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Friday, July 19 2024 - Fri. 07/19 – The Big CrowdStrike Outage Explained

• Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline (The Verge)
• Global IT Collapse Puts Cyber Firm CrowdStrike in Spotlight (Bloomberg)
• Samsung halts Galaxy Buds 3 Pro shipments over quality issues (The Verge)
• OpenAI debuts mini version of its most powerful model yet (CNBC)
• OpenAI’s 4o-mini brings big brains on a budget. (Ben’s Bites)
• Netflix Q2 Profits Surge 44% to $2.15 Billion As Streamer Adds 8 Million Subscribers (The Wrap)

Thursday, July 18 2024 - Thu. 07/18 – Crypto Exchange Hacks Are Back

• WazirX Hacked for $230M, Largely in SHIB, as Elliptic Says North Korea Behind Attack (CoinDesk)
• $235 million lost by WazirX in North Korea-linked breach (Elliptic)
• Meta explores stake in Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica (FT)
• Reality Comes to Meta’s Reality Labs (The Information)
• Scoop: Meta won’t offer future multimodal AI models in EU (Axios)
• Apple says its OpenELM model doesn’t power Apple Intelligence amid YouTube controversy (9to5Mac)
• Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI (Proof)
• Leaked Docs Show What Phones Cellebrite Can (and Can’t) Unlock (404 Media)

Wednesday, July 17 2024 - Wed. 07/17 – Sorry, More Politics…

• Trump on Taxes, Tariffs, Jerome Powell and More (Bloomberg)
• Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say (Reuters)
• Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation (VentureBeat)
• Giant Pixel 9 leak gives us our first real-world look at the Fold, faster charging specs, and more (AndroidAuthority)
• Samsung’s new image-generating AI tool is a little too good (The Verge)

Tuesday, July 16 2024 - Tue. 07/16 – A VC VP Pick

• J.D. Vance Is Trump’s Pick for Vice President (Wired)
• It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone (The Verge)
• Microsoft Investigated by UK Over Ex-Inflection Staff Hires (Bloomberg)
• Record labels sue Verizon for not disconnecting pirates’ Internet service (ArsTechnica)
• Microsoft’s new AI system ‘SpreadsheetLLM’ unlocks insights from spreadsheets, boosting enterprise productivity (VentureBeat)
• Apple releases public betas for iOS 18, macOS, and more (The Verge)

Monday, July 15 2024 - Mon. 07/15 – Google To Make Its Biggest Acquisition Ever?

• Google Near $23 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Wiz (WSJ)
• Zero to Billions: The Startup on the Verge of the Biggest Tech Exit in Years (WSJ)
• AT&T says criminals stole phone records of ‘nearly all’ customers in new data breach (TechCrunch)
• AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records (Wired)
• HP’s new OmniBook Ultra beats every single Copilot+ PC on the market in TOPS, and it runs on an AMD Ryzen AI 300 processor (Windows Central)
• Apple’s India Sales Surge 33% to Record in Shift From China (Bloomberg)
• India clings to cheap feature phones as brands struggle to tap new smartphone buyers (TechCrunch)

Thursday, July 11 2024 - Thu. 07/11 – Samsung’s Foldable Event

• Galaxy Z Fold 6 goes official with 7 years of updates, wider displays, starting at $1,899 (9to5Google)
• Galaxy Z Flip 6 starts at $1,099 with battery, cover display, and camera upgrades (9to5Google)
• Apple Avoids EU Antitrust Threat With Tap-and-Pay Probe Settlement (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s Vision Pro Won’t Cross 500,000 Sales This Year, IDC Says (Bloomberg)
• Has Artificial Intelligence Co-opted the Sparkle Emoji? (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, July 10 2024 - Wed. 07/10 – Why Everyone Is Fleeing OpenAI’s Board

• Microsoft and Apple drop OpenAI seats amid antitrust scrutiny (FT)
• Microsoft gives up observer seat on OpenAI board (Axios)
• Google Is No Longer Claiming to Be Carbon Neutral (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Says It Reached a Climate Goal Seven Years Early (NYTimes)
• Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and launching a new ‘Standard’ tier (The Verge)
• This $1.5 Billion AI Company Is Building A ‘General Purpose Brain’ For Robots (Forbes)
• Andreessen Horowitz Is Building a Stash of More Than 20,000 GPUs to Win AI Deals (The Information)

Tuesday, July 09 2024 - Tue. 07/09 – The New Nothing Phone Costs Practically Nothing

• Nothing’s CMF Devices Prove Yet Again Cheap Doesn’t Have to Mean Boring (Wired)
• Amazon announces new $79 Echo Spot alarm clock (CNBC)
• OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ‘AI health coach’ (The Verge)
• Spotify is going to let you leave comments on podcast episodes (The Verge)
• Qualcomm, Microsoft Lean on AI Hype to Spur PC Market Revival (Bloomberg)
• After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad (Tom Hardware)
• Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (Reuters)

Monday, July 08 2024 - Mon. 07/08 – Thinner And Bigger Watches

• What’s Next for the Apple Watch: Bigger Screens But a Similar Look (Bloomberg)
• Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe (Reuters)
• In a major update, Proton adds privacy-safe document collaboration to Drive, its freemium E2EE cloud storage service (TechCrunch)
• AI industry needs to earn $600 billion per year to pay for massive hardware spend — fears of an AI bubble intensify in wake of Sequoia report (Tom’s Hardware)
• noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, July 03 2024 - Wed. 07/03 – Walking Back AI Products

• Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App (404 Media)
• Figma pulls AI tool after criticism that it ripped off Apple’s design (The Verge)
• Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact (Bloomberg)
• Meta drops ‘3D Gen’ bomb: AI-powered 3D asset creation at lightning speed (VentureBeat)
• Investors Pour $27.1 Billion Into A.I. Start-Ups, Defying a Downturn (NYTimes)

Tuesday, July 02 2024 - Tue. 07/02 – Single Points Of Failure For Cyberattacks

• Fintech company Wise says some customers affected by Evolve Bank data breach (TechCrunch)
• CDK Global Hack Shows Risk of One Software Vendor Dominating an Industry (WSJ)
• Supreme Court orders new look at social media laws in Texas and Florida (CBSNews)
• Exclusive: Nvidia set to face French antitrust charges, sources say (Reuters)
• YouTube now lets you request removal of AI-generated content that simulates your face or voice (TechCrunch)
• This is Big Tech’s playbook for swallowing the AI industry (The Verge)

Monday, July 01 2024 - Mon. 07/01 – Now Brussels Sprouts For Meta

• Meta’s pay or consent model in crosshairs for breaching EU tech rules (Reuters)
• Kuo: Apple to begin mass production of AirPods with cameras by 2026 (9to5Mac)
• ‘Boring’ Bitcoin Sends Weekend Trading Volume to All-Time Lows (Bloomberg)
• Amazon’s Bargain Store Would Use Same Trade ‘Loophole’ as Temu, Shein (The Information)
• Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face’s LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened (Tom’s Hardware)
• Surface Laptop review: Microsoft’s best MacBook Air competitor yet (The Verge)

Friday, June 28 2024 - Fri 06/28 – The Real King Of All Media Is… YouTube?

• Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse (Wired)
• OpenAI’s China Block to Reshape AI Scene as Big Players Pounce (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI (Wired)
• An AI version of Al Michaels will deliver Olympic recaps on Peacock (The Verge)

Thursday, June 27 2024 - Thu. 06/27 – Add Consultants To The List Of Big Winners Of AI So Far

• Bitcoin Falls After U.S. Sends $240M Worth of Silk Road-Related BTC to Coinbase (Coindesk)
• Google Translate is getting support for more than 110 new languages (The Verge)
• Amazon To Launch Temu-Like Discount Section With Direct Shipping From China (The Information)
• Amazon Hits $2 Trillion in Value as AI Frenzy Fuels Rally (Bloomberg)
• Figma announces big redesign with AI (The Verge)
• Webtoon Entertainment to debut on Nasdaq as latest Korean cultural export success (Financial Times)
• The A.I. Boom Has an Unlikely Early Winner: Wonky Consultants (NYTimes)

Wednesday, June 26 2024 - Wed. 06/26 – An eInk Phone That Might Be Worth Buying?

• OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac app is now available to everyone (9to5Mac)
• Google dropping continuous scroll in search results (Search Engine Land)
• Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco (The Verge)
• Tech Investor Sean Parker Leads Rescue of Struggling AI Startup (WSJ)
• ‘No Bot is Themselves Anymore:’ Character.ai Users Report Sudden Personality Changes to Chatbots (404 Media)
• The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn’t even know I wanted (The Verge)

Tuesday, June 25 2024 - Tue. 06/25 – AI Music Startups Get The Napster Treatment

• Major record labels sue AI company behind ‘BBL Drizzy’ (The Verge)
• EU charges Microsoft with antitrust violations over Teams (FT)
• Apple Spurned Idea of iPhone AI Partnership With Meta Months Ago (Bloomberg)
• Uber Is Locking Out NYC Drivers Mid-Shift to Lower Minimum Pay (Bloomberg)
• Google Develops Challenger to Meta’s Chatbots and Character.AI (The Information)
• Amazon is secretly working on a ChatGPT killer (Business Insider)
• Etched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model (TechCrunch)
• EvolutionaryScale lands $142 mln to advance AI in biology (Reuters)

Monday, June 24 2024 - Mon. 06/24 – Apple The First To Run Afoul Of The DMA

• Brussels accuses Apple of breaking EU ‘gatekeeper’ rules (FT)
• Apple is first company charged with violating EU’s DMA rules (The Verge)
• Apple Won’t Roll Out AI Tech In EU Market Over Regulatory Concerns (Bloomberg)
• Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership (WSJ)
• Delivery Drivers Got Higher Wages. Now They’re Getting Fewer Orders. (WSJ)
• AI Doesn’t Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers (WSJ)
• ‘Little Tech’ brings a big flex to Sacramento (Politico)

Friday, June 21 2024 - Fri. 06/21 – Kaspersky Banned By The US Government

• US bans sale of Kaspersky software citing security risk from Russia (TechCrunch)
• Anthropic claims its latest model is best-in-class (TechCrunch)
• Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet wows AI power users: ‘this is wild’ (VentureBeat)
• New iOS 18 API brings AirPods setup experience to third-party accessories (9to5Mac)
• SpaceX unveils backpack-sized ‘Starlink Mini’ satellite internet antenna for $599 (CNBC)

Thursday, June 20 2024 - Ilya Sutskever’s New AI Startup

• Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Safe Superintelligence (Bloomberg)
• Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (Wired)
• For Apple’s AI Push, China Is a Missing Piece (WSJ)
• Xreal’s new gadget is a phone-sized Android tablet just for your AR glasses (The Verge)
• iOS 18 could ‘sherlock’ $400M in app revenue (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, June 19 2024 - Wed. 06/18 – Apple Pumping The Breaks On The Vision Pro?

