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Monday, December 30 2024 - Mon. 12/30 – Welcome To A USB-C Life

• AT&T, Verizon Say Networks Now Clear After Salt Typhoon Hack (Bloomberg)
• Trump Asks Supreme Court to Pause Law Threatening TikTok Ban (Bloomberg)
• Biden administration proposes new cybersecurity rules to limit impact of healthcare data leaks (Reuters)
• Banks Want In on Tether’s Billions in Stablecoin Profits (Bloomberg)
• ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ set to break records despite gaming slowdown (FT)
• The USB-C charging mandate arrives in the EU — here’s what that means (The Verge)

Friday, December 27 2024 - Fri. 12/27 – A New “Definition” Of AGI

• Microsoft and OpenAI Wrangle Over Terms of Their Blockbuster Partnership (The Information)
• Microsoft and OpenAI’s Secret AGI Definition (The Information)
• DeepSeek-V3, ultra-large open-source AI, outperforms Llama and Qwen on launch (VentureBeat)

Monday, December 23 2024 - Mon. 12/23 – The Revenge Of Google Glass?

• Apple Explores a Face ID Doorbell and Lock Device in Smart Home Push (Bloomberg)
• Meta to add display to Ray-Bans as race over smart glasses intensifies (FT)
• Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts (FT)
• Tether Sees $10 Billion in Net Profits for 2024 (Bloomberg)
• Britannica Didn’t Just Survive. It’s an A.I. Company Now. (NYTimes)

Friday, December 20 2024 - Fri. 12/20 – Gemini Flash Thinking

• Google reveals AI ‘reasoning’ model that ‘explicitly shows its thoughts’ (The Verge)
• FAA Bans Drone Flights in Parts of New Jersey (Bloomberg)
• Instagram teases AI editing tools that will completely reimagine your videos (The Verge)
• Waymo still doing better than humans at preventing injuries and property damage (The Verge)
• New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality (Ars Technica)

Thursday, December 19 2024 - Thu. 12/19 – 1800CHATGPT

• Apple hits out at Meta’s numerous interoperability requests (Reuters)
• OpenAI makes ChatGPT available for phone calls and texts (CNBC)
• Apple Halts Effort to Build iPhone Hardware Subscription Service (Bloomberg)
• Smart ring start-up Ōura raises $200mn as valuation leaps to $5.2bn (FT)
• Oura closes $200M round, bringing its valuation to $5.2B (TechCrunch)
• 3 Changes That Would Make Samsung’s Galaxy Ring So Much Better (CNET)
• PS5 Pro deep dive reaction: GPU and RT improvements, PSSR and Sony’s new AMD Amethyst partnership (EuroGamer)
• Inside India’s ‘Silicon Valley’ (BusinessInsider)

Wednesday, December 18 2024 - Wed. 12/18 – Is Your Home Internet Router About To Be Banned?

• U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes (WSJ)
• Nvidia’s new $249 AI development board promises 67 TOPS at half the price of the previous 40 TOPS model (TomsHardware)
• Nvidia’s $249 dev kit promises cheap, small AI power (The Verge)
• Microsoft acquires twice as many Nvidia AI chips as tech rivals (FT)
• Grubhub to pay $25 million for misleading customers, restaurants, drivers (Reuters)
• ‘Red One’ Becomes Most-Watched Prime Video Film Debut Ever With 50 Million Viewers After Modest Theatrical Run (Variety)
• Here’s a Hollywood Twist: Streaming Success Runs Through Theaters (NYTimes)
• Instagram Expected to Generate 50% of Meta’s US Ad Sales in 2025 (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, December 17 2024 - Tue. 12/17 – TikTok CEO Dines With Trump

• Trump meets with TikTok CEO as video app challenges potential ban (NBCNews)
• TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Block Law Banning Its U.S. Operations (NYTimes)
• Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora (TechCrunch)
• FTC issues rules requiring hotels, ticket sellers to reveal ‘junk fees’ (WashingtonPost)
• Waymo to begin testing in Tokyo, its first international destination (CNBC)
• His Startup Is Now Worth $62 Billion. It Gave Away Its First Product Free. (WSJ)
• Google’s Whisk AI generator will ‘remix’ the pictures you plug in (The Verge)

Monday, December 16 2024 - Mon. 12/16 – The Coming Battle Of Elon v. Sam

• Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI From Becoming For-Profit (WSJ)
• OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk’s lawsuit in court filing (Axios)
• Sam Altman reckons with a growing threat to OpenAI: Elon Musk (FT)
• Apple’s New Vision for Computing Is a Giant Foldable iPad (Bloomberg)
• Europe signs €10.6bn Iris² satellite deal in bid to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink (FT)
• Chip groups Arm and Qualcomm square off in high-stakes US trial (FT)

Friday, December 13 2024 - Fri. 12/13 – Gemini As The New Android/OS?

• I saw Google’s plan to put Android on your face (The Verge)
• Google’s NotebookLM AI podcast hosts can now talk to you, too (The Verge)
• Google says its breakthrough quantum chip can’t break modern cryptography (The Verge)
• Liquid Set to Raise $250 Million to Build AI Inspired by Tiny Worm Brains (Bloomberg)

Thursday, December 12 2024 - Thu. 12/12 – The “Killer App” For Vision Pro?

• The end of Cruise is the beginning of a risky new phase for autonomous vehicles (The Verge)
• Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming model (Simon Willison’s Blog)
• FCC Opens Entire 6-GHz Band to Very-Low-Power Device Operations (TV Tech)
• The Vision Pro’s ultrawide Mac display is very close to being a killer app (The Verge)
• China’s Instagram-Style Xiaohongshu Crosses $1 Billion in Profit (Bloomberg)
• Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft (Wired)
• US chipmaking boom in doubt after Biden’s defeat (FT)

Wednesday, December 11 2024 - Wed. 12/11 – Gemini 2.0

• GM to refocus autonomous driving development on personal vehicles (GM Investor Relations)
• GM Calls It Quits on Mary Barra’s $50 Billion Robotaxi Dream (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s Next Ultra Smartwatch Will Be Able to Send Texts Via Satellite (Bloomberg)
• Google Rolls Out Faster Gemini AI Model to Power Agents (Bloomberg)
• Google’s new Trillium AI chip delivers 4x speed and powers Gemini 2.0 (VentureBeat)
• Gemini 2.0, Google’s newest flagship AI, can generate text, images, and speech (TechCrunch)
• Google unveils AI coding assistant ‘Jules,’ promising autonomous bug fixes and faster development cycles (VentureBeat)
• Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, December 10 2024 - Tue. 12/10 – Amazon Autos

• You Can Buy a Car on Amazon Now (Wired)
• US finalizes $6.1 bln Micron chip-making subsidy (Reuters)
• Memory chip maker Micron’s $6.1 billion grant confirmed by Commerce Dept. (Washington Post)
• OpenAI-Backed Language Tutor Startup Doubles Value to $1 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Solos challenges Meta’s Ray-Bans with $299 ChatGPT smart glasses (The Verge)
• Microsoft Unveils Zero-Water Data Centers to Reduce AI Climate Impac (Bloomberg)
• Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup (TechCrunch)
• I just went hands-on with Sora — the good, the bad, and the wow (Tom’s Guide)

Monday, December 09 2024 - Mon. 12/09 – OpenAI Releases Sora

• Sora is here (OpenAI)
• OpenAI’s controversial Sora is finally launching today. Will it truly disrupt Hollywood? (LA Times)
• OpenAI releases Sora, its buzzy AI video-generation tool (CNBC)
• Appeals Court Upholds U.S. Ban of TikTok (WSJ)
• Nvidia Hit With China Probe in Global Tech War Escalation (Bloomberg)
• Apple, Sony Discuss Teaming Up on Gaming Controllers for Vision Pro (Blooomberg)
• Quantum Computing Inches Closer to Reality After Another Google Breakthrough (NYTimes)
• Google Debuts New Quantum Chip, Error Correction Breakthrough, and Roadmap Details (HPCWire)

Friday, December 06 2024

• OpenAI is charging $200 a month for an exclusive version of its o1 ‘reasoning’ model (The Verge)
• Trump Names David Sacks as White House AI and Crypto Czar (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching ‘AGI’ clause with Microsoft (FT)
• The Surface Studio is dead? — Microsoft ends production on $4,500 Surface Studio 2+ as stock dwindles (Windows Central)
• Hawk Tuah memecoin dumps 90% amid backlash over controversial launch (Cointelegraph)
• What Pat Gelsinger’s exit means for Intel and the US Chips Act (FT)

Thursday, December 05 2024 - Thu. 12/05 – Bitcoin $100k!

