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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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