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Wednesday, December 31 2025 - Manus, The Hands Of Fate

• How Meta’s Newest Acquisition Target Got Around Worries Over Its Ties to China (WSJ)
• Manus: The Hands of AI Fate (Spyglass)
• Musk’s xAI Buys Building to Expand ‘Colossus’ Data Center (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History (WSJ)
• AI Trade’s Next Leg Is All About Tech’s ‘Pick-and-Shovel’ Stocks (Bloomberg)
• Samsung’s First Trifold Phone Is Expensive and Half-Baked (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, December 30 2025 - The End Of Year M&A Rush

• Meta to Buy Manus, an AI Startup With Chinese Roots (Bloomberg)
• After a Year of Blistering Growth, AI Chip Makers Get Ready for Bigger 2026 (WSJ)
• AI start-ups amass record $150bn funding cushion as bubble fears mount (WSJ)
• Microsoft’s Nadella overhauls leadership as he plots AI strategy beyond OpenAI (FT)
• Waymo and Other Driverless Taxis Move Into a New Era (Bloomberg)
• Listen to This: Some Audiobooks Are Outselling Hardcovers (WSJ)

Monday, December 29 2025 - Nvidia Kindacquires Groq

• Nvidia Reaches Technology Licensing Deal With Startup Groq (Bloomberg)
• Why Nvidia Struck a $20 Billion Megadeal with Groq (The Information)
• Samsung brings Google Photos to the biggest screen in your home (AndroidPolice)
• Accounting body scraps remote exams to combat cheating (FT)
• Even the Companies Making Humanoid Robots Think They’re Overhyped (WSJ)

Wednesday, December 24 2025 - New Tech Trade War

• US bars five Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints online (AP)
• OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape (The Information)
• AST SpaceMobile Launches Biggest Satellite to Challenge SpaceX (Bloomberg)
• Bitcoin Miners Thrive Off a New Side Hustle: Retooling Their Data Centers for AI (WSJ)
• YouTube Has a Firm Grip on Daytime TV (NYTimes)

Tuesday, December 23 2025 - Drone Ban

• U.S. Bans New China-Made Drones, Sparking Outrage Among Pilots (WSJ)
• Pentagon Adds Grok-Derived Products to Something Called the ‘AI Arsenal’ (Gizmodo)
• iOS 26.3 Brings AirPods-Like Pairing to Third-Party Devices in EU Under DMA (MacRumors)
• AI debt boom pushes US corporate bond sales close to record (FT)
• A $309 Billion Bet Fuels 24/7 Dollar Banking Without Borders (Bloomberg)

Monday, December 22 2025 - Blackouts Take Waymo Out

• Waymo resumes robotaxi service in San Francisco after blackout chaos — Musk says Tesla car service unaffected (CNBC)
• Paramount guarantees Larry Ellison backing in amended WBD bid (CNBC)
• Instacart Scraps All Price Tests After Customer Pushback (WSJ)
• Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group (Billboard)
• ChatGPT will now let you pick how nice it is (The Verge)
• TPU Mania (The Chip Letter)
• Why Nvidia maintains its moat and Gemini won’t kill OpenAI (SiliconANGLE)

Friday, December 19 2025 - TikTok Sold (Again) (?)

• Scoop: TikTok signs deal for U.S. unit after yearslong saga (Axios)
• TikTok U.S. Deal to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant (The Record)
• Meta Is Developing a New AI Image and Video Model Code-Named ‘Mango’ (WSJ)
• YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers Watched By Millions (Deadline)
• Riot Has a Secret Plan to Remake Its ‘League of Legends’ Game (Bloomberg)

Thursday, December 18 2025 - China’s EUV Machine?

• China may have reverse engineered EUV lithography tool in covert lab, report claims — employees given fake IDs to avoid secret project being detected, prototypes expected in 2028 (Tom’s Hardware)
• Trump media group agrees $6bn merger with Google-backed fusion energy company (FT)
• Coinbase adds prediction markets and stock trading in push to be one-stop trading app (CNBC)
• OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Tens of Billions at Valuation Around $750 Billion (The Information)
• Amazon Caught North Korean IT Worker By Tracing Keystroke Data (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, December 17 2025 - Now It’s Amazon’s Turn To Invest In OpenAI

• OpenAI’s ChatGPT Updated to Make Images Better and Faster (Bloomberg)
• ChatGPT Images just got a major upgrade — and it could change how we all create (TechRadar)
• OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips (The Information)
• Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training (Reuters)
• Warner Rejects Paramount’s Hostile Bid, Saying Netflix Deal Still Superior (WSJ)
• Waymo Seeking Over $15 Billion Near $100 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
• Waymo in talks to raise funds at $100bn valuation (FT)
• U.S. Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight (NYTimes)
• Google wants its AI assistant CC to replace your morning scroll (The Verge)
• Betting on prediction markets has exploded over past two years (FT)

Tuesday, December 16 2025 - The Pivot To AI Datacenters

• U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block (NYTimes)
• AI infrastructure selloff continues on Wall Street as Broadcom, Oracle shares slide (CNBC)
• CoreWeave’s Staggering Fall From Market Grace Highlights AI Bubble Fears (WSJ)
• Ford is starting a battery storage business to power data centers and the grid (TechCrunch)
• AI has the entertainment industry torn between keeping up and keeping talent happy. (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Monday, December 15 2025 - The Roomba Hits The Wall

• Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy and Will Go Private (Bloomberg)
• How iRobot lost its way home (TechCrunch)
• Investors seek protection from risk of AI debt bust (FT)
• Kindle’s New AI Feature Can Answer Questions About Your Books (Whether Authors Want It or Not) (PCMag)
• AI image generators are getting better by getting worse (The Verge)
• Inside the Invitation-Only Stock Market for the Wealthy (WSJ)

Friday, December 12 2025 - GPT-5.2 As OpenAI’s Attempt To Change The Narrative

• OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’ (Wired)
• GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle (The Verge)
• Trump threatens funding for states over AI regulations (Reuters)
• Broadcom beats on earnings and revenue, says AI chip sales will double in current quarter (CNBC)
• Disney Accuses Google of Using AI to Engage in Copyright Infringement on ‘Massive Scale’ (Variety)

Thursday, December 11 2025 - Disney Invests In OpenAI

• Disney Inks Blockbuster OpenAI Deal to Bring More Than 200 Characters to Sora Video Platform, Will Invest $1 Billion in AI Company (Variety)
• Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Suite of Characters for Sora in Landmark Deal (The Wrap)
• Oracle Can’t Escape OpenAI’s Shadow (WSJ)
• Spotify tests more personalized, AI-powered ‘Prompted Playlists’ (TechCrunch)
• Bezos and Musk Race to Bring Data Centers to Space (WSJ)
• MCP has already taken the industry by storm, and now Anthropic is giving it away. (The Verge)

Wednesday, December 10 2025 - Algorithmic Pricing?

• Instagram Will Start Letting You Pick What Shows Up in Your Reels (Wired)
• Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ (NYTimes)
• SpaceX to Pursue 2026 IPO Raising Far Above $30 Billion (Bloomberg)
• DeepSeek is Using Banned Nvidia Chips in Race to Build Next Model (The Information)
• Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, December 09 2025 - Nvidia Back In China… Maybe

• Trump greenlights Nvidia H200 AI chip sales to China if U.S. gets 25% cut, says Xi responded positively (CNBC)
• China set to limit access to Nvidia’s H200 chips despite Trump export approval (FT)
• Sam Altman’s Sprint to Correct OpenAI’s Direction and Fend Off Google (WSJ)
• From Llamas to Avocados: Meta’s shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion (CNBC)
• Pebble Is Making a $75 Smart Ring (Wired)

Monday, December 08 2025 - Netflix Faces Hostility

• Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD ‘to finish what we started,’ CEO Ellison tells CNBC (CNBC)
• Trump Warns Netflix-Warner Deal May Pose Antitrust ‘Problem’ (Bloomberg)
• Netflix and the Hollywood End Game (Stratechery) (Stratechery)
• Apple Rocked by Executive Departures, With Chip Chief at Risk of Leaving Next (Bloomberg)
• Meta acquires AI-wearables startup Limitless (Reuters)
• SpaceX in Talks for $800 Billion Valuation Ahead of Potential 2026 IPO (WSJ)
• An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouter (OpenRouter)

Friday, December 05 2025 - The Albanian Army Wins!

• Netflix agrees $83bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery (FT)
• New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work (NYTimes)
• X hit with $140 million EU fine for breaching content rules, TikTok settles (Reuters)
• Apple Departures Point to Challenges for iPhone’s Dominance (WSJ)
• Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure (The Decoder)
• Alleged Insider Nets $1 Million On Polymarket In 24 Hours (Forbes)

Thursday, December 04 2025 - Meta To Abandon The Metaverse?

• Apple Design Executive Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup (Bloomberg)
• Meta’s Zuckerberg Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts (Bloomberg)
• Amazon explores building its own delivery network to replace USPS deal (Washington Post)
• Anthropic CEO Says Some Tech Firms Too Risky With AI Spending (Bloomberg)
• Harvey, a Maker of A.I. Legal Software, Raises New Funds (NYTimes)
• Reddit’s CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it’s going away (The Verge)

Wednesday, December 03 2025 - Not Great, Bob!

• Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public (FT)
• Amazon’s Custom Chips Pose Another Threat to Nvidia (WSJ)
• Amazon Has New Frontier AI Models—and a Way for Customers to Build Their Own (Wired)
• AWS puts Kiro and other AI agents to work on truly autonomous software development (SiliconANGLE)
• The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course. (NYTimes)
• Microsoft Lowers AI Software Growth Targets as Customers Resist Newer Products (The Information)
• The ‘Mad Men’ 4K Stream on HBO Max Had So Many Problems (Not All of Which Involved a Barf Machine) (THR)

Tuesday, December 02 2025 - Sam Altman Declares A “Code Red”

• OpenAI CEO Declares ‘Code Red’ to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort (The Information)
• Apple AI Chief John Giannandrea Retiring After Siri Delays (MacRumors)
• Samsung’s Z TriFold is official and it looks like a tablet with a phone attached (The Verge)
• Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI (Stratechery)

Monday, December 01 2025 - Is Nvidia In Trouble?

• Runway rolls out new AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark (CNBC)
• TPUv7: Google Takes a Swing at the King (SemiAnalysis)
• Nvidia takes $2 billion stake in Synopsys with expanded computing power partnership (CNBC)
• OpenAI Takes Stake in Thrive Holdings, a Buyer of Services Firms (NYTimes)
• Netflix kills casting from phones (The Verge)
• Top consultancies freeze starting salaries as AI threatens ‘pyramid’ model (FT)
• Data Centers Are a ‘Gold Rush’ for Construction Workers (WSJ)

Wednesday, November 26 2025 - Polymarket Is Street Legal

• Trump aims to boost AI innovation, build platform to harness government data (Reuters)
• Polymarket Secures CFTC Approval for Regulated U.S. Return (CoinDesk)
• In Las Vegas, Kalshi Is King (The Information)
• Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees (CNBC)
• Amazon’s Starlink competitor is launching with ‘world’s fastest satellite internet antenna’ (The Verge)
• RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster (The Verge)

Tuesday, November 25 2025 - Is OpenAI In Trouble?

• Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model (Ars Technica)
• ChatGPT’s new shopping research tool is fast, fun, and free - but can it out-shop me? (ZDNet)
• Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo (The Verge)
• Google Further Encroaches on Nvidia’s Turf With New AI Chip Push (The Information)

Monday, November 24 2025 - Where Does That X Account Live?

• X’s messy About This Account rollout has caused utter chaos (The Verge)
• What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality (NYTimes)
• The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands (NYTimes)
• Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts (FT)
• Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda (The Guardian)
• AI boom is fueling a memory chip shortage that could hit cars and phones (CNBC)

Friday, November 21 2025 - The iOS Walls Are Crumbling In The Garden

• Google cracked Apple’s AirDrop and is adding it to Pixel phones (The Verge)
• Altman Memo Forecasts ‘Rough Vibes’ Due to Resurgent Google (The Information)
• Source: Kalshi’s valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round (TechCrunch)
• Americans’ Social Media Use 2025 (Pew Research Center)
• IBM, Cisco outline plans for networks of quantum computers by early 2030s (Reuters)
• IBM, Cisco to collaborate on ‘internet’ of quantum computers (Silicon Republic)

Thursday, November 20 2025 - Who Gets To Regulate AI?

• Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws (The Verge)
• Google rolling out Gemini 3-powered ‘Nano Banana Pro’ image gen, editing (9to5Google)
• Ad Spend in the Creator Economy Expected to Hit $37 Billion in 2025 (The Wrap)
• Nintendo and ‘Battlefield 6’ Pushed US Game Sales Up in October (Bloomberg)
• This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself (Wired)

Wednesday, November 19 2025 - Gemini 3, And Meta Beats The Government

• Google is launching Gemini 3, its ‘most intelligent’ AI model yet (The Verge)
• AI Music Platform Suno Valued at $2.45 Billion (WSJ)
• TikTok will let you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see (TechCrunch)
• Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws (The Verge)
• Meta Did Not Violate Antitrust Law, Judge Rules (NYTimes)
• Meta’s Victory Opens the Way for Silicon Valley to Go Deal Shopping (NYTimes)

Tuesday, November 18 2025 - The Bloodbath In Crypto

• A massive Cloudflare outage brought down X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector (The Verge)
• Grok 4.1 has arrived — and it’s bringing the fight to ChatGPT with these new features (Tom’s Guide)
• Crypto market sheds $1.2tn as traders shun speculative assets (FT)
• Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has ‘elements of irrationality’ (BBC)
• Amazon Raises $15 Billion in First US Bond Sale in Three Years (Bloomberg)
• Databricks in Talks to Raise Capital at a Valuation Above $130 Billion (The Information)
• Roblox will require age estimation to chat starting next year (The Verge)

Monday, November 17 2025 - Jeff Bezos To Be A CEO Again

• Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive (NYTimes)
• Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook (FT)
• Apple’s iPhone Overhaul Will Reduce Its Reliance on Annual Fall Spectacle (Bloomberg)
• Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects (The Register)
• At a major AI conference, one startup got voted most likely to flop (Business Insider)
• Now Tech Moguls Want to Build Data Centers in Outer Space (WSJ)

Friday, November 14 2025 - OpenAI Enters The Group Chat

• ChatGPT launches pilot group chats across Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan (TechCrunch)
• Amazon and Microsoft Back Effort That Would Restrict Nvidia’s Exports to China (WSJ)
• OpenAI, Apple Lose Bid to Toss Musk xAI Suit Over Competition (Bloomberg)
• AI startup Cursor raises $2.3 billion funding round at $29.3 billion valuation (CNBC)
• You know those fake USPS texts? Google says it’s found who’s behind them (Fast Company)

Thursday, November 13 2025 - Valve Takes On Consoles And VR

• Valve brings back Steam Machine and Steam Controller — hands-on with Valve’s new AMD-based living room gaming hardware (Tom’s Hardware)
• The Steam Frame is a surprising new twist on VR (The Verge)
• Microsoft to Use OpenAI’s Custom Chip Work to Help In-House Effort (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI says the brand-new GPT-5.1 is ‘warmer’ and has more ‘personality’ options (The Verge)
• The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion (WSJ)
• Apple launches Digital ID, a way to carry your passport on your phone for use at TSA checkpoints (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, November 12 2025 - Text-To-World AI Models

• Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product (TechCrunch)
• Airbnb Will Test Adding Instacart Grocery Delivery to Its App in Services Push (Bloomberg)
• Are you listening to bots? Survey shows AI music is virtually undetectable (Reuters)
• 50,000 AI tracks flood Deezer daily – as study shows 97% of listeners can’t tell the difference between human-made vs. fully AI-generated music (MusicBusinessWorldwide)
• The AI Bubble Is Ignoring Michael Burry’s Fears (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, November 11 2025 - The iPhone Air Isn’t Selling

• Apple Delays Release of Next iPhone Air Amid Weak Sales (The Information)
• Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up (FT)
• SoftBank sells Nvidia stake for $5.8bn as it prepares for AI investments (FT)
• Anthropic Is on Track to Turn a Profit Much Faster Than OpenAI (WSJ)
• Streameast: How the authorities took down the world’s largest illegal sports streaming platform (The Athletic)
• Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button (Engadget)

Monday, November 10 2025 - GDPR To Be Defanged?

• Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom (Politico)
• Coinbase Launches Platform for Digital Token Offerings (WSJ)
• TSMC Posts Slowest Growth in 18 Months Amid AI Bubble Debate (Bloomberg)
• Apple Music Risks Losing the Next Generation of Listeners (Bloomberg)
• AI models given $10K to compete in first-of-its-kind crypto-trading competition — and most crashed and burned (NYPost)

Friday, November 07 2025 - Elon’s $1T Deal

• Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package (WSJ)
• Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions (NYTimes)
• ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 (Bloomberg)
• Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases its second AI update in four months as China’s AI race heats up (CNBC)
• Texas sues Roblox for ‘putting paedophiles and profits’ over safety (BBC)
• ‘It’s organized crime’: TikTok Shop says it’s fighting a new wave of AI scammers (Business Insider)

Thursday, November 06 2025 - Gemini To Power The New Siri?

• Apple Nears $1 Billion-a Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI Isn’t Yet Working Toward an IPO, CFO Says (WSJ)
• Microsoft Lays Out Ambitious AI Vision, Free From OpenAI (WSJ)
• Google’s rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia with custom silicon (CNBC)
• Whisper Into This AI-Powered Smart Ring to Organize Your Thoughts (Wired)
• The Foursquare founder’s new app is an AI-powered ‘DJ’ for neighborhood updates (Engadget)

Wednesday, November 05 2025 - Google and Epic Settle

• Google proposes app store reforms in settlement with ‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games (Reuters)
• Cloud streaming finally arrives on the PlayStation Portal (The Verge)
• Citadel Securities and Fortress take stakes in Ripple at $40bn valuation (FT)
• How many ‘bragawatts’ have the hyperscalers announced so far? (FT)
• Amazon Sues to Stop Perplexity From Using AI Tool to Buy Stuff (Bloomberg)
• Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics (Windows On Theory)

Tuesday, November 04 2025 - Nobody Cares About AI Ads?

• Apple brings its App Store to the web (The Verge)
• Prosecutors allege incident response pros used ALPHV/BlackCat to commit string of ransomware attacks (Cyberscoop)
• Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to three new cities (The Verge)
• Trump Officials Torpedoed Nvidia’s Push to Export AI Chips to China (WSJ)
• Coca-Cola Injects ‘Holidays Are Coming’ Ads With an Upgraded Dose of AI (WSJ)
• The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work (The Atlantic)
• AI turned Google Cloud from also-ran into Alphabet’s growth driver (Reuters)

Monday, November 03 2025 - Another Day, Another OpenAI Deal

• OpenAI signs $38 billion compute deal with Amazon, partnering with cloud leader for first time (CNBC)
• How sports gambling took over prediction markets in the US (FT)
• Alphabet, Amazon Stakes in Anthropic Boost Profit by Billions (Bloomberg)
• Big Tech’s market dominance is becoming ever more extreme (FT)
• For Podcasters, a Voice Clone Is a Double-Edged Sword (NYTimes)

Friday, October 31 2025 - Amazon Didn’t Scare Investors

• Amazon cloud records 20% sales growth, topping estimates (CNBC)
• Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter (The Register)
• Sora now lets you pay extra to make more AI videos (The Verge)
• Nvidia to Invest Up to $1 Billion in AI Startup Poolside (Bloomberg)
• Nvidia Is Accelerating Its Investing Spree in AI Startups (Bloomberg)

Thursday, October 30 2025 - Wall Street: Spend! (But Not Too Much…)

• Big Tech tests investors’ patience with $80bn AI investment spree (FT)
• OpenAI adds reusable ‘characters’ and video stitching to Sora (The Verge)
• AI Coding Leader Cursor Says New Agent Fields Tougher Tasks (Bloomberg)
• Exclusive: OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation (Reuters)
• AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers (Wired)

Wednesday, October 29 2025 - Nvidia $5T

• Uber Eyes Fleet of 100,000 Nvidia-Based Robotaxis Beginning 2027 (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI’s Promise to Stay in California Helped Clear the Path for Its IPO (WSJ)
• Grammarly is changing its name to Superhuman (The Verge)
• AI start-up Character.ai bans teens from talking to chatbots (FT)
• Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite (WSJ)
• 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation (Engadget)

Tuesday, October 28 2025 - OpenAI Has Gone For-Profit

• OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring — and struck a new deal with Microsoft (The Verge)
• Amazon to Cut 14,000 Jobs as Jassy Looks to Reduce Bureaucracy (Bloomberg)
• Elon Musk launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’ (The Washington Post)
• Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s new AI tools can instantly edit more of your work (The Verge)
• OpenAI’s Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model (WSJ)

Monday, October 27 2025 - Forget AI, The Counter-Strike Bubble Just Burst

• Australia sues Microsoft over AI-linked subscription price hikes (Reuters)
• Using a Security Key on X? Re-Enroll Now or Your Account Will Be Locked (PC Mag)
• $10,000 Card Shufflers Hit the Spotlight After NBA Poker Scandal (Bloomberg)
• Market for ‘Counter-Strike’ Items Falls $3 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Xbox’s Prized Sci-Fi Franchise Is Heading to PlayStation (NYTimes)
• ‘Do not trust your eyes’: AI generates surge in expense fraud (FT)

Wednesday, October 22 2025 - OpenAI’s Browser: ChatGPT Atlas

• OpenAI’s AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here (The Verge)
• Introducing ChatGPT Atlas (Simon Willison)
• Why OpenAI Needs Its Own ChatGPT-Enabled Browser, Atlas (Forbes)
• Samsung’s Galaxy XR Headset Debuts at Half the Price of Apple’s Vision Pro (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, October 21 2025 - C’mon Apple, Buy HBO!

• Warner Bros. Discovery says it’s open to a sale; shares jump 10% (CNBC)
• Coinbase Strikes Deal for Crypto-Investing Platform Echo (WSJ)
• Anthropic brings Claude Code to the web (TechCrunch)
• Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots (NYTimes)
• OpenAI Looks to Replace the Drudgery of Junior Bankers’ Workload (Bloomberg)
• This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle (MIT Technology Review)

Monday, October 20 2025 - The Winners Of The AI Boom You Never Thought About

• Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more (The Verge)
• OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. (TechCrunch)
• X to launch marketplace for buying inactive handles (TechCrunch)
• Oura redesigns app with expanded stress tracking (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Nvidia and TSMC unveil first Blackwell chip wafer made in U.S. (Axios)
• $500 purple cables put this little-known company in the middle of the AI boom (CNBC)
• Crypto Miners Riding the AI Wave Are Leaving Bitcoin Behind (Bloomberg)

Friday, October 17 2025 - Skills For Claude As A New AI Paradigm?

• Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work (The Verge)
• Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP (Simon Willison)
• Steam just broke its concurrent user record with 41.6 million gamers (TweakTown)
• Nintendo Aims to Make 25 Million Switch 2s to Set Gaming History (Bloomberg)
• Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (404media)
• Uber Launches Data Tasks as Option for Some US Drivers to Earn Money (Bloomberg)
• Apple and F1 reach 5-year media deal, bringing all races to Apple TV streaming in the U.S. (CNBC)

Thursday, October 16 2025 - A $300 Trillion Oopsie

• Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins (Decrypt)
• Apple’s Head of ChatGPT-Like AI Search Effort to Leave for Meta (Bloomberg)
• F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code (BleepingComputer)
• Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model (TechCrunch)
• Honor’s Robot Phone concept features a fold-out camera arm (The Verge)
• ‘Of course it’s a bubble’: AI start-up valuations soar in investor frenzy (FT)

Wednesday, October 15 2025 - M5 Chips Are Here

• Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro gets an M5 chip bump and faster storage (The Verge)
• Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults (The Verge)
• Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to London (The Verge)
• Spotify partners with Netflix for video podcast distribution deal (TechCrunch)
• YouTube has a new video player (The Verge)
• OpenAI makes five-year business plan to meet $1tn spending pledges (FT)
• Windows 10 support “ends” today, but it’s just the first of many deaths (Ars Technica)

Tuesday, October 14 2025 - Sam Altman’s Financial Engineering

• Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia (FT)
• OpenAI, Broadcom Forge Multibillion-Dollar Chip-Development Deal (WSJ)
• Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Departs for Meta (WSJ)
• Nvidia to Start Selling $3,999 DGX Spark Mini PC This Week (PCMag)
• NotebookLM Video Overviews add Nano Banana visual styles, Brief or Explainer formats (9to5Google)
• OpenAI Keeps Doing Deals (Matt Levine)

Friday, October 10 2025 - China’s Getting Tetchy Again

• China blacklists major chip research firm TechInsights following report on Huawei (CNBC)
• OpenAI’s Sora hit 1 million downloads in less than five days (CNBC)
• OpenAI Is Catching Up To Anthropic in AI Coding (The Information)
• Meta Tells Its Metaverse Workers to Use AI to ‘Go 5X Faster’ (Wired)
• It’s trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic (The Register)
• Kalshi, a Prediction Market, Raises Funds and Expands Overseas (NYTimes)

