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Wednesday, December 27 2023 - Wed. 12/27 – NYT Sues OpenAI

The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work (NYTimes)
Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th (The Verge)
Apple’s iPhone Design Chief Enlisted by Jony Ive, Sam Altman to Work on AI Devices (Bloomberg)
Big Tech outspends venture capital firms in AI investment frenzy (FT)
Anthropic Projects At Least $850 Million in Annualized Revenue Rate Next Year (The Information)
Microsoft’s game changer feature reinstalls Windows 11 directly via Windows Update (Windows Latest)
GM stops Chevy Blazer EV sales after early software problems (TechCrunch)
How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip (The Register)

Tuesday, December 26 2023 - Tue. 12/26 – Apple’s AI Strategy Comes Into View

Apple quietly released an open source multimodal LLM in October (VentureBeat)
Apple Explores A.I. Deals With News Publishers (NYTimes)
OpenAI Is in Talks to Raise New Funding at Valuation of $100 Billion or More (Bloomberg)
Ubisoft says it’s investigating reports of a new security breach (BleepingComputer)
GTA 5 source code reportedly leaked online a year after RockStar hack (BleepingComputer)
Puzzle game ‘Royal Match’ dethrones ‘Candy Crush’ from top of app store (FT)
Apple Watch battle heralds further patent wrangles (FT)

Friday, December 22 2023 - Fri. 12/22 – The Hyperloop Is Dead

The hyperloop is dead for real this time (The Verge)
Beeper is giving up on its iMessage dream (The Verge)
Apple’s Newest Headache: An App That Upended Its Control Over Messaging (NYTimes)
Tencent Leads $80 Billion Rout as China Rekindles Crackdown Fear (Bloomberg)
Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order (BBC)

Thursday, December 21 2023 - Thu. 12/21 – Big Galaxy S24 Spec Leaks; And What Is “Galaxy AI?”

Leaked Samsung S24 spec sheet offers complete picture of the upcoming lineup (The Verge)
Apple Ramps Up Vision Pro Production, Aiming for Launch by February (Bloomberg)
Apple loses attempt to halt Apple Watch sales ban (The Verge)
Scoop: Warner Bros. Discovery in talks to merge with Paramount Global (Axios)
Waymo has 7.1 million driverless miles — how does its driving compare to humans? (The Verge)
Aston Martin, Porsche Preview Bespoke Apple CarPlay Interfaces (Car And Driver)

Wednesday, December 20 2023 - Wed. 12/20 – Sony Has Sold 50 Million PS5s

Rite Aid Banned From AI Facial Recognition by FTC After Misuse (Bloomberg)
PlayStation sales and blockbuster games propel console market back to growth (FT)
ByteDance’s Sales Break $110 Billion to Pass Tencent This Year (ByteDance)
SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker (Ars Technica)
Microsoft Copilot gets a music creation feature via Suno integration (TechCrunch)
Scooter Company Bird Global Files Bankruptcy to Sell Itself (Bloomberg)
What Do AI Companies Want With the Media? (NYMag)

Tuesday, December 19 2023 - Tue. 12/19 – Google Might Owe You Some Money

Google to Pay $700 Million in Play Store Settlement (WSJ)
102 million people eligible for Google’s $630M lawsuit settlement (Washington Post)
Figma Grew Fast Even as Executives Failed to Clinch Adobe Deal (The Information)
Adobe Has $6 Billion for AI and Buybacks After Figma Deal Collapses (Bloomberg)
TikTok rolls out an enhanced app experience for tablets and foldables (TickTok)
Xfinity discloses data breach affecting over 35 million people (Bleeping Computer)
OpenAI Says Board Can Overrule CEO on Safety of New AI Releases (Bloomberg)
Game preservationists dig for lost apps in TestFlight ‘teraleak’ (The Verge)

Monday, December 18 2023 - Mon. 12/18 – Adobe And Figma Call Off Their Merger

Friday, December 15 2023 - Fri. 12/15 – Did Google Just Kill Geofence Warrants?

Is This the End of Geofence Warrants? (The EFF)
Intel unveils new AI chip to compete with Nvidia and AMD (CNBC)
Report: Apple has ‘no concrete timeline’ for a foldable iPad, focused on OLED displays instead (9to5Mac)
Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads (404Media)
Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs (TechCrunch)
Grimes is working on an interactive AI toy for kids. Meet Grok. (Washington Post)

Thursday, December 14 2023 - Thu. 12/14 – Threads Is Shipping Some Stuff!

Meta starts testing Threads integration with ActivityPub (TechCrunch)
Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe (The Verge)
Apple now sells the AirPods Pro USB-C case by itself — for $99 (The Verge)
Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available on Meta’s Quest VR headsets (The Verge)
Etsy Cuts 11% of Headcount as Competition From Shein and Temu Mounts (The Information)
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (404 Media)
Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests (NYTimes)

Wednesday, December 13 2023 - Wed. 12/13 – Big Tesla Recall

Apple Makes Security Changes to Protect Users From iPhone Thefts (WSJ)
Google Offers Enhanced Generative AI Features for Cloud Customers (Bloomberg)
Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws (Bloomberg)
FCC issues final denial of $885M Starlink subsidy (TechCrunch)
Musk’s X 2023 Ad Sales Projected to Slump to About $2.5 Billion (Bloomberg)
EU Deal to Force Uber, Deliveroo Treat Some Drivers as Employees (Bloomberg)
OpenAI to Pay Politico Parent Axel Springer for Using Its Content (WSJ)
Netflix reveals how many hours we spent watching The Night Agent and Queen Charlotte (The Verge)

Tuesday, December 12 2023 - Tue. 12/12 – Epic Win!

Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (The Verge)
Google’s Epic Legal Defeat Threatens $200 Billion App Store Industry (Bloomberg)
Exclusive: Apple offers to let rivals access tap-and-go tech in EU antitrust case (Reuters)
Apple iTunes Will Now Redirect Users to Redesigned Apple TV App for Movies, Series (Variety)
BeReal adds private groups and Live Photo-like features; Pew estimates 13% of US teens use app (TechCrunch)
E3, once gaming’s biggest expo, is officially dead (Washington Post)

Monday, December 11 2023 - Mon. 12/11 – Here Come The New Open-Source AI Startups

Mistral, French A.I. Start-Up, Is Valued at $2 Billion in Funding Round (NYTimes)
Nvidia Sees Vietnam as Potential Second Home, Reports Say (Bloomberg)
Apple Is Working on Cleaning Up Its Confusing iPad Lineup (Bloomberg)
China’s cyber army is invading critical U.S. services (Washington Post)
This A.I. Subculture’s Motto: Go, Go, Go (NYTimes)

Friday, December 08 2023 - Fri. 12/08 – Did Google Fake The Gemini Demo?

Google’s Gemini Looks Remarkable, But It’s Still Behind OpenAI (Bloomberg)
Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great (TechCrunch)
Apple to move key iPad engineering resources to Vietnam (NikkeiAsia)
Microsoft, OpenAI Are Facing a Potential Antitrust Probe in UK (Bloomberg)
Google launches NotebookLM powered by Gemini Pro, drops waitlist (9to5Google)

Thursday, December 07 2023 - Wed. 12/06 – Google’s OpenAI Competitor Announced

Messenger is finally getting end-to-end encryption by default (The Verge)
Federal government is using data from push notifications to track contacts (Washington Post)
AMD unveils Instinct MI300X GPU and MI300A APU, claims up to 1.6X lead over Nvidia’s competing GPUs (Tom’s Hardware)
Meta launches a standalone AI-powered image generator (TechCrunch)
PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks (The Verge)
EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft readies ‘groundbreaking’ AI-focused Windows release as new leadership takes the helm (Windows Central)
Apple launches MLX machine-learning framework for Apple Silicon (ComputerWorld)
Meet Gemini, the AI That Google Says Is Way, Way Better Than ChatGPT (Gizmodo)
Google’s Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro — and eventually to Android (The Verge)
Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet (TechCrunch)
Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator (Reuters)
Twitch plans to shut down in South Korea on February 27, 2024 (VentureBeat)
There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (The Verge)

Tuesday, December 05 2023 - Tue. 12/05 – 23andMe Hack Just Keeps Getting Worse

23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users (TechCrunch)
A detailed look at the OnePlus 12 ahead of its global launch (The Verge)
Instagram and Facebook Messenger chats are being disconnected this month (9to5Google)
Meta, IBM Create Industrywide AI Alliance to Share Technology (Bloomberg)
Amazon Fails To Renew Live UK Premier League Rights As Sky & TNT Maintain Grip On Games (Deadline)
Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years (Ars Technica)
ChatGPT will no longer comply if you ask it to repeat a word ‘forever’— after a recent prompt revealed training data and personal info (Business Insider)
‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Coming in 2025, Rockstar Says After Trailer Leak (Bloomberg)

Monday, December 04 2023 - Mon. 12/04 – Monster Spotify Layoffs

Spotify cuts 17% jobs amid rising capital costs (TechCrunch)
Google Postpones Big AI Launch as OpenAI Zooms Ahead (The Information)
OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman (Wired)
The Robots Will Insider Trade (Bloomberg)
Kiss say farewell to live touring, become first US band to go virtual and become digital avatars (AP)

Saturday, December 02 2023 - (Bonus) The Sam Altman Saga Timeline With Alex Konrad Of Forbes

A Secretive $10 Billion Firm Backed By WhatsApp Billionaire Jan Koum Is Quietly Building A Startup Portfolio (Forbes)

Friday, December 01 2023 - Fri. 12/01 – iPhones To Go All-Action (Button)

iPhone 16 to Include Action Button Across Entire Lineup (MacRumors)
Apple and Paramount Discuss Bundling Their Streaming Services (WSJ)
Apple fixes two new iOS zero-days in emergency updates (Bleeping Computer)
US judge blocks Montana from banning TikTok use in state (Reuters)
Tiger Global’s Biggest Venture Fund Has 18% Loss After Markdowns (Bloomberg)
Xbox Talking to Partners for Mobile Store, CEO Spencer Says (Bloomberg)

Thursday, November 30 2023 - Thu. 11/30 – The Prodigal Son Is Back

Wednesday, November 29 2023 - Wed. 11/29 – Apple And Goldman Part Ways

Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership (WSJ)
Unity Software with a ‘company reset’ walks away from film VFX and the Wētā Deal. (FXGuide)
Stability AI Has Explored Sale as Investor Urges CEO to Resign (Bloomberg)
G.M. to Cut Spending on Cruise Self-Driving Unit (NYTimes)
Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies (NYTimes)
Inside Spotify Wrapped, an Annual Song of Ourselves (WSJ)

Tuesday, November 28 2023 - Tue. 11/28 – NameDrop Is Safe, Despite What Police Say

AWS enhances AI services with foundation model capabilities for improved performance (SiliconAngle)
Amazon wants businesses to use its palm-scanning tech to let employees into the office (CNBC)
US Thanksgiving weekend sales hit record on big discounts, online boost (Reuters)
NameDrop is safe. The fearmongering about it is not. (Washington Post)
Google investigating missing files on Drive, caused by desktop app (9to5Google)
OpenAI Is Still an $86 Billion Nonprofit (Bloomberg)
Ikea debuts a trio of affordable smart home sensors (The Verge)

Monday, November 27 2023 - Mon. 11/27 – ByteDance Retrenches

Tuesday, November 21 2023 - Tue. 11/21 – The Sam Altman Thing Is Nowhere Near Resolved

Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO (The Verge)
OpenAI’s Board Approached Anthropic About Merger (The Information)
@eastdakota’s Tweet Thread on Microsoft and OpenAI (Twitter)
Elon Musk Sues Media Matters for ‘Knowingly and Maliciously’ Misrepresenting Amount of Antisemitic Content on X (TheWrap)
YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users (Update: Statement) (AndroidAuthority)

Monday, November 20 2023 - Mon. 11/20 – Where We Are With The Sam Altman Drama

Inside the Chaos at OpenAI (The Atlantic)
Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns (TechCrunch)
GM boss Mary Barra’s high-tech bet unraveling after Kyle Vogt departs as CEO of embattled Cruise robotaxi unit (Fortune)
Yaccarino On Hot Seat As Ad Execs Urge Twitter CEO To Resign (Forbes)

Friday, November 17 2023 - Fri. 11/17 – Apple Adopts RCS

Thursday, November 16 2023 - Thu. 11/16 – Microsoft’s Ignite Conference

Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT (The Verge)
Microsoft officially launches Loop, its Notion competitor (The Verge)
Microsoft Unveils Its First Custom-Designed AI, Cloud Chips (Bloomberg)
YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators (Wired)
Threads starts testing hashtags…without the hash (TechCrunch)
Robots to Outnumber People at UPS’s Massive New Warehouse (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, November 15 2023 - Wed. 11/15 – Bridging The Great Blue Bubble Divide

Coming soon: A fix for the Android green-bubble problem (Washington Post)
Intel fixes high-severity CPU bug that causes “very strange behavior” (Ars Technica)
OpenAI Pauses New ChatGPT Plus Subscriptions Due To Surge In Demand (Search Engine Journal)
Apple extends free period for iPhone 14 satellite features (9to5Mac)
AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting methods for first time (FT)
Opal’s second camera is the Tadpole, a tiny webcam for laptops (The Verge)

Tuesday, November 14 2023 - Tue. 11/14 – Google Pays Apple HOW Much?

