.3% Decline in 2022, According to IDC Tracker (IDC)

SoftBank Deals Hit Record Low, Sapping Funding for Startups (Bloomberg)

Meta Pays BuzzFeed Millions to Generate Creator Content for Facebook and Instagram (WSJ)

University of Texas Will Offer Large-Scale Online Master’s Degree in A.I. (NYTimes)

We tried to run a social media site and it was awful (Financial Times)

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