• Crypto Trading Volume Surged to $10 Trillion for the First Time in November (Bloomberg)
• Trump Picks Paul Atkins to Run the S.E.C. (NYTimes)
• Trump Taps Vance Aide Gail Slater as Top DOJ Antitrust Cop (Bloomberg)
• Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models (TechCrunch)
• First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs (via a new llm-bedrock plugin) (Simon Willison’s Blog)
• DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games (TechCrunch)
• Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts (NYTimes)
• Key leaders behind Google’s viral NotebookLM are leaving to create their own startup (TechCrunch)
• Waymo to expand to Miami, aims to launch robotaxi service there in 2026 (CNBC)

Wednesday, December 04 2024 - Wed. 12/04 – Spotify Wrapped 2024 Has NotebookLM Baked In

• U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack (NBCNews)
• Ubisoft shutting down XDefiant in 2025, laying off half of its team (Polygon)
• Spotify Wrapped 2024 adds an AI podcast powered by Google’s NotebookLM (TechCrunch)
• Smart Home Market Becomes Apple’s Next Strategic Target; New HomePod with Display Set to Be Key Product in Apple’s Smart Home Strategy (Ming)
• Google’s new generative AI video model is now available (The Verge)
• AWS announces Aurora DSQL, a new distributed SQL database that promises virtually unlimited scalability (TechCrunch)
• Kindle Scribe 2 review in progress: Is slightly useful AI worth the extra cash? (Engadget)

Tuesday, December 03 2024 - Tue. 12/03 – Where Does Intel Go From Here?

• Exclusive: Intel’s CEO-shortlist candidates include former board member Lip-Bu Tan, sources say (Reuters)
• Intel CEO Forced Out by Board Frustrated With Slow Progress (Bloomberg)
• China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions (FT)
• Why does the name ‘David Mayer’ crash ChatGPT? Digital privacy requests may be at fault (TechCrunch)
• The race is on to make AI agents do your online shopping for you (TechCrunch)

Monday, December 02 2024 - Mon. 12/02 – Gelsinger Out At Intel!

• Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires (TechCrunch)
• AWS opens physical outlets that let customers upload their data (TechCrunch)
• Ripple-Linked XRP Soars to Third-Largest Token After Trump Win (Bloomberg)
• Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit (TechCrunch)
• Musk’s Rivals Fear He Will Target Them With His New Power (WSJ)
• Bezos Backs AI Chipmaker Vying With Nvidia at $2.6 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
• Open-source OpenWrt One router released at $89 — ‘hacker-friendly device’ sports two Ethernet ports, three USB ports, with dual-band Wi-Fi 6 (Tom’s Hardware)

Wednesday, November 27 2024 - Wed. 11/27 – OpenAI Suspends Sora

• OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI hits pause on video model Sora after artists leak access in protest (Washington Post)
• Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for ‘Machine Learning Research’ (404Media)
• Inside Elon Musk’s Quest to Beat OpenAI at Its Own Game (WSJ)
• Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated (Wired)

Tuesday, November 26 2024 - Tue. 11/26 – Apple Going Too Thin Again?

• Intel Gets Up to $7.9 Billion Award for U.S. Chip-Plant Construction (WSJ)
• Threads is testing the option to choose your own default feed (The Verge)
• Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Links — Effectively Limiting People From Reading News (Mediaite)
• Starbucks, Other Retailers Hit by Ransomware Attack on Tech Provider (WSJ)
• China’s Huawei Takes Aim at Apple With Latest Smartphone (NYTimes)
• Apple’s Thin iPhone Has No Physical SIMs—That Could Dampen China Sales (The Information)
• Drake Accuses UMG & Spotify of Scheme to ‘Artificially Inflate’ Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ (Billboard)

Monday, November 25 2024 - Mon. 11/25 – Return Of The Vita?

• Sony Working on Handheld Console for PS5 Games to Rival Switch (Bloomberg)
• Bluesky breaching rules around disclosure of information, says EU (FT)
• Nvidia shows AI model that can modify voices, generate novel sounds (Reuters)
• NVIDIA’s new AI model Fugatto can create audio from text prompts (Engadget)
• Washington Curtails Intel’s Chip Grant After Company Stumbles (NYTimes)
• Klarna’s Planned IPO Sets the Stage for More Fintech Listings (Bloomberg)
• Exclusive: CoreWeave targets valuation of over $35 billion in 2025 US IPO, sources say (Reuters)
• AI’s Future and Nvidia’s Fortunes Ride on the Race to Pack More Chips Into One Place (WSJ)

Friday, November 22 2024 - Fri. 11/22 – An LLM Siri But… Only The Year AFTER Next?

• Apple Readies More Conversational Siri in Bid to Catch Up in AI (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI Considers Taking on Google With Browser (The Information)
• Threads’ algorithm will focus more on the people you follow (The Verge)
• As Bluesky soars, Threads rolls out custom feeds globally (TechCrunch)
• Casio’s first smart ring has innovative features like a stopwatch and flashing alarm (The Verge)

Thursday, November 21 2024 - Thu. 11/21 – What The DOJ Wants Google To Do

• US regulators seek to break up Google, forcing Chrome sale as part of monopoly punishment (Associated Press)
• Google could be forced to sell Chrome – here’s what it would mean for users (iNews)
• Apple Pay, Other Tech Firms Come Under CFPB Regulatory Oversight (Bloomberg)
• Nvidia’s CEO defends his moat as AI labs change how they improve their AI models (TechCrunch)
• AI Power For Quantum Errors: Google Develops AlphaQubit to Identify, Correct Quantum Errors (Quantum Insider)
• Elon Musk’s xAI Startup Is Valued at $50 Billion in New Funding Round (WSJ)
• H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, November 20 2024 - Wed. 11/20 – AI To Read The Books

• Microsoft Signs AI-Learning Deal With News Corp.’s HarperCollins (Bloomberg)
• Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff (The Bookseller)
• The first Android 16 developer preview just landed: Here’s what you need to know (Android Police)
• Sony’s new PlayStation Portal update lets you stream PS5 games from the cloud (The Verge)
• Howard Lutnick, Tether’s Wall Street Banker, Is Trump’s Pick for Commerce Chief, Not Treasury Secretary (CoinDesk)
• Bluesky tops 20M users, narrowing gap with Instagram Threads (TechCrunch)
• Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany (Wired)

Tuesday, November 19 2024 - Tue. 11/19 – Microsoft Ignite

• Google’s Chrome to Fetch Up to $20 Billion If Judge Orders Sale (Bloomberg)
• Source: Google is turning Chrome OS into Android to compete with the iPad (AndroidAuthority)
• Exclusive: Sony is in talks to buy media powerhouse behind ‘Elden Ring’ (Reuters)
• Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted, sparking warnings of possible ‘hybrid warfare’ (CNN)
• Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud (The Verge)
• Windows comes to the Meta Quest (TechCrunch)
• Want to speak Italian? Microsoft AI can make it sound like you do. (Washington Post)
• Biden Team Races to Deliver Chip Grants Before Trump Takes Over (WSJ)

Monday, November 18 2024 - Mon. 11/18 – More Smartglasses On The Horizon

• Trump Designates FCC Veteran Brendan Carr as Chair of Agency (Bloomberg)
• Report: Samsung XR glasses have Ray-Ban Meta specs with more features, seemingly no display (9to5Google)
• Netflix’s Tyson-Paul Boxing Bout Gets 65 Million Viewers at Peak (Bloomberg)
• Why Everyone Is Now Watching Podcasts on YouTube (WSJ)
• Nvidia Customers Worry About Snag With New AI Chip Servers (The Information)
• Wall Street’s Elites Are Piling Into a Massive AI Gamble (Bloomberg)