• Apple Suspends Work on Next Vision Pro, Focused on Releasing Cheaper Model in Late 2025 (The Information)
• Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist (TechCrunch)
• The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops (The Verge)
• Here are all of the Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X chips that were released today (Engadget)
• ASUS VivoBook S 15 Copilot+ PC Review: Is the Snapdragon X Elite hype real? (Windows Central)

Tuesday, June 18 2024 - Tue. 06/18 – Adobe’s Time In The Woodshed

• US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel (The Verge)
• Apple to settle ‘tap-and-go’ payments probe with EU (FT)
• Apple discontinuing Apple Pay Later, ahead of new features launching this fall (9to5Mac)
• Threads finally launches its API for developers (TechCrunch)
• Tether Announces a New Synthetic Dollar That Is Backed by Gold (Bloomberg)
• A Robotaxi Business Is A Dream For Elon Musk–But Already A Reality For Waymo (Forbes)
• Can You Replace Google Search With Reddit? I Tried It for a Week (WSJ)

Monday, June 17 2024 - Mon. 06/17 – Thinner And Lighter It Is

• Apple’s Slow Rollout of Intelligence Features Will Stretch Into 2025 (Bloomberg)
• Kuo: Apple Watch Series 10 to Get Larger Screen and Thinner Design (MacRumors)
• Privacy app maker Proton transitions to non-profit foundation structure (TechCrunch)
• McDonald’s is ending its drive-thru AI test (Restaurant Business Online)
• AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human (BBC)
• AI in finance is like ‘moving from typewriters to word processors’ (Financial Times)

Friday, June 14 2024 - Fri. 06/14 – Now Microsoft Delays Recall

• Microsoft’s all-knowing Recall AI feature is being delayed (The Verge)
• Here’s how Apple’s AI model tries to keep your data private (The Verge)
• Luma AI debuts ‘Dream Machine’ for realistic video generation, heating up AI media race (VentureBeat)
• As streaming becomes more expensive, Tubi cashes in on the value of free (Los Angeles Times)

Thursday, June 13 2024 - Thu. 06/13 – The Excel World Championships

• Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Doubles to $3.4 Billion Since Late 2023 (The Information)
• Perplexity was planning revenue-sharing deals with publishers when it came under media fire (Semafor)
• You’ll soon be able to join Discord calls directly from your PS5 (The Verge)
• Nintendo Switch Update 18.1.0 Pulls X/Twitter Support, Bringing It In-Line With PlayStation and Xbox (IGN)
• Samsung’s Galaxy Watch FE is its new entry-level smartwatch (The Verge)
• Spreadsheet Superstars (The Verge)

Wednesday, June 12 2024 - Wed. 06/12 – Elon Pulls His OpenAI Lawsuit

• Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman (CNBC)
• X is officially making likes (mostly) private for everyone (Engadget)
• Apple quietly improves Mac virtualization in macOS 15 Sequoia (ArsTechnica)
• Microsoft is killing off GPT Builder in Copilot Pro for consumers, just three months after broad availability (XDA Developers)
• OpenAI ex-employees worry about company’s control over their millions of dollars in shares (CNBC)
• Photo-sharing app BeReal acquired by Voodoo for €500mn (FT)
• First Came ‘Spam.’ Now, With A.I., We’ve Got ‘Slop’ (NYTimes)
• Raleigh smart walkie-talkie startup Relay raises $35M from investors (Axios)

Tuesday, June 11 2024 - Tue. 06/11 – Did Apple Nail AI, Or Just Do AI In An Apple Way?

• Apple’s AI promise: “Your data is never stored or made accessible to Apple” (ArsTechnica)
• How will Apple’s new AI change your phone? I asked Tim Cook. (Washington Post)
• Thoughts on #WWDC24 (Chris Messina)
• Apple’s Push to Infuse Devices With AI Will Take Years to Pay Off (Bloomberg)
• Spotify to Introduce More Expensive Subscription Tier for Music Lovers (Bloomberg)
• Mistral secures €600mn funding as valuation soars to almost €6bn (Financial Times)
• Raspberry Pi shares jump more than a third on first day of trading (Financial Times)
• The Smart, Cheap Fix for Slow, Dumb Traffic Lights (WSJ)

Monday, June 10 2024 - Mon. 06/10 – The WWDC 2024 Keynote

• Miro.com
• Shopify.com/ride

Friday, June 07 2024 - Fri. 06/07 – It’s Backlash Day

• Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event (Bloomberg)
• Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass (Bloomberg)
• Adobe responds to vocal uproar over new Terms of Service language (VentureBeat)
• Adobe terms clarified: Will never own your work, or use it for AI training (9to5Mac)
• A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel’s back (WindowsCentral)
• A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies (TechCrunch)

Thursday, June 06 2024 - Thu. 06/06 – Regulators Stirring On AI

• U.S. Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI (NYTimes)
• FTC Opens Antitrust Probe of Microsoft AI Deal (WSJ)
• US antitrust enforcer says ‘urgent’ scrutiny needed over Big Tech’s control of AI (Financial Times)
• Humane warns AI Pin owners to ‘immediately’ stop using its charging case (The Verge)
• ‘This Is Going to Be Painful’: How a Bold A.I. Device Flopped (NYTimes)
• Google Maps is making a big privacy change to protect your location history (The Verge)
• Stability AI releases a sound generator (TechCrunch)
• Ikea Is Hiring Roblox Players To Run Its Virtual Store (The Gamer)

Wednesday, June 05 2024 - Wed. 06/05 – An Open Letter To OpenAI

• OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance (NYTimes)
• Apple Made Once-Unlikely Deal With Sam Altman to Catch Up in AI (Bloomberg)
• Twitch is raising US subscription prices for the first time (Engadget)
• Quest v66 Update “Significantly” Reduces Quest 3 Passthrough Distortion & Warping (UploadVR)
• How an upstart is using its Nvidia ties to challenge cloud computing giants (Financial Times)

Tuesday, June 04 2024 - Tue. 06/04 – Wait. Why More Layoffs?

• Intel CEO Takes Aim at Nvidia in Fight for AI Chip Dominance (Bloomberg)
• E*Trade Considers Kicking Meme-Stock Leader Keith Gill Off Platform (WSJ)
• Microsoft is laying off hundreds in its Azure cloud business, sources say (BusinessInsider)
• Microsoft cuts jobs in Azure, HoloLens, and other units in latest move to control costs (GeekWire)
• Instagram confirms test of ‘unskippable’ ads (TechCrunch)
• Samsung sues Oura preemptively to block smart ring patent claims (The Verge)
• Palmer Luckey is now selling pixel-perfect ultrabright magnesium Game Boys for $199 (The Verge)

Monday, June 03 2024 - Mon. 06/03 – An AI To Game With

• Nvidia’s G-Assist is an AI chatbot that guides you through games and optimizes your PC (The Verge)
• Spotify is increasing US prices again (The Verge)
• Perplexity will research and write reports (The Verge)
• X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content (TechCrunch)
• The Opaque Investment Empire Making OpenAI’s Sam Altman Rich (WSJ)

Friday, May 31 2024 - Fri. 05/31 – Why Not Just Kill Siri?

• OpenAI has a has a new version of ChatGPT just for universities (Engadget)
• OpenAI Is Rebooting Its Robotics Team (Forbes)
• OpenAI finds Russian and Chinese groups used its tech for propaganda campaigns (Washington Post)
• Apple Plans AI-Based Siri Overhaul to Control Individual App Functions (Bloomberg)
• Exclusive: TikTok preparing a US copy of the app’s core algorithm, sources say (Reuters)
• Spotify offers Car Thing refunds as it faces lawsuit over bricking the streaming device (TechCrunch)

Thursday, May 30 2024 - Thu. 05/30 – Biggest Botnet Ever?

• US dismantles 911 S5 botnet used for cyberattacks, arrests admin (BleepingComputer)
• Exclusive: The Atlantic, Vox Media ink licensing, product deals with OpenAI (Axios)
• OpenAI CEO Cements Control as He Secures Apple Deal (The Information)
• Internal divisions linger at OpenAI after November’s attempted coup (Financial Times)
• Amazon to Expand US Drone Service After Getting Regulator’s Nod (Bloomberg)
• Apple Signals That It’s Working on TV+ App for Android Phones (Bloomberg)
• Google announces Fitbit Ace LTE for kids with Wear OS, Pixel Watch 2 specs (9to5Google)
• The Spacetop G1 Arrives This Fall. We Try the AR Laptop With No Screen (Wired)

Wednesday, May 29 2024 - Wed. 05/29 – Did The Secret Sauce Of Google Search Just Leak?

• An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them (SparkToro.com)
• Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter (Bloomberg)
• Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team (TechCrunch)
• YouTube’s free games catalog ‘Playables’ rolls out to all users (TechCrunch)
• How the U.S. ignored a chance to make TikTok safer (Washington Post)
• Food delivery apps rack up $20bn in losses in fierce battle for diners (Financial Times)

Tuesday, May 28 2024 - Tue. 05/28 – GPT5 Still A Year Out?

• OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. Model (NYTimes)
• Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to fund its race against ChatGPT and all the rest (The Verge)
• Apple Bets That Its Giant User Base Will Help It Win in AI (Bloomberg)
• Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook (TechCrunch)
• The future of financial analysis: How GPT-4 is disrupting the industry, according to new research (VentureBeat)
• AI Is Driving ‘the Next Industrial Revolution.’ Wall Street Is Cashing In. (WSJ)
• What Happened to Our Ad-Free TV? (NYTimes)

Friday, May 24 2024 - Fri. 05/24 – Now ETH Gets An ETF

• US SEC approves exchange applications to list spot ether ETFs (Reuters)
• Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold (The Verge)
• Google’s AI search feature suggested using glue to keep cheese sticking to a pizza (Business Insider)
• Save $200+ on your upgrade to The Information Pro (The Information)
• The Daylight DC1 is a $729 attempt to build a calmer computer (The Verge)

Thursday, May 23 2024 - Thu. 05/23 – Nvidia: Still Killing It

• Nvidia shares pass $1,000 for first time on AI-driven sales surge (CNBC)
• Nvidia’s Business Is Booming. Here’s What Could Slow It Down. (WSJ)
• OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show (Washington Post)
• OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million (WSJ)
• Crypto Lobby Wins: House Passes FIT21 as Democrats Deride Historic Regulatory Framework (Decrypt)
• Elon Musk Wants to Make X’s Likes Private to Hide Your Favorite ‘Edgy’ Content (Gizmodo)
• Truecaller and Microsoft will let users make an AI voice to answer calls (The Verge)

Wednesday, May 22 2024 - Wed. 05/22 – Humane Already To The Deadpool?

• Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents act like virtual employees to automate tasks (The Verge)
• Microsoft is bringing ‘Windows Volumetric Apps’ to Meta Quest headsets (The Verge)
• Wearable AI Startup Humane Explores Potential Sale, Sources Say (Bloomberg)
• Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads (Wired)
• Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (CNBC)
• AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside (Wired)

Tuesday, May 21 2024 - Tue. 05/21 – Now You’ve Pissed Off Scar-Jo

• The new, faster Surface Pro is Microsoft’s all-purpose AI PC (The Verge)
• Microsoft announces an Arm-powered Surface Laptop (The Verge)
• Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in (Engadget)
• Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs (The Verge)
• Scarlett Johansson says she was ‘shocked, angered’ when she heard OpenAI’s voice that sounded like her (NBCNews)
• Midler v. Ford Motor Co. (Wikipedia)

Monday, May 20 2024 - Mon. 05/20 – That GPT Voice Is NOT Scar-Jo

• OpenAI to Pull Johansson Soundalike Sky’s Voice From ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
• What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson (NYTimes)
• Apple Needs to Evolve to Compete in the Artificial Intelligence Era (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded (Wired)
• As clicks dry up for news sites, could Apple’s news app be a lifeline? (Semafor)
• Countries wooing corporate digital nomads hope to make them stay (FT)

Friday, May 17 2024 - Fri. 05/17 – Reddit Embraces Its AI Role

• OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT (Reuters)
• OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts (The Verge)
• Grand Theft Auto VI is launching in fall 2025 (The Verge)
• iPhone 16 Pro Max to get new battery that could last longer (AppleInsider)
• ChatGPT now lets you import files directly from Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive (VentureBeat)
• Twitter is officially X.com now (The Verge)

Thursday, May 16 2024 - Thu. 05/16 – Instagram Founder To Anthropic

• EU launches probe into Meta over social media addiction in children (Financial Times)
• Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer (The Verge)
• Android will be able to detect if your phone has been snatched (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s AI Push Imperils Climate Goal as Carbon Emissions Jump 30% (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft Asks Hundreds of China-Based AI Staff to Consider Relocating Amid U.S.-China Tensions (WSJ)
• Stability AI, Facing Cash Crunch, Discusses Sale (The Information)
• Netflix ad-supported tier has 40 million monthly users, nearly double previous count (CNBC)

Wednesday, May 15 2024 - Wed. 05/15 – Google’s I/O Announces.

• Google rolls out AI Overviews in US with more countries coming soon (SearchEngineLand)
• Can Google Give A.I. Answers Without Breaking the Web? (NYTimes)
• Google’s Project Astra uses your phone’s camera and AI to find noise makers, misplaced items and more. (Engadget)
• OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says he will leave the startup (CNBC)
• TikTok creators sue U.S. government over potential ban (Washington Post)
• Humanity Protocol Becomes Crypto’s New Digital Identity Unicorn (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, May 14 2024 - Tue. 05/14 – GPT-4o

• OpenAI debuts GPT-4o ‘omni’ model now powering ChatGPT (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI debuts new model with enhanced real-time voice abilities (Axios)
• Tom Warren’s PS5 sales Tweet
• Comcast to Launch Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ Bundle at a ‘Vastly Reduced Price’ (Variety)
• The new Apple iPad Air is great — but it’s not the one to get (The Verge)
• Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: the best kind of overkill (The Verge)

Monday, May 13 2024 - Mon. 05/13 – The Solar Storm Is Real (Ask Farmers)

• Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers’ Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season (404Media)
• Website-design firm Squarespace to go private in $6.9 billion deal with Permira (Reuters)
• British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float (The Times)
• Microsoft set to face EU competition charges over Teams software (Financial Times)
• Google’s Waymo Crosses 50,000 Paid Driverless Rides Per Week (The Information)
• Apple Nears Deal With OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone (Bloomberg)
• Apple, Netflix Amazon Want to Change How They Pay Hollywood Stars (Bloomberg)

Friday, May 10 2024 - Fri. 05/10 – Apple Apologizes For The “Crush” Ad

• Apple apologizes for iPad ‘Crush’ ad that ‘missed the mark’ (The Verge)
• Apple doesn’t understand why you use technology (The Verge)
• Microsoft Plans Mobile-Game Store, Vying With Apple, Google (Bloomberg)
• Apple to Power AI Tools With In-House Server Chips This Year (Bloomberg)
• ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model (VentureBeat)

Thursday, May 09 2024 - Thu. 05/09 – The Weird Apple Ad Backlash

• Google DeepMind unveils AI model for living cells (FT)
• Microsoft’s Xbox Is Planning More Cuts After Studio Closings (Bloomberg)
• Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (TomsHardware)
• Alphabet Progressing in Talks to Buy HubSpot, Sources Say (Bloomberg)
• That Weird Apple Ad “Crush!”

Wednesday, May 08 2024 - Wed. 05/08 – Bethesda Bloodbath

• Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda (IGN)
• US revokes licences for supply of chips to China’s Huawei (Financial Times)
• Exclusive: In Tesla Autopilot probe, US prosecutors focus on securities, wire fraud (Reuters)
• Google’s New $500 Pixel 8A Smartphone Will Get 7 Years of Software Updates (Wired)
• OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity (Bloomberg)
• TikTok Sues U.S. Government Over Law Forcing Sale or Ban (NYTimes)
• FTX Has Billions More Than Needed to Pay Bankruptcy Victims (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, May 07 2024 - Tue. 05/07 – The Spring Apple Event

• Apple Is Developing AI Chips for Data Centers, Seeking Edge in Arms Race (WSJ)
• Nintendo Teases Long-Awaited Switch Successor as Profit Slides (Bloomberg)
• Meet MAI-1: Microsoft Readies New AI Model to Compete With Google, OpenAI (The Information)
• Amazon’s Delivery Drones Won’t Fly in Arizona’s Summer Heat (Wired)
• China hacked Ministry of Defence, Sky News learns (SkyNews)

Monday, May 06 2024 - Mon. 05/06 – AI Generated Books, Music Videos And… Fighter Pilots?

• Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board (TechCrunch)
• YouTube’s AI-powered ‘Jump Ahead’ feature rolling out widely to Premium users (AndroidAuthority)
• Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users (TechCrunch)
• AI-Voiced Audiobooks Top 40,000 Titles on Audible (Bloomberg)
• An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride. What that means for war (AP)
• Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library (VentureBeat)
• Washed Out’s new music video was created with AI. Is it a watershed moment for Sora? (LATimes)

Friday, May 03 2024 - Fri. 05/03 – Apple Earnings Underline Their Predicament

• Apple Sales Fall as iPhone, China Businesses Remain Sluggish (WSJ)
• FDA Qualifies Apple’s AFib History feature as an MDDT (MyHealthyApple)
• Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite for the first time (TechCrunch)
• Coinbase’s First-Quarter Profit, Revenue Top Forecasts (Bloomberg)
• Rabbit R1 review: nothing to see here (The Verge)

Thursday, May 02 2024 - Thu. 05/02 – TikTok Can Jam Again

• TikTok and Universal Music Group Settle Royalty Dispute With New Licensing Agreement (Variety)
• UnitedHealthcare CEO says ‘maybe a third’ of US citizens were affected by recent hack (TechCrunch)
• UnitedHealth CEO tells lawmakers the company paid hackers a $22 million ransom (CNBC)
• Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico (CNBC)
• Amazon-backed Anthropic launches iPhone app and business tier to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT (CNBC)
• In Latest Stunt, Airbnb Lists the ‘Up’ House. It Floats. (NYTimes)
• Google’s Payments to Apple Reached $20 Billion in 2022, Antitrust Court Documents Show (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft Concern Over Google’s Lead Drove OpenAI Investment (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, May 01 2024 - Wed. 05/01 – An Elon Catchup

• Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to four months in prison (The Verge)
• Rabbit R1, a thing that should just be an app, actually is just an Android app (Updated) (Android Authority)
• Powerful New Chatbot Disappears as Mysteriously as It Arrived (Gizmodo)
• Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team (Electrek)

Tuesday, April 30 2024 - Tue. 04/30 – Underbaked Hardware Releases

• FCC fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data (The Verge)
• Meta Risks EU Fines Over Kremlin Lies on Facebook, Instagram (Bloomberg)
• How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode (Maciej Pocwierz)
• Copilot Workspace is GitHub’s take on AI-powered software engineering (TechCrunch)
• Peacock Hikes Subscription Prices Ahead of 2024 Paris Olympics (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Rabbit R1 Review (MKBHD)
• Marques Brownlee slams another AI product as “barely reviewable” after Humane AI Pin controversy (Dexerto)