Thursday, October 09 2025 - Intel Punches Back

• Here is Panther Lake, Intel’s 2026 laptop chip with next-gen graphics (The Verge)
• Intel Debuts New Technology in Make-or-Break Moment for CEO’s Turnaround Bid (Bloomberg)
• Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach (The Verge)
• Cursor-Maker Anysphere Considers Investment Offers at $30 Billion Valuation (The Information)
• Reflection AI, an A.I. Model Start-Up, Raises $2 Billion (NYTimes)
• Samsung AI researcher’s new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems (VentureBeat)
• Microsoft Tries to Catch Up in AI With Healthcare Push, Harvard Deal (WSJ)

Wednesday, October 08 2025 - The AI Concern Committee Is Back

• OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Web of Circular Deals (Bloomberg)
• Nvidia’s Huang says he’s surprised AMD offered OpenAI 10% of company in ‘clever’ deal (CNBC)
• At $1.2 Trillion, More High-Grade Debt Now Tied to AI Than Banks (Bloomberg)
• Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says (Fortune)
• Insurers balk at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI and Anthropic (FT)
• OpenAI Sneezes, and Software Firms Catch a Cold (Wired)
• Amazon Pharmacy introduces kiosks that can quickly dispense medications at the doctor’s office (GeekWire)

Tuesday, October 07 2025 - OpenAI Wants To Be The Windows Of AI

• OpenAI announces Apps SDK allowing ChatGPT to launch and run third party apps like Zillow, Canva, Spotify (VentureBeat)
• OpenAI’s Windows Play (Stratechery)
• NYSE Owner to Invest Up to $2 Billion in Polymarket (WSJ)
• California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes (Politico)
• MrBeast says AI could threaten creators’ livelihoods, calling it ‘scary times’ for the industry (TechCrunch)

Monday, October 06 2025 - OpenAI’s Big AMD Deal

• AMD stock skyrockets 30% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker (CNBC)
• Elon Musk Gambles Billions in Memphis to Catch Up on AI (WSJ)
• AI data centers are swallowing the world’s memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade (Tom’s Hardware)
• OpenAI and Jony Ive grapple with technical issues on secretive AI device (FT)
• US and investors gambling on unproven nuclear technology, warn experts (FT)

Friday, October 03 2025 - Apple Blocks ICEBlock

• Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from Bondi DOJ (Fox Business)
• A new a16z report looks at which AI companies startups are actually paying for (TechCrunch)
• AI is not killing jobs, US study finds (FT)
• OpenAI wraps $6.6 billion share sale at $500 billion valuation (CNBC)
• OpenAI’s invite-only video generation app Sora tops Apple’s App Store (CNBC)

Thursday, October 02 2025 - Apple To Bench The Vision Pro?

• OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus (404Media)
• OpenAI Valuation Reaches $500 Billion, Topping Musk’s SpaceX (Bloomberg)
• Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses (Bloomberg)
• Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product (Wired)
• Google Translate Rival DeepL Explores US IPO (Bloomberg)
• Brave Now Has Over 100 Million Users (Thurott)
• Exclusive: Yahoo nears deal to sell AOL to Italy’s Bending Spoons for $1.4 billion, sources say (Reuters)

Wednesday, October 01 2025 - Sora, Sora, Sora

• OpenAI’s Sora app lets friends swap AI video cameos (Axios)
• OpenAI made a TikTok for deepfakes, and it’s getting hard to tell what’s real (The Verge)
• Satya Nadella appoints a new CEO to run Microsoft’s biggest businesses (The Verge)
• Oura adds colorful ceramic rings and charging case to lineup (The Verge)
• I got sweaty with Peloton’s new Bike and Tread — but Peloton IQ is just as impressive (Tom’s Guide)

Tuesday, September 30 2025 - Amazon’s Hardware Event

• Amazon announces new Kindle Scribes, including one with a color screen (The Verge)
• Amazon Revamps Echo Speakers, Displays in Hardware Reboot (Bloomberg)
• Spotify Founder Daniel Ek Leaving CEO Job (WSJ)
• Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5, its best AI model for coding (TechCrunch)
• Etsy pops 16% as OpenAI announces ChatGPT Instant Checkout for the shopping site (CNBC)
• OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos (Wired)
• Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word (The Verge)

Monday, September 29 2025 - EA Taken Private

• Electronic Arts Goes Private for $52.5 Billion in Largest LBO Ever (WSJ)
• EA Agrees to $55 Billion Sale in Largest Leveraged Buyout on Record (Bloomberg)
• EA Buyout Talk Highlights Gaming Struggles as Growth Slows (Bloomberg)
• DeepSeek Debuts ‘Sparse Attention’ Method in Next-Gen AI Model (Bloomberg)
• Jaguar Land Rover Gets Government Loan Guarantee to Support Supply Chain; Restarts Production (WSJ)
• OpenAI Adds Parental Safety Controls for Teen ChatGPT Users. Here’s What to Expect (Wired)
• Debt Is Fueling the Next Wave of the AI Boom (WSJ)

Friday, September 26 2025 - Is TikTok US Only Worth $14B?

• Trump signs executive order supporting proposed deal to put TikTok under US ownership (AP)
• TikTok Being Sold for a Song (Spyglass)
• Amazon agrees largest ever civil penalty in $2.5bn settlement with US regulators (FT)
• Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users’ phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI really, really wants you to start your day with ChatGPT Pulse (The Verge)
• Meta launches ‘Vibes,’ a short-form video feed of AI slop (TechCrunch)

Thursday, September 25 2025 - Get Paid To Train AI On Your Phone Calls?

• Musk’s xAI accuses rival OpenAI of stealing trade secrets (Reuters)
• Intel Is Seeking an Investment From Apple as Part of Its Comeback Bid (Bloomberg)
• Spotify to label AI music, filter spam and more in AI policy change (TechCrunch)
• Stablecoin issuer Circle examines ‘reversible’ transactions in departure for crypto (FT)
• Microsoft embraces OpenAI rival Anthropic to improve Microsoft 365 apps (The Verge)
• Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover (Joel Drapper)
• Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, September 24 2025 - The AI Incentives Game

• OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers (Wired)
• In OpenAI Megadeal, Nvidia Discusses a New Business Model: Chip Leasing (The Information)
• Nvidia’s $100bn bet on ‘gigantic AI factories’ to power ChatGPT (FT)
• Alibaba Shares Soar After Hiking AI Budget Past $50 Billion (Bloomberg)
• VCs to AI Startups: Please Take Our Money (Bloomberg)
• Disney+, Hulu, ESPN to Hike Prices Again in October (The Wrap)
• WhatsApp adds built-in text translations on iPhone and Android (The Verge)

Tuesday, September 23 2025 - Ouroboros All The Way Down?

• Nvidia is partnering up with OpenAI to offer compute and cash (The Verge)
• Altman, Huang and the last-minute negotiations that sealed the $100 billion OpenAI-Nvidia deal (CNBC)
• Secret Service Thwarts Plot to Take Out Cell Service Near UN (Bloomberg)
• Play Games Sidekick is Gemini Live for Android games (9to5Google)
• AI Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity (Harvard Business Review)

Monday, September 22 2025 - TikTok Deals? Visa Rules?

• Inside Trump’s deal to save TikTok (Axios)
• Startup leaders warn new $100K H-1B visa fee will hurt U.S. entrepreneurship and innovation (GeekWire)
• Big Tech companies, foreign governments scramble after Trump slaps $100,000 fee on H-1B visas (CNBC)
• Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it. (Politico)
• Oura Ring Maker to Become $11 Billion Company With Latest Raise (Bloomberg)
• Coinbase CEO: We Want To Become A Super App (CoinDesk)
• Nordic Data Center Boom Fueled by Low Prices, Empty Land and Cool Weather (Bloomberg)

Friday, September 19 2025 - (CORRECT) OpenAI’s Hardware Plans Worry Apple

• ⁠⁠Nvidia in talks for $500mn investment in UK self-driving start-up Wayve⁠⁠ (FT)
• ⁠⁠Google Injects Gemini Into Chrome as AI Browsers Go Mainstream ⁠⁠ (Wired)
• ⁠⁠Software update shoves ads onto Samsung’s pricey fridges ⁠⁠ (Ars Technica)

Thursday, September 18 2025 - Nvidia And Intel Get Together

• Nvidia and Intel announce jointly developed ‘Intel x86 RTX SOCs’ for PCs with Nvidia graphics, also custom Nvidia data center x86 processors — Nvidia buys $5 billion in Intel stock in seismic deal (Tom’s Hardware)
• Hands-on: Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses & Neural Band Offer a Glimpse of Future AR Glasses (Road to VR)
• Meta is bringing an all-in-one movie and TV streaming hub to Quest headsets (The Verge)
• New AI model predicts susceptibility to over 1,000 diseases (FT)

Wednesday, September 17 2025 - Nvidia In Trouble In China Again

• U.S. Investors, Trump Close In on TikTok Deal With China (WSJ)
• China bans tech companies from buying Nvidia’s AI chips (FT)
• YouTube to use AI to help podcasters promote themselves with clips and Shorts (TechCrunch)
• YouTube announces new generative AI tools for Shorts creators (TechCrunch)
• Kuo: OLED MacBook Pro to Feature Touch Screen Display (MacRumors)
• AI Chip Startup Groq Raises $750 Million at $6.9 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
• Apple iPhone Air review: statement piece (The Verge)

Tuesday, September 16 2025 - Meta Smartglasses Leak

• ‘Meta Ray-Ban Display’ Glasses Design & HUD Clips Leak Ahead Of Connect (Upload)
• OpenAI upgrades Codex with a new version of GPT-5 (TechCrunch)
• Beijing says TikTok’s US app will use Chinese algorithm (FT)
• Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks (TechCrunch)
• iOS 26 Review: A New Look I’ll Be Happy With for the Next 12 Years (CNet)

Monday, September 15 2025 - Gemini’s Suddenly The #1 App In All The Land

• Google Gemini is the top free iPhone app (9to5Google)
• Here’s what the data says people ask ChatGPT (Washington Post)
• Anthropic Finds Businesses Are Mainly Using AI to Automate Work (Bloomberg)
• China Targets Nvidia Over 2020 Deal, Straining Trade Talks (Bloomberg)
• PayPal Links lets you send and receive money much faster now - even crypto (ZDNet)
• OpenAI announces new mentorship program for budding tech founders (CNBC)
• AI Will Not Make You Rich (Colossus)

Friday, September 12 2025 - OpenAI And Microsoft Make Up And Make Nice?

• OpenAI and Microsoft reach tentative deal to revise partnership (Axios)
• OpenAI Takes Big Steps Toward Its Long-Planned Reorganization (NYTimes)
• OpenAI & Microsoft Agree to Agree, Tentatively (Spyglass)
• Apple Watch hypertension alerts feature receives FDA clearance (9to5Mac)
• Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption (Reuters)

Thursday, September 11 2025 - Oh THAT $300B Contract With OpenAI…

• Oracle, OpenAI Sign $300 Billion Cloud Deal (WSJ)
• Klarna Climbs 15% in Trading Debut After $1.37 Billion IPO (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft’s first preview of Visual Studio 2026: Deeper AI and a design refresh (The Register)
• YouTube’s multi-language audio feature for dubbing videos rolls out to all creators (TechCrunch)
• AI’s $344 Billion ‘Language Model’ Bet Looks Fragile (Bloomberg)
• How Oracle’s Larry Ellison rode the AI ‘tsunami’ (FT)

Wednesday, September 10 2025 - Is Oracle The New Nvidia?

• Oracle Is the New Nvidia, for Better or Worse (WSJ)
• Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing (The Verge)
• Apple says the iPhone 17 comes with a massive security upgrade (The Verge)
• Robinhood, a Broker Built for Social-Media Age, to Launch Its Own Social Network (WSJ)
• Quantum computing company raises a record $1bn (FT)
• 5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan (The Hollywood Reporter)

Tuesday, September 09 2025 - The iPhone Air

• Apple announces iPhone Air: the thinnest iPhone ever (9to5Mac)
• Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro has the biggest battery of any iPhone (The Verge)
• Anthropic Judge Blasts $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (2) (Bloomberg Law)
• Xbox is coming to cars thanks to an LG and Microsoft partnership (The Verge)
• OpenAI Executives Rattled by Campaigns to Derail For-Profit Restructuring (WSJ)
• Microsoft mandates a return to office (The Verge)
• New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline (Search Engine Roundtable)

Monday, September 08 2025 - Does Anthropic Owe Me $3000?