Friday, November 15 2024 - Fri. 11/15 – Crypto Ascendant

• SEC, Gary Gensler Sued by 18 States Over Biden’s Crypto Crackdown (Decrypt)
• US regulators plan to investigate Microsoft’s cloud business (FT)
• ChatGPT App for Windows Now Available to Everyone (PCMag)
• NASA’s AI Earth Copilot will take your questions about our planet (The Verge)

Thursday, November 14 2024 - Thu. 11/14 – The FBI (!) Investigating Polymarket

• Meta fined nearly €800mn for breaking EU law over classified ads practices (FT)
• Polymarket Investigated by DOJ for Allegedly Letting US Users Bet on Platform (Bloomberg)
• CFPB looks to place Google under federal supervision, setting up clash (WashingtonPost)
• OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users (Bloomberg)
• Live Scam Detection in calls rolling out to Pixel 6-9 Phone app (9to5Google)
• Apple Releases Updates to Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for the Mac and iPad (MacStories)
• Meta to Launch Ads on Threads in Early 2025 (The Information)
• Words With Friends takes on Wordle with new single-player daily puzzles (The Verge)

Wednesday, November 13 2024 - Wed. 11/13 – Amazon Haul

• Donald Trump’s potential antitrust enforcers may keep Big Tech in their sights (FT)
• Amazon debuts discount store with everything under $20 to take on Temu and Shein (CNBC)
• With Surge in New Users, Bluesky Emerges as X Alternative (NYTimes)
• Apple’s Next Device Is an AI Wall Tablet for Home Control, Siri and Video Calls (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, November 12 2024 - Tue. 11/12 – Apple Into The Smarthome

• Kuo: Apple to release its own smart home camera in 2026, with AI features (9to5Mac)
• In Europe, Instagram Ads Are About to Get Less Personal (WSJ)
• Apple Gets EU Warning to Stop Geo-Blocking on App, ITunes Stores (Bloomberg)
• Nvidia’s new app replacement for GeForce Experience is now out of beta (The Verge)
• Signal calls now work a lot more like Meet and Zoom (The Verge)
• Netflix Says Ad Tier Reaches 70 Million Users Globally (Variety)
• OpenAI and others seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations (Reuters)

Monday, November 11 2024 - Mon. 11/11 – FTX Sues Everybody

• FTX Sues Binance, Ex-CEO Zhao Seeking $1.8 Billion Clawback (Bloomberg)
• FTX Sues Scaramucci to Recoup Money for Creditors (Bloomberg)
• Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which is Locking Out Cops (404Media)
• OpenAI Shifts Strategy as Rate of ‘GPT’ AI Improvements Slows (The Information)
• How ChatGPT Brought Down an Online Education Giant (WSJ)
• Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million (NYTimes)

Friday, November 08 2024 - Fri. 11/08 – Share To TikTok

• Block reports revenue miss but a slight beat on earnings (CNBC)
• Jack Dorsey’s Square to Invest More in Bitcoin Mining and Shut Decentralized ‘Web5’ Venture (CoinDesk)
• TikTok’s latest feature lets music fans ‘Share to TikTok’ from Spotify and Apple Music (TechCrunch)
• Amazon Discussing New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in Anthropic (The Information)
• Baidu Readies AI Smart Glasses to Rival Meta’s Ray-Bans (Bloomberg)

Thursday, November 07 2024 - Thu. 11/07 – More Election Stuff

• Elon Musk Helped Elect Trump. What Does He Expect in Return? (NYTimes)
• Canada orders shutdown of TikTok’s Canadian business, app access to continue (Reuters)
• Labor backs 16 as the minimum age to use social media ahead of national cabinet meeting (ABCNews)
• French Regulator Examines Polymarket After Bets on Trump (Bloomberg)
• Apple Mac mini review (M4 Pro, 2024): Shockingly small, incredibly powerful (Engadget)
• Apple MacBook Pro M4 review: the Pro for everyone (The Verge)
• Apple MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch review (2024): Brace yourself for M4 speed (Engadget)
• Apple iMac M4 review: More power, same great looks (Tom’s Guide)

Wednesday, November 06 2024 - Wed. 11/06 – The Tech Angle To Election Day

• Polymarket, Prediction Betting Markets Vindicated by Trump’s Strong Showing (Coindesk)
• Apple to Face First EU Fine Under Bloc’s Digital Markets Act (Bloomberg)
• Corning Faces EU Probe Into Smartphone ‘Gorilla Glass’ (Bloomberg)
• How Lina Khan Became an Election Hot Topic (NYTimes)
• Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division (TechCrunch)
• AI Startup Perplexity to Triple Valuation to $9 Billion in New Funding Round (WSJ)
• Battles of Precise Mass (Foreign Affairs)

Tuesday, November 05 2024 - Tue 11/05 – Apple: Maybe Smartglasses Are The Way To Go

• Canada Arrests Man Suspected of Hacks of Snowflake Customers (Bloomberg)
• Apple Explores Push Into Smart Glasses With ‘Atlas’ User Study (Bloomberg)
• Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI in Regulator Talks to Become For-Profit Company (Bloomberg)
• Anthropic hikes the price of its Haiku model (TechCrunch)
• Uber’s Real Threat Isn’t From Robots (WSJ)
• ChatGPT Search is not OpenAI’s ‘Google killer’ yet (TechCrunch)

Monday, November 04 2024 - Mon. 11/04 – Apple Buying And Investing In Things

• Apple expands iPhone satellite services deal, commits $1.1bn to expand capacity (9to5Mac)
• Apple is acquiring the popular image editing app Pixelmator (The Verge)
• Apple Finally Finds Its Gaming Console With the New Mac Mini (Bloomberg)
• Apple Vision Pro rumored to get M5 in 2025, but lower cost model is delayed (Apple Insider)
• X updates block feature, letting blocked users see your public posts (TechCrunch)
• Google’s cloud outpaces rivals in third quarter as AI battle heats up (CNBC)
• Early Apple M4 Pro and M4 Max benchmarks hint at a massive performance boost (Neowin)
• Wall Street frenzy creates $11bn debt market for AI groups buying Nvidia chips (FT)

Friday, November 01 2024 - Fri. 11/01 – ChatGPT Search

• OpenAI Brings Search Features to ChatGPT in Challenge to Google (Bloomberg)
• China Ruins Apple’s Quarter (24)
• Amazon Surges Past Earnings Forecasts (The Motley Fool)
• Google confirms Android 16 is coming earlier than usual, developer preview begins soon (Android Authority)

Thursday, October 31 2024 - Thu. 10/31 – Spooky… I Mean, Earnings Season

• Meta AI has more than 500 million users (Engadget)
• Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else (Wired)
• Microsoft says AI is on pace to be a $10 billion-a-year business (Axios)
• Uber shares slide on slowing bookings growth (FT)
• Chinese sanctions hit US drone maker supplying Ukraine (FT)
• Nintendo made a music streaming app for Switch Online subscribers (The Verge)
• Starlink Mini review: space internet goes ultraportable (The Verge)

Wednesday, October 30 2024 - Wed. 10/30 – M4 MacBook Pros

• Apple updates the MacBook Pro with M4 Pro and M4 Max chips (The Verge)
• Every MacBook Air now starts with 16GB of RAM at no extra cost (Engadget)
• GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI (The Verge)
• PlayStation Shutters Studio Behind ‘Concord’ Video-Game Flop (Bloomberg)
• More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI (The Verge)
• Reddit shares soar 22% on earnings beat and better-than-expected forecast (CNBC)
• Samsung’s Sudden $122 Billion Wipeout Shows the Cost of Sleeping on AI (Bloomberg)
• Russian Hackers Are Targeting US Officials, Microsoft Says (Bloomberg)
• Kindle Colorsoft review: The missing link in Amazon’s ereader lineup (Engadget)

Tuesday, October 29 2024 - Tue. 10/29 – A Whole Bunch Of New Macs

• Apple Announces iMac With M4 Chip, Upgraded Camera, Nano-Texture Display Option, and More (MacRumors)
• New Mac mini shrinks down, gains M4 and M4 Pro chips (SixColors)
• Apple Intelligence goes live with iOS 18.1 update (TechCrunch)
• Apple Taps India to Learn How to Build New iPhone (The Information)
• Microsoft says Google is running ‘shadow campaigns’ in Europe to influence regulators (CNBC)
• Sequoia to Rake in More Than $100 Million From Crypto Acquisition (Bloomberg)

Monday, October 28 2024 - Mon. 10/28 – Betting On The Election

• Robinhood jumps into election trading, giving users chance to buy Harris or Trump contracts (CNBC)
• Billions in election bets raise the stakes of the presidential race (Washington Post)
• Apple Blocked From Selling iPhone 16 Models in Indonesia (Bloomberg)
• The fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops (TechCrunch)
• We finally have an ‘official’ definition for open source AI (TechCrunch)
• Even With Venture Slowdown, Megadeals Grow (CrunchBase)
• Netflix Adds ‘Moments’ Feature Allowing Users to Easily Share Favorite Scenes (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
• Meta Releases NotebookLlama, An Open-Source Podcast Generator (Techopedia)

Friday, October 25 2024 - Fri. 10/25 – GPT-5 Coming By December?

• OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by December (The Verge)
• UnitedHealth says data of 100 million stolen in Change Healthcare breach (BleepingComputer)
• TSMC’s Arizona Chip Production Yields Surpass Taiwan’s in Win for US Push (Bloomberg)
• Bluesky raises $15M Series A, plans to launch subscriptions (TechCrunch)

Thursday, October 24 2024 - Thu. 10/24 – Surge Pricing In The Grocery Store?

• Raspberry Pi releases more AI-focused add-ons (TechCrunch)
• Raspberry Pi release higher performance AI HAT+ — 13 and 26 TOPS variants (TomsHardware)
• iPhone 16 orders cut by around 10 million units for 4Q24–1H25; no evidence yet that Apple Intelligence could boost iPhone shipments in the near term (Ming)
• Microsoft Warns Foreign Disinformation Is Hitting the US Election From All Directions (Wired)
• Roblox to Enact Child-Safety Changes Giving Parents More Control (Bloomberg)
• What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics? (The Economist)
• Kroger and Walmart Deny ‘Surge Pricing’ After Adopting Digital Price Tags (NYTimes)

Wednesday, October 23 2024 - Wed. 10/23 – Strong ARM Tactics

• Arm to Scrap Qualcomm Chip Design License in Feud Escalation (Bloomberg)
• Anthropic’s new AI can use computers like a human, redefining automation for enterprises (VentureBeat)
• Apple Sharply Scales Back Production of Vision Pro (The Information)
• Runway’s Act-One uses smartphone cameras to replicate facial expression motion capture (Silicon Angle)
• ‘This is a game changer’: Runway releases new AI facial expression motion capture feature Act-One (VentureBeat)
• Farewell to Foursquare’s app (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, October 22 2024 - Tue. 10/22 – The Next Gen Snapdragon

• Snapdragon 8 Elite deep dive: A return to custom CPUs and much more (Android Authority)
• Scoop: Netflix shuts down ‘AAA’ Team Blue gaming studio, amid gaming shake-up (Game File)
• Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio (Engadget)
• Hulu and Disney+ No Longer Support Signups and Payment Using App Store (MacRumors)
• Epic’s ambitious digital asset shop is now open (The Verge)
• Biden administration proposes new rules governing data transfers to adversarial nations (The Record)
• How AI groups are infusing their chatbots with personality (FT)

Monday, October 21 2024 - Mon. 10/21 – Google Get’s A Stay

• Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors — for now (The Verge)
• Microsoft unveils new autonomous AI agents in advance of competing Salesforce rollout (GeekWire)
• AI Startup Perplexity in Funding Talks to More Than Double Valuation to $8 Billion (WSJ)
• IBM debuts open source Granite 3.0 LLMs for enterprise AI (VentureBeat)
• Apple’s New iPad Mini Highlights the Company’s Secret AI Advantage (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound (The Verge)

Thursday, October 17 2024 - Thu. 10/17 – Sigh Of Relief From Chip Stocks

• Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors (CNBC)
• TSMC Hikes Revenue Outlook in Show of Confidence in AI Boom (Bloomberg)
• The FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership (The Verge)
• Uber explored takeover bid for Expedia (FT)
• Meta is laying off employees at WhatsApp, Instagram, and more (The Verge)
• Meta fires staff for abusing $25 meal credits (FT)
• Analogue’s 4K Nintendo 64 launches next year for $249 (The Verge)

Wednesday, October 16 2024 - Wed. 10/16 – Color Kindles

• Amazon’s new seven-inch Kindle Paperwhite is bigger and faster than ever (The Verge)
• Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe takes another step toward pen and paper (The Verge)
• Amazon finally has a color Kindle, and it looks pretty good (The Verge)
• Global Chip Stocks Erase $420 Billion After ASML Sales Warning (Bloomberg)
• YouTube takes a baby step toward labeling authentic video (The Verge)
• Android 15 is now available for Pixels (The Verge)
• Sonos announces ‘breakthrough’ Arc Ultra soundbar and Sub 4 (The Verge)

Tuesday, October 15 2024 - Tue. 10/15 – Tech Going Nuclear

• Google Backs New Nuclear Plants to Power AI (WSJ)
• DHH’s Original Post
• Matt Mullenweg’s Original Response
• Matt’s 2nd Response
• Apple Unveils New iPad Mini With A17 Pro Chip and Apple Intelligence (MacRumors)
• US Weighs Capping Exports of AI Chips From Nvidia and AMD to Some Countries (Bloomberg)
• Crypto Company Tether Talking to Commodity Traders About Lending Them Its Billions (Bloomberg)
• The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over (Wired)

Monday, October 14 2024 - Mon. 10/14 – Adobe Unleashes Firefly

• Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro (The Verge)
• Apple Has a New Smart Home Strategy: Screens Everywhere (Bloomberg)
• The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks (The Verge)
• In latest move against WP Engine, WordPress takes control of ACF plugin (TechCrunch)
• Venture capital deal activity is slowing down (Axios)
• Meta Quest 3S review: Impressive VR for $300 (Engadget)

Friday, October 11 2024 - Cybercab

• Tesla reveals 20 Cybercabs at We, Robot event, says you’ll be able to buy one for less than $30,000 (TechCrunch)
• Tesla’s Cybercab Is Here (Wired)
• Tesla Robovan has something the Cybertruck definitely does not (T3)
• AMD launches AI chip to rival Nvidia’s Blackwell (CNBC)
• Xbox will sell games directly in the Android app next month (The Verge)
• OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Left Some Developers in the Lurch (Wired)

Thursday, October 10 2024 - Thu. 10/10 – OpenAI Won’t Be Profitable Until When?

• Amazon Adds Apple TV+ to Its Channels Store for Streaming (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI says bad actors are using its platform to disrupt elections, but with little ‘viral engagement’ (CNBC)
• OpenAI Projections Imply Losses Tripling to $14 Billion in 2026 (The Information)
• Apple’s Dan Riccio, Key Executive in Both the Jobs and Cook Eras, to Retire (Bloomberg)
• Competition and the clock: how Google plans to deflect and delay a historic break-up threat (FT)
• Garmin Fenix 8 review: only kind of smart (The Verge)

Wednesday, October 09 2024 - Wed. 10/09 – Big Podcast Announcement

• US Weighs Google Breakup in Historic Big Tech Antitrust Case (Bloomberg)
• Unmasking Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto—Again (Wired)
• Google DeepMind Scientists Share Nobel for AI Protein Work (Bloomberg)
• X Cleared to Return in Brazil After Musk Bows to Judge’s Demands (Bloomberg)
• Substack wants to do more than just newsletters (Semafor)

Tuesday, October 08 2024 - Tue. 10/08 – Epic’s Win V. Google

• Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge (The Verge)
• Apple Potentially Facing Worst Leak Since iPhone 4 Was Left in a Bar (MacRumors)
• ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton Among Nobel Prize Winners (Bloomberg)
• Samsung Electronics apologises for disappointing profit as it struggles in AI chips (Reuters)
• The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite (TechCrunch)