Monday, April 29 2024 - Mon. 04/29 – AI Strategies

• Apple Intensifies Talks With OpenAI for iPhone Generative AI Features (Bloomberg)
• Apple Rivals Retool to Challenge the iPhone and Vision Pro (Bloomberg)
• Investors Cheer AI Spending Boom in Big Tech—Just Not at Meta (WSJ)
• The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal (Financial Times)
• Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation (9to5Mac)
• AI is making Meta’s apps basically unusable (Fast Company)

Friday, April 26 2024 - Fri. 04/26 – Net Neutrality Is Back

• F.C.C. Votes to Restore Net Neutrality Rules (NYTimes)
• Google parent announces first-ever dividend; beats on sales, profit; shares soar (Reuters)
• OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Other Tech Leaders to Serve on AI Safety Board (WSJ)
• Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (Reuters)
• The Onion Is Sold by G/O Media (NYTimes)

Thursday, April 25 2024 - Thu. 04/25 – Zuck Is Disappointing Wall Street Again

• Zuckerberg Asks for Patience as Meta’s AI Push Spooks Market (Bloomberg)
• Zuckerberg says it will take Meta years to make money from generative AI (The Verge)
• TSMC aims to produce ultra-advanced 1.6-nm chips by 2026 (NikkeiAsia)
• Six-Month-Old AI Coding Startup Valued at $2 Billion by Founders Fund (The Information)
• Google Meet will let you transfer calls between web and phone with ‘Switch here’ (9to5Google)
• A morning with the Rabbit R1: a fun, funky, unfinished AI gadget (The Verge)
• Rabbit R1 hands-on: Already more fun and accessible than the Humane AI Pin (Engadget)
• Rabbit’s R1 is a little AI gadget that grows on you (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, April 24 2024 - Wed. 04/24 – What Now For TikTok?

• Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden’s desk (The Verge)
• TikTok Ban Looms With Biden Poised to Start 270-Day Countdown (Bloomberg)
• How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge (Platformer)
• Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (The Verge)
• The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses get video calling, Apple Music, and a new style (The Verge)
• Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted (NYTimes)

Tuesday, April 23 2024 - Tue. 04/23 – Microsoft’s Own LLMs and Perplexity’s Big Raise

• Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet (The Verge)
• Meta Expands Its Mixed Reality Beyond the Quest Headsets (CNET)
• Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets (The Verge)
• China Smartphone Sales Remain in Black on Huawei, HONOR, Xiaomi Outperformance (Counterpoint)
• AI Search Startup Perplexity Valued at $1 Billion in Funding Round (Bloomberg)
• Adobe’s new Firefly model makes it easier to use Photoshop’s AI tools (The Verge)
• If TikTok Is Such a Threat, Show Us the Receipts (Bloomberg)

Monday, April 22 2024 - Mon. 04/22 – TikTok Back On The Chopping Block?

• TikTok ‘ban’ passes in the House again, moving to the Senate in foreign aid package (The Verge)
• Tesla lowers price of ‘Full Self-Driving’ to $8,000, down from $12,000 (Electrek)
• Tinder gets a ‘Share My Date’ feature for users to send date plans to their curious friends (TechCrunch)
• Americans’ New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat. (NYTimes)
• The little smart home platform that could (The Verge)
• The future of AI gadgets is just phones (The Verge)

Friday, April 19 2024 - Fri. 04/19 – All The News About Llama 3

• Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now (The Verge)
• Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps (NYTimes)
• Meta gives the Quest 2 its second permanent price cut in four months (Engadget)
• Cool or creepy? Microsoft’s VASA-1 is a new AI model that turns photos into ‘talking faces’ (Tom’s Guide)
• China Orders Apple to Remove Popular Messaging Apps (WSJ)

Thursday, April 18 2024 - Thu. 04/18 – Game Emulators On iOS And The Atlas Robot Lives!

• Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract (The Verge)
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fines BloomTech for false claims (TechCrunch)
• Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe (The Verge)
• TikTok Notes starts rolling out as a new rival to Instagram (The Verge)
• US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight (The Verge)
• Sony might have perfected Mini LED TVs with its new 2024 lineup (The Verge)
• Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot goes electric (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, April 17 2024 - Wed. 04/17 – Copilots Or The Biggest Model Wins? The Competing AI Visions.

• T-Mobile, Verizon workers get texts offering $300 for SIM swaps (BleepingComputer)
• Microsoft’s AI Copilot Is Starting to Automate the Coding Industry (Bloomberg)
• Mistral, an OpenAI Rival in Europe, in Talks to Raise Capital at a $5 Billion Valuation (The Information)
• Invitation-Only Audio Social Network Is the Hot New App in Tech Circles (Bloomberg)
• Musk’s Starlink Cracks Down on Growing Black Market (WSJ)
• Amazon Prime Memberships in US Gain 8% to New High After Lull (Bloomberg)
• Atlas shrugged: Boston Dynamics retires its hydraulic humanoid robot (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, April 16 2024 - Tue. 04/16 – What Should An AI Wearable Be: AI Pin Or Limitless Pendant?

• Microsoft to invest $1.5bn in Abu Dhabi AI group G42 (Financial Times)
• To Keep Viewers, Disney Plans a New Streaming Concept: Old-Style TV Channels (The Information)
• YouTube cracking down on third-party apps that block ads (9to5Google)
• YouTube Accounted for Nearly 10% of All TV Viewing in March, Nielsen Says (TheWrap)
• Oh the Humanity (Sandofsky.com)
• Limitless is a new AI tool for your meetings — and an all-hearing wearable gadget (The Verge)

Monday, April 15 2024 - Mon. 04/15 – Onshoring And Halving

• Samsung boosts Joe Biden’s chipmaking ambitions with Texas plant upgrade (Financial Times)
• Exclusive: Google Pixel 9 series to get emergency satellite connectivity, new modem (Android Authority)
• Bitcoin ‘Halving’ Will Deal a $10 Billion Blow to Crypto Miners (Bloomberg)
• ChatGPT essay cheats are a menace to us all (Financial Times)
• Naval Ravikant’s Airchat is a social app built around talk, not text (TechCrunch)
• 4TB SD cards are arriving in 2025 for your cameras and laptops (The Verge)

Friday, April 12 2024 - Fri. 04/12 – OpenAI Is The Biggest Drama Startup Since Twitter

• US government urges Sisense customers to reset credentials after hack (TechCrunch)
• Google One VPN will be discontinued, Pixel VPN remains with upgrade coming (9to5Google)
• X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks (The Verge)
• Apple Plans to Overhaul Entire Mac Line With AI-Focused M4 Chips (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI Researchers, Including Ally of Sutskever, Fired for Alleged Leaking (The Information)
• Is Google’s AI Actually Discovering ‘Millions of New Materials?’ (404 Media)

Thursday, April 11 2024 - Thu. 04/11 – Humane AI Pin Reviews

• Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks (TechCrunch)
• Spotify Plans New Remixing Tools for the TikTok Generation (WSJ)
• Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model (Bloomberg)
• Humane AI Pin review: not even close (The Verge)

Wednesday, April 10 2024 - Wed. 04/10 – A Bunch Of Datapoints

• Google Launches Coding AIs That Could Rival Microsoft’s Github Copilot (PCMag)
• Apple’s new AI model could help Siri see how iOS apps work (AppleInsider)
• Apple’s India iPhone Output Hits $14 Billion in China Shift (Bloomberg)
• ByteDance Profit Jumps 60%, Taking It Past Archrival Tencent (Bloomberg)
• Exclusive: EU’s new tech laws are working; small browsers gain market share (Reuters)
• Survey shows that teenagers are using more VR devices in the US (9to5Mac)
• Kobo announces its first color e-readers (The Verge)

Tuesday, April 09 2024 - Tue. 04/09 – Google’s New AI Chips

• Google Expands In-House Chip Efforts in Costly AI Battle (WSJ)
• Google Shows AI Model Is Enterprise-Ready After Gemini Mishaps (Bloomberg)
• Gmail adding voice input, Gemini for Google Chat, Meet ‘Translate for me,’ & more (9to5Google)
• Google rolling out Find My Device network for Android (9to5Google)
• Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple (The Verge)
• Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts (TechCrunch)
• How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. (NYTimes)

Friday, April 05 2024 - Fri. 04/05 – Apple Layoffs!

• Apple Cut at Least 600 Workers When Car, Screen Projects Stopped (Bloomberg)
• China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns (The Guardian)
• Disney+ will crack down on password sharing in June (CNN)
• Inside Big Tech’s underground race to buy AI training data (Reuters)
• YouTube Says OpenAI Training Sora With Its Videos Would Break Rules (Bloomberg)

Thursday, April 04 2024 - Thu. 04/04 – How About A TRUE iRobot?

• Apple Explores Home Robotics as Potential ‘Next Big Thing’ After Car Fizzles (Bloomberg)
• Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model (FT)
• X’s ‘complimentary’ Premium push gives people blue checks they didn’t ask for (The Verge)
• Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling (NBCNews)
• Amazon Sellers Plagued by Surge in Scam Returns (WSJ)
• Business Schools Are Going All In on AI (WSJ)
• Rock band Kiss sells rights for $300mn to firm behind Abba hologram show (FT)

Wednesday, April 03 2024 - Wed. 04/03 – Quantum Computing Breakthrough?