• Anthropic Reaches $1.5 Billion Author Copyright Settlement (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film (WSJ)
• Nasdaq makes push to launch trading of tokenized securities (Reuters)
• Mistral Set for $14 Billion Valuation With New Funding Round (Bloomberg)
• Databricks Crosses $4 Billion in Annual Revenue Rate (WSJ)
• ElevenLabs to Let Staff Sell Shares at $6.6 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
• AI Generated ‘Boring History’ Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History (404Media)

Friday, September 05 2025 - Now OpenAI Wants To Find You A Job

• OpenAI Plans Jobs Platform, Certification Program for AI Roles (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI set to start mass production of its own AI chips with Broadcom (FT)
• Warner Bros. Discovery Sues AI Giant Midjourney for Copyright Infringement In Major Legal Battle (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Nvidia to Pay $1.5 Billion to Rent Back Its Own Chips From Cloud Startup (The Information)

Thursday, September 04 2025 - Never Got Flying Cars, But We Do Have An Instagram iPad App, Finally

• Apple Plans AI-Powered Web Search Tool for Siri to Rival OpenAI, Perplexity (Bloomberg)
• Nvidia’s Venture Arm Invests in Honeywell’s Quantinuum (Bloomberg)
• Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million (CNBC)
• Roblox expands use of age-estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings (TechCrunch)
• New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats (Ars Technica)
• Instagram is coming to iPad, 15 years later (The Verge)

Wednesday, September 03 2025 - The Takeaways From The Google Antitrust Remedies

• Google stock jumps 8% after search giant avoids worst-case penalties in antitrust case (CNBC)
• Google, Apple, and Mozilla Win in the Antitrust Case Google Lost (Spyglass)
• Google’s Big Win Is Even Bigger for Apple (WSJ)
• OpenAI starts building out its app team (The Verge)
• Anthropic’s $13bn Series F raise sees it triple in value to $183bn (SiliconRepublic)
• Acer Veriton GN100 is a mini AI workstation (VideoCardz)
• The problem of AI chatbots discussing suicide with teenagers (FT)

Tuesday, September 02 2025 - Trump’s Big Crypto Debut

• Trump family’s World Liberty Financial token falls in trading debut (FT)
• Parental controls are coming to ChatGPT ‘within the next month,’ OpenAI says (CNNBusiness)
• Dolby Vision 2 goes beyond HDR with more AI and ‘authentic motion’ smoothing (The Verge)
• UK fintechs explore buying US banks to speed up push for licences (FT)
• Cutting-Edge AI Was Supposed to Get Cheaper. It’s More Expensive Than Ever. (WSJ)

Friday, August 29 2025 - China Might Not Need US Chips For Long

• Alibaba Creates AI Chip to Help China Fill Nvidia Void (WSJ)
• Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. (Washington Post)
• Intel gets $5.7 billion from Trump deal as White House says details are ‘being ironed out’ (CNBC)
• Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave (FT)
• A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich (WSJ)

Thursday, August 28 2025 - Nvidia Earnings And Nano Banana

• Nvidia beats on top and bottom lines as company expects breakneck AI spend to continue (CNBC)
• Microsoft expands Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s Copilot AI is now inside Samsung TVs and monitors (The Verge)
• Google Cloud is developing its own blockchain for payments, currently in private testnet (The Block)
• Google Gemini’s AI image model gets a ‘bananas’ upgrade (TechCrunch)
• Nothing busted using professional photos as Phone 3 samples (The Verge)
• Google Pixel 10 Pro review: the best AI phone on the market (The Shortcut)

Wednesday, August 27 2025 - The First Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against OpenAI

• OpenAI Plans to Update ChatGPT After Parents Sue Over Teen’s Suicide (Bloomberg)
• A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. (NYTimes)
• Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab (Wired)
• ‘Vibe-hacking’ is now a top AI threat (The Verge)
• Anthropic Settles Major AI Copyright Suit Brought by Authors (3) (Bloomberg Law)
• Apple Makes Music Push in Radio After Losing Ground to Spotify (WSJ)
• Apple Event Announced for September 9: ‘Awe Dropping’ (MacRumors)

Tuesday, August 26 2025 - xAI Sues Apple And OpenAI

• Elon Musk’s xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over AI competition, App Store rankings (Reuters)
• Exclusive: Trump administration weighs sanctions on officials implementing EU tech law, sources say (Reuters)
• Spotify is adding DMs (The Verge)
• Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children (404Media)
• Intel says Trump deal has risks for shareholders, international sales (CNBC)
• U.S. Intel (Stratechery)

Monday, August 25 2025 - Uncle Sam’s Intel Stake

• Trump, Intel Agree to 10% U.S. Stake as President Promises More Deals (NYTimes)
• Apple Explores Using Google Gemini AI to Power Revamped Siri (Bloomberg)
• Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models (TechCrunch)
• Perplexity to Let Publishers Share in Revenue from AI Searches (Bloomberg)
• Netflix Sets Opening Dates for Permanent Entertainment and Shopping Venues in Philadelphia, Dallas (Variety)
• Inside DHL’s AI upgrade: ‘Love it or hate it, you have to work with it’ (FT)
• 8 Women, 4 Bedrooms and 1 Cause: Breaking A.I.’s Glass Ceiling (NYTimes)

Friday, August 22 2025 - Has China Shut The Door On Nvidia?

• Nvidia Orders Halt to H20 Production After China Directive Against Purchases (The Information)
• Meta Signs $10 Billion-Plus Cloud Deal With Google (The Information)
• Elon Musk tried to enlist Mark Zuckerberg in $100bn bid for OpenAI (FT)
• OpenAI Is Challenging Google—While Using Its Search Data (The Information)

Thursday, August 21 2025 - Now Meta Has Frozen AI Hiring

• Meta Freezes AI Hiring After Blockbuster Spending Spree (WSJ)
• Suddenly, Silicon Valley Is Lowering AI Expectations (NYMag)
• Google did more than just switch to TSMC for Tensor G5 — This is what’s new (9to5Google)
• DeepSeek Touts Model That Outdoes Flagship in Agentic AI Step (Bloomberg)
• Sony is raising PS5 prices, starting tomorrow (The Verge)
• Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, August 20 2025 - The Pixel 10 Smartphone Unveiling

• The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the first fully dust-resistant foldable (The Verge)
• Google debuts Pixel Watch 4 with domed display, emergency Satellite Communication (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft and Asus’ new Xbox Ally handhelds launch on October 16th (The Verge)
• Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta’s A.I. Efforts, Again (NYTimes)
• US tech stocks hit by concerns over future of AI boom (FT)
• I Saw the Future of AI Film and It Was Empty (Wired)

Tuesday, August 19 2025 - Chamath Is Back In The Arena

• ⁠Intel is getting a $2 billion investment from SoftBank⁠ (CNBC)
• ⁠Nvidia releases a new small, open model Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 with toggle on/off reasoning⁠ (VentureBeat)
• ⁠‘SPAC King’ Chamath Palihapitiya is back with a new one⁠ (Pitchbook)
• ⁠Texas attorney general accuses Meta, Character.AI of misleading kids with mental health claims⁠ (TechCrunch)
• ⁠Is AI hitting a wall?⁠ (FT)

Monday, August 18 2025 - Meta’s Smart Headware Push

• Apple’s Vision Pro Is Suffering From a Lack of Immersive Video (Bloomberg)
• Meta Tiramisu “Hyperrealistic VR” Hands-On: A Stunning Window Into Another World (UploadVR)
• Meta Boba 3 Prototype Hands-On: Ultra-Wide Field Of View Without Compromise (UploadVR)
• Startup down rounds are at a 10 year high, according to PitchBook data (Fortune)
• Meta Plans Fourth Restructuring of AI Efforts in Six Months (The Information)
• Zuckerberg Squandered His AI Talent. Now He’s Spending Billions To Replace It. (Forbes)
• Big Tech Is Eating Itself in Talent War (WSJ)

Friday, August 15 2025 - AI Business Bigger Than The Smartphone Business?

• Trump Administration Said to Discuss Taking Stake in Intel (Bloomberg)
• Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info (Reuters)
• Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost (The Register)
• Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches (The Verge)
• Whoop Refuses to Pull Blood Pressure Tool After FDA Warning (Bloomberg)

Thursday, August 14 2025 - Thu. 08/14 – An Apple Pixar Lamp?

• New York sues Zelle, says security lapses led to $1 billion consumer fraud losses (Reuters)
• Crypto Firm Bullish Soars 84% in Debut After $1.1 Billion IPO (Bloomberg)
• Before Wild Chrome Bid, Perplexity Had Been Hunting for Browsers (The Information)
• Apple Plots Expansion Into AI Robots, Home Security and Smart Displays (Bloomberg)
• AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview (WSJ)
• Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome (WSJ)
• OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again (VentureBeat)
• OpenAI rolls out Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts integration in ChatGPT (BleepingComputer)
• UK porn site traffic plunges as age verification rules take effect (FT)
• AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025 (TechCrunch)
• GM Plans Renewed Driverless-Car Push After Cruise Debacle (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, August 12 2025 - Tue. 08/12 – Elon To Sue Apple To Get At Sam?

• Musk says xAI to take legal action against Apple over App Store rankings (Reuters)
• Tech giants Apple and Google lose landmark court case as federal judge rules they engaged in anti-competitive conduct (ABC)
• China Urges Firms to Avoid Nvidia H20 Chips After Trump Resumes Sales (Bloomberg)
• With Billions at Risk, Nvidia CEO Buys His Way Out of the Trade Battle (WSJ)
• Anthropic offers Claude chatbot to US lawmakers for $1 (FT)

Monday, August 11 2025 - Mon. 08/11 – Nvidia To Pay The Government To Sell In China

• Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government (FT)
• Trump Bid for Cut of Chip Revenue Risks ‘Dangerous World’ (Bloomberg)
• Intel CEO Singled Out by Trump to Visit White House on Monday (WSJ)
• OpenAI Faces Backlash for Retiring Older Models With GPT-5 Launch (PCMag)
• GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. (Gary Marcus)
• A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? (David Sacks)
• AOL discontinues its dial-up internet, and we’re just surprised they even offered it in 2025 (PCGamer)

Friday, August 08 2025 - Fri. 08/08 – GPT-5 Fallout

• GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card (Simon Willison)
• GPT-5 Hands-On: Welcome to the Stone Age (Latent Space)
• Google says it’s working on a fix for Gemini’s self-loathing ‘I am a failure’ comments (Business Insider)
• Intel’s Chief Holds Firm After Trump Demands His Resignation (NYTimes)
• High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups (TechCrunch)

Thursday, August 07 2025 - Thu. 07/08 – GPT-5 Released

• GPT-5 is being released to all ChatGPT users (The Verge)
• OpenAI Unveils GPT-5, Its Latest and Most Powerful Model, After Two-Year Wait (WSJ)
• OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here (TechCrunch)
• Trump Urges ‘Conflicted’ Intel CEO Tan to Resign Immediately (Bloomberg)
• Trump Eyes 100% Chips Tariff, Exempting Firms That Invest in US (Bloomberg)
• Apple Announces $100 Billion US Investment Ahead of Trump Event (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, August 06 2025 - Wed. 08/06 – OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models

• ESPN flagship streaming service to launch Aug. 21 (CNBC)
• Hulu App to Be Phased Out as Disney Is ‘Fully Integrating’ Service Into Disney+ (Variety)
• OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 (Wired)
• Anthropic’s powerful Opus 4.1 model is here - how to access it (and why you’ll want to) (ZDNet)
• Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese (VentureBeat)
• Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s new AI reverse-engineers malware autonomously, marking a shift in cybersecurity (GeekWire)
• Nvidia defiant over backdoors and kill switches in GPUs as U.S. mulls tracking requirements — calls them ‘permanent flaws’ that are ‘a gift to hackers’ (Tom’s Hardware)

Tuesday, August 05 2025 - Tue 08/05 – Spygate At TSMC?

• TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process (9to5Mac)
• Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites (The Verge)
• Figma’s Pursuit of Long-Term Backers Kept IPO Price in Check (Bloomberg)
• Voice Startup ElevenLabs Launches AI Music Service (WSJ)
• Google’s new AI model creates video game worlds in real time (The Verge)
• Google’s Kaggle to host AI chess tournament to evaluate leading AI models’ reasoning skills (Silicon Angle)
• Exclusive: Patreon crosses $10 billion creator payment milestone (Axios)

Monday, August 04 2025 - Mon. 08/04 – The AI Researcher Who Turned Down $1.5 Billion From Zuck

• Lyft Partners With Baidu on Robotaxis in European Expansion (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s New ‘Answers’ Team Eyes ChatGPT-Like Product in AI Push (Bloomberg)
• Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny (TechCrunch)
• Thanks for Your $1 Billion Job Offer, Mark Zuckerberg. I’m Gonna Pass. (WSJ)
• ‘Dumb’ AI Bots Collude to Rig Markets, Wharton Research Finds (Bloomberg)
• Silicon Valley Is in Its ‘Hard Tech’ Era (NYTimes)
• Lenovo’s rollable laptop is the coolest computer I’ve used all year (The Verge)

Friday, August 01 2025 - Fri. 08/01 – Tech IPO’s Are Back On The Menu, Boys…

• Figma more than triples in NYSE debut after selling shares at $33 (CNBC)
• Anthropic Revenue Pace Nears $5 Billion in Run-Up to Mega Round (The Information)
• Exclusive: OpenAI Secures Another Giant Funding Deal (NYTimes)
• Google rolls out Gemini Deep Think AI, a reasoning model that tests multiple ideas in parallel (TechCrunch)
• Reddit wants to be a search engine now (The Verge)

Thursday, July 31 2025 - Thu. 07/31 – Microsoft Joins The $4 Trillion Club

• Microsoft officially tops $4 trillion in market cap, joining Nvidia in exclusive club (CNBC)
• Investors Cheer an A.I. Spending Bonanza (NYTimes)
• Meta shares climb 10% on revenue beat, raised forecast (CNBC)
• Apple, Google, OpenAI to Work With Federal Agencies to Make Health Data Helpful (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI Hits $12 Billion in Annualized Revenue, Breaks 700 Million ChatGPT Weekly Active Users (The Information)
• Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code (VentureBeat)
• Google DeepMind says its new AI can map the entire planet with unprecedented accuracy (VentureBeat)

Wednesday, July 30 2025 - Wed. 07/30 – The Real Money In AI Video Is In Robotics?

• YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections (TechCrunch)
• ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems (Wired)
• Apple Loses Fourth AI Researcher in a Month to Meta’s Superintelligence Team (Bloomberg)
• Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target (Wired)
• AI Startup Cohere Projects $200 Million Revenue Pace as New Funding Nears (The Information)
• Runway, Luma Target Sales to Robotics Companies (The Information)

Tuesday, July 29 2025 - Tue. 07/29 – Do You Need To Cut Back On Your AI Usage?

• Sony sues Tencent for allegedly ripping off ‘Horizon’ video games (Reuters)
• Microsoft revolutionizes Edge as an AI-powered web browser with new experimental ‘Copilot Mode’ — here’s how to enable it right now (Windows Central)
• Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users (TechCrunch)
• A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating (404Media)
• Waymo, Avis Plan Dallas Robotaxi Launch in Multiyear Deal (Bloomberg)
• Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses revenue tripled over the year, EssilorLuxottica says (CNBC)
• Oakley Meta glasses review: A familiar formula with some upgrades (Engadget)

Monday, July 28 2025 - Mon. 07/28 – Tea Has Been Spilt

• Samsung to Make Tesla AI Chips in Multiyear Texas Deal (Bloomberg)
• Donald Trump freezes export controls to secure trade deal with China (FT)
• Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit (TechCrunch)
• PayPal to Roll Out ‘Pay With Crypto’ Feature for Merchants (Bloomberg)
• AI start-up Anthropic open to Mideast funds in talks to double valuation to over $150bn (FT)
• Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app (NBCNews)
• Hackers leak 13,000 user photos and IDs from the Tea app, designed as a women’s safe space (NBCNews)

Friday, July 25 2025 - Fri. 07/25 – GPT-5 In Two Weeks?

• Intel beats on revenue, slashes foundry investments as CEO says ‘no more blank checks’ (CNBC)
• Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal (TechCrunch)
• Companies load up on niche crypto tokens to boost share prices (FT)
• OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August (The Verge)
• Is AI killing graduate jobs? (FT)

Thursday, July 24 2025 - Thu. 07/24 – The US AI Action Plan

• Trump Signs AI Orders, Vows US Will Win Race Over New Technology (Bloomberg)
• Donald Trump blocks AI groups with ‘ideological bias’ from government work (FT)
• Google’s AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India (TechCrunch)
• Google Photos adding free photo-to-video, Remix, and Create tab (9to5Google)
• Amazon is launching a cheaper color Kindle (The Verge)
• Starlink-powered ‘T-Satellite’ service is now live on T-Mobile (The Verge)
• The Nintendo Switch 2 Is the Fastest-Selling Gaming Hardware in U.S. History (IGN)

Wednesday, July 23 2025 - Wed. 07/28 – Don’t Sleep On That SharePoint Exploit

• Microsoft links Sharepoint ToolShell attacks to Chinese hackers (BleepingComputer)
• Apple Launches $20-a-Month AppleCare One Plan Covering Up to Three Devices (Bloomberg)
• Musk Allies to Raise Up to $12 Billion for xAI Chips as Startup Burns Through Cash (WSJ)
• Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World (Simon Willison)
• Alibaba’s new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 beats Kimi-2 and offers low compute version (VentureBeat)
• Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say (The Verge)
• Proton is launching a privacy-focused AI chatbot (The Verge)
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of an AI ‘fraud crisis’ (CNN)

Tuesday, July 22 2025 - Tue. 07/22 – Is Masa Son Being Left Behind In AI Again?

• OpenAI and Google outdo the mathletes, but not each other (TechCrunch)
• SoftBank and OpenAI’s $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground (WSJ)
• Oracle to Supply OpenAI With 2 Million AI Chips for Data Centers (Bloomberg)
• Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All (Wired)
• AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. (Quanta Magazine)

Monday, July 21 2025 - Mon. 07/21 – Massive SharePoint Zero-Day

• Hackers Exploit Microsoft SharePoint as Firm Works to Patch (Bloomberg)
• The First Foldable iPhone Will Arrive Next Year in Un-Apple-Like Fashion (Bloomberg)
• Nvidia’s CUDA platform now supports RISC-V — support brings open source instruction set to AI platforms, joining x86 and Arm (Tom’s Hardware)
• TSMC’s Taiwan Stock Value Surpasses $1 Trillion Amid AI Frenzy (Bloomberg)
• AI groups spend to replace low-cost ‘data labellers’ with high-paid experts (FT)
• OpenAI’s experimental model achieved gold at the International Math Olympiad (Engadget)
• OpenAI’s gold medal performance on the International Math Olympiad. (Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Friday, July 18 2025 - Fri. 07/18 – ChatGPT Agent

• OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you (The Verge)
• OpenAI ChatGPT Agent announcement LIVE — all the big news from today’s livestream (Tom’s Guide)
• Netflix says it’s streamed 95 billion hours in 2025, and a lot of ads too (The Verge)
• Donald Trump set to open US retirement market to crypto investments (FT)
• AI start-up Perplexity’s valuation tops $18bn months after latest funding round (FT)
• Apple Sues Jon Prosser Over iOS 26 Leaks (Macrumors)

Thursday, July 17 2025 - Thu. 07/17 – AI Pricing

• TSMC Raises 2025 Outlook in a Big Boost for AI Demand Hopes (Bloomberg)
• US House agrees to consider crypto legislation in big win for the digital asset industry (Reuters)
• Investors Float Deal Valuing Anthropic at More Than $100 Billion (The Information)
• Microsoft’s Copilot Is Getting Lapped by 900 Million ChatGPT Downloads (Bloomberg)
• Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket (Fortune)

Wednesday, July 16 2025 - Wed. 07/16 – Jensen Gets Bullish

• Nvidia Boss Expects US to Move Fast on First H20 China Licenses (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI Preps ChatGPT Agents in Challenge to Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint (The Information)
• OpenAI to take cut of ChatGPT shopping sales in hunt for revenues (FT)
• Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own (Rest Of World)
• Reflections on OpenAI (Calvin French)

Tuesday, July 15 2025 - Tue. 07/15 – Nvidia Back In Business In China?

• Nvidia, AMD to Resume AI Chip Sales to China in US Reversal (Bloomberg)
• Apple to Buy Rare Earths From Pentagon-Backed US Producer MP (Bloomberg)
• Zuckerberg Says Meta Will Build Gigawatt-Size Data Centers (Bloomberg)
• Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes (NYTimes)
• Cognition AI Buys Windsurf as A.I. Frenzy Escalates (NYTimes)
• China’s AI glasses market takes shape as Xiaomi’s entry inspires early adopters (SCMP)

Monday, July 14 2025 - Mon. 07/14 – Google Snatches Windsurf From OpenAI

• Google to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Staff, IP After Startup Ends OpenAI Talks (The Information)
• Google Is Said to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Assets, Talent (Bloomberg)
• An OpenAI Acquisition Turns Into a Google ‘Hackqusition’… (Spyglass)
• Elon Musk’s xAI seeks up to $200bn valuation in next fundraising (FT)
• SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion Into Elon Musk’s xAI (WSJ)
• Google exec: ‘We’re going to be combining ChromeOS and Android’ (The Verge)
• ‘I think you see the future first on Android’ – Google’s Android leader Sameer Samat (TechRadar)
• Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free (VentureBeat)
• Eight Things We’ve Learned About Hollywood This Year (Bloomberg)
• The Streaming Wars Come Down to 2: YouTube vs. Netflix (NYTimes)

Friday, July 11 2025 - Fri. 07/11 – Grok: Let Me See What Elon Thinks

• Grok: searching X for “from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)” (Simon Willison’s Blog)
• Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions (TechCrunch)
• A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump (The Verge)
• Study: Apple’s newest AI model flags health conditions with up to 92% accuracy (9to5Mac)
• Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Actually Reduce Productivity (Second Thoughts)

Thursday, July 10 2025 - Thu. 07/10 – Grok 4

• Grok 4 is live — here’s what makes it Elon Musk’s most advanced AI yet (Tom’s Guide)
• Meta Poached Apple’s Pang With Pay Package Over $200 Million (Bloomberg)
• Zuckerberg’s $100 Million AI Job Offers Are Paying Off (Bloomberg)
• Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome (Reuters)
• Microsoft Touts $500 Million AI Savings While Slashing Jobs (Bloomberg)
• America’s largest power grid is struggling to meet demand from AI (Reuters)

Wednesday, July 09 2025 - Wed. 07/09 – Samsung Unpacked

• Galaxy Z Fold 7 goes official with drastically thinner design, but a $2,000 price tag (9to5Google)
• Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 7 has a bigger battery and is still thinner than last year’s model (Engadget)
• Samsung launches the more affordable Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE for $899 (9to5Google)
• Galaxy Z Fold 7 hands-on: Samsung finally made the foldables we’ve been asking for (The Verge)
• Apple COO Jeff Williams to Retire in Major Changing of Guard (Bloomberg)
• Elon Musk’s AI chatbot churns out antisemitic posts days after update (NBCNews)
• Polymarket Rules ‘No’ on $237M Controversial Bet Over Zelenskyy’s Suit (Decrypt)
• Gmail’s new tab is made for unsubscribing from emails (The Verge)

Tuesday, July 08 2025 - Tue. 07/08 – Zuck Poaches AI Talent From Apple

• Apple Loses Top AI Models Executive to Meta’s Hiring Spree (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI’s Stock Compensation Reflect Steep Costs of Talent Wars (The Information)
• OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats (FT)
• Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications (The Verge)
• This New AI Tool Wants to Work With Filmmakers—Not Replace Them (Time)
• iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass (TechCrunch)

Monday, July 07 2025 - Mon. 07/07 – What Did I Miss?

• Meta’s new hires offer a peek into superintelligence plans (Semafor)
• Zuck’s Eleven (Spyglass)
• CoreWeave to Buy Core Scientific in $9 Billion Stock Deal (Bloomberg)
• US industrial groups pivot to data centres amid AI boom (FT)
• TikTok Building New Version of App Ahead of Expected U.S. Sale (The Information)
• As Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., Google’s brief effort building smartphones in Texas 12 years ago offers critical lessons (Fortune)
• At least 36 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, July 02 2025 - Wed. 07/02 – In Meta v. OpenAI, Who’s Desperate And Who’s Scared?