Monday, October 07 2024 - Mon. 10/07 – Apple Intelligence Gets A Date

• Apple Slowly Moves Away From Its Annual Product Release Strategy (Bloomberg)
• Meta Unveils AI Video Generator, Taking On OpenAI and Google (Bloomberg)
• Google’s Grip on Search Slips as TikTok and AI Startup Mount Challenge (WSJ)
• GM is working on an eyes-off, hands-off driving system (TechCrunch)
• Uber and Lyft drivers use Teslas as makeshift robotaxis, raising safety concerns (Reuters)
• Grindr Aims to Build the Dating World’s First AI ‘Wingman’ (WSJ)

Friday, October 04 2024 - Fri. 10/04 – AI Slop Comes To Podcasting

• Google Lens now lets you search with video (The Verge)
• Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects (TechCrunch)
• iPhone SE 4 to feature Apple’s first 5G modem, A18 chip, same cameras as iPhone 15 (9to5Mac)
• 159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates (TechCrunch)

Thursday, October 03 2024 - Thu. 10/03 – The Monster OpenAI Raise

• OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in largest VC round ever (Axios)
• OpenAI asks investors not to back rival start-ups such as Elon Musk’s xAI (FT)
• OpenAI feels competitors breathing down its neck (FT)
• WP Engine sues WordPress co-creator Mullenweg and Automattic, alleging abuse of power (TechCrunch)
• Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers (404Media)
• Spotify adds a new, automatically updating playlist for offline listening (TechCrunch)
• Amazon to increase number of advertisements on Prime Video (FT)
• Venture Dealmaking Reflects Selective Tastes of Investors (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, October 02 2024 - Wed. 10/02 – A Tech Angle To The Hurricane

• Microsoft is using AI to improve Windows search (The Verge)
• Microsoft starts paying publishers for content surfaced by Copilot (TechCrunch)
• Telegram CEO Downplays Service Term Changes Amid French Probe (Bloomberg)
• Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4 (VentureBeat)
• Threads users can now see who follows them from other fediverse servers (TechCrunch)
• Christian Selig’s unofficial YouTube app for the Vision Pro just got taken down (The Verge)
• Hurricane Helene Will Send Shockwaves Through the Semiconductor Industry (Wired)

Tuesday, October 01 2024 - Tue. 10/01 – Running This Pod Through NotebookLM

• AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO to take on Nvidia (CNBC)
• MIT spinoff Liquid debuts non-transformer AI models and they’re already state-of-the-art (VentureBeat)
• Microsoft Copilot can now read your screen, think deeply, and speak aloud to you (TechCrunch)
• Oura Nears $500 Million in Annual Revenue and Readies New Ring (Bloomberg)
• Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup (TechCrunch)
• NotebookLM’s automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective (Simon Willison’s Blog)

Monday, September 30 2024 - Mon. 09/30 – Controversial AI Bill Vetoed

• California’s Gavin Newsom Vetoes Controversial AI Safety Bill (WSJ)
• California Passes Law Protecting Consumer Brain Data (NYTimes)
• Meta’s New Headsets Show Apple Has Lost Its Way With the Vision Pro (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI’s Complex Path to Becoming a For-Profit Company (WSJ)
• Songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, Many More Blocked by YouTube in Legal Dispute (Variety)
• This Camera Went Viral Two Years Ago. You Still Can’t Buy One (Bloomberg)

Friday, September 27 2024 - Fri. 09/27 – Sam Altman Declines To Go “Founder Mode”

• Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff there’s no plan for him to receive a ‘giant equity stake’ in company (CNBC)
• Samsung Galaxy S24 FE goes official starting at $649 – is it still a ‘Fan Edition?’ (9to5Google)
• Arm Is Rebuffed by Intel After Inquiring About Buying Product Unit (Bloomberg)
• Exponential growth brews 1 million AI models on Hugging Face (Ars Technica)
• AI start-ups generate money faster than past hyped tech companies (FT)

Thursday, September 26 2024 - Thu. 09/26 – The Orion Smartglasses

• OpenAI considering restructuring to for-profit, CTO Mira Murati and two top research execs depart (CNBC)
• Exclusive: OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity (Reuters)
• Meta’s cheaper Quest 3S might just be an upgrade (The Verge)
• A Few Brief Thoughts on Meta Connect 2024 (Daring Fireball)
• Meta pitches VR to mobile developers with new support for Android apps on Quest (TechCrunch)
• Meta’s big tease (The Verge)

Wednesday, September 25 2024 - Wed. 09/25 – Caroline Ellison Sentenced

• Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years in prison for her role in FTX scandal (Axios)
• Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report (The Record)
• The DOJ sues Visa for locking out rival payment platforms (The Verge)
• Automattic sends WP Engine its own cease-and-desist over WordPress trademark infringement (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI Training Data to Be Inspected in Authors’ Copyright Cases (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app (The Verge)

Tuesday, September 24 2024 - Tue. 09/24 – Sam Altman’s Few Thousand Days

• The Intelligence Age (Sam Altman)
• Sam Altman catapults past founder mode into ‘god mode’ with latest AI post (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in “a few thousand days” (Ars Technica)
• Some Kaspersky customers receive surprise forced-update to new antivirus software (TechCrunch)
• Telegram CEO Durov Says App to Provide More Data to Governments (Bloomberg)
• New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free (Wired)
• The new Roku Ultra is faster, has better Wi-Fi, and comes with a backlit remote (The Verge)
• Spotify’s AI playlist builder is now available in the US (The Verge)
• TikTok to Shut Down its Music Streaming Business in November (Bloomberg)

Monday, September 23 2024 - Mon. 09/23 – Qualcomm To Buy Intel?

• Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days (WSJ)
• Intel Gets Multibillion-Dollar Apollo Offer as Qualcomm Circles (Bloomberg)
• Chip Giants TSMC and Samsung Discuss Building Middle Eastern Megafactories (WSJ)
• Suspects behind $230 million cryptocurrency theft arrested in Miami (BleepingComputer)
• US proposes banning Chinese software and components in vehicles (FT)
• Israel’s Pager Attacks Have Changed the World (NYTimes)
• Toyota and VW fall further behind in the software race (FT)

Friday, September 20 2024 - Fri. 09/20 – MacOS 15 Sequoia Is Breaking Things

• Apple’s new macOS Sequoia update is breaking some cybersecurity tools (TechCrunch)
• EU to tell Apple how to do interoperability, DMA style (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft AI Needs So Much Power It’s Restarting Site of US Nuclear Meltdown (Bloomberg)
• AI is stressing networks out - Nvidia thinks AI can help (Fierce Network)
• Huawei ‘super fans’ fuming as left empty handed by $2,800 phone launch (Reuters)

Thursday, September 19 2024 - Thu. 09/19 – Pokémon: No!

• Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Google offered to sell part of ad tech business, not enough for EU publishers (Reuters)
• YouTube will use AI to generate ideas, titles, and even full videos (The Verge)
• Apple Gets EU Warning to Open Up iPhone Operating System (Bloomberg)
• Musk’s satellites ‘blocking’ view of the universe (BBC)
• SocialAI offers a Twitter-like diary where AI bots respond to your posts (TechCrunch)
• Amazon’s New ‘Shark Tank’-Style Show Gives Winners Top Billing in Its Store (WSJ)

Wednesday, September 18 2024 - Wed. 09/18 – New Messages, New Headsets

• RCS texts on the iPhone aren’t encrypted now, but that could change (The Verge)
• Here’s how green bubbles are getting upgraded in iOS (The Verge)
• HTC Vive’s Focus Vision is a $999 stab at high-end VR and mixed reality (Engadget)
• Snap’s new Spectacles inch closer to compelling AR (The Verge)
• Instagram, Facing Pressure Over Child Safety Online, Unveils Sweeping Changes (NYTimes)
• Lionsgate, Studio Behind ‘John Wick,’ Signs Deal With AI Startup Runway (WSJ)
• Musk’s Neuralink gets FDA’s breakthrough device tag for ‘Blindsight’ implant (Reuters)
• Apple iPhone 16 Pro review: small camera update, big difference (The Verge)