Apple Gets 36% of Google Revenue in Search Deal, Expert Says (Bloomberg)
For Google Play, Dominating Android World Was ‘Existential’ (Bloomberg)
Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees In Its Games Division (Aftermath)
FBI struggled to disrupt dangerous casino hacking gang, cyber responders say (Reuters)
Uber to Test TaskRabbit-Like Service in Florida and Alberta (Bloomberg)
Uber takes steps to combat unfair driver deactivations (TechCrunch)
OpenAI’s six-member board will decide ‘when we’ve attained AGI’ (VentureBeat)

Monday, November 13 2023 - (Portfolio Profile) Automated Data (Corrected)

Friday, November 10 2023 - Fri. 11/10 – The Humane Ai Pin Is The Star Trek Combadge

Humane’s Ai Pin is a $700 Smartphone Alternative You Wear All Day (Wired)
Introducing Humane Ai Pin (The Humane Launch Video)
In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air (NYTimes)

Thursday, November 09 2023 - Thu. 11/09 – The First AI Wearable

Wednesday, November 08 2023 - Wed. 11/08 – The First AI Election

Meta to Require Campaigns to Disclose AI-Altered Political Ads (WSJ)
Microsoft Is Offering to Help US Politicians Crack Down on Deepfakes (Bloomberg)
Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle (The Register)
Coatue Cuts Value of OpenSea Stake by 90% as Fund’s Returns Sag (The Information)
Stablecoin Issuer Circle Internet Considering 2024 IPO (Bloomberg)
Amazon links One Medical primary care to Prime memberships (Washington Post)
Fortnite just had its biggest day ever, 6 years in (Polygon)

Tuesday, November 07 2023 - Tue. 11/07 – An App Store, But For GPTs

OpenAI Launches GPT-4 Turbo (TechCrunch)
OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT (The Verge)
CRUISE KNEW ITS SELF-DRIVING CARS HAD PROBLEMS RECOGNIZING CHILDREN — AND KEPT THEM ON THE STREETS (The Intercept)
WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, files for bankruptcy (CNBC)
Shein Targets Up to $90 Billion Valuation in US IPO, Sources Say (Bloomberg)
Klarna’s financial glow-up is my favorite story in tech right now (TechCrunch)

Monday, November 06 2023 - Mon. 11/06 – Elon “Groks” AI

Elon Musk debuts ‘Grok’ AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others (CNBC)
AI Pioneer Kai-Fu Lee Builds $1 Billion Startup in Eight Months (Bloomberg)
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd Steps Down (WSJ)
Review: Apple’s 16-inch M3 Max MacBook Pro crams Ultra-level speed into a laptop (Ars Technica)
Apple has no plans to make a 27-inch iMac with Apple Silicon (The Verge)

Friday, November 03 2023 - Fri. 11/03 – SBF Guilty

Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud (The Verge)
Sam Bankman-Fried Was a Grown Up Criminal, Not an Impulsive Man-Child (NYTimes)
Starlink achieves cash-flow breakeven, says SpaceX CEO Musk (Reuters)
Musk’s xAI set to launch first AI model to select group (Reuters)
Amazon Boosted Junk Ads, Deleted Messages to Thwart Antitrust Probe, FTC Says (Bloomberg)
Google AdSense moving to per-impression payments in 2024 (9to5Google)

Thursday, November 02 2023 - Thu. 11/02 – Silicon Mesa?

Disney Says It Will Take Full Control of Hulu (NYTimes)
Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens (Wired)
Attenuating Innovation (AI) (Stratechery)
DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip (The Verge)
‘Our secret weapon’: how a university bolstered Phoenix’s rise as US chip capital (FT)

Wednesday, November 01 2023 - Wed. 11/01 – WeWork To The Deadpool?

Tuesday, October 31 2023 - Tue. 10/31 – The New M3 Chips And Macs

Monday, October 30 2023 - Mon. 10/30 – AI Guardrails

Biden releases AI executive order directing agencies to develop safety guidelines (The Verge)
Exclusive: G7 to agree AI code of conduct for companies (Reuters)
New Version Of ChatGPT Gives Access To All GPT-4 Tools At Once (Search Engine Journal)
Google Commits $2 Billion in Funding to AI Startup Anthropic (WSJ)
Meta to Offer Ad-Free Facebook, Instagram Subscriptions in Europe (Bloomberg)
Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware (9to5Google)
Stacking Boxes? Treating Cancer? AI Needs to Learn Physics First (WSJ)

Friday, October 27 2023 - Fri. 10/27 – SBF Takes The Stand

Microsoft: Octo Tempest is one of the most dangerous financial hacking groups (BleepingComputer)
FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried previews legal defence at fraud trial (FT)
Cruise pauses all driverless robotaxi operations to ‘rebuild public trust’ (TechCrunch)
OpenAI forms team to study ‘catastrophic’ AI risks, including nuclear threats (TechCrunch)

Thursday, October 26 2023 - Thu. 10/26 – A Complete AirPods Revamp

Zuckerberg says Threads has almost 100 million monthly users (The Verge)
Apple Plans AirPods Overhaul With New Low- and High-End Models, USB-C Headphones (Bloomberg)
Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+ Receiving Price Increases (MacRumors)
SPOTIFY IS CHANGING ITS ROYALTY MODEL TO CRUSH STREAMING FRAUD AND INTRODUCE A MINIMUM PAYMENT THRESHOLD. ITS PLAN? TO SHIFT $1 BILLION IN PAYOUTS TOWARDS ‘WORKING ARTISTS’ OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. (MusicBusinessWorldwide)
X is officially rolling out audio and video calls (The Verge)
The Apple Watch’s double tap gesture points at a new way to use wearables (The Verge)

Wednesday, October 25 2023 - Wed. 10/25 – Boo! Tech Earnings Snuck Up On Us!

Tuesday, October 24 2023 - Tue. 10/24 – Nvidia Is Gunning For Intel

Exclusive: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel (Reuters)
1Password detects “suspicious activity” in its internal Okta account (Ars Technica)
Xreal’s Air 2 glasses put a big screen on your face and ship in the US next month (The Verge)
‘Pause Ads’ Creep Onto Hulu, Peacock and Max as Streamers Seek New Revenue (Variety)
Matter 1.2 is a big move for the smart home standard (The Verge)
I tested a $6,000 automower for four months. Here’s why I’m fully invested (ZDNet)
Life360 Sued for Selling Location Data (The Markup)

Monday, October 23 2023 - Mon. 10/23 – Apple Caught Flat-Footed By Generative AI?

Inside Apple’s Big Plan to Bring Generative AI to All Its Devices (Bloomberg)
Okta shares fall 11% after company says client files were accessed by hackers via its support system (CNBC)
Web Summit CEO Cosgrave Quits After Israel Controversy (Bloomberg)
China launches investigation into iPhone maker Foxconn, says state media (FT)
Worldcoin to pay orb operators in WLD rather than USDC (The Block)
Worldcoin to cease paying Orb operators in USDC as early as November (CoinTelegraph)
Tinder now lets mom pick your next date (The Verge)
Teens Want Parents to Track Their Phones and Monitor Their Every Move (WSJ)

Friday, October 20 2023 - Fri. 10/20 – Net Neutrality Is Probably Coming Back

U.S. Treasury Seeks to Name Crypto Mixers as ‘Money Laundering Concern’ (CoinDesk)
SEC Drops Charges Against Ripple CEO Garlinghouse, Chairman Larsen (CoinDesk)
FCC greenlights superfast Wi-Fi tethering for AR and VR headsets (The Verge)
FCC begins second quest for net neutrality (TechCrunch)
AMD challenges Nvidia’s RTX 4080 with its new RX 7900M laptop GPU (PCWorld)
FaZe Clan acquired by GameSquare (Digiday)

Thursday, October 19 2023 - Thu. 10/19 – A Setback For OpenAI?

Chainalysis says some reports might be overestimating crypto’s role in terrorist financing (The Block)
NY Attorney General sues Gemini, Genesis and DCG for allegedly defrauding crypto investors of over $1B (TechCrunch)
WhatsApp will soon let you stay logged in to two accounts at once (The Verge)
Netflix Plans Price Increase as Password-Sharing Crackdown Boosts Subscriber Growth (WSJ)
Nokia to cut up to 14,000 jobs after 69% profit plunge (CNBC)
Authors sue Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg in latest AI copyright clash (Reuters)
OpenAI Dropped Work on New ‘Arrakis’ AI Model in Rare Setback (The Information)
How to turn off FaceTime video reactions in iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma (AppleInsider)

Wednesday, October 18 2023 - Wed. 10/18 – For Elon, The War On Bots Never Ends

Tuesday, October 17 2023 - Mon. 10/16 – Nikola Tesla’s Dream Now A Reality

Friday, October 13 2023 - Fri. 10/13 – The Activision Acquisition Goes Through

Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard for Xbox has been fully APPROVED by the UK regulator (Windows Central)
EU opens probe into Elon Musk’s X over Israel-Hamas war misinformation (FT)
U.S. VC funding hit lowest level in 6 years in Q3 | A story told in charts (VentureBeat)
Netflix to Open Stores Where Fans Can Play, Shop and Eat in 2025 (Bloomberg)

Thursday, October 12 2023 - Thu. 10/12 – The IRS Wants A Word With Microsoft

Wednesday, October 11 2023 - Wed. 10/11 – The Greatest DDoS Attack By Far

EU warns Elon Musk of ‘penalties’ for disinformation circulating on X amid Israel-Hamas war (CNN)
New technique leads to largest DDoS attacks ever, Google and Amazon say (The Record)
Adobe Firefly can now generate more realistic images (TechCrunch)
Sony’s new PS5 with a removable disc drive launches in November (The Verge)
The End of Junk Fees? FTC Proposes New Rule (The Hollywood Reporter)
Caroline Ellison, Adviser to Sam Bankman-Fried, Says He ‘Directed’ Her to Commit Crimes (NYTimes)

Tuesday, October 10 2023 - Tue. 10/10 – The Veil Between Online And IRL Is Thin

John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing battle (GamesBeat)
23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped (Ars Technica)
Social media scams are costing Americans more than ever (TechRadar)
Big Tech Struggles to Turn AI Hype Into Profits (WSJ)
Google has shipped almost 40 million Pixel phones since 2016, 10 million last year (9to5Google)
Elon Musk’s X Cut Disinformation-Fighting Tool Ahead of Israel-Hamas Conflict (The Information)

Friday, October 06 2023 - Fri. 10/06 – Microsoft Looks To Close

Microsoft eyes closing its giant Activision Blizzard deal next week (The Verge)
Exclusive: ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips (Reuters)
Microsoft’s faster and redesigned Teams app now available for Windows and Mac (The Verge)

Thursday, October 05 2023 - Thu. 10/05 – Now The Regulators Are Coming For The Cloud Providers

Microsoft and Amazon face UK regulator investigation over cloud services (The Verge)
Elon Musk Starts Stripping Headlines From Links Shared to X (The Wrap)
Galaxy SmartTag 2 launches next week for $30, still only works with Samsung devices (9to5Google)
Android 14 is now available for Pixel phones (The Verge)
Amazon Prepares to Challenge SpaceX’s Starlink With Maiden Satellite Launch (Gizmodo)
Apple Considered, Rejected Switch to DuckDuckGo From Google (Bloomberg)
iPhone 15 Pro Max Camera Review: Depth and Reach (Lux)
Vera wants to use AI to cull generative models’ worst behaviors (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, October 04 2023 - Wed. 10/04 – The New Pixels

Google’s Pixel Watch 2 brings new sensors for improved health tracking (TechCrunch)
Google’s Pixel 8 brings new camera tricks, better display and a thermometer (TechCrunch)
The Pixel 8 Pro has better cameras, a brighter screen, and a lot of new AI tricks (The Verge)
Google announces AI-powered photo-editing features for new Pixel phones (TechCrunch)
The Galaxy S23 FE, Tab S9 FE, and Buds FE get you flagship specs at way lower prices (XDADevelopers)
Google is making big changes to prevent Gmail spam (CNBC)
Anthropic in Talks to Raise $2 Billion From Google and Others Just Days After Amazon Investment (The Information)
Netflix Plans to Raise Prices After Actors Strike Ends (WSJ)

Tuesday, October 03 2023 - Tue. 10/03 – Time To Pay For Social Media?

Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook (WSJ)
TikTok Confirms It Is Testing an Ad-Free Subscription Tier (Variety)
Frec steps out of stealth with $26M in funding, aiming to democratize sophisticated investing with AI (VentureBeat)
Microsoft CEO Says Google’s Agreements With Apple Unfairly Harmed Bing (WSJ)
US issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish Network (BBCNews)
Instagram Looks for Ways to Revive Interest in Threads (The Information)

Monday, October 02 2023 - Mon. 10/02 – Apple Blames Instagram

Apple Says iPhone 15 Pro Overheating Due to iOS 17 Bug, Not Hardware Design (CNET)
Apple Has What It Needs to Launch Its Own Google Replacement (Bloomberg)
Chromebook Plus is Google’s new certification for premium Chromebooks (The Verge)
The synthetic social network is coming (Platformer)
Humane shows off its wearable AI pin at Paris Fashion Week (Apple Insider)

Friday, September 29 2023 - Fri. 09/29 – Could Apple Have Bought Bing?

Microsoft Discussed Selling Bing to Apple as Google Replacement (Bloomberg)
Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data (The Verge)
Nvidia’s French Offices Raided in Cloud-Computing Antitrust Inquiry (WSJ)
Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs (The Verge)

Thursday, September 28 2023 - Thu. 09/28 – Meta Connect

Facebook and Instagram will soon get a slew of AI-powered creator tools (The Verge)
Meta is putting AI chatbots everywhere (The Verge)
Meta Rolls Out Higher-Priced Quest 3 Headset, Just Ahead of Apple’s Vision Pro (Bloomberg)
Meta’s smart glasses can take calls, play music, and livestream from your face (The Verge)
OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1bn from SoftBank for AI device venture (FT)
Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone (TechCrunch)
Elon Musk Wins US Space Force Contract for Starshield (Bloomberg)
The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here (The Verge)

Wednesday, September 27 2023 - Wed. 09/27 – The Big Amazon Lawsuit

Tuesday, September 26 2023 - Tue. 09/26 – Spotify Pumps Up The Jam

Spotify launches Jam, a real-time collaborative playlist controlled by up to 32 people (TechCrunch)
Coinbase Role in Crypto Firm Celsius’s Bankruptcy Plan Questioned by SEC (Bloomberg)
FCC Aims to Reinstate Net Neutrality Rules After US Democrats Gain Control of Panel (Bloomberg)
Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024 (The Register)
Not just a Pixel thing: iPhone 15 series users are also reporting heating issues (Android Authority)
DJI Mini 4 Pro review: The best lightweight drone gains more power and smarts (Engadget)
This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You in the Dark (Wired)

Monday, September 25 2023 - Mon. 09/25 – Amazon Makes A Big Bet On Anthropic

Amazon to invest up to $4bn in AI start-up Anthropic (FT)
Defi Project Mixin Network Suspends Services After $200 Million Crypto Hack (Bloomberg)
Booking to appeal after EU vetoes $1.7 bln ETraveli deal (Reuters)
White House could force cloud companies to disclose AI customers (Semafor)
You can now prompt ChatGPT with pictures and voice commands (The Verge)
WGA and the studios reach tentative deal to end writers’ strike (LA Times)
Nearly 500 Brands Exited Smartphone Market During 2017-2023 (Counterpoint)

Friday, September 22 2023 - Fri. 09/22 – Microsoft… Wins?

Microsoft’s Activision Deal Set to Clear Final UK Hurdle (Bloomberg)
Apple emergency updates fix 3 new zero-days exploited in attacks (BleepingComputer)
YouTube to add AI creator tools to find music for videos, add dubs (TechCrunch)
YouTube Shorts to gain a generative AI feature called Dream Screen (TechCrunch)
Amazon to Run Ads on Prime Video in Key Markets Starting in 2024 (Bloomberg)

Thursday, September 21 2023 - Thu. 09/21 – The Microsoft And Amazon Fall Events

Microsoft unveils unified Copilot that extends across Bing, Edge, and Windows (Windows Central)
The Surface Laptop Go 3 starts at $799 and arrives on October 3 (Engadget)
Microsoft announces the Surface Laptop Studio 2 with upgraded chips and ports (The Verge)
The Surface Go 4 comes with a much-needed performance boost (The Verge)
All the biggest announcements from Amazon’s September 2023 product launch event (The Verge)
Amazon brings generative AI to Alexa (TechCrunch)
OpenAI releases third version of DALL-E (The Verge)
The new FineWoven iPhone cases are very bad (The Verge)

Wednesday, September 20 2023 - Wed. 09/20 – Even AI Could Benefit From An Encouraging Word

Tuesday, September 19 2023 - Tue. 09/19 – Bunch Of Microsoft Roadmaps Leak

Microsoft’s Xbox plans revealed in emails tied to FTC case (NBCNews)
Microsoft’s next Xbox, coming 2028, envisions hybrid computing (The Verge)
Amazon Is Poised to Hire Departing Microsoft Product Chief (Bloomberg)
Google’s Bard chatbot can now find answers in your Gmail, Docs, Drive (The Verge)
iOS 17 is a lot of little updates that make a big impact (The Verge)
watchOS 10 preview: widgets all the way down (The Verge)

Monday, September 18 2023 - Mon. 09/18 – Streaming Has Changed How Music Sounds

Friday, September 15 2023 - Fri. 09/15 – Maybe Don’t Have AI Write Obituaries

Thursday, September 14 2023 - Thu. 09/14 – Ocean’s Eleven-Style Hacks

Wednesday, September 13 2023 - Wed. 09/13 – Unity Plays A Dangerous Game (Get It?)

Unity has introduced new fees that could have dire effects on the entire game industry, from indies to Xbox Game Pass (UPDATE) (Windows Central)
Sony has launched a major PlayStation 5 system update (VGC)
Apple disputes French findings, says iPhone 12 meets radiation rules (Reuters)
Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro Max Pushes Up the Price (WSJ)
iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max hands-on (The Verge)
Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models are now generally available, get pricing plans (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, September 12 2023 - Tue. 09/12 – The iPhone 15 Apple Event

Apple Watch Series 9 Unveiled With S9 Chip, ‘Double Tap’ Gesture, and More (MacRumors)
Apple announces new Apple Watch Ultra 2 (9to5Mac)
Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island (The Verge)
Apple iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max announced with titanium bodies and an Action Button (The Verge)
Thunderbolt 5 offers up to 3x the speed over Thunderbolt 4 (VideoCardz)
Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (Washington Post)
TikTok Popularizes Products. Can It Sell Them, Too? (NYTimes)
US Copyright Office denies protection for another AI-created image (Reuters)

Monday, September 11 2023 - Mon. 09/11 – ChatGPT Is Thirsty

Friday, September 08 2023 - Fri. 09/08 – An AI To Talk To The Animals?

Apple discloses zero-days linked to NSO Group spyware (The Record)
Ex-FTX Executive Ryan Salame Could Forfeit $1.5B as Part of Guilty Plea (CoinDesk)
China turns to AI in hopes of creating viral online propaganda, Microsoft researchers say (Cyberscoop)
Microsoft Says It Will Protect Customers from AI Copyright Lawsuits (Bloomberg)
Exclusive: ChatGPT traffic slips again for third month in a row (Reuters)

Thursday, September 07 2023 - Thu. 09/07 – And Now A Drone Breakthrough?

Chrome is about to look a bit different (The Verge)
China Seeks to Broaden iPhone Ban to State Firms, Agencies (Bloomberg)
FAA Clears Drones for Longer Flights, Opening Door to Deliveries (Bloomberg)
Apple Boosts Spending to Develop Conversational AI (The Information)
Vitalik Buterin co-authors paper on regulation-friendly Tornado Cash alternative (The Block)
OpenAI to Host First Developer Conference in San Francisco (Bloomberg)
Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies (NYTimes)

Wednesday, September 06 2023 - Wed. 09/06 – The Modern Antitrust Era Begins Now

Tuesday, September 05 2023 - Tue. 09/05 – China’s Chip End Run

Elon Musk to sue ADL for accusing him, X of antisemitism (TechCrunch)
Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US Sanctions (Bloomberg)
Meta Reportedly Partnering With LG For 2025 Quest Pro Successor (UploadVR)
Exclusive: Arm signs up big tech firms for IPO at $50 billion-$55 billion valuation (Reuters)
Spotify’s $1 Billion Podcast Bet Turns Into a Serial Drama (WSJ)
Messi Drives Jump in Apple TV+ and MLS Subscriptions (WSJ)
The Battle Over Books3 Could Change AI Forever (Wired)

Thursday, August 31 2023 - Thu. 08/31 – In A Sense, Bundling Is Always Consumer Friendly

Microsoft Fends Off EU Antitrust Probe With Teams Deal (Bloomberg)
Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concerns (The Verge)
X Plans to Collect Biometric Data, Job and School History (Bloomberg)
Call of Duty enlists AI to eavesdrop on voice chat and help ban toxic players starting today (PCGamer)
Bonfire of the groceries (FT)

Wednesday, August 30 2023 - Wed. 08/30 – OpenAI Making Bank

Qakbot botnet dismantled after infecting over 700,000 computers (BleepingComputer)
UAE launches Arabic large language model in Gulf push into generative AI (FT)
OpenAI Passes $1 Billion Revenue Pace as Big Companies Boost AI Spending (The Information)
Samsung debuts its own ‘AI-powered’ smart recipe app (Engadget)
GM is using Google’s AI chatbot to handle simple OnStar calls (The Verge)
Apple Announces ‘Wonderlust’ Event Expected to Feature iPhone 15, Apple Watch Series 9 and More (MacRumors)

Tuesday, August 29 2023 - Tue. 08/29 – The Crypto Regulators Come For NFTs

Google to Add AI Models from Meta, Anthropic to Its Cloud Platform (Bloomberg)
The new Google Chat borrows from Slack, Teams, Discord, and even ChatGPT (The Verge)
Google Meet’s new AI will be able to go to meetings for you (The Verge)
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT plan for enterprise customers (TechCrunch)
Musk, tech CEOs to attend Schumer’s AI Senate forum (The Hill)
SEC takes first action against an NFT project as an unregistered security (The Verge)
Twitch competitor Kick is dividing the internet’s top streamers (NBCNews)
Robotaxis hit the accelerator in growing list of cities nationwide (Axios)

Monday, August 28 2023 - Mon. 08/28 – The Tech IPO Is Back?