• Microsoft laying off about 9,000 employees in latest round of cuts (CNBC)
• Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent (Wired)
• Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent-Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’ (Wired)
• Figma files for IPO on NYSE, plans to ‘take big swings’ with acquisitions (CNBC)
• China Is Quickly Eroding America’s Lead in the Global AI Race (WSJ)
• How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era? (NYTimes)

Tuesday, July 01 2025 - Tue. 07/01 – Superhuman Finds A Home

• Zuckerberg Debuts Meta ‘Superintelligence’ Group, More Hires (Bloomberg)
• Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping (TechCrunch)
• Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri in Major Reversal (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Is on the Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans in Its Warehouses (WSJ)
• Musk’s X Hires Entrepreneur Nikita Bier as Head of Product (Bloomberg)
• Grammarly to acquire email startup Superhuman in AI platform push (Reuters)

Monday, June 30 2025 - Mon. 06/30 – Nintendo And Amazon Fight

• Amazon Misses Out on Switch 2 Sales After Nintendo Pulled Products From US Site (Bloomberg)
• Kuo: Apple to release cheaper MacBook powered by iPhone processor (9to5Mac)
• ‘F1’ Revs To $144M Opening Weekend Around The World, Brad Pitt & Apple Original Films Records (Deadline)
• OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’ (Wired)
• AI avatars are here in full force—and they’re serving some of the world’s biggest companies (Fortune)
• Spotify revamps its Discover Weekly playlist after 10 years (TechCrunch)

Friday, June 27 2025 - Fri. 06/27 – The Death Of The Blue Screen Of Death

• In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race (NYTimes)
• Meta says it’s winning the talent war with OpenAI (The Verge)
• Apple announces sweeping App Store changes in the EU (9to5Mac)
• Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you (TechCrunch)
• TikTok, Instagram Plot TV Apps Following YouTube’s Success (The Information)
• Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death after 40 years (The Verge)

Thursday, June 26 2025 - Thu. 06/26 – Conflicting AI Legal Rulings

• Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training (Reuters)
• Trump Mobile reiterates claims that new phones are ‘made in America’ (USAToday)
• Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI, Microsoft Rift Hinges on How Smart AI Can Get (WSJ)
• DeepSeek’s Progress Stalled by U.S. Export Controls (The Information)
• Salesforce CEO Says 30% of Internal Work Is Being Handled by AI (Bloomberg)
• AI Killed My Job: Tech workers (Blood In The Machine)

Wednesday, June 25 2025 - Wed. 06/25 – Never Wear A Suit In Tech

• Employers Are Buried in A.I.-Generated Résumés (NYTimes)
• CareerBuilder + Monster to Sell Businesses in Bankruptcy (WSJ)
• Exclusive: Uber and Palantir alums raise $35M to disrupt corporate recruitment with AI (Fortune)
• Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books (The Verge)
• Google unveils Gemini CLI, an open-source AI tool for terminals (TechCrunch)
• How ChatGPT and other AI tools are changing the teaching profession (AP)
• iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing ‘F1’ movie (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, June 24 2025 - Tue. 06/24 – Is Microsoft Struggling To Sell Copilot?

• After a year of waiting, Microsoft’s Meta Quest 3S “Xbox Edition” is here — our hands-on review of this (very) limited edition partnership (Windows Central)
• Amazon bringing same-day delivery to ‘millions’ of rural customers (The Verge)
• Tesla Robotaxi Incidents Draw Scrutiny From US Safety Agency (Bloomberg)
• Waymo’s robotaxis are now available on the Uber app in Atlanta (The Verge)
• ChatGPT’s Enterprise Success Against Copilot Fuels OpenAI and Microsoft’s Rivalry (Bloomberg)
• Goldman Sachs launches AI assistant firmwide, memo shows (Reuters)
• Thinking Machines Lab’s $2B Seed Round Is Biggest By A Long Shot (Crunchbase News)
• How Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s Startup Plans to Compete With OpenAI and Others (The Information)

Monday, June 23 2025 - Mon. 06/23 – Tesla Launches Its Robotaxi

• Tesla launches robotaxi service in Austin (FT)
• Jony Ive Deal Removed From OpenAI Site Over Trademark Suit (Bloomberg)
• Apple locked in last-minute App Store negotiations to avoid Brussels fines (FT)
• Apple Will Need to Leave Its M&A Comfort Zone to Succeed in AI (Bloomberg)
• Apple Executives Have Held Internal Talks About Buying AI Startup Perplexity (Bloomberg)
• The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs (The Verge)
• The Global A.I. Divide (NYTimes)

Friday, June 20 2025 - Fri. 06/20 – A Shenzhen-like Production City In The US?

• Meta announces Oakley smart glasses (The Verge)
• Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO (CNBC)
• Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time, without clear legal basis (AP)
• Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says (Axios)
• Masa Son Pitches $1 Trillion US AI Hub to TSMC, Trump Team (Bloomberg)
• Israeli Officials Warn Iran Is Hijacking Security Cameras to Spy (Bloomberg)

Thursday, June 19 2025 - Thu. 06/19 – What Would AGI Actually Look Like?

• Microsoft Planning Thousands More Job Cuts Aimed at Salespeople (Bloomberg)
• ‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit (VentureBeat)
• Meta in Talks to Hire AI Investors Friedman and Gross, Partially Buy Out Their Venture Fund (The Information)
• Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks (FT)
• OpenAI warns models with higher bioweapons risk are imminent (Axios)
• Why Big Tech cannot agree on artificial general intelligence (FT)

Wednesday, June 18 2025 - Wed. 06/18 – Oh Yeah. What About TikTok?

• Trump will grant TikTok another 90-day extension in enforcement of sale-or-ban law (CNNBusiness)
• Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers (TechCrunch)
• Musk’s xAI Burns Through $1 Billion a Month as Costs Pile Up (Bloomberg)
• YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Amazon expects to cut corporate jobs as it relies more on AI (NBCNews)
• Xreal’s One Pro Are a Stopgap Ahead of True AR Smart Glasses (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, June 17 2025 - Tue. 06/17 – Open AI Still Needs To Placate Microsoft

• OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder (The Information)
• OpenAI and Microsoft Tensions Are Reaching a Boiling Point (WSJ)
• OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract (CNBC)
• Intel will lay off 15% to 20% of its factory workers, memo says (The Oregonian)
• Amazon Prime Day stretches to four days of deals this year (The Verge)
• Generation Alpha’s FarmVille Is Growing Like Crazy in Roblox (NYTimes)
• For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source (NiemanLab)
• It’s Official: Streaming Is Now the King of TV (NYTimes)

Monday, June 16 2025 - Mon. 06/16 – What Happens When Search Abandons The Web?

• WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App (NYTimes)
• Trump Mobile: President’s Company Unveils Wireless Service Delivered via AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, Plans to Launch a U.S.-Made ‘Sleek, Gold’ Android Smartphone (Variety)
• Amazon Ads & Roku Set Landmark Pact Giving Brands Access To 80% Of Connected-TV Households (Deadline)
• TikTok Pushes Deeper Into AI-Generated Video Ads With New Tools (Bloomberg)
• Google Search Is Fading. The Whole Internet Is At Risk. (Barron’s)

Friday, June 13 2025 - Fri. 06/13 – Stablecoins Everywhere

• The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster (TechCrunch)
• Meta Risks Regulatory Scrutiny in Pursuit of Scale AI (Bloomberg)
• Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade (Bloomberg)
• Chime pops 37% in Nasdaq debut after pricing IPO above expected range (CNBC)
• Walmart and Amazon Are Exploring Issuing Their Own Stablecoins (WSJ)
• Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals (The Verge)

Thursday, June 12 2025 - Thu. 06/12 – Meta’s Big AI Acqui-hire

• Meta to Pay Nearly $15 Billion for Scale AI Stake and Startup’s 28-Year-Old CEO (The Information)
• Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement (Axios)
• Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash (404Media)
• How stablecoins are entering the financial mainstream (FT)
• EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour (AdWeek)

Wednesday, June 11 2025 - Wed. 06/11 – o3-pro

• OpenAI releases o3-pro, a souped-up version of its o3 AI reasoning model (TechCrunch)
• God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro (Latent Space)
• Google Releases the Android 16 OS Months Earlier Than Expected (CNET)
• Nintendo Switch 2 Sets Sales Record in Boon for Games Sector (Bloomberg)
• Elon Musk says Tesla robotaxi rides in Austin ‘tentatively’ set to begin June 22 (CNBC)
• Google Offers Buyouts to Employees in Search and Ads, Other Units (The Information)
• HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam (The Verge)

Tuesday, June 10 2025 - Tue. 06/10 – Zuck’s Big AI Ambitions

• Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’ (NYTimes)
• Zuckerberg Is Personally Recruiting New ‘Superintelligence’ AI Team at Meta (Bloomberg)
• Exclusive: OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry, sources say (Reuters)
• Waymo halts service in downtown Los Angeles amid ICE protests (LA Times)
• News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools (WSJ)
• Apple will end support for Intel Macs next year, macOS 27 will require Apple Silicon (9to5Mac)
• ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Hard to Read’: Designers React to Apple’s Liquid Glass Update (Wired)

Monday, June 09 2025 - Mon. 06/09 – WWDC 2025

• Hands-On With the Xbox Ally X, the New Gaming Handheld from Asus and Microsoft (IGN)
• Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10 Billion (Bloomberg)
• A knockout blow for LLMs? (Gary Marcus On AI)

Friday, June 06 2025 - Fri. 06/06 – IPO’s Back On The Menu?

• Stablecoin issuer Circle soars 168% in NYSE debut after pricing IPO above expected range (CNBC)
• Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’ (TechCrunch)
• Anysphere, Hailed as Fastest Growing Startup Ever, Raises $900 Million (Bloomberg)
• Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China (MIT Technology Review)

Thursday, June 05 2025 - Thu. 06/05 – Some In Hollywood (Quietly) LOVE AI

• Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleges Unauthorized Use of Site’s Data (WSJ)
• Meta Talks to Disney, A24 About Content for New VR Headset (WSJ)
• Here’s what’s inside Meta’s experimental new smart glasses (The Verge)
• OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats (Ars Technica)
• Amazon Prepares to Test Humanoid Robots for Delivering Packages (The Information)
• Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It) (Vulture)

Wednesday, June 04 2025 - Wed. 06/04 – State Of The AI Coding Landgrab

• Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models (TechCrunch)
• AI startups revolutionize coding industry, leading to sky-high valuations (Reuters)
• Google’s NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly (The Verge)
• Pump.fun plans $1B token sale at $4B valuation: Sources (Blockworks)
• How Morgan Stanley Tackled One of Coding’s Toughest Problems (WSJ)
• It’s official: There are no Nintendo Switch 2 reviews. Here’s what that means for us, and you (VGC)

Tuesday, June 03 2025 - Tue. 06/03 – Framing The AI Debate

• Musk Taps Investors for Billions Days After Washington Exit (Bloomberg)
• ‘Forest Blizzard’ vs ‘Fancy Bear’ - cyber companies hope to untangle weird hacker nicknames (Reuters)
• Gridcare thinks more than 100 GW of data center capacity is hiding in the grid (TechCrunch)
• Walmart is supercharging revenue — but with fewer workers (FT)
• My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts (Thomas Ptacek)

Monday, June 02 2025 - Mon. 06/02 – How DoorDash Has Quietly Been Killing It

• Apple Developer Event Will Show It’s Still Far From Being an AI Leader (Bloomberg)
• Samsung Nears Wide-Ranging Deal With Perplexity for AI Features (Bloomberg)
• Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally (TechCrunch)
• Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups (TechCrunch)
• Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI (WSJ)
• DoorDash CEO Tony Xu is taking on the role of industry consolidator in food delivery (CNBC)

Friday, May 30 2025 - Fri. 05/30 – Big Meta/Anduril Deal Is A Big Deal

• Meta Fired Palmer Luckey. Now, They’re Teaming Up on a Defense Contract. (WSJ)
• Mark Zuckerberg Finally Found a Use for His Metaverse — War (Bloomberg)
• EXCLUSIVE: Xbox’s first-party handheld has been sidelined (for now), as Microsoft doubles down on ‘Kennan’ and Windows 11 PC gaming optimization (Windows Central)
• Black Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate them (TechCrunch)
• Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots (TechCrunch)

Thursday, May 29 2025 - Thu. 05/29 – Somebody Knows Victoria’s Secrets

• Nvidia beats on earnings and revenue as data center sales jump 73% (CNBC)
• Nvidia CEO Warns That Chinese AI Rivals Are Now ‘Formidable’ (Bloomberg)
• NVIDIA GeForce NOW launches a native Steam Deck app, unlocking 4K cloud gaming & extended battery life for Valve’s handheld (Windows Central)
• Victoria’s Secret takes down website after security incident (BleepingComputer)
• Apple to Launch iOS 26, macOS 26 in Major Rebrand Tied to Software Redesigns (Bloomberg)
• DeepSeek Quietly Drops AI Update That Outperforms Google’s Best (Implicator.ai)
• Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath (Axios)

Wednesday, May 28 2025 - Wed. 05/28 – Apple Playing Games Again

• Apple acquires RAC7, its first-ever video game studio (Digital Trends)
• Apple to Debut Dedicated Gaming App Within Days of Switch 2’s Arrival (Bloomberg)
• Texas Adopts Online Child-Safety Bill Opposed by Apple’s CEO (Bloomberg)
• Getty Images spending millions to battle a ‘world of rhetoric’ in AI suit, CEO says (CNBC)
• Driverless Semi Trucks Are Here, With Little Regulation and Big Promises (NYTimes)
• Apple’s Satellite Ambitions Threatened by Elon Musk, Internal Resistance (The Information)

Tuesday, May 27 2025 - Tue. 05/27 – The “Holy Grail” Of AI Models

• Salesforce Agrees to Buy Informatica in Deal Worth $8 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Stablecoin Giant Circle File for IPO on NYSE (CoinDesk)
• The Browser Company mulls selling or open-sourcing Arc Browser amid AI-focused pivot (TechCrunch)
• Cricket gives Disney-Ambani unit in India almost as many users as Netflix (FT)
• One of Europe’s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the ‘holy grail’ of models (TechCrunch)
• At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work (NYTimes)
• Khosla Ventures among VCs experimenting with AI-infused roll-ups of mature companies (TechCrunch)

Friday, May 23 2025 - Fri. 05/23 – Tim Apple’s Very Bad Week

• Trump says a 25% tariff ‘must be paid by Apple’ on iPhones not made in the U.S. (CNBC)
• Anthropic’s new Claude 4 AI models can reason over many steps (TechCrunch)
• Exclusive: New Claude Model Triggers Stricter Safeguards at Anthropic (Time)
• Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline (TechCrunch)
• Anthropic faces backlash to Claude 4 Opus behavior that contacts authorities, press if it thinks you’re doing something ‘egregiously immoral’ (VentureBeat)

Thursday, May 22 2025 - Thu. 05/22 – OpenAI Acquihires Jony Ive!