Tuesday, September 17 2024 - Tue. 09/17 – Intel Has A Plan

• Intel stock jumps on plan to turn foundry business into subsidiary and allow for outside funding (CNBC)
• Intel to Make Custom AI Chip for Amazon, Delay German Plant (Bloomberg)
• EssilorLuxottica extends smart glasses partnership with Meta (Reuters)
• OpenAI Says It’s Fixed Issue Where ChatGPT Appeared to Be Messaging Users Unprompted (Futurism)
• TikTok is about to get its day in court (The Verge)
• Judges Show Some Skepticism of TikTok’s Fight Against Potential U.S. Ban (NYTimes)
• How Netflix won the streaming wars (FT)

Monday, September 16 2024 - Mon. 09/16 – A Bunch Of Apple Stories

• Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval (TechCrunch)
• iPhone 16 first weekend pre-order analysis: estimated total sales of about 37 million units; Pro series demand lower than expected (Ming)
• France picks Sejourne as nominee for EU Commission after Breton clash (Reuters)
• Slack now lets users add AI agents from Asana, Cohere, Adobe, Workday and more (VentureBeat)
• Exclusive: How Intel lost the Sony PlayStation business (Reuters)
• Apple AirPods 4 review: defying expectations (The Verge)
• Online Dating Caused a Rise in US Income Inequality, Research Paper Shows (Bloomberg)

Friday, September 13 2024 - Fri. 09/13 – The First Strawberry is o1

• OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities (The Verge)
• Notes on OpenAI’s new o1 chain-of-thought models (Simon Willison’s Weblog)
• OpenAI’s new models ‘instrumentally faked alignment’ (TransformerNews)
• Apple AirPods Pro granted FDA approval to serve as hearing aids (TechCrunch)
• Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator to Double Number of Cohorts Per Year (Bloomberg)

Thursday, September 12 2024 - Thu. 09/12 – OpenAI’s Big New Raise

• OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion (Bloomberg)
• The AI Spending Spree, in Charts (WSJ)
• Microsoft Lays Off Another 650 Staff From Its Video Game Workforce, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Sends Memo to Staff (IGN)
• Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have (Ars Technica)
• Adam Neumann’s Climate Company Is Issuing Refunds After Failing To Launch Crypto Token (Forbes)
• SpaceX’s Tiny Rival Soars 1,300%. Now Comes the Satellite Launch (Bloomberg)
• Apple turning AirPods into hearing aids underscores effort to crack massive health market (CNBC)

Wednesday, September 11 2024 - Wed. 09/11 – Mistral Goes Multimodel; And An AI Model Mystery

• Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model (TechCrunch)
• Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user’s public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option (ABC News)
• The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive (The Verge)
• Exclusive Hands-On: I Played Sony’s All-New PS5 Pro (CNET)
• Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023 (Reuters)
• Payments in Singapore With Stablecoins Rise to Almost $1 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Reflection 70B model maker breaks silence amid fraud accusations (VentureBeat)

Tuesday, September 10 2024 - Tue. 09/10 – Strawberries In 2 Weeks?

• Apple must pay 13 billion euros in back taxes, EU’s top court rules (CNBC)
• iPhone 16 battery life: How much better is it? (9to5Mac)
• Huawei launches $2,800 trifold phone hours after Apple debuts iPhone 16 (CNBC)
• Oracle’s Missteps in Cloud Computing Are Paying Dividends in AI (WSJ)
• New Details on OpenAI’s Strawberry; Apple’s Siri Makeover; Larry Ellison Doubles Down on Data Centers (The Information)
• Audible to Start Generating AI Voice Replicas of Select Audiobook Narrators (Bloomberg)
• JPMorgan Plans to Report Customers Who Exploited TikTok ‘Glitch’ to Authorities (WSJ)

Monday, September 09 2024 - Mon. 09/09 – The iPhone 16 Event

• Apple Announces iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max with Larger Displays, New Camera Control, and More (MacRumors)
• Apple announces iPhone 16: camera button, new colors, AI features (9to5Mac)
• AirPods Pro 2 adds ‘clinical grade’ hearing aid feature (9to5Mac)
• Musk’s xAI Has Discussed Deal for Share of Future Tesla Revenue (WSJ)
• How Telegram Became a Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists (NYTimes)
• London e-bike boom leads to clashes with councils (FT)

Friday, September 06 2024 - Fri. 09/06 – Telegram Blinks.

• Pavel Durov: Telegram founder says France arrest is ‘misguided’ (The Guardian)
• Exclusive: Qualcomm explores acquiring pieces of Intel chip-design business (Reuters)
• Qualcomm says it’s working on mixed reality smart glasses with Samsung and Google (CNBC)
• Review: Honor Magic V3 (Wired)
• Exclusive: Honor’s latest devices use AI to try to reverse nearsightedness (Android Central)

Thursday, September 05 2024 - Thu. 09/05 – The DOJ Takes Down An Election Influence Campaign

• Biden administration announces major actions to tackle Russian efforts to influence 2024 election (CNN)
• The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case (Wired)
• Android 15 will be available on supported Pixel devices in the coming weeks (TechCrunch)
• DJI Neo hands-on: A powerful and lightweight $200 drone (Engadget)
• The Remarkable Paper Pro is as outrageous as it is luxurious (The Verge)

Wednesday, September 04 2024 - Wed. 09/04 – Elon Blinks In Brazil

• Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator (Reuters)
• No X in Brazil? No problem, Brazilians say. (Washington Post)
• Microsoft to announce ‘next phase of Copilot’ on September 16th (The Verge)
• YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel (Ars Technica)
• Nvidia Gets DOJ Subpoena in Escalating Antitrust Probe (Bloomberg)
• Two AI Developers Are Plotting $125 Billion Supercomputers (The Information)
• Exclusive: Intel manufacturing business suffers setback as Broadcom tests disappoint (Reuters)
• Intel’s Money Woes Throw Biden Team’s Chip Strategy Into Turmoil (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, September 03 2024 - Tue. 09/03 – The X Ban In Brazil

• Brazil’s Most Powerful Judge Is in the Spotlight—Again (Americas Quarterly)
• How Brazil’s Experiment Fighting Fake News Led to a Ban on X (NYTimes)
• Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase (The Verge)
• HP to Pursue $4 Billion Damages After Mike Lynch Yacht Death (Bloomberg)
• Pump.fun surpasses $100 million in revenue as Polymarket outshines NFTs in August (The Block)

Friday, August 30 2024 - Fri. 08/30 – Who ISN’T Investing In OpenAI?

• OpenAI Funding Round Tempts Nvidia as Big Tech Leans on ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
• Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (WSJ)
• Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic’s AI for Alexa revamp (Reuters)
• ChatGPT’s weekly users have doubled in less than a year (The Verge)
• Intel Weighs Options Including Foundry Split to Stem Losses (Bloomberg)

Thursday, August 29 2024 - Thu. 08/29 – Nvidia Earnings… Are Ok…

• Nvidia’s CEO Says New Chip Will Have ‘Lots and Lots’ of Supply (Bloomberg)
• Telegram CEO Charged in France for Crimes Committed on His App (Bloomberg)
• TikTok must face lawsuit over 10-year-old girl’s death, US court rules (Reuters)
• OpenAI in Talks for Funding Round Valuing It Above $100 Billion (WSJ)
• Top Movie Piracy Ring Taken Down, Major Studios’ Enforcement Group Claims (The Hollywood Reporter)
• GM’s ‘Google Built-In’ Is Glitchy, Requires A Subscription To Use Google Maps (Jalopnik)

Wednesday, August 28 2024 - Wed. 08/28 – Strawberry Emoji

• OpenAI Shows ‘Strawberry’ AI to the Feds and Uses It to Develop ‘Orion’ (The Information)
• OpenAI Races to Launch ‘Strawberry’ Reasoning AI to Boost Chatbot Business (The Information)
• Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fastest’ AI inference service (SiliconAngle)
• Chinese government hackers penetrate U.S. internet providers to spy (Washington Post)
• Google Meet’s automatic AI note-taking is here (The Verge)
• Instagram adds what photos have always needed: words (The Verge)
• Telegram Founder Was Wooed and Targeted by Governments (WSJ)
• Can Tech Executives Be Held Responsible for What Happens on Their Platforms? (NYTimes)