• Microsoft and Quantinuum say they’ve ushered in the next era of quantum computing (TechCrunch)
• AI-generated songs are getting longer, not necessarily better (The Verge)
• Top musicians among hundreds warning against replacing human artists with AI (Axios)
• TSMC Facilities to Resume Production Overnight After Quake (Bloomberg)
• Amazon’s Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech (The Information)
• Venture capital reckons with the end of ‘megafund’ era (Financial Times)

Tuesday, April 02 2024 - Tue. 04/02 – Amazon To Enter The AI Group Chat

• AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online (TechCrunch)
• Exclusive: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny (Reuters)
• Amazon scrambles for its place in the AI race (The Verge)
• Gen-AI Search Engine Perplexity Has a Plan to Sell Ads (Adweek)
• The AI Industry Is Steaming Toward A Legal Iceberg (WSJ)
• Microsoft and OpenAI Plot $100 Billion Stargate AI Supercomputer (The Information)

Friday, March 29 2024 - Fri. 03/29 – SBF To The Hoosegow

• Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud (Reuters)
• Elon Musk’s X Is Testing ‘Adult Content’ Groups for Users (Bloomberg)
• Apple Sues Former Employee for Leaking iPhone’s Journal App and More (MacRumors)
• Apple Plans New iPad Pro for May as Production Ramps Up Overseas (Bloomberg)
• Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days, finish the week below first day close (CNBC)

Thursday, March 28 2024 - Thu. 03/28 – Claude 3 Opus Surpasses GPT-4 For The First Time

• “The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time (ArsTechnica)
• Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet (CNBC)
• Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI’s app store draws investors and students seeking artificial aids (FT)
• Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans ‘parts pairing’ (The Verge)
• Take-Two Buys Gearbox From Embracer, Confirms Development on New Borderlands Game (IGN)
• The A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguilla (NYTimes)

Wednesday, March 27 2024 - Wed. 03/27 – Hulu Comes To Disney+; WWDC Gets A Date

• Hulu on Disney+ Launches Out of Beta With Marketing Push to Grow Subscribers (The Hollywood Reporter)
• The Disney Plus-Hulu merger is way more than a streaming bundle (The Verge)
• Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event for June 10 to 14 (MacRumors)
• Recent ‘MFA Bombing’ Attacks Targeting Apple Users (KrebsonSecurity)
• Databricks launches DBRX, challenging Big Tech in the open source AI race (VentureBeat)
• Databricks open-sources its own large language model, DBRX (SiliconAngle)
• Databricks spent $10M on new DBRX generative AI model, but it can’t beat GPT-4 (TechCrunch)
• Intel shares Microsoft’s new AI PC definition, launches AI PC Acceleration Programs and Core Ultra Meteor Lake NUC developer kits at AI conference (Tom’s Hardware)
• The Fight for AI Talent: Pay Million-Dollar Packages and Buy Whole Teams (WSJ)

Tuesday, March 26 2024 - Tue. 03/26 – Musical Chairs As Microsoft Reorganizes Itself Around AI

• Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief (The Verge)
• Canva Strikes Biggest Acquisition Yet in Chase to Take on Adobe (Bloomberg)
• US sanctions APT31 hackers behind critical infrastructure attacks (BleepingComputer)
• OpenAI shows off first examples of third-party creators using Sora (VentureBeat)
• OpenAI Courts Hollywood in Meetings With Film Studios, Directors (Bloomberg)
• Reddit options launch draws bulls, as shares soar (Reuters)
• IPO Window Cracks Open and Silicon Valley Sees Some Daylight (Bloomberg)
• Meta’s new opt-out setting limits visibility of politics on Instagram and Threads (The Verge)
• Elon Musk’s Starlink Terminals Are Falling Into the Wrong Hands (Bloomberg)

Monday, March 25 2024 - Mon. 03/25 – The Wheels Of DMA Justice Move Fast

• EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law (Financial Times)
• Stability AI Founder Emad Mostaque Plans To Resign As CEO, Sources Say (Forbes)
• Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (NBCNews)
• Spotify adds video learning courses in latest experiment (The Verge)
• Sources: iOS 18 Lets Apps Be Placed Anywhere on Home Screen Grid (MacRumors)
• Justice Department Risks Picking the Wrong Fight With Apple (Bloomberg)
• Thiel, Bezos and Zuckerberg join parade of insiders selling tech stocks (Financial Times)

Friday, March 22 2024 - Fri. 03/22 – Apple Antitrust Suit Fallout

• Apple CarPlay is anticompetitive, too, US lawsuit alleges (The Verge)
• U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction (Six Colors)
• Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (ArsTechnica)
• Threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too (The Verge)
• Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff (The Information)

Thursday, March 21 2024 - Thu. 03/21 – The DOJ Sues Apple

• U.S. Sues Apple, Alleges Tech Giant Exploits Illegal Monopoly (WSJ)
• Reddit prices IPO at $34 per share in first major social media offering since 2019 (CNBC)
• The Epic Games Store is coming to Android (9to5Google)
• Apple Faces Legal Protest From Meta, Microsoft, X, Spotify and Match (WSJ)
• Carvana makes U-turn away from financial abyss (Financial Times)
• Amazon’s New Focus: Fending Off Rivals Temu and Shein (WSJ)
• Watch Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrate His Brain-Computer Interface (Wired)

Wednesday, March 20 2024 - Wed. 03/20 – Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-Founder And Rocks The AI Community

• Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-Founder Suleyman to Run Consumer AI (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft bets on start-ups to extend AI lead with hiring of Inflection chief (Financial Times)
• Intel to receive $8.5bn in US funding for high-end chip manufacturing (Financial Times)
• Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update smashes its Steam player record (The Verge)
• A ChatGPT for Music Is Here. Inside Suno, the Startup Changing Everything (Rolling Stone)

Tuesday, March 19 2024 - Tue. 03/19 – Nvidia Developer Event

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’ (CNBC)
• Nvidia launches NIM to make it smoother to deploy AI models into production (TechCrunch)
• Nvidia enlists humanoid robotics’ biggest names for new AI platform, GR00T (TechCrunch)
• Nvidia announces Earth-2 digital twin to forecast planet’s climate change (VentureBeat)
• Google researchers unveil ‘VLOGGER’, an AI that can bring still photos to life (VentureBeat)
• Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D (VentureBeat)
• DOJ to Push for TikTok Divestiture in Senate Briefings (Bloomberg)
• Playtron: the startup hoping to Steam Deck-ify the world (The Verge)

Monday, March 18 2024 - Mon. 03/18 – Apple To Partner With Google For AI On iOS?

• Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features (Bloomberg)
• Apple researchers achieve breakthroughs in multimodal AI as company ramps up investments (VentureBeat)
• xAI open-sources base model of Grok, but without any training code (TechCrunch)
• Musk’s Grok AI goes open source (VentureBeat)
• Massive ‘Apex Legends’ Hack Disrupts NA Finals, Raises Serious Security Concerns (Forbes)
• Sony Hits Pause on PSVR2 Production as Unsold Inventory Piles Up (Bloomberg)

Friday, March 15 2024 - Fri. 03/15 – Apple’s Quiet AI Acquisition

• Apple Buys Canadian AI Startup as It Races to Add Features (Bloomberg)
• FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps (ArsTechnica)
• Spotify says its iPhone app updates in the EU are getting held up by Apple (The Verge)
• Pornhub Disables Website in Texas Over Age-Verification Law (Variety)

Thursday, March 14 2024 - Thu. 03/14 – Who Wants TikTok?

• House passes TikTok bill that could ban app in the U.S., spawning Senate support (The Washington Post)
• Microsoft has added the GPT-4 Turbo LLM to the free version of Copilot (Neowin)
• Microsoft says new AI security chatbot pricing model lets customers ‘buy what they need’ (CNBC)
• Microsoft Teams is finally moving to a single app for personal and work (The Verge)
• Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability (VentureBeat)
• MusicWatch Reports Results of 2023 Annual Music Study: Record Numbers of Music Streamers and Paid Subscribers (Music Watch)
• Google’s Gen AI Search Threatens Publishers With $2B Annual Ad Revenue Loss (AdWeek)

Wednesday, March 13 2024 - Wed. 03/13 – TikTok On The Brink?

• TikTok bill, racing toward House passage, faces a minefield in the Senate (Washington Post)
• How TikTok Was Blindsided by U.S. Bill That Could Ban It (WSJ)
• World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers (CNBC)
• Stripe in ‘no rush’ to go public as cash flow turns positive (FT)
• Arm unveils first chip design to power self-driving cars (FT)
• AI startup Cerebras unveils the WSE-3, the largest chip yet for generative AI (ZDNet)
• Spotify adds music videos in some countries (TechCrunch)
• Perplexity brings Yelp data to its chatbot (The Verge)

Tuesday, March 12 2024 - Tue. 03/12 – Is TikTok Coming For Instagram?

• Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer’s website, in latest EU App Store rule change (9to5Mac)
• The IRS launches Direct File, a pilot program for free online tax filing available in 12 states (AP)
• Crypto Product Inflows Soar to Record High, CoinShares Says (Bloomberg)
• Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras (The Verge)
• Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them (Bloomberg)
• Exclusive: Tiktok is working on a new Photo Sharing platform to compete with Instagram (The SpAndroid)
• TikTok’s growth rate has collapsed. ‘Life’ may be getting in the way for its younger users. (Business Insider)

Monday, March 11 2024 - Mon. 03/11 – Your Car Is Spying On You, Example 212

• Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account, clearing path for Epic Games Store on iPhone (9to5Mac)
• Sam Altman returns to OpenAI’s board (Axios)
• Sam Altman rejoins OpenAI’s board after investigation into sudden firing (The Verge)
• OpenAI’s Sam Altman Returns to Board After Probe Clears Him (Bloomberg)
• Elon Musk says xAI will open-source Grok this week (TechCrunch)
• Reddit to raise nearly $750 million in upcoming IPO (CNBC)
• Telegram hits 900mn users and nears profitability as founder considers IPO (Financial Times)
• Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (NYTimes)

Monday, March 11 2024 - Mon. 03/11 – Your Car Is Spying On You, Example 212

• Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account, clearing path for Epic Games Store on iPhone (9to5Mac)
• Sam Altman returns to OpenAI’s board (Axios)
• Sam Altman rejoins OpenAI’s board after investigation into sudden firing (The Verge)
• OpenAI’s Sam Altman Returns to Board After Probe Clears Him (Bloomberg)
• Elon Musk says xAI will open-source Grok this week (TechCrunch)
• Reddit to raise nearly $750 million in upcoming IPO (CNBC)
• Telegram hits 900mn users and nears profitability as founder considers IPO (Financial Times)
• Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (NYTimes)

Friday, March 08 2024 - Fri. 03/08 – TikTok In Peril?