Apple Bets on Revamped iPad Pro to Reignite Sluggish Tablet Sales (Bloomberg)
China’s BYD to Pay $2.2B to Expand Business With Apple (The Information)
UK air traffic control hit by network-wide failure (The Guardian)
Klaviyo files to go public in latest sign of life for IPO market (CNBC)
WordPress Announces 100-Year Domain Name Registrations (Search Engine Journal)
The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City From Scratch (NYTimes)

Friday, August 25 2023 - ESPN To Amazon?

Amazon in Talks With Disney About ESPN Streaming Partnership (The Information)
Dropbox Ends Unlimited Cloud Storage Following Google Change (Bloomberg)
Shein Strikes Deal With Forever 21 (WSJ)
Citizen Is Suspending Sales of Its New Wear OS Smartwatch (Wired)
Threads on the web widely rolling out (9to5Google)

Thursday, August 24 2023 - Thu. 08/24 – Nvidia Blows The Roof Off The Place

Nvidia tops estimates and says sales will jump 170% this quarter, driven by demand for AI chips (CNBC)
Meta launches own AI code-writing tool: Code Llama (The Verge)
TikTok Shop on Track to Lose More Than $500 Million in U.S. This Year (The Information)
Epic offers devs 100 percent of net revenue for six months of EGS exclusivity (Engadget)
SpaceX Working with Cloudflare to Speed Up Starlink Service (The Information)
Brain implants give a voice to people who cannot speak (FT)

Wednesday, August 23 2023 - Wed. 08/23 – The Playstation Portal

Sony’s portable PlayStation Portal launches later this year for $199.99 (The Verge)
PlayStation Portal: Hands On With Sony’s New Remote Play Handheld (IGN)
IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java (TechCrunch)
OpenAI brings fine-tuning to GPT-3.5 Turbo (TechCrunch)
Sorry, But LinkedIn Is Cool Now (Bloomberg)
Salesforce Leads Financing of AI Startup at More Than $4 Billion Valuation (The Information)
Tiger Global Nears Deal to Sell Slice of Cohere Stake at $3 Billion Valuation (The Information)
3D printers printing without consent is a cautionary tale on cloud reliance (Ars Technica)

Tuesday, August 22 2023 - Tue. 08/22 – Is Elon Tanking Things On Purpose?

Monday, August 21 2023 - Mon. 08/21 – Twit Pics Disappear

Friday, August 18 2023 - Fri. 08/18 – Werner Herzog Is The AI Voice We Deserve

Threads gets retweets — sorry, reposts — in the reverse-chronological feed (The Verge)
Meta’s Next AI Attack on OpenAI: Free Code-Generating Software (The Information)
Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers (CNN)
Microsoft to hold ‘special event’ in New York City on September 21st (The Verge)
Spotify Looked to Ban White Noise Podcasts to Become More Profitable (Bloomberg)

Thursday, August 17 2023 - Thu. 08/17 – Sometimes Startup Acquires You

OpenAI acquires AI design studio Global Illumination (TechCrunch)
Microsoft Struggles to Gain on Google Despite Its Head Start in AI Search (WSJ)
Exclusive Images: This is the Lenovo Legion Go Gaming Handheld (WindowsReport)
Cyber security researchers become target of criminal hackers (FT)
Tech Firms Are Slowing Layoffs But Still Not Yet Resuming Hiring (Bloomberg)
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to launch AI-science moonshot (Semafor)

Wednesday, August 16 2023 - Wed. 08/16 – And Now I’m A Blue Subscriber

TweetDeck is officially becoming a paid service (The Verge)
Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes (The Washington Post)
Coinbase obtains regulatory approval to offer crypto futures trading to eligible clients (The Block)
Google’s AI search experience adds AI-powered summaries, definitions and coding improvements (TechCrunch)
Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice (NYTimes)
Robotaxis are driving on thin ice (The Verge)

Tuesday, August 15 2023 - Tue. 08/15 – iPhone “Maximum Capacity” Concerns

Amazon’s Leader on Alexa, Echo and Other Devices Plans to Leave (WSJ)
Scoop: X shuts down $100M promoted accounts ad business (Axios)
Setapp plans to launch EU-only alternative iOS App Store (Apple Insider)
Saudi Arabia and UAE race to buy Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions (FT)
Linear TV Falls Below 50 Percent of Viewing for First Time (The Hollywood Reporter)
iPhone 14 Pro users complain of major drops in battery health and capacity after less than a year (9to5Mac)

Monday, August 14 2023 - Mon. 08/14 – An Apple Watch X?

Apple Plans Major ‘Watch X’ Overhaul for Device’s 10-Year Anniversary (Bloomberg)
Amazon taps generative AI to enhance product reviews (TechCrunch)
Google-backed Anthropic raises $100 mln from South Korea’s SK Telecom (Reuters)
Hollywood calls time on golden era of cheap streaming (FT)
Could a True Streaming Bundle Be Upon Us? (Vulture)
San Franciscans Are Having Sex in Robotaxis, and Nobody Is Talking About It (The San Francisco Standard)

Friday, August 11 2023 - Fri. 08/11 – Unleash The Robotaxis!

Robotaxis score a huge victory in California with approval to operate 24/7 (The Verge)
Skydio closing consumer drone business (TechCrunch)
Behind Meta’s ‘Made in USA’ AR Glasses: a Military-Grade Material (The Information)

Thursday, August 10 2023 - Thu. 08/10 – Streaming $$$+

Wednesday, August 09 2023 - Wed. 08/09 – CAPTCHA Supremacy

Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday (The Verge)
Netflix launches a game controller app for playing games on your TV (TechCrunch)
Sony Expects Smartphone Rebound Only in 2024 After China Fizzles (Bloomberg)
WeWork Tumbles After Raising ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Future (Bloomberg)
Apple’s ‘Tetris’ movie ripped off tech writer’s book, lawsuit says (Reuters)
New ‘Downfall’ Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips (Wired)
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (The Independent)

Tuesday, August 08 2023 - Tue. 08/08 – UK Election Hack?

Millions of UK voters’ data accessible in cyber-attack, says Electoral Commission (The Guardian)
Apple, Samsung to invest in Arm as it eyes September IPO (NikkeiAsia)
OpenAI Launches GPTBot With Details On How To Restrict Access (SearchEngineJournal)
Zoom can now train its A.I. using some customer data, according to updated terms (CNBC)
Even Zoom Is Making People Return to the Office (NYTimes)
Apple Tests M3 Max Chip, Setting Stage for Most Powerful MacBook Pro Yet (Bloomberg)
Apple Music debuts new algorithmic Discovery Station radio (AppleInsider)

Monday, August 07 2023 - Mon. 08/07 – Is Apple Facing An iPhone Recession?

Apple Admits There Is a Smartphone Slowdown Ahead of iPhone 15 Debut (Bloomberg)
PayPal Launches a Stablecoin in Latest Crypto Payments Push (Bloomberg)
New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy (BleepingComputer)
A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks (NYTimes)
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 review: the flip phone we’ve been waiting for (The Verge)

Friday, August 04 2023 - Fri. 08/04 – HUGE Show News

Apple reports third quarter results (BusinessWire)
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results (BusinessWire)
Coinbase argues it doesn’t trade securities, so the SEC’s lawsuit should be dismissed (The Verge)
Bitcoin launderer pleads guilty, admits to massive Bitfinex hack (CNBC)
Threads user count falls to new lows, highlighting retention challenges (CNN)

Thursday, August 03 2023 - Thu. 08/03 – Pandemic High Fliers Crash To Earth

Johnny Boufarhat steps down as CEO of Hopin (Sifted)
‘A Nice Bike, When It Works’: Riders Fret After E-Bike Maker Goes Bust (NYTimes)
IRS expects faster refunds in 2024 for people who stop using paper (Washington Post)
NFT Trading Volume Is Sinking, But It’s Not Stopping Developers From Entering Web3 (Coindesk)
Kenya suspends Worldcoin’s crypto project over safety concerns (Reuters)
Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (Rest of World)
How the Partnership Between Apple and Goldman Sachs Soured (The Information)

Wednesday, August 02 2023 - Wed. 08/02 – Elon’s Gonna Get Me To Pay For Blue

X, formerly Twitter, now lets paid users hide their checkmarks (TechCrunch)
TweetDeck is now called ‘XPro’ (9to5Google)
Meta’s AI music generator could be the new synthesizer — or just muzak (The Verge)
SoftBank’s Arm Targets $60 Billion Value in September IPO (Bloomberg)
Microsoft Teams adds spatial audio for more immersive conference calls (The Verge)
Amazon Unveils Biggest Grocery Overhaul Since Buying Whole Foods (Bloomberg)
One of Gaming’s Biggest YouTubers Wants to Replace Himself With AI (Wired)

Tuesday, August 01 2023 - Tue. 10/01 – Uber Profitable

Monday, July 31 2023 - Mon. 07/31 – Will Only Bitcoin Survive?

Friday, July 28 2023 - Fri. 07/28 – Is The Clock Ticking For Threads?

Thursday, July 27 2023 - Thu. 07/27 – Meta Back To Par

Wednesday, July 26 2023 - Wed. 07/26 – Samsung Unpacked Event

The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 gets a big little screen upgrade (The Verge)
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 hands-on: Is Samsung squandering its head start? (Engadget)
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 series is all about the bezels (The Verge)
Meta’s Threads app is rolling out a Following feed (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool (Decrypt)
Meta, Microsoft and Amazon team up on maps project to crack Apple-Google duopoly (CNBC)

Tuesday, July 25 2023 - Tue. 07/25 – X Fallout Continues (Insert Xander Cage Joke Here)

AMD ‘Zenbleed’ Bug Leaks Data From Ryzen, EPYC CPUs: Most Patches Coming Q4 (Updated) (TomsHardware)
Musk Explains Why He’s Axing Twitter Name, Iconic Bird Logo (Bloomberg)
TikTok is adding support for text posts (TechCrunch)
The excellent Arc browser is now available for anyone to download (The Verge)
Spotify now has 220 million paying subscribers (The Verge)
Sam Altman’s vision for AI puts him on collision course with regulators (FT)
Sam Altman explains why he’s helping to take nuclear microreactor company Oklo public via SPAC (CNBC)

Monday, July 24 2023 - Mon. 07/24 – This Podcast Is Now Called X Ride Home

Twitter is being rebranded as X (The Verge)
Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ (TechCrunch)
It’s Spotify’s turn to increase prices (The Verge)
Peer-to-Peer Crypto Exchanges Lose Ground in Shrunken Market (Bloomberg)
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin crypto project begins international rollout (FT)
The Flipper Zero is a Swiss Army knife of antennas (The Verge)
The Flipper Zero has an app store now (The Verge)
The creator economy was already exploding. Then Hollywood went on strike. (Washington Post)

Friday, July 21 2023 - Fri. 07/21 – Reddit Doesn’t Blink

Thursday, July 20 2023 - Thu. 07/20 – An Apple GPT

Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI (Bloomberg)
Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles (NYTimes)
Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced (Ars Technica)
Meta open-sources Llama 2, but with strings attached (MoneyControl)
Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals (BBC News)
Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5Google)
Microsoft Poised to Deliver Improved Combat Goggles, US Army Says (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, July 19 2023 - Wed. 07/19 – More Proof The Big Folks Are Winning AI (For Now)

Tuesday, July 18 2023 - Tue. 07/18 – Checking In With Threads

The spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’ (TechCrunch)
Five reasons Threads could still go the distance (Platformer)
Peacock to raise its subscription prices on August 17 (TechCrunch)
Microsoft-Activision Deal Poised to Close Later Than Planned (Bloomberg)
Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts (TechCrunch)
UK chip designer raises millions from Agnelli fund (FT)

Monday, July 17 2023 - Mon. 07/17 – Sony And Microsoft Stop Fragging Each Other Over Call Of Duty