Tuesday, August 27 2024 - Tue. 08/27 – More On Pavel Durov

• Telegram Founder’s Arrest Part of Broad Investigation, French Prosecutors Say (NYTimes)
• Macron loves Telegram. French judges hate it. (Politico)
• How Telegram’s Founder Went From Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg to Wanted Man (NYTimes)
• Steam surpasses 37 million concurrent users for the first time ever thanks to Black Myth: Wukong (PC Gamer)
• Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick (TechCrunch)
• Apple Rethinks Its Movie Strategy After a String of Misses (NYTimes)

Monday, August 26 2024 - Mon. 08/26 – Telegram CEO Arrested

• Telegram CEO Held Over Alleged Child Protection Failures on App (Bloomberg)
• Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France (Reuters)
• Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? (Matthew Green)
• China’s tech giants splash out on AI despite US restrictions (FT)
• Apple Explores Robotics in Search of Life Beyond the iPhone (Bloomberg)
• Nvidia Rally Mints Millionaires Too Busy to Bask in New Wealth (Bloomberg)

Friday, August 23 2024 - Fri. 08/23 – The Bolt Saga

• Microsoft finally officially confirms it’s killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon (Neowin)
• Exclusive: Chinese entities turn to Amazon cloud and its rivals to access high-end US chips, AI (Reuters)
• AI-powered coding pulls in almost $1bn of funding to claim ‘killer app’ status (FT)
• Bolt investors baffled by massive new deal proposal (Axios)
• Ryan Breslow’s ‘Lead Investor’ Blindsided By $450 Million Bolt Fundraise: ‘We Were Never In This Deal’ (Forbes)

Thursday, August 22 2024 - Thu. 08/22 – The Mike Lynch Saga

• Bodies of Mike Lynch and four yacht guests pulled from Bayesian wreck (FT)
• Mike Lynch’s journey from tech founder to long legal battle (FT)
• Meta lets you cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads. Here’s how to do it. (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft’s Recall AI feature won’t be available for Windows testers until October (The Verge)
• Neuralink Says Second Brain Device Implant ‘Went Well’ (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s App Store Head to Leave in Reorganization Amid Global Scrutiny (Bloomberg)
• Report: “FAST correcting issues that VoD created” (Advanced Television)

Wednesday, August 21 2024 - Wed. 08/21 – AI Grabs The Spotlight Back

• Gemini in Gmail can now help polish up your drafts (The Verge)
• Microsoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and more (VentureBeat)
• OpenAI makes fine-tuning for GPT-4o customization generally available (SiliconAngle)
• Waymo says it has doubled its weekly paid robotaxi trips to 100,000 since May (CNBC)
• Samsung’s new Odyssey monitor lets you play games in glasses-free 3D (The Verge)
• Microsoft Teams’ new single app for personal and work is now available (The Verge)
• Big Tech’s bid to rewrite the rules on net zero (FT)
• Starpath accelerates moon water mining plans with $12M in funding (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, August 20 2024 - Tue. 08/20 – Checkin On How The Vision Pro Is (Or Is Not) Coming Along

• Raspberry Pi 5’s new 2GB model benchmarked: Do you need 2, 4 or 8GB? : We test against the 4 and 8GB versions (Tom’s Hardware)
• Waymo is developing a roomier robotaxi with less-expensive tech (CNBC)
• Procreate’s anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives (The Verge)
• Search continues for British tech magnate and 5 others after luxury superyacht sinks off Sicily (AP)
• Apple Vision Pro review: six month stasis (Apple Insider)

Monday, August 19 2024 - Mon. 08/19 – Everything Eventually Becomes An Advertising Business

• X says it’s closing operations in Brazil (TechCrunch)
• AMD Buys AI Equipment Maker for Nearly $5 Billion, Escalating Battle With Nvidia (WSJ)
• Apple Is Playing the Long Game With Switch From Qualcomm Modems (Bloomberg)
• ‘Bumble fumble’: online dating apps struggle as people swear off swiping (The Guardian)
• How Walmart became a force in a $54bn retail advertising industry (FT)

Friday, August 16 2024 - Fri. 08/16 – Epic Saga Conclusion?

• Fortnite Maker Epic Games Challenges Apple’s Dominance With New iOS App Store (Wired)
• California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic (TechCrunch)
• Exclusive: Apple, Google wallets to carry California driver’s licenses (Axios)

Thursday, August 15 2024 - Thu. 08/15 – Grok Will Let You AI Anything

• X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun (The Verge)
• Apple Pushes Ahead With Tabletop Robot in Search of New Revenue (Bloomberg)
• Apple is finally going to open up iPhone tap-to-pay (The Verge)
• The FTC finalizes its rules clamping down on fake online reviews (Engadget)
• SoftBank discussed AI chips tie-up with Intel to rival Nvidia (FT)
• Sonos considers relaunching its old app (The Verge)

Wednesday, August 14 2024 - Wed. 08/14 – When It Comes To AI On Phones, Google Does It Itself

• The Google Pixel 9’s AI Camera Features Let You Reshape Reality (Wired)
• Google Gemini’s voice chat mode is here (The Verge)
• Apple relents and approves Spotify app with EU pricing (The Verge)
• The first post-quantum cryptography standards are here (TechCrunch)
• The English Premier League Will Ditch Its Hated VAR Offside Tech for a Fleet of iPhones (Wired)

Tuesday, August 13 2024 - Tue. 08/13 – Apple Comes For Patreon

• Apple says Patreon must switch to its billing system or risk removal from App Store (TechCrunch)
• ‘Apple’s Requirements to Hit Creators and Fans on Patreon’ (Daring Fireball)
• Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers (BleepingComputer)
• FBI probing alleged Iran hack attempts targeting Trump, Biden camps (Washington Post)
• CrowdStrike Exec Shows Up to Accept ‘Most Epic Fail’ Award in Person (PCMag)
• TikTok comes for messaging apps with the addition of group chats (TechCrunch)
• Chipmakers face a labour crisis (FT)

Monday, August 12 2024 - Mon. 08/12 – Some Apple Rumors Before Pixel Day

• Apple’s iPhone 16 Will Keep Sales Stable Until Bigger Changes Arrive (Bloomberg)
• Instagram is testing its own take on Snap Map (The Verge)
• Amid Layoffs and CPU Controversy, Intel Postpones Innovation Event (PCMag)
• Celsius targets Tether, Badger DAO, Compound, and Netanyahu’s niece and nephew in lawsuits (The Block)
• Forget Midjourney — Flux is the new king of AI image generation and here’s how to get access (Tom’s Guide)
• Iran Emerges as the Most Aggressive Foreign Threat to U.S. Election (WSJ)

Friday, August 09 2024 - Fri. 08/09 – Mac Mini To Get Mini-er?

• Apple announces new fee structure for apps in the EU that link out to the web for purchases (9to5Mac)
• Spotify and Epic Games call Apple’s revised DMA compliance plan ‘confusing,’ ‘illegal’ and ‘unacceptable’ (TechCrunch)
• Apple’s Mac Mini With M4 Chip Will Be Its Smallest Computer Ever (Bloomberg)
• ChatGPT now lets free users generate up to two images per day made by DALL-E 3 (The Verge)
• Perplexity’s popularity surges as AI search start-up takes on Google (FT)

Thursday, August 08 2024 - Thu. 08/08 – Would You Buy A Subscription Mouse?

• TikTok adds in-app hubs for videos about movies and TV shows (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Meta is closing a beloved first-party Quest studio (AndroidConnect)
• UK regulator launches formal probe into Amazon’s $4bn Anthropic deal (FT)
• Humane’s daily returns are outpacing sales (The Verge)
• Logitech Insists It’s Not Making a Mouse With a Subscription Fee (Gizmodo)
• Anduril now valued at $14 billion, set to build autonomous weapons factories (Axios)
• Crunchyroll Passes 15 Million Monthly Paid Subscribers (The Wrap)
• Crunchyroll Is Thriving Thanks to Gen Z and Appointment Anime Viewing, COO Says (The Wrap)

Wednesday, August 07 2024 - Wed. 08/07 – Is The New Google TV Streamer An Apple TV 4K Killer?