• Furious Congress plows forward with TikTok bill after user revolt (Axios)
• China Readies $27 Billion Chip Fund to Counter Growing US Curbs (Bloomberg)
• Temu’s Push Into America Pays Off Big Time for Meta and Google (WSJ)
• Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster (NYTimes)

Thursday, March 07 2024 - Thu. 03/07 – The Epic/Apple Fight Gets Gnarly

• Apple kills Epic’s iOS game store plans over App Store criticism (The Verge)
• Apple Set to Be Quizzed by EU Over ‘Fortnite’ Maker Shutout (Bloomberg)
• Big Tech howled over E.U. antitrust law. The White House declined a rescue. (The Washington Post)
• W.H. works with Hill to ban TikTok (Punchbowl News)
• Kuo: Apple actively working on 20.3-inch foldable MacBook (9to5Mac)
• AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering (IEEE Spectrum)

Wednesday, March 06 2024 - Wed. 03/06 – OpenAI Claps Back At Elon’s Lawsuit

• Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 17.4 with Major Safari and App Store Changes in the EU, Transcripts for Podcasts, New Emoji, and More (MacStories)
• EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft will unveil OLED Surface Pro 10 and Arm Surface Laptop 6 this spring ahead of major Windows 11 AI update (Windows Central)
• ‘Exit scam’ - hackers that hit UnitedHealth pull disappearing act (Reuters)
• OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails (Bloomberg)
• Sam Altman tells staff OpenAI investigation will ‘soon’ close, as employees brace for more surprises (Business Insider)

Tuesday, March 05 2024 - Tue. 03/05 – The Linux Phoenix?

• Google rolls out changes for users, apps developers as EU tech rules loom (Reuters)
• Instagram now lets you edit DMs up to 15 mins after sending them (TechCrunch)
• M3 MacBook Pro will gain multi-display support in software update (9to5Mac)
• Former Twitter Executives Sue Musk Over Unpaid Severance (WSJ)
• The Nothing Phone 2A proves thoughtful design can come at a budget price (The Verge)
• Waymo can now charge for robotaxi rides in LA and on San Francisco freeways (TechCrunch)
• Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide (Linuxiac)

Monday, March 04 2024 - Mon. 03/04 – EU Brings The Hammer Down On Apple

• Apple hit with €1.8bn fine for breaking EU law over music streaming (Financial Times)
• Apple launches new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 chip, support for two external displays, faster Wi-Fi (9to5Mac)
• Apple’s Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla (Bloomberg)
• Anthropic unveils Claude 3, surpassing GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra in benchmark tests (VentureBeat)
• Google-backed Anthropic debuts its most powerful chatbot yet, as generative AI battle heats up (CNBC)
• Telcos are barely done rolling out 5G networks — and they’re already talking about ‘5.5G’ (CNBC)

Friday, March 01 2024 - Fri. 03/01 – Elon Sues Sam Altman And OpenAI

• Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat (Courthouse News Service)
• Meta to Wind Down Its News Feature in the US and Australia (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft introduces Copilot AI chatbot for finance workers in Excel and Outlook (CNBC)
• Alibaba’s new AI system ‘EMO’ creates realistic talking and singing videos from photos (VentureBeat)

Thursday, February 29 2024 - Thu. 02/29 – What If The Vision Pro Is Selling Better Than We Think?

• SEC Investigating Whether OpenAI Investors Were Misled (WSJ)
• EA to lay off 5% of workforce, or about 670 employees (CNBC)
• Vision Pro demand higher than expected; returns down to 1% – Kuo (9to5Mac)
• Kuo: Apple Vision Pro on Track to Launch in More Countries Before WWDC in June (MacRumors)
• Apple Vision Pro return rate is about the same as the iPhone 15 Pro (Apple Insider)
• StarCoder 2 is a code-generating AI that runs on most GPUs (TechCrunch)
• GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack (ArsTechnica)
• These Video Doorbells Have Terrible Security. Amazon Sells Them Anyway. (Consumer Reports)
• Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding (CNBC)

Wednesday, February 28 2024 - Wed. 02/28 – The Apple Car Project Is Dead

• Apple to Wind Down Electric Car Effort After Decadelong Odyssey (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s Scrapped Car Project Means AI and Headset Bets Are More Urgent (Bloomberg)
• Google CEO calls AI tool’s controversial responses ‘completely unacceptable’ (Semafor)
• Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (404 Media)
• Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people after it laid off 700 people (FastCompany)
• Thrasio, once king of e-commerce aggregation, files for Ch.11 (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, February 27 2024 - Tue. 02/27 – Gaming Continues To Be A Bloodbath

• Sony is laying off 900 PlayStation employees (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s Mistral AI Investment to Be Examined by EU Watchdog (Bloomberg)
• Meta aims to reveal and demo Orion, its first true AR glasses, during its fall developer conference (Business Insider)
• US pharmacy outage triggered by ‘Blackcat’ ransomware at UnitedHealth unit, sources say (Reuters)
• Netflix confirms it’s cutting off Apple billing for legacy subscribers (The Verge)
• Hopin’s UK business enters liquidation as it transfers HQ to the US (Sifted)
• The Supreme Court is about to decide the future of online speech (The Verge)
• Supreme Court Fears ‘Land Mines’ in Social Media Debate Over Free Speech (Bloomberg)
• Lapse, the app turning your phone into an old-school camera, snaps up $30M (TechCrunch)

Monday, February 26 2024 - Mon. 02/26 – Mobile World Congress Is All About AI This Year (Corrected)

• Samsung unveils the Galaxy Ring as a way to ‘simplify everyday wellness’ (Engadget)
• Apple Ponders Whether to Develop Smart Glasses, Fitness Ring (Bloomberg)
• Here’s why the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro headset is so expensive (CNBC)
• Au Large (Mistral.ai)
• Nvidia launches RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation laptop GPUs for AI on the go (VentureBeat)
• Lenovo’s laptop concept is fully transparent, but the point isn’t entirely clear (TechCrunch)
• Peering through Lenovo’s transparent laptop into a sci-fi future (The Verge)

Friday, February 23 2024 - Fri. 02/23 – Reddit To IPO And Nvidia To The Moon

• Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT (CNBC)
• Reddit is going public and inviting power users to invest (The Verge)
• AT&T outage caused by software update, company says (ABCNews)
• Meta’s Zuckerberg Seeks Out of Lawsuits Blaming Him for Instagram Addiction (Bloomberg)
• Bluesky opens up federation, letting anyone run their own server (TechCrunch)
• OnlyFans is the most lucrative side hustle, tax service shows (Mashable)

Thursday, February 22 2024 - Thu. 02/22 – Nvidia’s Earnings Are Epic

• Nvidia posts revenue up 265% on booming AI business (CNBC)
• Stable Diffusion 3.0 debuts new diffusion transformation architecture to reinvent text-to-image gen AI (VentureBeat)
• Google Pauses Gemini’s Image Generation of People to Fix Historical Inaccuracies (PC Mag)
• Google pauses Gemini’s ability to generate AI images of people after diversity errors (The Verge)
• Tuned In: Amazon Said To Be Paying Record $120M To Stream NFL Playoff Game (Front Office Sports)
• Exclusive: Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google (Reuters)
• The ‘Magic’ Breakthrough That Got Friedman and Gross to Bet $100 Million on a Coding Startup (The Information)

Wednesday, February 21 2024 - Wed. 02/21 – Apple Has Quantum Encrypted iMessage

• Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private (Wired)
• Apple is hardening iMessage encryption now to protect it from a threat that doesn’t exist yet (Apple Insider)
• Apple’s iMessage Is Getting Post-Quantum Encryption (Wired)
• Apple Sports: New Free App Provides Real-Time Scores and Stats, Designed to Drive Apple TV Tune-In (Variety)
• Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds (The Verge)
• Apple says iPhone 15 batteries have a longer lifespan than initially thought (9to5Mac)
• Apple retroactively doubles the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro’s battery lifespan (Macworld)
• Google Gemma: because Google doesn’t want to give away Gemini yet (The Verge)
• Meet ‘Groq,’ the AI Chip That Leaves Elon Musk’s Grok in the Dust (Gizmodo)
• Reddit Plans to Sell Stock to Loyal Users in Unusual IPO Wager (WSJ)

Tuesday, February 20 2024 - Tue. 02/20 – LockBit Ransomware Gang Taken Down

• FBI Seizes LockBit Hacking Websites in Ransomware Disruption (Bloomberg)
• Wyze outage led to the cameras of 13,000 customers being shown to other users (9to5Google)
• Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO (Bloomberg)
• Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.’s Hottest Start-Ups (NYTimes)
• Tech Leaders Fled San Francisco During the Pandemic. Now, They’re Coming Back. (WSJ)
• UK, Allies Look to Arm Ukraine With AI-Enabled Swarm Drones (Bloomberg)
• How Silicon Valley learned to love America, drones and glory (Washington Post)
• Pursuing ‘American Dynamism,’ Andreessen Horowitz Ups Its Game in DC (Bloomberg)

Friday, February 16 2024 - Fri. 02/16 – Sora Brings Text To Video AI To Life

• OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model (The Verge)
• OpenAI’s Sora Turns AI Prompts Into Photorealistic Videos (Wired)
• OpenAI’s newest model Sora can generate videos — and they look decent (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI’s Sam Altman Seeks US Blessing to Raise Billions for AI Chips (Bloomberg)
• Sam Altman owns OpenAI’s venture capital fund (Axios)
• Crypto exits remain low but investors remain unfazed (TechCrunch)
• Crypto venture funding climbs for first time in nearly 2 years after bitcoin’s stellar run (CNBC)

Thursday, February 15 2024 - Thu. 02/15 – We Already Have Gemini 1.5!

• Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready (The Verge)
• Google’s new Gemini model can analyze an hour-long video — but few people can use it (TechCrunch)
• Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (Ars Technica)
• People are returning Vision Pro in droves … or are they? (Cult of Mac)
• OpenAI Develops Web Search Product in Challenge to Google (The Information)
• ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like (The Verge)
• What comes after Stable Diffusion? Stable Cascade could be Stability AI’s future text-to-image generative AI model (VentureBeat)
• Nvidia Overtakes Alphabet, One Day After Eclipsing Amazon (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, February 14 2024 - Wed. 02/14 – Zuck Has His Own Social Media Post About The Vision Pro

• After trying the Vision Pro, Mark Zuckerberg says Quest 3 ‘is the better product, period’ (The Verge)
• Walmart in Talks to Buy TV Maker Vizio (WSJ)
• Walmart Eyeing Deal to Buy Vizio for More Than $2 Billion: Report (Variety)
• Y Combinator Seeks Startups in Robotics, Space and Defense (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI Researcher Andrej Karpathy Departs (The Information)
• Apple’s Longest-Serving Designer to Depart Company, Adding to Exodus (Bloomberg)
• Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show (Gizmodo)
• Uber, Lyft drivers to strike on Valentine’s Day over pay (Washington Post)

Tuesday, February 13 2024 - Tue. 02/13 – Why Microsoft’s Xbox Strategy Shift Is A Big Deal

• In battle with X, Threads gets trending topics where politics will be allowed (TechCrunch)
• Apple iMessage, Microsoft Bing Dodge EU’s Big Tech Crackdown (Bloomberg)
• Temu Spent Millions on Six Super Bowl Ads as It Tries to Win Back US Shoppers (Bloomberg)
• The unsettling scourge of obituary spam (The Verge)
• Chat With RTX brings custom local chatbots to Nvidia AI PCs (VentureBeat)
• NVIDIA’s New AI Chatbot Relies On Local Files, Not the Cloud (HowToGeek)
• Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC (The Verge)
• Microsoft prepares to take Xbox everywhere (The Verge)

Monday, February 12 2024 - Mon. 02/12 – Luddite Riots?

• A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (The Verge)
• Google One hits 100 million subscribers (The Verge)
• Google’s Gemini assistant is a fantastic and frustrating glimpse of the AI future (The Verge)
• ASML’s next chip challenge: rollout of its new $350 mln ‘High NA EUV’ machine (Reuters)
• Meta turns its back on politics again, angering some news creators (Washington Post)
• Bluesky Opens Up (TechDirt)
• It’s Snap versus the world (The Verge)

Friday, February 09 2024 - Fri. 02/09 – Sam Altman Wants To Raise $5 Trillion Dollars. With a T.

• Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI (WSJ)
• Exclusive: Nvidia chases $30 billion custom chip market with new unit -sources (Reuters)
• Disney’s Epic Deal Values Fortnite Maker at $22.5 Billion, a Sharp Cut (The Information)
• Activision Had Planned Layoffs Before Merger, Microsoft Says (Bloomberg)
• Ring video doorbell customers angry at 43% price hike (BBC)
• Ring is raising the price of its cheapest subscription plan by 25 percent (The Verge)
• Arm shares surge 48% after SoftBank-controlled chip designer issues strong forecast (CNBC)

Thursday, February 08 2024 - Thu. 02/08 – Google Releases Gemini Ultra 1.0

• Google’s AI now goes by a new name: Gemini (The Verge)
• Google Assistant Just Got Supercharged With AI. It Might Be the Biggest Update in Google’s History. (Gizmodo)
• Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King (Wired)
• Google Joins Effort to Help Spot Content Made With A.I. (NYTimes)
• Disney to take $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, work with Fortnite maker on new content (CNBC)
• China had “persistent” access to U.S. critical infrastructure (Axios)
• Exclusive: This could be the Google Pixel Fold 2 (Android Authority)
• OpenAI Shifts AI Battleground to Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks (The Information)

Wednesday, February 07 2024 - Wed. 02/07 – AI Watermarks And New Apple AI Models

• OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3 (The Verge)
• Apple Develops a Foldable Clamshell iPhone (The Information)
• ESPN, Fox and Warner Team Up to Create Sports Streaming Platform (WSJ)
• Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing (VentureBeat)
• Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI (VentureBeat)
• Did You Use ChatGPT On Your School Applications? These Words May Tip Off Admissions (Forbes)

Tuesday, February 06 2024 - Tue. 02/06 – Don’t Forget Your Vision Pro Password!

• Forgot Your Apple Vision Pro’s Passcode? You May Have to Take It Back to Store (Bloomberg)
• YouTube says a Vision Pro app is ‘on the roadmap’ (The Verge)
• Microsoft to share details on bringing Xbox games to PlayStation next week (The Verge)
• Roblox rolls out real-time AI translation for all users — is this the start of true global multiplayer? (Tom’s Guide)
• Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs (404Media)
• Google agrees to pay $350 million settlement in data privacy case (Washington Post)
• Digital ad market shows signs of sharp rebound as Meta, Amazon point to growth (CNBC)

Monday, February 05 2024 - Mon. 02/05 – The Most Shocking Deepfake Scam Of The AI Era

• Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ (CNN)
• Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird (iFixIt)
• Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired (The Verge)
• TECHCRUNCH+ TERMINATION (“Securities”)

Friday, February 02 2024 - Fri. 02/02 – Facebook’s Golden Age Is Now

• Amazon debuts ‘Rufus,’ an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app (TechCrunch)
• Cloudflare hacked using auth tokens stolen in Okta attack (BleepingComputer)
• The Browser Company Announces Act II for Arc: ‘The Browser That Browses For You’ (MacStories)
• The Arc browser is getting better bookmarks and search results, all thanks to AI (The Verge)

Thursday, February 01 2024 - Thu. 02/01 – A Tech Regulation Tipping Point?

• Microsoft, X throw their weight behind KOSA, the controversial kids online safety bill (TechCrunch)
• Americans’ Social Media Use (Pew Research Center)
• Celsius to Distribute $3B Crypto to Creditors as Firm Emerges From Bankruptcy (CoinDesk)
• Google launches an AI-powered image generator (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, January 31 2024 - Wed. 01/31 – Tech Execs Back Before Congress

• Social media chiefs on defensive at US online child protection hearing (FT)
• TikTok CEO Pledges $2 Billion to Protect 170 Million US Users (Bloomberg)
• Child Safety Hearing (NYTimes)
• Universal Music Group Warns It Will Pull Songs From TikTok After Deal Expiration (Variety)
• 23andMe’s Fall From $6 Billion to Nearly $0 (WSJ)
• Humanoid Robot Startup Figure AI in Funding Talks With Microsoft, OpenAI (Bloomberg)
• Figure AI in talks with Microsoft and OpenAI for funding (ReadWrite)
• Figure-01: AI learns how to make coffee like a human (ReadWrite)
• Microsoft and OpenAI are in talks to inject $500 million into humanoid robotics startup Figure AI, report says (Business Insider)
• Hottest Job in Corporate America? The Executive in Charge of A.I. (NYTimes)

Tuesday, January 30 2024 - Tue. 01/30 – The Vision Pro Reviews Are Here

• Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time (CNBC)
• Microsoft Closes Loophole That Created AI Porn of Taylor Swift (404 Media)
• Meta releases ‘Code Llama 70B’, an open-source behemoth to rival private AI development (VentureBeat)
• Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not (The Verge)
• Apple Vision Pro review: A revolution in progress (Tom’s Guide)
• Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset Yet Is Just a Glimpse of the Future (WSJ)
• Apple’s Vision Pro is nearly here. But what can you do with it? (Washington Post)
• Apple Vision Pro Review: A Mind-Blowing Look at an Unfinished Future (CNET)

Monday, January 29 2024 - Mon. 01/29 – Is Arc Search The Future Of Search I Was Talking About?

• Amazon Drops $1.4 Billion iRobot Deal; Vacuum Maker Cuts Jobs (Bloomberg)
• Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different (The Verge)
• Arc’s new iPhone browser wants to be your search companion (TechCrunch)
• X Halts Taylor Swift Searches After Explicit AI Images Spread (WSJ)
• Chinese AR Glasses Maker Raises $60 Million to Compete With Apple (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Is Now Charging Prime Members Extra for Ad-Free Streaming. For Some, That’s a Deal Breaker. (WSJ)
• Games are helping the New York Times thrive amid media chaos (Axios)

Friday, January 26 2024 - Fri. 01/26 – CRACK! The App Store Opens Up. Or Does It?

• iOS 17.4 Introduces Alternative App Marketplaces With No Commission in EU (MacRumors)
• Apple will prompt users to set default browsers and allow third-party web engines on iPhone in the EU (9to5Mac)
• Apple opens App Store to game streaming services (The Verge)
• Apple’s EU Core Technology Fee Could Bankrupt Freemium App Developers (MacRumors)
• OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work (TechCrunch)
• DOJ and SEC investigate GM-owned self-driving car company Cruise (WashingtonPost)

Thursday, January 25 2024 - Thu. 01/25 – Will Nintendo Try To Shut Down Palworld?