Sony agrees to 10-year Call of Duty deal with Microsoft (The Verge)
SEC accepts BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF application, signaling regulatory review (CoinTelegraph)
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (StackDiary)
Hacker News Thread On The Brave Thing
Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator (FT)
Apple’s New Vision Group Reflects Shift Away From Steve Jobs Approach (Bloomberg)
Bob Iger Shifts From Building an Empire to a Disney Yard Sale (Bloomberg)

Friday, July 14 2023 - Fri. 07/14 – Twitter Starts Showing People The Money

Twitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators (TechCrunch)
Musk’s Twitter sues four Texas entities for data scraping, seeks damages (Reuters)
Meta confirms it is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN (TechCrunch)
Meta claims its new art-generating model is best-in-class (TechCrunch)
Exclusive: AP strikes news-sharing and tech deal with OpenAI (Axios)
Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever (The Verge)
Here’s the new default font for Microsoft Outlook and Word: Aptos (CNBC)

Thursday, July 13 2023 - Thu. 07/13 – Elon Launches An AI Company

Musk Unveils xAI in New Bid to Rival Startup OpenAI (Bloomberg)
FTC appeals its loss to Microsoft in Activision Blizzard case (The Verge)
Ex-Celsius CEO Mashinsky Charged in Latest DOJ Crypto Case (Bloomberg)
Roblox is coming to Meta’s Quest VR headsets (The Verge)
macOS Sonoma Brings Apple Password Manager to Third-Party Browsers (MacRumors)
Meta to release commercial AI model in effort to catch rivals (FT)
Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, July 12 2023 - Wed. 07/12 – Microsoft Wins Big In The FTC Case

Microsoft-Activision deal moves closer as judge denies FTC injunction request (CNBC)
Microsoft and UK regulators agree to pause their Activision battle to negotiate (The Verge)
FTC would face tough appeal of Microsoft-Activision order, experts say (Reuters)
F.T.C.’s Court Loss Raises Fresh Questions About Its Chair’s Strategy (NYTimes)
AI Startup Anthropic Releases a New Version of Its ChatGPT Rival, Claude (Bloomberg)
Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux (TechCrunch)
Bigger, Brighter, More Expensive: Nothing Reveals the Phone (2) (Gizmodo)
The AI Boom Is Here. The Cloud May Not Be Ready. (WSJ)

Tuesday, July 11 2023 - Tue. 07/11 – A Meaningful Anti-Tracking Law

Selling Your Cellphone Location Data Might Soon Be Banned in U.S. for First Time (WSJ)
Tumblr says it’s going to ‘fix’ its ‘core experience’ to appeal to new users (The Verge)
HCA Healthcare patient data stolen and for sale by hackers (CNBC)
A New VC-Beloved Startup Rips a Page From Meta’s Playbook (The Information)
THE GAME AVAILABILITY STUDY, EXPLAINED (Video Game History Foundation)

Monday, July 10 2023 - Mon. 07/10 – Evernote Deadpool?

Friday, July 07 2023 - Fri. 07/07 – I’ve Never Seen Anything Like Threads

Threads Becomes Most Rapidly Downloaded App, Raising Twitter’s Ire (NYTimes)
Zuck’s Threads halo (Axios)
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads (Semafor)
OpenAI makes GPT-4 generally available (TechCrunch)
Food-Delivery Companies Sue New York City Over Minimum Pay Law (NYTimes)
Volkswagen’s Self-Driving Cars Begin Testing In Texas (Jalopnik)

Thursday, July 06 2023 - Thu. 07/06 – Uh, Did Threads Just Win?

Meta launches Instagram Threads in a direct challenge to Twitter (CNBC)
Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says (TechCrunch)
Instagram Threads works, but it’s sterile, dull and worst of all – it’s still run by Mark Zuckerberg (iNews)
Meta unspools Threads (Platformer)
So where are we all supposed to go now? (The Verge)

Wednesday, July 05 2023 - Wed. 07/05 – Twitter Chaos: The Real Fireworks

Instagram’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly went live on the web (The Verge)
The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark (The Verge)
The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so (The Verge)
Fireworks Have a New Competitor: Drones (NYTimes)

Friday, June 30 2023 - Fri. 06/30 – Apple $3T?

Apple’s market cap tops $3 trillion (CNBC)
Canada’s ‘link tax’ law could break how the web works, says Google (Android Police)
Meta is planning to let people in the EU download apps through Facebook (The Verge)
Fidelity Joins Spot-Bitcoin ETF Race With Fresh SEC Filing (Bloomberg)
Police Are Requesting Self-Driving Car Footage For Video Evidence (Bloomberg)

Thursday, June 29 2023 - Thu. 06/29 – Big Interesting (AI) Raises

Microsoft and Activision Chiefs Testify Merger Will Benefit Consumers (NYTimes)
Lina Khan Is Coming for Amazon, Armed With an FTC Antitrust Suit (Bloomberg)
Advertising industry seeks refunds over YouTube skippable ads (FT)
ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces a lawsuit over how it used people’s data (Washington Post)
Inflection AI Raises $1 Billion (Forbes)
Halo Car launches remotely piloted rental car deliveries in Las Vegas (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, June 28 2023 - Wed. 06/28 – Who Needs A Mac Pro?

FTX Halts Sale of Its $500 Million Stake in AI Startup Anthropic (Bloomberg)
AI Frenzy Draws Hordes to Private Markets in Industry Gold Rush (Bloomberg)
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (The Verge)
Google killed its Iris augmented-reality smart glasses as it shifts attention to building AR software (Insider)
DoorDash launches hourly rates and location sharing for couriers (The Verge)
Baseball Scouts Call In Artificial Intelligence Help From the Bullpen (WSJ)
The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook (The Verge)
Eat Your Heart Out, Tesla. Mercedes-Benz May Have the Fastest EV Yet. (Barron’s)

Tuesday, June 27 2023 - Tue. 06/27 – What If OpenAI Did Its Own Copilot?

Microsoft exec was ready to ‘go spend Sony out of business’ to strengthen Xbox (The Verge)
FTX Bankruptcy Team Says the Exchange Owed Customers $8.7B (CoinDesk)
Thomson Reuters buys Casetext, an AI legal tech startup, for $650M in cash (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Plans ChatGPT ‘Personal Assistant for Work,’ Setting Up Microsoft Rivalry (The Information)
RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days (Ars Technica)
Google Pixel Fold review: closing the gap (The Verge)

Monday, June 26 2023 - Mon. 06/26 – The M&A Deluge In AI Begins

Friday, June 23 2023 - Fri. 06/23 – Meta To Turn Off The (Canadian) News Spigot?

Meta says it’s blocking news on Facebook, Instagram after government passes online news bill (National Post)
Apple Vision Pro has a speed limit, Travel Mode required for use on flights (9to5Mac)
The Aurora Supercomputer Is Installed (AnandTech)
Randomly received a smartwatch? Don’t turn it on, investigators warn. (ArmyTimes)

Thursday, June 22 2023 - Thu. 06/22 – So, Elon And Zuck Are Gonna Fight, I Guess

Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match (The Verge)
Startup Stability Debuts a New AI Model For Stable Diffusion (Bloomberg)
Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Series X and Xbox Game Pass (The Verge)
Apple releases visionOS SDK for creating Vision Pro apps, dev kit applications opening soon (9to5Mac)
Motorola Razr Plus review: the right moves (The Verge)
Celebrities Use AI to Take Control of Their Own Images (WSJ)

Wednesday, June 21 2023 - Wed. 06/21 – Dropbox AI

Dropbox’s AI tools can help you find your stuff — from everywhere on the internet (The Verge)
Twitch will require new labels for streams with sexual themes, gambling and M-rated games (TechCrunch)
Netflix Tweaks Its Top 10 Rankings, Adds View Count (THR)
Amazon will hold Prime Day 2023 on July 11-12, adding invite-only deals and ‘Buy with Prime’ sites (GeekWire)
What Apple Didn’t Reveal About the Vision Pro (The Information)

Tuesday, June 20 2023 - Tue. 06/20 – Spotify To Go “Supremium”

Friday, June 16 2023 - Fri. 06/16 – Google Does it Again

Thursday, June 15 2023 - Thu. 06/15 – Everbody Does Ads Now

Video Ads Are Coming to All Your Uber Apps (WSJ)
Intel To Launch New Core Processor Branding: Drop the i, Add Ultra Tier (AnandTech)
Google Lens can now identify rashes and other skin conditions (9to5Google)
Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human (TechCrunch)
Fake zero-day PoC exploits on GitHub push Windows, Linux malware (BleepingComputer)
Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era, IBM Says (NYTimes)
iOS 17 Live Voicemail will return the glory of the answering machine to your iPhone (TechRadar)

Wednesday, June 14 2023 - Wed. 06/14 – EU Threatens Google With A Breakup

EU suggests breaking up Google’s ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling (The Verge)
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’ (The Verge)
Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts (The Verge)
OpenAI intros new generative text features while reducing pricing (TechCrunch)
Cyber Insurance Premiums Surge by 50% as Ransomware Attacks Increase (Bloomberg)
Spotify Takes a Sharp Turn With Its $1 Billion Podcast Division (Bloomberg)
Meta AI researchers unveil I-JEPA, a computer vision model that learns more like humans do (SiliconAngle)
Layoffs and AI Are Changing Tech’s Once-Invincible Job Market (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, June 13 2023 - Tue. 06/13 – New Beatles Song Thanks To AI

FTC files to block Microsoft-Activision as deadline approaches (CNBC)
Netflix to Enter Live-Streamed Sports With Celebrity Golf Event (WSJ)
Reddit goes dark (Platformer)
Larry Ellison Rides AI Boom to Highest Wealth Ranking Ever (Bloomberg)
Sir Paul McCartney says artificial intelligence has enabled a ‘final’ Beatles song (BBC)

Monday, June 12 2023 - Mon. 06/12 – Why Your Favorite Subreddit Might Go Dark.

Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks (The Verge)
Andreessen Horowitz believes that crypto’s future may be in the U.K. (Axios)
Meta’s open source AI MusicGen turns text and melody into new songs (The Decoder)
Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over (Ars Technica)
How AI art killed an indie book cover contest (The Verge)
Apple MacBook Air 15-inch review: exactly what was asked for (The Verge)

Friday, June 09 2023 - Fri. 06/09 – Zuck’s Not Worried About Apple’s Headset (Corrected)

Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro (The Verge)
This is what Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks like (The Verge)
Meta plans to put AI everywhere on its platforms (Axios)
Binance.US Set to Be Cut Off From Banking System After SEC Lawsuit (Bloomberg)
Spotify says it’s testing an ‘offline mix’ for when your connection’s patchy (The Verge)
New A.I. Chatbot Tutors Could Upend Student Learning (NYTimes)
Netflix Subscriptions Jump as U.S. Password-Sharing Crackdown Begins (WSJ)
Mercedes first to sell vehicles in California with hands-free, eyes-off automated driving (TechCrunch)

Thursday, June 08 2023 - Thu. 06/08 – The Gloves Come Off In The Binance Case

Binance lawyers allege SEC Chair Gensler offered to serve as advisor to crypto company in 2019 (CNBC)
SEC says Binance and US affiliate redirected billions in customer assets to Zhao’s funds (The Block)
Twitch walks back controversial ad rules policy (The Verge)
WhatsApp’s new Channels feature brings social media to your messaging app (The Verge)
Amazon Plans Ad Tier for Prime Video Streaming Service (WSJ)
Adobe is so confident its Firefly generative AI won’t breach copyright that it’ll cover your legal bills (Fast Company)
Google claims that Bard is improving at math and programming (TechCrunch)
Google DeepMind’s game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster (MIT Technology Review)

Wednesday, June 07 2023 - Wed. 06/07 – Maybe Apple DOES Want To Get Serious About Mac Gaming

macOS Sonoma lets developers port Windows games to the Mac; here’s how it works (9to5Mac)
Apple makes iOS 17 developer beta free for registered developers (9to5Mac)
Sequoia’s Split Sends Warning to US Companies Doing Business in China (Bloomberg)
Samsung officially confirms first Unpacked event in Korea for new foldables (9to5Google)
The SEC Comes for Crypto (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, June 06 2023 - Tue. 06/06 – The SEC Sues Coinbase

US Crypto Crackdown Reaches Fever Pitch as SEC Sues Coinbase (Bloomberg)
Sequoia Is Splitting Into Three VC Firms (Forbes)
Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products (Ars Technica)
First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good (TechCrunch)
I wore the Apple Vision Pro. It’s the best headset demo ever. (The Verge)

Monday, June 05 2023 - Mon. 06/05 – WWDC And The Apple Headset

Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s new $3,499 AR headset (The Verge)
The Apple Vision Pro features an M2 chip, a ton of sensors and a new R1 chip (TechCrunch)
Apple announces visionOS, the operating system for its Vision Pro headset (The Verge)
Apple announces iOS 17 with Journal, Standby, FaceTime voicemail, more (9to5Mac)
Apple Announces iOS 17 With ‘Standby’ View, Journal App, Siri Changes, and More (MacRumors)
Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple silicon to Mac Pro (Apple Newsroom)
Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Air is the ‘world’s thinnest’ (The Verge)
Mac Studio gets its first hardware update with M2 Max and the new M2 Ultra chip (9to5Mac)

Friday, June 02 2023 - Fri. 06/02 – An Amazon Prime Phone Service?