• Former Apple Design Guru Jony Ive to Take Expansive Role at OpenAI (WSJ)
• What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive (WSJ)
• Google has a big AI advantage: it already knows everything about you (The Verge)
• “Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall (Ars Technica)
• A.I. Is Poised to Revolutionize Weather Forecasting. A New Tool Shows Promise. (NYTimes)

Wednesday, May 21 2025 - Wed. 05/21 – Everything Google Everywhere And All At Once

• Google is rolling out AI Mode to everyone in the US (Engadget)
• Android XR is getting stylish partners in Warby Parker and Gentle Monster (The Verge)
• My demo with Google’s AR glasses went better than the one on stage (AndroidCentral)
• Google launches Veo 3, an AI video generator that incorporates audio (CNBC)
• Watch Me Try Google’s Live Language Translator. It’s Wild. (WSJ)
• Google moves to reassure EU cloud users amid concern over Trump threat (FT)

Tuesday, May 20 2025 - Tue. 05/20 – Microsoft Build 2025

• GitHub’s new AI coding agent can fix bugs for you (The Verge)
• The new Microsoft Discovery agentic platform targets scientists and researchers (Neowin)
• Trump signs the Take It Down Act into law (The Verge)
• Stablecoin Bill Advances in US Senate in Big Win for Crypto (Bloomberg)
• EU to impose €2 tax on low-cost items in blow to Temu and Shein (FT)
• Nvidia charges ahead with humanoid robotics aided by the cloud (GamesBeat)
• Autonomous cars with ‘social sensitivity’ cut threat to road users, study finds (FT)

Monday, May 19 2025 - Mon. 05/19 – How Apple Lost AI

• Why Apple Still Hasn’t Cracked AI (Bloomberg)
• Nvidia Opens AI Ecosystem to Rival Chipmakers in Global Push (Bloomberg)
• Regeneron to Buy 23andMe Out of Bankruptcy for $256 Million (WSJ)
• Epic Asks Court to Force Apple to Approve Fortnite on US Store (Bloomberg)
• Epic asks court to compel Apple to reinstate Fortnite on the App Store (9to5Mac)
• Venture capital’s series progression (Axios)
• Crypto High-Rollers Go Big on Bodyguards to Deter Kidnappers (Bloomberg)

Friday, May 16 2025 - Fri. 05/16 – Bribing Is The Oldest Form Of Hacking

• Apple blocks Fortnite’s App Store return as downloads fail in Europe (The Verge)
• Coinbase warns of up to $400 million hit from cyberattack (Reuters)
• Coinbase Hack Rocks Company That Led Crypto Into Mainstream (Bloomberg)
• Meta Is Delaying the Rollout of Its Flagship AI Model (WSJ)
• Vibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models (TechCrunch)
• Next-gen CarPlay, branded CarPlay Ultra, starts rolling out today (9to5Mac)

Wednesday, May 14 2025 - Wed. 05/14 – Airbnb’s Midlife Transformation

• US warns against using Huawei chips ‘anywhere in the world’ (FT)
• Sony Sees $700 Million Tariff Hit on Underwhelming Outlook (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft extends Office app support on Windows 10 to 2028 (The Verge)
• TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, a new image-to-video tool (TechCrunch)
• TikTok Working on Photo Messaging Feature Despite Employee Concerns Over Sextortion (The Information)
• You can now book a chef or personal trainer while traveling with Airbnb (CNN)
• Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode (Wired)

Tuesday, May 13 2025 - Tue. 05/13 – The Thin-Phone Era Is Here

• Samsung Debuts $1,099 S25 Edge, Kicking Off Wave of Thin Phones (Bloomberg)
• Galaxy S25 Edge Hands-On: This Thin Phone Left a Deep Impression (CNET)
• Apple to Unveil New AI Tool to Increase iPhone Battery Life (Bloomberg)
• DJI is skipping the US with its most advanced drone yet (The Verge)
• German defence start-up plans underwater drones for naval surveillance (FT)
• Audible to Partner With Publishers to Create AI-Voiced Audiobooks (Bloomberg)

Monday, May 12 2025 - Mon. 05/12 – Saudi Arabia Enters The AI Race

• Apple Considers Raising iPhone Prices, Without Blaming Tariffs (WSJ)
• SoftBank Stargate Venture With OpenAI Snags on Tariff Fears (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO (FT)
• Saudi Arabia launches AI venture Humain ahead of Donald Trump visit (FT)
• Insurers launch cover for losses caused by AI chatbot errors (FT)
• Klarna Slows AI-Driven Job Cuts With Call for Real People (Bloomberg)
• Pope Leo signals he will closely follow Francis and says AI represents challenge for humanity (CNN)

Friday, May 09 2025 - Fri. 05/09 – Apple’s Coming For The Meta Ray-Bans

• Apple Is Developing Specialized Chips for Glasses, New Macs and AI Servers (Bloomberg)
• Meta Explores Stablecoin Integration as US Senate Blocks Key Crypto Bill (Coinpaper)
• Google rolls out AI tools to protect Chrome users against scams (TechCrunch)
• Celsius Founder Mashinsky Gets 12 Years for Crypto Fraud (Bloomberg)

Thursday, May 08 2025 - Thu. 05/08 – Is AI Eating Into Google Search?

• OpenAI hires InstaCart CEO Fidji Simo for major leadership role (Fortune)
• Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAI (TechCrunch)
• Apple Eyes Move to AI Search, Ending Era Defined by Google (Bloomberg)
• Anthropic rolls out an API for AI-powered web search (TechCrunch)
• FYI: Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM, LOL (The Register)
• Netflix debuts its generative AI-powered search tool (TechCrunch)
• EcoFlow brings its plug-in solar power plant to US homes (The Verge)

Wednesday, May 07 2025 - Wed. 05/07 – The New Netflix

• Meta wins $168 million in damages from Israeli cyberintel firm in Whatsapp spyware scandal (Courthouse News Service)
• Netflix Overhauls Its Home Screen for the First Time in 12 Years (NYTimes)
• Amazon makes ‘fundamental leap forward in robotics’ with device having sense of touch (The Guardian)
• Generative AI tops cybersecurity in 2025 tech budget priorities, new AWS study finds (GeekWire)
• Mistral claims its newest AI model delivers leading performance for the price (TechCrunch)
• Cisco says its new entanglement chip could speed up practical quantum computing by a decade (Fast Company)

Tuesday, May 06 2025 - Tue. 05/06 – OpenAI Backtracks

• OpenAI reverses course, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI Reaches Agreement to Buy Startup Windsurf for $3 Billion (Bloomberg)
• DoorDash strikes £2.9bn deal for Deliveroo (FT)
• Microsoft shrinks its Surface Laptop down to 13 inches, priced at $899 (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s smaller Surface Pro has a 12-inch display and starts at $799 (The Verge)
• Capital flies into Europe’s defence drone start-ups (FT)
• Exclusive: Shein, Temu ramp up advertising in UK and France as US tariffs hit (Reuters)

Monday, May 05 2025 - Mon. 05/05 – Why Clone A Messaging App?

• TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US govt. officials, has been hacked (TechCrunch)
• Apple Plans iPhone Release Schedule Shakeup, New Styles (The Information)
• Tether CEO says the firm’s AI product will enable peer-to-peer network of AI agents (The Block)
• Senate Democrats’ reversal on US stablecoin bill throws future of legislation into doubt (The Block)
• Leading deepfake porn site is shut down for good (Engadget)
• Maker of AI ‘vibe coding’ app Cursor hits $9bn valuation (FT)
• Reports: US losing edge in AI talent pool (Semafor)

Friday, May 02 2025 - Fri. 05/02 – GTA 6 Delayed To 2026

• Grand Theft Auto VI release delayed to May 2026 (The Verge)
• Amazon Says Operating Profits May Decline Amid Economic Uncertainty (NYTimes)
• Microsoft goes passwordless by default on new accounts (The Verge)
• Temu Blocks US Shoppers From Seeing Products Shipped From China (Wired)
• Aurora’s driverless trucks are making deliveries in Texas (The Verge)

Thursday, May 01 2025 - Thu. 05/01 – Judge Refers Apple For A Criminal Investigation

• Apple Dealt Stinging Court Defeat on App Store Sales Commissions (Bloomberg)
• Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk (WSJ)
• Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide (The Verge)
• Meta tightens privacy policy around Ray-Ban glasses to boost AI training (The Verge)
• Would you wear a smart ring that proves you’re not a cheater? (The Verge)

Wednesday, April 30 2025 - Wed. 04/30 – ChatGPT Just Wants To Please

• Meta’s ChatGPT competitor shows how your friends use AI (The Verge)
• Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’ (TechCrunch)
• Waymo, Toyota strike partnership to bring self-driving tech to personal vehicles (CNBC)
• Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year (TechCrunch)
• EU views break from US as ‘unrealistic’ amid global tech race (Politico)
• Microsoft vows to protect European operations from Donald Trump (FT)

Tuesday, April 29 2025 - Tue. 04/29 – OpenAI Shopping?