• Inquiries Regarding Other Companies’ Games (The Pokemon Company)
• Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees (The Verge)
• Google’s latest AI video generator can render cute animals in implausible situations (ArsTechnica)
• Pixel facing new storage issue, likely tied to January Google Play system update (9to5Google)
• Microsoft Teams now supports 3D and VR meetings (The Verge)
• Microsoft Closes at Record, Ends Just Shy of $3 Trillion Value (Bloomberg)
• Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, January 24 2024 - Wed. 01/24 – Netflix’s Cheapest Ad-Free Plan Is Going Away

• Netflix is going to take away its cheapest ad-free plan (The Verge)
• The secret to Netflix’s total dominance (Business Insider)
• Spotify plans to launch in-app purchases, if Apple gets out of the way (The Verge)
• [Exclusive] Pixel 9 Pro 5K Renders and 360 Degree Video Provide First Look At Google’s Flagship Ahead of Launch (MySmartPrice)
• EBay to eliminate about 1,000 jobs, or 9% of full-time workforce (CNBC)
• Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028 (Bloomberg)
• Apple boosts plans to bring generative AI to iPhones (FT)
• Bilt Nabs $3.1 Billion Valuation, Ken Chenault Joins as Chairman (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, January 23 2024 - Tue. 01/23 – Netflix Buys Rights To Raw And WWE Shows

• Netflix Pays $5 Billion for ‘Raw’ in Bet on Live Events (Bloomberg)
• Fake Joe Biden robocall tells New Hampshire Democrats not to vote Tuesday (NBCNews)
• iOS 17.3 is out, adding Stolen Device Protection for your iPhone (The Verge)
• Temu’s Most Loyal Shoppers Are Actually Boomers and Gen Xers (Bloomberg)
• OPENAI STRUGGLING TO DESTROY ONSLAUGHT OF AI GIRLFRIENDS (The Byte)
• AI girlfriend bots are already flooding OpenAI’s GPT store (QZ)
• The Rise of Palworld: How ‘Pokémon With Guns’ Became an Overnight Hit (Wired)
• Palworld is a hit, and it’s easy to see why (The Verge)

Monday, January 22 2024 - Mon. 01/22 – How Many Vision Pros Did Apple Sell This Weekend?

• Vision Pro sales estimated at 160k to 180k over first three days (9to5Mac)
• Apple’s Testy Developer Relationships Threaten to Hamper Vision Pro (Bloomberg)
• Meta will let EU users unlink their Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger info ahead of DMA (The Verge)
• Voice cloning startup ElevenLabs lands $80M, achieves unicorn status (TechCrunch)
• Altman Seeks to Raise Billions for Network of AI Chip Factories (Bloomberg)
• Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use (VentureBeat)

Friday, January 19 2024 - Fri. 01/19 – Vision Pro Pre-Order Begin With New Questions

• YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix (Bloomberg)
• A Survey of Popular Apps Currently Compatible With Apple Vision Pro (MacStories)
• Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence (The Verge)
• EU Commission Intends to Block Amazon’s iRobot Acquisition (WSJ)
• Samsung says Galaxy AI features will only be free ‘until the end of 2025’ (9to5Google)
• The rabbit r1 will use Perplexity AI’s tech to answer your queries (TechCrunch)

Thursday, January 18 2024 - Thu. 01/18 – Google: The Layoffs Will Continue Until Strategy Improves

• Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year (The Verge)
• YouTube is restructuring creator management teams (TubeFilter)
• Exclusive: Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March (Reuters)
• Microsoft’s Bing Market Share Barely Budged With ChatGPT Add-On (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s Vision Pro Won’t Launch With Netflix App (Bloomberg)
• Startup Investors Have Fled The Metaverse (CrunchBaseNews)
• I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy (The Verge)

Wednesday, January 17 2024 - Wed. 01/17 – The Galaxy Unpacked Event. Galaxy AI Is Here.

• The Galaxy S24 Ultra is smarter, pricier, and just as big as ever (The Verge)
• Apple revises US App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods, but it will still charge a commission (9to5Mac)
• Apple allows devs to promote subscriptions on the web with a 27% cut (TechCrunch)
• Google updates Chrome Incognito disclaimer amid $5 billion lawsuit settlement (MSPowerUser)
• Google’s Defense Against OpenAI Talent Grab: Special Stock (The Information)
• Exclusive: Uber steps up efforts to get drivers into Teslas (Axios)

Tuesday, January 16 2024 - Tue. 01/16 – Apple Tops Global Smartphones Sales For The First Time Ever

• Instagram co-founders’ news aggregation startup Artifact to shut down (TechCrunch)
• Apple Grabs the Top Spot in the Smartphone Market in 2023 (IDC)
• Bringing the full power of Copilot to more people and businesses (Microsoft)
• Apple readies Apple Watch Series 9 ban workaround by disabling blood oxygen functionality [U] (9to5Mac)
• Apple Vision Pro’s Lengthy Sales Pitch Will Include 25-Minute Demo (Bloomberg)
• The NFL and Taylor Swift surprisingly aren’t enough to crash Peacock (The Verge)
• ‘Peacock Game’: The NFL’s Digital Buttfumble (WSJ)

Friday, January 12 2024 - Fri. 01/12 – Perplexity, The AI Challenger To Google Search

• US bitcoin ETFs see $4.6 billion in volume in first day of trading (Reuters)
• Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees (The Verge)
• U.S. Criminally Charges EBay in Cyberstalking Case (NYTimes)
• This One-Year-Old Startup Is Hoping to be the Next Google—Can It Succeed? (The Information)

Thursday, January 11 2024 - Thu. 01/11 – Bitcoin ETFs, For Real This Time

• US SEC approves bitcoin ETFs in watershed for crypto market (Reuters)
• Gary Gensler’s Begrudging Bitcoin ETF Concession: ‘We Did Not Approve or Endorse Bitcoin’ (CoinDesk)
• Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant (Semafor)
• Google reorganizing Pixel hardware: Fitbit’s James Park leaving, layoffs hit AR team (9to5Google)
• Google Cuts Hundreds of Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions (NYTimes)
• OpenAI Launches New Store For Users to Share Custom Chatbots (Bloomberg)
• Netflix’s Ad Tier Now Has More Than 23 Million Monthly Active Users, Advertising Chief Says (Variety)
• X removes support for NFT profile pictures (TechCrunch)
• AI-Generated ‘George Carlin’ Comedy Special Blasted by Comedian’s Daughter (RollingStone)

Wednesday, January 10 2024 - Wed. 01/10 – The X Post That Sent Crypto Reeling

• SEC Has Not Approved Bitcoin ETFs, but Its Hacked X Account Briefly Said Otherwise (CoinDesk)
• Amazon’s Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff (Bloomberg)
• Humane lays off 4 percent of employees before releasing its AI Pin (The Verge)
• Rabbit’s Little Walkie-Talkie Learns Tasks That Stump Siri and Alexa (Wired)
• SAG-AFTRA Signs Deal With Voiceover Studio for AI Use in Video Games (Variety)
• Quora raised $75M from a16z to grow Poe, its AI chat bot platform (Quora)
• DeepMind spin-off aims to halve drug discovery times following Big Pharma deals (Financial Times)

Tuesday, January 09 2024 - Tue. 01/09 – Do We Need ChatGPT In Our Cars?

• OpenAI and journalism (OpenAI Blog)
• Amazon Debuts Video-Streaming Feature That Rivals Apple AirPlay (Bloomberg)
• Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for ‘enriching conversations’ (The Verge)
• Sony teased a ‘spatial’ VR headset with a smart control ring (The Verge)
• Instagram and Facebook Will Stop Treating Teens Like Adults (WSJ)
• Apple Vision Pro demos in retail stores will begin on February 2 (9to5Mac)
• Apple asks developers not to refer to their visionOS apps as ‘AR’ or ‘VR’ (9to5Mac)
• Luma raises $43M to build AI that crafts 3D models (TechCrunch)
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise Near Deal to Buy Juniper Networks (WSJ)

Monday, January 08 2024 - Mon. 01/08 – Vision Pro Announce Steals CES Spotlight

• The Apple Vision Pro will launch in February (The Verge)
• Apple’s Biggest Challenges in 2024 Have Little to Do With the iPhone (Bloomberg)
• Wi-Fi’s next big upgrade is officially here (The Verge)
• Xreal’s new AR glasses are aimed at the Apple Vision Pro (The Verge)
• Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX (WSJ)
• Netflix Cuts Over 100 Shows In Major Programming Shift (Bloomberg)

Friday, January 05 2024 - Fri. 01/05 – Bringing Back The Hardware Keyboard For Smartphones?

• Tesla Recalls 1.6 Million Cars in China Due to Autopilot Crash Risk (Bloomberg)
• Adobe: Online Holiday Sales Reached Record $222 Billion in 2023 (PMNTS)
• Amazon Captured 29% of Online Orders Before Christmas (Bloomberg)
• Netflix Considers Ways to Make Money From Videogames in Possible Pivot (WSJ)
• OpenAI Offers Publishers as Little as $1 Million a Year (The Information)
• Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators (The Verge)

Thursday, January 04 2024 - Thu. 01/04 – A New Keyboard Button Just For AI

• Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years (The Verge)
• SpaceX Launches First Cell Service Satellites With T-Mobile (Bloomberg)
• LastPass now requires 12-character master passwords for better security (BleepingComputer)
• 23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was breached (TechCrunch)
• Roku Launches First High-End TVs in Search of Revenue Growth (Bloomberg)
• Dell’s XPS laptop lineup is about to look very different (The Verge)
• Silicon Valley Startups Had Their Worst Funding Year Since 2019 (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, January 03 2024 - Wed. 01/03 – Why Is Facebook Rolling Out Link History?

• Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit (Gizmodo)
• Fidelity sets Bitcoin ETF fee at 0.39% ahead of expected SEC approvals (Fortune)
• Samsung Galaxy S24 Unpacked Event Set for Jan. 17 (PCMag)
• Can Midjourney’s CEO Stop a Storm of Fake Election Images? (Bloomberg)
• How AI-created fakes are taking business from online influencers (Financial Times)

Tuesday, January 02 2024 - Tue. 02/01 – The Premium Smartphone Market, And The Premium-Premium

• Telegram rolls out revamped voice and video calls, new delete animation on Android (9to5Google)
• Bitcoin climbs above $45,000 to 21-month peak as new year kicks off (Reuters)
• Global Premium Smartphone Market Continues to See Record Sales in 2023 (Counterpoint)
• Smartphone makers bet on foldables to revive lacklustre market (Financial Times)
• Nikon, Sony and Canon fight AI fakes with new camera tech (Nikkei Asia)
• Microsoft’s Copilot app is now available on iOS (The Verge)
• The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again (Rolling Stone)

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