• The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for (The Verge)
• Gemini intelligence is coming to Google Home (The Verge)
• Scoop: X sues major brands, ad industry group for antitrust (Axios)
• ‘There’s no price’ Microsoft could pay Apple to use Bing: all the spiciest parts of the Google antitrust ruling (The Verge)
• How chip giant Intel spurned OpenAI and fell behind the times (Reuters)
• The limited edition OnePlus Open is the most striking foldable phone yet (The Verge)
• Airbnb details plans to expand beyond short-term rentals, including co-hosting and relaunching ‘experiences’ (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, August 06 2024 - Tue. 08/06 – Google Loses In Court

• Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules (Bloomberg)
• Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox web browser (Fortune)
• How the Google Antitrust Ruling May Influence Tech Competition (NYTimes)
• OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic, Brockman takes extended leave (TechCrunch)
• Struggling AI Startups Look for a Bailout from Big Tech (WSJ)

Monday, August 05 2024 - Mon. 08/05 – OpenAI Can Detect AI Text But Isn’t Sure It Wants To

• There’s a Tool to Catch Students Cheating With ChatGPT. OpenAI Hasn’t Released It. (WSJ)
• Bitcoin tumbles below $50,000 for the first time since February (CNBC)
• Elon Musk Revives Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman (NYTimes)
• China launches first satellites of constellation to rival Starlink, newspaper reports (Reuters)
• AI Chip Startup Groq Gets $2.8 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round (Bloomberg)
• Is the Music Industry Slowdown a Crisis or a Blip? (Bloomberg)

Friday, August 02 2024 - Fri. 08/02 – Intel Is Bailing Water

• Amazon Beats On Earnings, Revenue Comes In Light Despite Strong Cloud Performance (Investor’s Business Daily)
• Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’ (The Verge)
• 23andMe Board Committee ‘Disappointed’ in CEO Anne Wojcicki’s Take-Private Proposal (Bloomberg)
• Stable Diffusion creators launch Black Forest Labs, secure $31M for FLUX.1 AI image generator (VentureBeat)

Thursday, August 01 2024 - Thu. 08/01 – Now Meta’s AI Spending Is Fine?

• Meta’s Lesson in Allaying Wall Street’s A.I. Fears (NYTimes DealBook)
• Meta’s AI Costs Surge as Digital Advertising Revenue Grows (WSJ)
• Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site (The Verge)
• Tether Nets $5B Profits This Year, Says Its US Debt Holdings Surpassed Germany’s (CoinDesk)
• A first look at Apple Intelligence and its (slightly) smarter Siri (The Verge)
• Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery’s Sports Streamer Venu to Launch at $42.99 per Month (Variety)
• How the NBA’s Slam-Dunk Deals Will Reshape TV (The Hollywood Reporter)

Wednesday, July 31 2024 - Wed. 07/31 – CapCut Ascendant

• Meta Scraps Celebrity AI Chatbots That Fell Flat With Users (The Information)
• The Rise of ByteDance’s CapCut Threatens Adobe and Canva (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Pushes Fast Delivery Into Rural Areas in Challenge to Post Office (WSJ)
• Wear This AI Friend Around Your Neck (Wired)
• Video Announcing the Friend AI device (Twitter)

Tuesday, July 30 2024 - Tue. 07/30 – A (Mostly) AI Day

• Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations (The Verge)
• Websites are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers (Because AI Companies Keep Making New Ones) (404Media)
• Zuckerberg touts Meta’s latest video vision AI with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (TechCrunch)
• Instagram creators can now make AI doppelgangers to chat with their followers (Engadget)
• Canva acquires Leonardo.ai to boost its generative AI efforts (TechCrunch)
• Meta to pay $1.4 billion to settle Texas facial recognition data lawsuit (Reuters)

Monday, July 29 2024 - Mon. 07/29 – Big Tech IPO From… Honeywell?

• Apple’s AI Features Rollout Will Miss Upcoming iPhone Software Overhaul (Bloomberg)
• Elon Musk calls Grok ‘the most powerful AI by every metric’ but ‘secretly’ trains the new model with your X data by default (WindowsCentral)
• A Digital Coin Based on Baby Trump? Yup. (NYTimes)
• Honeywell Weighs Quantinuum IPO at $10 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch in 2014. It’s Still Losing Money. (WSJ)
• The Galaxy Ring keeps you in Samsung’s orbit (The Verge)

Friday, July 26 2024 - Fri. 07/26 – SearchGPT

• OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine (The Verge)
• Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns (AP)
• Uber, Lyft, DoorDash Prevail in California Gig-Worker Ruling (Bloomberg)
• Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp has 100M monthly active users in the US (TechCrunch)

Thursday, July 25 2024 - Thu. 07/25 – Reddit’s Throwing Elbows Again

• Google’s Exclusive Reddit Access (404Media)
• Microsoft unveils Bing Generative Search — enhanced with AI, it’s a complete overhaul of traditional search (WindowsCentral)
• Mistral shocks with new open model Mistral Large 2, taking on Llama 3.1 (VentureBeat)
• Stability AI steps into a new gen AI dimension with Stable Video 4D (VentureBeat)
• Runway Ripped Off YouTube Creators (404Media)
• The problem of ‘model collapse’: how a lack of human data limits AI progress (FT)

Wednesday, July 24 2024 - Wed. 07/24 – Llama 3.1 Bests The “Frontier Models”?

• Meta puts open source AI on the podium. (Ben’s Bites)
• The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B (Ars Technica)
• Google’s Aborted Deals Show Antitrust’s Long Shadow Over Tech (Bloomberg)
• Google’s $23 Billion Snub From Wiz Will Sting Them Both (Bloomberg)
• A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean More of the Same on A.I. Regulation (NYTimes)
• Apple Moves Forward With Foldable iPhone (The Information)
• The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 is a great phone that’s out of ideas (The Verge)

Tuesday, July 23 2024 - Tue. 07/23 – Wiz Turns Down The Money

• After years of uncertainty, Google says it won’t be ‘deprecating third-party cookies’ in Chrome (Digiday)
• Wiz walks away from $23 billion deal with Google, will pursue IPO (CNBC)
• Spot Ethereum ETFs get final sign off to begin trading Tuesday (The Block)
• Delta CEO sees flight disruptions lasting for another couple of days (Reuters)
• Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions (WSJ)
• AI helps to produce breakthrough in weather and climate forecasting (FT)

Monday, July 22 2024 - Mon. 07/22 – The Big Outage Weekend

• CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes (The Register)
• Microsoft’s global sprawl comes under fire after historic outage (Washington Post)
• Blue Screens Everywhere Are Latest Tech Woe for Microsoft (WSJ)
• Samsung going all in on Google Messages in US, stops pre-installing Samsung Messages on Galaxy phones (9to5Google)
• Japan’s copyright rules draw AI groups — and alarm from creators (FT)
• How AI Brought 11,000 College Football Players to Digital Life in Three Months (WSJ)
• Review: CMF Phone 1 (Wired)

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 (Ars Technica)
• 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 (FT)
• 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’ (FT)

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 (LA 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 (Ars Technica)
• 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” (Ars Technica)
• 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 (FT)
• Raspberry Pi shares jump more than a third on first day of trading (FT)
• The Smart, Cheap Fix for Slow, Dumb Traffic Lights (WSJ)

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

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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 (FT)
• 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 (FT)

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 (FT)
• 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 (FT)

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 (FT)
• 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 (Twitter)
• 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 (FT)
• 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!” (YouTube)

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 (FT)
• 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? (LA Times)

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 (FT)
• 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 (FT)
• 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 (FT)
• 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 (FT)
• 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 (FT)

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 (Ars Technica)
• 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 (FT)
• 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 (FT)

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 (Ars Technica)
• 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 (FT)
• 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 (FT)
• Intel to receive $8.5bn in US funding for high-end chip manufacturing (FT)
• 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 (Ars Technica)
• 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 (FT)
• 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 (FT)
• 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 (Ars Technica)
• 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 (Ars Technica)
• 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)
• 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 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 (FT)

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 (FT)

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 (FT)
• 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)