Twitter’s head of trust and safety says she has resigned (Reuters)
Elon ‘The Dogefather’ Musk Accused of Insider Trading (Gizmodo)
Russia accuses US of hacking thousands of Apple devices to spy on diplomats (The Record)
Amazon Is in Talks to Offer Free Mobile Service to US Prime Members (Bloomberg)
Airbnb sues NYC over new rules requiring hosts to register their homes as short-term rentals (Gothamist)
Planned Layoffs Have Quadrupled So Far This Year in the US (Bloomberg)

Thursday, June 01 2023 - 06/01 – Meta Front-Runs The Quest 3

Zuck’s Meta Quest 3 Announce
Amazon to Pay $25 Million to Settle Children’s Privacy Charges (NYTimes)
Amazon to Pay $30.8 Million to Settle FTC Privacy Claims (Bloomberg)
Apple Tests New High-End Macs With M2 Max and M2 Ultra Chips Ahead of WWDC (Bloomberg)
Instagram tests new user control for recommended posts, transparency tool for creators (TechCrunch)
Inside the Making of Redfall, Xbox’s Latest Misfire (Bloomberg)
Multichain team says it can’t contact CEO amid protocol problems (The Block)
Wall Street Banks Are Using AI to Rewire the World of Finance (Bloomberg)
Apple touts $1.1 trillion in App Store commerce in 2022, with $104B in digital sales (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, May 31 2023 - Wed. 05/31 – AI Industry Says: “Regulate Us!” But Why?

A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn (NYTimes)
ChatGPT Risks Divide Biden Administration Over EU’s AI Rules (Bloomberg)
Garmin’s Epix 2 and Fenix 7 lineups go ‘Pro’ (The Verge)
The Race to Make A.I. Smaller (and Smarter) (NYTimes)
Why an Octopus-like Creature Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I. (NYTimes)

Tuesday, May 30 2023 - Tue. 05/30 – Nvidia Joins The $1T Club

How Nvidia created the chip powering the generative AI boom (FT)
World’s Most Valuable Chipmaker Nvidia Unveils More AI Products After $184 Billion Rally (Bloomberg)
Video of the NPC character demo (Twitter)
Arm Unveils 2023 Mobile CPU Core Designs (AnandTech)
A First Look at the Headset That Could Be Apple’s Biggest Competition (Bloomberg)
Captcha Is Asking Users to Identify Objects That Don’t Exist (Motherboard)

Saturday, May 27 2023 - (IHP) The History Of Internet Porn

Friday, May 26 2023 - Fri. 05/26 – AI Google Search Is Here

Google starts rolling out Search Generative Experience (SGE) in preview (9to5Google)
Paradigm broadening crypto-only focus to areas including AI (The Block)
WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.11.15: what’s new? (WABetaInfo)
The FDA will apparently let Elon Musk put a computer in a human’s brain (The Verge)

Thursday, May 25 2023 - Thu. 05/25 – Even Presidential Candidates Suffer From Twitter Glitches

Wednesday, May 24 2023 - Wed. 05/24 – Microsoft Build Wrapup

Microsoft’s Azure AI Studio lets developers build their own AI ‘copilots’ (TechCrunch)
Microsoft’s Copilot and Bing AI plug-ins will be interoperable with ChatGPT (The Verge)
Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown is here — and it costs $7.99 per month (The Verge)
Elon Musk’s right-wing media venture scores another big win (WashingtonPost)
Uber teams up with Waymo to add robotaxis to its app (The Verge)
PSVR2’s early sales beat the original, Sony claims (VideoGamesChronicle)
That podcast ad you’re listening to may soon be AI. Spotify is reportedly developing bots to mimic your favorite hosts. (Insider)
Final Cut Pro for the iPad is slick but limited (The Verge)

Tuesday, May 23 2023 - Tue. 05/23 – Shutterstock Nabs Giphy

Apple expands US investment with new multibillion-dollar Broadcom deal for 5G tech (9to5Mac)
Verified Twitter Accounts Spread AI-Generated Hoax of Pentagon Explosion (Motherboard)
Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M after buying it for $400M (TechCrunch)
Max will stream over 1,000 movies and TV episodes in 4K at launch (The Verge)
Meta’s new AI models can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages (MIT Technology Review)
Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop (The Verge)
Anthropic raises $450M to build next-gen AI assistants (TechCrunch)
How China’s ShareIt became the world’s go-to file-transfer app (Rest of World)

Monday, May 22 2023 - BETTER SOUND! (IHP) Amazon’s First Employee Shel Kaphan

Meta Fined $1.3 Billion Over Data Transfers to U.S. (WSJ)
Sanctioned Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash Hijacked by Hackers (Bloomberg)
Neeva, the would-be Google competitor, is shutting down its search engine (The Verge)
The E-Sports World Is Starting to Teeter (NYTimes)
Facebook parent in talks with Magic Leap over augmented reality deal (FT)
We Put Google’s New AI Writing Assistant to the Test (Wired)

Friday, May 19 2023 - Fri. 05/19 – ChatGPT Comes To The App Store

Thursday, May 18 2023 - Thu. 05/18 – Montana Bans TikTok

TikTok Ban Signed in Montana, Paving Way for First Amendment Legal Battle (WSJ)
YouTube 2023 Upfront: Platform to Launch Unskippable 30-Second Ads on TVs, Roger Goodell on Hand to Tout NFL Sunday Ticket Pact (Variety)
Netflix Advertising Tier Now Has “Nearly Five Million” Monthly Active Users (The Hollywood Reporter)
Bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital predicts 35% customer payout (Reuters)
Amazon’s 100 drone deliveries puts Prime Air far behind Alphabet’s Wing and Walmart partner Zipline (CNBC)
Apple’s New Headset Meets Reality (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Wednesday, May 17 2023 - Wed. 05/17 – Open Source Vs. Centralized AI, Part II

Google will delete accounts, including Gmail & Photos, that haven’t logged on in 2 years (9to5Google)
New ZIP domains spark debate among cybersecurity experts (BleepingComputer)
StableStudio is Stability AI’s latest commitment to open-source AI (The Verge)
The race to bring generative AI to mobile devices (FT)
Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles (Stratechery)

Tuesday, May 16 2023 - Tue. 05/16 – Open Source Vs. Centralized AI, Part I

E.U. Approves Microsoft’s $69 Billion Deal for Activision (NYTimes)
IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax-prep giants (Washington Post)
Windows 11 users can now link their iPhones and use iMessage from a PC (The Verge)
Ransomware gang steals data of 5.8 million PharMerica patients (BleepingComputer)
Twitter makes its first acquisition with a recruiting startup (Axios)
EU’s Crypto Legal Framework Inches Towards Law With Finance Ministers’ Sign-Off (CoinDesk)
The digital euro: a solution seeking a problem? (FT)
AI startup Together raises funding for open-source AI and cloud platform (VentureBeat)

Monday, May 15 2023 - (IHP Bonus) Tesla Cofounder Marc Tarpenning (Corrected)

Apple Begins Testing Speedy M3 Chips as It Pursues Mac Comeback (Bloomberg)
Vice Media files for bankruptcy as ad business suffers (Reuters)
Netflix Plans to Cut Spending by $300 Million in 2023 (WSJ)
A Growing Number of Streaming Video Customers Watch Ads (Bloomberg)
Telly’s wild idea: Free TVs with inescapable ads (Fast Company)

Friday, May 12 2023 - Fri. 05/12 – Twitter Has A New CEO

Elon Musk says he has found a new CEO for Twitter (TechCrunch)
Linda Yaccarino Leaves NBCUniversal Amid Talks to Become Twitter CEO (WSJ)
Anthropic’s latest model can take ‘The Great Gatsby’ as input (TechCrunch)
Meta announces generative AI features for advertisers (TechCrunch)

Thursday, May 11 2023 - Thu. 05/11 – Twitter Encrypts DMs? (Corrected)

Twitter’s encrypted DMs are here — but only for verified users (Engadget)
Join the waitlist for Google’s generative AI tools, including search, Project Tailwind, & MusicLM (XDA Developers)
Google makes its text-to-music AI public (TechCrunch)
Google Cloud announces new A3 supercomputer VMs built to power LLMs (TechCrunch)
AI Needs Specialized Processors. Crypto Miners Say They Have Them (Bloomberg)
‘Nearshoring’ Push Is Fueling Tech Job Demand in Latin America (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, May 10 2023 - Wed. 05/10 – Google I/O

Google Photos to gain a new ‘Magic Editor’ feature powered by generative AI (TechCrunch)
Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model (TechCrunch)
Google rebrands AI tools for Docs and Gmail as Duet AI — its answer to Microsoft’s Copilot (The Verge)
The AI takeover of Google Search starts now (The Verge)
Review: Pixel 7a affordably delivers on every promise of the Pixel series (9to5Google)
Pixel Tablet Hands-On: Google’s Return of the Tablet and More (CNET)
Google Pixel Fold hands-on: Finally, a real rival for Samsung’s foldables (Engadget)

Tuesday, May 09 2023 - Tue. 05/09 – AI Comes To The Drive Through Window

Monday, May 08 2023 - Mon. 05/08 – The Big Discord Username Shift

Google Plans to Make Search More ‘Personal’ with AI Chat and Video Clips (WSJ)
Discord’s username change is causing discord (The Verge)
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin rolls out app as token launch looms (The Block)
OpenAI’s regulatory troubles are only just beginning (The Verge)
Popular IKEA Chair Turns Computer Monitor Off, Baffling Everyone (Motherboard)

Friday, May 05 2023 - Fri. 05/05 – Can Open Source Win Out Over Open AI? (Corrected)

Apple CEO Tim Cook says AI is “huge,” but care is needed (Axios)
Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model (TechCrunch)
Google Is Falling Behind in AI Arms Race, Senior Engineer Warns (Bloomberg)
OpenAI’s Losses Doubled to $540 Million as It Developed ChatGPT (The Information)

Thursday, May 04 2023 - Thu. 05/04 – The Regulators Come For AI

“We must regulate AI,” FTC Chair Khan says (Ars Technica)
UK competition watchdog launches review of AI market (FT)
Microsoft’s Bing chatbot gets smarter with restaurant bookings, image results, and more (The Verge)
Gmail is adding a blue checkmark to better verify senders (9to5Google)
Airbnb Revamps Site to Ease Tensions Between Guests, Hosts (Bloomberg)
ChatGPT ‘portfolio’ outperforms leading UK funds (FT)
Gen Zers Are Snapping Up Flip Phones. They Might Be Onto Something. (WSJ)

Wednesday, May 03 2023 - Wed. 05/03 – How A Pixies Song Broke Google Assistant

You no longer need a password to sign in to your Google account (The Verge)
Twitter restores free API access for emergency, weather and transportation alerts (Engadget)
TSMC Plans for First German Chip Fab With Cost Up to €10 Billion (Bloomberg)
Meta Is Trying to Push Attackers to the Brink (Wired)
Bluesky showed everyone’s ass (The Verge)
Quantum computing could break the internet. This is how (FT)
You can blame this Pixies song for Assistant canceling your alarm (AndroidPolice)

Tuesday, May 02 2023 - Tue. 05/02 – The Writer’s Strike Inspired By AI

Hollywood Writers Strike Over Pay Disputes with Streaming Giants and AI Concerns (Gizmodo)
Apple and Google team up to stop unwanted AirTag tracking (CNBC)
Apple uses iOS and macOS Rapid Security Response feature for the first time (Ars Technica)
Pornhub Blocks All of Utah From Its Site (Motherboard)
It’s getting easier to make an account on Mastodon (The Verge)
WordPress drops Twitter social sharing due to API price hike (Mashable)
BeReal’s latest feature is a curated timeline of high-profile users (Engadget)
Scared of Leaking Data to ChatGPT? Microsoft Tests a Private Alternative (The Information)

Monday, May 01 2023 - Mon. 05/01 – Why Hollywood Fears AI

Apple to Upgrade Its Watch Operating System With New Focus on Widgets (Bloomberg)
SoftBank’s Arm registers for blockbuster U.S. IPO (Reuters)
Microsoft makes its AI-powered Designer tool available in preview (TechCrunch)
Big Tech Earnings Spark Hope That Worst Is Over (WSJ)
ChatGPT Will See You Now: Doctors Using AI to Answer Patient Questions (WSJ)
Will a Chatbot Write the Next ‘Succession’? (NYTimes)

Friday, April 28 2023 - Fri. 04/28 – Microsoft Gets Out Of The Mice Business

New York City Subway Ends Twitter Service Alerts After Musk Raises Price (Bloomberg)
Reddit is testing Discord-like channels for community chat (TechCrunch)
Once-Hot Chat Startup Clubhouse Is Cutting Half of Staff (Bloomberg)
Pinterest announces multiyear ads partnership with Amazon alongside earnings beat (TechCrunch)
Microsoft’s mice, keyboards, and webcams are being discontinued in favor of Surface accessories (The Verge)

Thursday, April 27 2023 - Thu. 04/27 – Meta Does Good

Wednesday, April 26 2023 - The UK Is Blocking Microsoft’s Activision Acquisition

UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69 Billion Activision Deal (Bloomberg)
Microsoft Q3 2023: Windows, devices, and Xbox down again (The Verge)
Google’s cloud business turns profitable for the first time on record (CNBC)
Apple Plans AI-Powered Health Coaching Service, Mood Tracker and iPad Health App (Bloomberg)
DJI’s latest Mavic drone is a beast (TechCrunch)
Cruise continues to burn GM’s cash as robotaxis expand to daylight hours (The Verge)
OpenAI Offers New Privacy Options for ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
Binance Faces Mounting Pressure as U.S. Crypto Crackdown Intensifies (NYTimes)

Tuesday, April 25 2023 - Tue. 04/25 – The AI Revolution Comes For Drake

Coinbase Asks Court to Force SEC to Clarify Crypto Regulations (Decrypt)
Slack launches Canvas, a docs app that lives inside your chat app (The Verge)
Google Authenticator now syncs 2FA with your Google Account, gets new icon (9to5Google)
Nvidia releases a toolkit to make text-generating AI ‘safer’ (TechCrunch)
Opera One is a browser designed for generative AI features (Engadget)
An A.I. Hit of Fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ Rattles the Music World (NYTimes)
Grimes Tells Fans To Deepfake Her Music, Will Split 50% Royalties With AI (Forbes)
Sol Reader E Ink headset for hands-free e-reading makes CES debut (GoodEReader)

Monday, April 24 2023 - Mon. 04/24 – And More Twitter Stuff

Elon Caves, Gives Blue Checks Back to Twitter’s Biggest Celebs (Daily Beast)
Apple Will Take Scattershot Approach to Pitching AR/VR Headset (Bloomberg)
Chip designer Arm makes its own advanced prototype semiconductor (FT)
These Are The Most Popular TV Shows on the Internet (Bloomberg)
Silicon Valley Startups Brace for a Summer of Pain (Bloomberg)

Friday, April 21 2023 - Fri. 04/21 – Twitter Stuff

Twitter seemingly now requires all advertisers to have a verified checkmark (TechCrunch)
Google Looks to Turbocharge AI Efforts With Combined Brain, DeepMind Unit (WSJ)
Google gives Bard the ability to generate and debug code (Engadget)
Watch the first demo of buzzy startup Humane’s wearable AI assistant in leaked clips (The Verge)
U.S. Begins Planning for 6G Wireless Communications (WSJ)
The Internet of the 2010s Ended Today (The Atlantic)

Thursday, April 20 2023 - Thu. 04/20 – Elon’s Having A Heck Of A 4/20

Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform (Mashable)
Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Microsoft After it Drops Twitter From Ad Platform (PCMag)
Coinbase gets Bermuda license, plans to launch offshore exchange in coming weeks (FortuneCrypto)
First EU-Wide Crypto Regulations Clear Final Parliament Vote (Bloomberg)
OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it (MIT Technology Review)
Google to deploy generative AI to create sophisticated ad campaigns (FT)
Stability AI releases ChatGPT-like language models (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, April 19 2023 - Wed. 04/19 – The End Of Netflix’s Red Envelopes

Tuesday, April 18 2023 - Tue. 04/18 – Is The AI Era Kicking Off A New Generation Of Silicon?

Microsoft Readies AI Chip as Machine Learning Costs Surge (The Information)
Coinbase Could Move Away From U.S. if No Regulatory Clarity: CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk)
Major Photography Prize Winner Reveals Image Is AI-Generated, Rejects Award (Motherboard)
Apple finally launches high-yield Apple Savings account (Apple Insider)
Bluesky’s CEO wants to build a Musk-proof, decentralized version of Twitter (The Verge)
Hype grows over “autonomous” AI agents that loop GPT-4 outputs (Ars Technica)

Monday, April 17 2023 - Mon. 04/17 – Is Google About To Lose Samsung?

Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals (NYTimes)
Sega to acquire Angry Birds maker Rovio for $776 million (CNBC)
U.S. House Committee Publishes Draft Stablecoin Bill (CoinDesk)
Elon Musk just shut down automation for important public safety account
Is Twitter finally dying? (Vox)
Meta Tries to Lure Advertisers With Reels Discounts, AI Tools (The Information)
Spotify will drop paywall for Gimlet podcasts (Semafor)
Apple Plans to Launch More Than Just Its New Headset at WWDC (Bloomberg)

Friday, April 14 2023 - AWS Enters the Gen AI Race

Amazon Joins Microsoft, Google in AI Race Spurred by ChatGPT (WSJ)
Amazon Is Joining the Generative AI Race (Wired)
WhatsApp makes it harder for scammers to steal your account (Engadget)
Key transparency explainer (Matthew Green, Twitter)
Twitter Blue’s new 10,000 character limit turns tweets into essays (The Verge)
Dril Is Everyone. More Specifically, He’s a Guy Named Paul. (The Ringer)
With a wave of new LLMs, open-source AI is having a moment — and a red-hot debate (VentureBeat)
Is ‘The Economist’ Making the Best News Podcasts Right Now? (Vulture)

Thursday, April 13 2023 - They’re Trying Their Damnedest To Ruin The HBO Brand

Wednesday, April 12 2023 - Twitter Inc. No Longer Exists?

Tuesday, April 11 2023 - China’s ChatGPT Competitors Are Here

China slaps security reviews on AI products as Alibaba unveils ChatGPT challenger (Ars Technica)
China proposes measures to manage generative AI services (Reuters)
Winklevoss Twins Lend $100 Million to Their Gemini Crypto Platform (Bloomberg)
Juice jacking rising, FBI says don’t use airport USB outlets (Android Authority)
YouTube Premium adds more perks with SharePlay support, higher quality video and more (TechCrunch)
NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube starts at $249 for the 2023 season (The Verge)

Monday, April 10 2023 - Would You Believe Me If I Told You Elon Changed His Mind?

Twitter stops throttling tweets with Substack links (Engadget)
Elon Musk Denies Substack Links Are Blocked On Twitter, A Claim That’s Very Misleading (Forbes)
Apple (AAPL) Continues Efforts to Keep Retail Stores From Unionizing (Bloomberg)
The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin (NYTimes)
Crypto enthusiasts go after New York Times for its BTC mining report (Cryptopolitan)
Rebuttal to the NYT article (Daniel Batten, Twitter)
Dell XPS 13 review: Dell is coasting (and that’s fine) (The Verge)

Friday, April 07 2023 - Fri. 08/07 – Twitter Blocking Substack?

Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links (The Verge)
Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars (Reuters)
A third of organizations admit to covering up data breaches (VentureBeat)
Global VC Funding Falls Dramatically Across All Stages In Rocky Q1, Despite Massive OpenAI And Stripe Deals (CrunchBase News)

Thursday, April 06 2023 - Thu. 04/06 – The Secret Bitcoin Easter Egg On Your Mac

ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused (Washington Post)
The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS (Waxy.org)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says Search to Include Chat AI (WSJ)
Google to prohibit personal loan apps from accessing user photos, contacts (TechCrunch)
Substack’s new short-form ‘Notes’ feed looks a lot like Twitter (TechCrunch)
Streaming Killed E3 (Wired)

Wednesday, April 05 2023 - Wed. 04/05 – The Grand Theory Of AI Varietals

EXCLUSIVE – SONY’S NEXT PLAYSTATION HANDHELD (Insider Gaming)
Bob Lee, creator of Cash App and former CTO of Square, stabbed to death (TechCrunch)
Google says its AI supercomputer is faster, greener than Nvidia A100 chip (Reuters)
Meta to debut ad-creating generative AI this year, CTO says (NikkeiAsia)
American teens aren’t excited about virtual reality, with only 4% using it daily (CNBC)
What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? BloombergGPT aims to be a domain-specific AI for business news (NeimanLab)

Tuesday, April 04 2023 - Tue. 04/04 – Dogecoin Twitter Logo (Cause Why Not?)

Twitter’s new dog icon is sending dogecoin — sigh — to the moon (TechCrunch)
Spotify shuts down its Clubhouse-style audio app Spotify Live (Musically)
Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers for ‘multi-year’ savings (CNBC)
Apple to Cut Jobs in Some Corporate Retail Teams in First Known Layoffs (Bloomberg)
Apple Weather forecasts suffer rare outage (AppleInsider)
Universities express doubt over tool to detect AI-powered plagiarism (FT)
AI is entering an era of corporate control (The Verge)

Monday, April 03 2023 - Mon. 04/03 – Schrödinger’s Blue Check

Twitter had a very messy weekend (The Verge)
Twitter’s blue check mark was loved and loathed. Now it’s pay for play. (Washington Post)
‘I’ve never seen anything like this:’ One of China’s most popular apps has the ability to spy on its users, say experts (CNN Business)
Paris votes overwhelmingly to ban shared e-scooters (TechCrunch)
GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs (The Verge)
The rest of the auto industry still loves CarPlay and Android Auto (The Verge)

Friday, March 31 2023 - Fri. 03/31 – Is E3 Dead?

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)

Thursday, March 30 2023 - Thu. 03/30 – No Headset Reveal At WWDC?

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)

Wednesday, March 29 2023 - Wed. 03/29 – Hit Pause On AI Development?

Tuesday, March 28 2023 - Tue. 03/28 – Rise Of The Blue Checks

Monday, March 27 2023 - Mon. 03/27 – SVB Finds A New Home

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)

Friday, March 24 2023 - Fri. 03/24 – Twilight Of The Blue Checks

Thursday, March 23 2023 - Thu. 03/23 – Coinbase Wells Notice

Wednesday, March 22 2023 - Wed. 03/22 – Google Bard Joins The Fray

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)

Tuesday, March 21 2023 - Tue. 03/21 – TikTok Showdown

Monday, March 20 2023 - Mon. 03/20 – Robots All The Way Down

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)

Friday, March 17 2023 - Fri. 03/17 – Midjourney 5 Is Amazing

Thursday, March 16 2023 - Thu. 03/16 – We’re A Long Way From Clippy

Wednesday, March 15 2023 - Wed. 03/15 – GPT-4 Is Here

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)

Tuesday, March 14 2023 - Tue. 03/14 – Meta Has Now Cut 1/4th Of Its Workforce

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)

Monday, March 13 2023 - Mon. 03/13 – Crisis Averted?

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)

Friday, March 10 2023 - Fri. 03/10 – Silicon Valley Bank(Run)

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

Thursday, March 09 2023 - Thu. 03/09 – Silvergate’s Collapse Makes The Crypto Winter Even Colder

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)

Wednesday, March 08 2023 - Wed. 03/08 – The “Cambrian Explosion” Moment For AI

Tuesday, March 07 2023 - Tue. 03/07 – A TikTok Paywall

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)

Monday, March 06 2023 - Mon. 03/06 – AI And The Golden Age Of Scamming

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)

Friday, March 03 2023 - Fri. 03/03 – AI Summarizers And Glamour Filters

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)

Thursday, March 02 2023 - Thu. 03/02 – And Right On Schedule, Here Come The APIs

Wednesday, March 01 2023 - Wed. 03/01 – Bluesky Launches

Tuesday, February 28 2023 - Tue. 02/28 – Elon Wants To Compete With OpenAI

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)

Monday, February 27 2023 - Mon. 02/27 – Here Come The Prompt Engineers

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)

Friday, February 24 2023 - Fri. 02/24 – Record Scratch On The Adobe/Figma Deal

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)

Thursday, February 23 2023 - Thu. 02/23 – Coinbase Wants To Seed Web 3

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)

Wednesday, February 22 2023 - Wed. 02/22 – ChatGPT Hits A Chinese Wall

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)

Tuesday, February 21 2023 - Tue. 02/21 – Microsoft Swears To Play Nice With Call Of Duty

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 (Ars Technica)
How Apple captured Gen Z in the US — and changed their social circles (FT)

Friday, February 17 2023 - Susan Wojcicki Rides Off Into The Sunset

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)

Thursday, February 16 2023 - Thu. 02/16 – Microsoft Reflects On The New Bing

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)

Wednesday, February 15 2023 - Wed. 02/15 – The New Bing Is Questioning Its Own Existence

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)

Tuesday, February 14 2023 - Tue. 02/14 – Elon, If You Want It Or Not

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)

Monday, February 13 2023 - Mon. 02/13 – Are Stablecoins Dead?

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

Friday, February 10 2023 - Fri. 02/10 – A Record Year For Bots (The Other Kind Of Bots)

Thursday, February 09 2023 - Thu. 02/09 – Twitter Blue Breaks The Character Barrier

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)

Wednesday, February 08 2023 - Wed. 02/08 – AI’s Big Week Continues

Tuesday, February 07 2023 - Tue. 02/07 – AI’s Big Debut Week Is NOW!

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)

Monday, February 06 2023 - Mon. 02/06 – iPhone Ultra?

Friday, February 03 2023 - Fri. 02/03 – The Startup Planning To De-Extinct The Dodo

Thursday, February 02 2023 - Thu. 02/02 – Meta Whistles Past The Metaverse

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)

Wednesday, February 01 2023 - Wed. 02/01 – The Memory Chip Rout (Again)

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)

Tuesday, January 31 2023 - Tue. 01/31 – Weird Gaming News

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)

Monday, January 30 2023 - Mon 01/30 – Every Platform Is Hustling To Unveil An AI Play

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)

Friday, January 27 2023 - Fri. 01/27 – More Buzzfeed News, If You Can Believe It

Thursday, January 26 2023 - Thu. 01/26 – Where Is The Line Going For Tech Right Now?

Wednesday, January 25 2023 - Wed. 01/25 – Is This Latest Suit The Biggest Threat To Google

US Sues Google to Break Up Ad Unit in Heated Antitrust Fight (Bloomberg)
DOJ’s new suit puts Google’s ad business at risk (Axios)
Google’s most serious antitrust challenge to date (Platformer)
Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives Second Quarter Results (Microsoft Investor Relations)
Twitter for web will now stay on your preferred timeline (The Verge)
Riot Games receives ‘ransom email’ for stolen source code following social engineering attack (The Record)
Ransomware Revenue Down As More Victims Refuse to Pay (Chainalysis)
LG, Whirlpool Target Customers Disconnected From ‘Smart’ Appliances (WSJ)
After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, January 24 2023 - Tue 01/24 – ALL The Details On Apple’s Headset

How Apple’s Upcoming Mixed-Reality Headset Will Work (Bloomberg)
DOJ Poised to Sue Google Over Digital Ad Market Dominance (Bloomberg)
Amazon launches RxPass, a $5/month Prime add-on for all-you-need generic drugs covering 80 conditions (TechCrunch)
CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism (Futurism.com)

Monday, January 23 2023 - Mon. 01/23 – Moar Tech Layoffs (And Moar To Come?)

Friday, January 20 2023 - Fri. 01/20 – Alphabet’s Monster Layoffs

Google to Cut 12,000 Jobs in 6% Reduction of Global Workforce (Bloomberg)
Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients (Engadget)
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to step down as chief executive (FT)
Crypto Lender Genesis Files for Bankruptcy as Crisis Spreads (Bloomberg)
Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight (NYTimes)

Thursday, January 19 2023 - Thu. 01/19 – Instagram Wants You To Take A Break

Genesis creditors negotiating prepackaged bankruptcy: Sources (The Block)
Crypto Media Outlet CoinDesk Taps Bankers for Potential Sale (WSJ)
Instagram’s new ‘Quiet Mode’ helps you take a break from the app (TechCrunch)
Amazon to close charitable program AmazonSmile (The Hill)
Wikipedia gets its first makeover in over a decade… and it’s fairly subtle (TechCrunch)
Apple to Expand Smart-Home Lineup, Taking On Amazon and Google (Bloomberg)
Web 3 Startup Funding Q4 Drop (Crunchbase)
New AngelList Data Shows Startup Fundraising Pain in Second Half of 2022 (Newcomer)
It looks like people are actually moving back to San Francisco (really) (Vox)
Tweet on LA startup investment numbers (@emollick)

Wednesday, January 18 2023 - Wed. 01/18 – The HomePod Is Back

Tuesday, January 17 2023 - Tue. 01/17 – New Mac Tuesday

Apple Announces New MacBook Pros With M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips, Up to 96GB RAM, 8K HDMI, Wi-Fi 6E, and More (MacRumors)
Apple Unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips With 20% Faster CPU and More (MacRumors)
Microsoft to Add ChatGPT to Azure Cloud Services ‘Soon’ (Bloomberg)
Microsoft Plans to Build OpenAI Capabilities Into All Products (WSJ)
Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content (The Verge)
AI art tools Stable Diffusion and Midjourney targeted with copyright lawsuit (The Verge)
Google reportedly working on AirTag-like location trackers (The Verge)
Why the Heck Is Amazon Selling These Fake 16 Terabyte Portable SSD Drives? (ReviewGeek)

Friday, January 13 2023 - Fri. 01/13 – Is The Government Crackdown On Crypto Starting?

SEC charges Gemini and Genesis with unregistered securities offering (The Block)
Apple’s Tim Cook Takes Rare CEO Pay Cut After Pushback (Bloomberg)
Climate Startup Removes Carbon From Open Air in Industry First (WSJ)

Thursday, January 12 2023 - Thu. 01/12 – Touchscreen Macs?

Apple Is Working on Adding Touch Screens to Macs in Major Turnabout (Bloomberg)
Sam Bankman-Fried sticks to his script (Axios)
Apple Maps’ business listings are about to get more detailed with launch of ‘Apple Business Connect’ (TechCrunch)
Twitter Said to Consider Selling User Names to Boost Revenue (NYTimes)
Carta lays off 10% as CTO lawsuit looms (TechCrunch)
CNET IS QUIETLY PUBLISHING ENTIRE ARTICLES GENERATED BY AI (The Byte)
OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, a premium version of its viral chatbot (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, January 11 2023 - Wed. 01/11 – Maybe Software Needs To Eat The Airline Industry

U.S. air travel rumbles back to life after FAA computer outage (Reuters)
Apple to Begin Making In-House Screens in 2024 in Shift Away From Samsung (Bloomberg)
Twitter defaults to a For You page now, just like TikTok (The Verge)
DeepL, the AI-based language translator, raises over $100M at a $1B+ valuation (TechCrunch)
Microsoft scraps plans for dual-screen Surface Duo 3, pivots to new foldable screen design (Windows Central)
Samsung confirms February 1st Unpacked, its first in-person event in three years (The Verge)

Tuesday, January 10 2023 - Tue. 01/10 – Now We Have VALL-E To Take Over My Podcast Voice

Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio (Ars Technica)
Microsoft eyes $10 billion bet on ChatGPT (Semafor)
Buy with Prime, which brings Prime to third-party sites, officially launches in U.S. on Jan. 31 (TechCrunch)
Coinbase to slash 20% of workforce in second major round of job cuts (CNBC)
FAA giving airlines another year to fix altimeters that can’t handle 5G signals (Ars Technica)
Sketchy ChatGPT App Soars Up App Store Charts, Charges $7.99 Weekly Subscription (MacRumors)

Monday, January 09 2023 - Mon. 01/09 – Gurman Tells Us When Apple’s “Reality Pro” Will Be Announced.

Apple Will Talk Up Its Mixed-Reality Headset in 2023 But Not Much Else (Bloomberg)
Steam hits 10 million concurrent in-game players in record-breaking weekend (The Verge)
Deere & Co. will allow farmers to repair their own equipment (Reuters)
Insurer Beazley launches first catastrophe bond for cyber threats (FT)
The Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola is a ThinkPad owner’s dream (The Verge)
Where was 5G at CES? (The Verge)

Friday, January 06 2023 - Fri. 01/06 – CES Wrapup Part 2

Thursday, January 05 2023 - Thu. 01/05 – CES Roundup Part 1

Wednesday, January 04 2023 - Wed. 01/04 – ChatGPT Coming To Bing?

Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to Google (The Information)
Salesforce to cut 10% of workforce in latest tech layoffs (Reuters)
Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads ‘Not Guilty’ to Fraud, Conspiracy Charges (CoinDesk)
Shiba Inu-Themed BONK Tokens Are Yielding Nearly 1,000% for Solana Liquidity Providers (CoinDesk)
Nvidia upgrades GeForce Now with RTX 4080 performance for premium users (TechCrunch)
Wireless Power Consortium works with Apple on next generation ‘Qi2’ standard based on MagSafe (9to5Mac)
Qi2: How Apple might finally harness MagSafe by giving it away (The Verge)
Roku does the obvious thing and announces its own TV line (The Verge)
MacBook owners have two months to claim up to $395 over butterfly keyboard woes (The Verge)

Tuesday, January 03 2023 - Tue. 01/03 – Eventually, CES Comes For All Of Us

Intel’s 13th Gen mobile processors include the first 24-core laptop CPU (The Verge)
PyTorch discloses malicious dependency chain compromise over holidays (BleepingComputer)
Southwest Meltdown Shows Airlines Need Tighter Software Integration (WSJ)
Gemini’s Cameron Winklevoss Slams Crypto Exec Barry Silbert Over Frozen Funds (Bloomberg)
Tech Layoffs Are Happening Faster Than at Any Time During the Pandemic (WSJ)
As Silicon Valley Retrenches, a Tech Talent Shift Accelerates (NYTimes)
Startups End a Bruising 2022, Stare Down Another Challenging Year (WSJ)
Farewell to 3G (The Verge)