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• Kickstarter Introduces ‘Tariff Manager Tool’ to Add Charges to Already Fully Funded Projects (404 Media)
• Temu adds ‘import charges’ of about 145% after Trump tariffs, more than doubling price of many items (CNBC)
• Congress passes bill to fight deepfake nudes, revenge porn (Washington Post)
• Alibaba unveils Qwen3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning models (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google (Wired)
• Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI (The Verge)
• Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites, taking on Starlink (Reuters)

Monday, April 28 2025 - Mon. 04/28 – The Prompt Engineer That Never Was…

• Apple Begins Breaking Up Its AI Team With Robotics, Siri Changes (Bloomberg)
• Why Trump can’t build iPhones in the US (FT)
• The Future of Gadgets: Fewer Updates, More Subscriptions, Bigger Price Tags (WSJ)
• Google is killing software support for early Nest Thermostats (The Verge)
• Chinese AI Startup Manus Scores Funding at $500 Million Value (Bloomberg)
• The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete (WSJ)
• The group chats that changed America (Semafor)

Friday, April 25 2025 - Fri. 04/25 – Zuck Trying To Make Fetch Happen

• Alphabet shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue growth (CNBC)
• Intel offers weak forecast amid trade tensions as CEO talks to TSMC (Reuters)
• Apple aims to source all US iPhones from India in pivot away from China (FT)
• Publisher of PCMag and Mashable Sues OpenAI (NYTimes)
• Facebook cracks down on spammy content by cutting reach and monetization (TechCrunch)
• Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting all your Facebook friends (TechCrunch)
• Motorola’s new Razr Ultra brings the wood back panel back (The Verge)
• Netflix rolls out dialogue-only subtitles (The Verge)

Thursday, April 24 2025 - Thu. 04/24 – The AI Coding Wars Are Upon Us

• Apple and Meta Are First to Be Hit by E.U. Digital Competition Law (NYTimes)
• Uber, Volkswagen pair up to launch robotaxi service in US with self-driving, electric microbuses (TechCrunch)
• Windsurf slashes prices as competition with Cursor heats up (TechCrunch)
• Google Chrome Worth ‘Upwards of $50 Billion,’ Browser Rival Says (Bloomberg)
• Google forcing some remote workers to come back 3 days a week or lose their jobs (CNBC)
• Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ‘cheat on everything’ (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, April 23 2025 - Wed. 04/23 – Meta And Apple Fined By The EU

• Apple, Meta Fined by EU, Ordered to Comply With Tech Competition Rules (WSJ)
• OpenAI Would Buy Google’s Chrome Browser, ChatGPT Chief Says (Bloomberg)
• Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut Over 20% of Staff (Bloomberg)
• A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more (VentureBeat)
• Why OpenAI wanted to buy Cursor but opted for the fast-growing Windsurf (TechCrunch)
• Ex-OpenAI staff and top AI experts seek to block proposed for-profit restructure (FT)
• Tesla Humanoid Robot Plan Hampered by China Rare Earth Curbs (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, April 22 2025 - Tue. 04/22 – FTC As Today’s Main Character

• Justice Dept. asks judge to ‘thaw’ Google’s search monopoly by forcing Chrome sale (Washington Post)
• FTC sues Uber, says company charged for Uber One without consent (CNBC)
• Airbnb to Show Fees in Price Display to Comply With FTC Rule (Bloomberg)
• Bluesky Is Rolling Out Official Verification (Wired)
• Google Messages Sensitive Content Warnings for nudity rolling out (9to5Google)
• Meta is ramping up its AI-driven age detection (The Verge)
• Microsoft Is Dedicated To Building A Dodgy New Database Of Every Windows 11 User’s Online Behaviors (TechDirt)

Monday, April 21 2025 - Mon. 04/21 – Trump Helps Zuck Get A Reprieve In Europe

• EU Delayed Punishing Apple, Meta Just Before Trade Talks Started (WSJ)
• Crypto Knocks on the Door of a Banking World That Shut It Out (WSJ)
• Phishers abuse Google OAuth to spoof Google in DKIM replay attack (Bleeping Computer)
• Coinbase in hot water over $12 million ‘content coin’—but exec tells haters to lean in (Fortune Crypto)
• OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more (TechCrunch)
• On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after (Ethan Mollick)

Friday, April 18 2025 - Fri. 04/18 – The Google Antitrust Snowball

• Google Broke the Law to Keep Its Advertising Monopoly, a Judge Rules (NYTimes)
• Google loses online advertising monopoly case (Axios)
• Google Found GUILTY of Monopolization Again (The Big Newsletter)
• Nintendo Switch 2 preorders start April 24th and the price is still $449.99 (The Verge)
• The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos (TechCrunch)
• Chinese shopping app Taobao joins DHgate in Top 5 on US App Store (TechCrunch)

Thursday, April 17 2025 - Thu. 04/17 – Mooooaaar Models!

• OpenAI’s new o3 and o4-mini models are all about ‘thinking with images’ (Engadget)
• OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for terminals (TechCrunch)
• Vibe Check: o3 Is Here—And It’s Great (Every)
• OpenAI In Talks to Buy Windsurf for About $3 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Perplexity AI in Talks to Integrate Assistant Into Samsung, Motorola Phones (Bloomberg)
• Neuralink Rival Gets FDA Clearance in Path to Less Invasive Brain Implants (Bloomberg)
• Nvidia chief Jensen Huang flies to Beijing for talks (FT)

Wednesday, April 16 2025 - Wed. 04/16 – Why Does OpenAI Want A Social Network?

• Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program (The Register)
• Nvidia says it will record $5.5 billion charge tied to H20 processors exported to China (CNBC)
• OpenAI is building a social network (The Verge)
• Figma confidentially files for IPO more than a year after ditching Adobe deal (CNBC)
• Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Failed Negotiations to End Antitrust Case (WSJ)
• Zuckerberg Says He Considered Spinning Off Instagram in 2018 (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, April 15 2025 - Tue. 04/15 – Why Is OpenAI Going Backwards (Name-Wise)?

• OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI launches another model before GPT 5 — here’s what this one can do (Tom’s Guide)
• Nvidia says it plans to manufacture some AI chips in the US (TechCrunch)
• Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology (Bloomberg)
• Zuckerberg testifies as FTC, Meta trade opening salvos in antitrust trial (Politico)
• Mark Zuckerberg Takes Stand to Defend Meta Against Antitrust Suit (NYTimes)

Monday, April 14 2025 - Mon. 04/14 – Tariff Groundhog Day

• Apple, Nvidia Score Relief From US Tariffs With Exemptions (Bloomberg)
• Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in Europe citing ‘challenging’ economic environment (CNBC)
• ChatGPT Hits 1 Billion Users? ‘Doubled In Just Weeks’ Says OpenAI CEO (Forbes)
• LLMs can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything (The Register)
• AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk (Bleeping Computer)
• Apple Readies Pair of Headsets While Still Looking Ahead to Glasses (Bloomberg)

Friday, April 11 2025 - Fri. 04/11 – Why COULDN’T Apple Make An iPhone In The US?

• EU could tax Big Tech if Trump trade talks fail, says von der Leyen (FT)
• Why Trump’s Dream of Made-in-the-USA iPhones Isn’t Going to Happen (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your past chats (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI slashes AI model safety testing time (FT)
• Mira Murati doubled the fundraising target for her new AI startup to $2 billion. It could be the largest seed round in history. (Business Insider)

Thursday, April 10 2025 - Thu. 04/10 – JK, JK, JK

• Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries, hits China harder with 125% (CNBC)
• Nintendo Gains Time to Prep Switch 2 Debut With Tariff Pause (Bloomberg)
• How Many New iPhones Can Fit on a Freight Plane? (Daring Fireball)
• Wall Street Consultant Paul Atkins Confirmed to Lead SEC (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, claims harassment (Reuters)
• Google launches Agent2Agent protocol to connect AI agents across platforms (Testing Catalog)
• OpenAI launches program to design new ‘domain-specific’ AI benchmarks (TechCrunch)
• AI is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres while offering the potential to transform how the energy sector works (IEA)
• AI to double data centre energy demand by 2030 (Silicon Republic)

Wednesday, April 09 2025 - Wed. 04/09 – Instagram iPad App But For REAL This Time?

• Ironwood is Google’s newest AI accelerator chip (TechCrunch)
• Google announces ‘Workspace Flows’ automation with Gems, audio in Docs, and more Gemini (9to5Google)
• US Raises Charges on Small Parcels, Targeting Chinese Retailers (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft pauses $1bn data center plans in Licking County, Ohio (Data Center Dynamics)
• Instagram’s Mosseri Positions App for TikTok Turmoil (The Information)
• Amazon Seeks Partners for $15 Billion Warehouse Expansion Plan (Bloomberg)
• Google Maps is launching tools to help cities analyze infrastructure and traffic (The Verge)
• Samsung Taps Google AI to Launch Long-Promised Ballie Robot With Video Projector (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, April 08 2025 - Tue. 04/08 – It’s Already Starting…

• Framework “temporarily pausing” some laptop sales because of new tariffs (Ars Technica)
• Exclusive: Micron to impose tariff-related surcharge on some products from April 9, sources say (Reuters)
• Apple Plans to Source More iPhones From India as Potential Tariff Fix (WSJ)
• Apple Customers Dash to Stores to Buy iPhones Ahead of Tariffs (Bloomberg)
• Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks (The Verge)
• Shopify CEO says staffers need to prove jobs can’t be done by AI before asking for more headcount (CNBC)
• Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed’ (Bloomberg)
• THE A.I. ROMANCE FACTORY (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Monday, April 07 2025 - Mon. 04/07 – Will Tech Raise Prices Cause Of Tariffs?

• Trump extends TikTok deadline for the second time (CNBC)
• Meta releases two Llama 4 AI models (The Verge)
• AI Coding Assistant Cursor Draws a Million Users Without Even Trying (Bloomberg)
• Tariffs are tanking tech stocks, so why is Microsoft escaping the worst of the bloodbath? (Fortune)

Thursday, April 03 2025 - Thu. 04/03 – How Tariffs Might Impact Tech

• Trump’s New Tariffs Test Apple’s Global Supply Chain (NYTimes)
• Trump to Outline TikTok Deal Proposal, With ByteDance Retaining Stake (The Information)
• Google in Advanced Talks to Rent Nvidia AI Servers From CoreWeave (The Information)
• AI Video Startup Runway Valued at $3 Billion in Funding Round (Bloomberg)
• Amazon targets April 9 launch of first Kuiper internet satellites (Reuters)
• Nintendo’s Switch 2 preorder process has strict requirements to thwart scalpers (The Verge)

Wednesday, April 02 2025 - Wed. 04/02 – The Nintendo Switch 2

• Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S. (NYTimes)
• Everything announced at Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct (Polygon)
• AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50% (TechCrunch)
• North Korean IT worker army expands operations in Europe (BleepingComputer)
• How Meta’s Upcoming $1,000+ Smart Glasses With a Screen Will Work (Bloomberg)
• Stablecoin issuer Circle files for IPO as public markets open to crypto (CNBC)
• CoreWeave shares rip nearly 42% higher, rising above IPO price (CNBC)

Tuesday, April 01 2025 - Tue. 04/01 – OpenAI Closes The Biggest Private Tech Round Ever

• OpenAI closes $40 billion funding round, largest private tech deal on record (CNBC)
• OpenAI Finalizes $40 Billion Funding at $300 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI plans to release a new ‘open’ AI language model in the coming months (TechCrunch)
• Gmail is making it easier for businesses to send encrypted emails to anyone (The Verge)
• Amazon’s New Movie Strategy Starts With Theaters (NYTimes)
• Nintendo Departs From Its Founding Philosophy With Switch 2 (Bloomberg)

Monday, March 31 2025 - Mon. 03/31 – xAI Acquires X

• Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X in deal that values social media site at $33 billion (CNBC)
• Musk’s xAI Startup Swallows Up X Social Network in Surprise Deal (Bloomberg)
• Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser (TechCrunch)
• Apple and Musk Clash Over Satellite Expansion Plans (WSJ)
• Apple Readies Its Biggest Push Into Health Yet With New AI Doctor (Bloomberg)
• Crypto’s Trumpian Embrace Is Leaving Bitcoin’s Big Rival Behind (Bloomberg)

Friday, March 28 2025 - Fri. 03/28 – CoreWeave’s Weak IPO

• ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Maker Ubisoft Jumps After Games Carve Out (Bloomberg)
• CoreWeave prices IPO at $40 a share, below expected range (CNBC)
• CoreWeave’s Shaky IPO Signal (The Information)
• Facebook Returns to Its Roots: Showing Posts From Friends and Family (NYTimes)
• Thoughts on setting policy for new AI capabilities (Joanne Jang)
• Anthropic makes a breakthrough in opening AI’s ‘black box’ (Fortune)

Thursday, March 27 2025 - Thu. 03/27 – AI Studio Ghibli

• OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images (Variety)
• Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here’s why (AndroidAuthority)
• Microsoft Abandons Data Center Projects, TD Cowen Says (Bloomberg)
• China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused. (MIT Technology Review)
• Apple chips will be made in US at faster pace, says TSMC (9to5Mac)
• Instacart will pay shoppers to take videos of store shelves (The Verge)
• JPMorgan Says Quantum Experiment Generated Truly Random Numbers (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, March 26 2025 - Wed. 03/26 – The Day Of AI Announces

• OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT (The Verge)
• Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s ‘most intelligent AI model’ with thinking built-in (9to5Google)
• Microsoft adds ‘deep reasoning’ Copilot AI for research and data analysis (The Verge)
• Fidelity plans to launch stablecoin in digital assets push (FT)
• ‘No substitute’: Europe’s battle to break Elon Musk’s stranglehold on the skies (FT)

Tuesday, March 25 2025 - Tue. 03/25 – Napster Lives! Again!

• European Union to slap Meta with fine up to $1B or more for breaching strict antitrust rules: sources (NYPost)
• EToro Files for IPO Showing Commissions Jumped 46% Last Year (Bloomberg)
• Waymo plans robotaxi launch in Washington, DC in 2026 (The Verge)
• Napster pioneered music sharing over 25 years ago. It just got bought for $207 million (CNBC)
• Producing wafers at TSMC Arizona is only 10% more expensive than in Taiwan: TechInsights (Toms Hardware)
• Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud Giants (Wired)

Monday, March 24 2025 - Mon. 03/24 – 23andMe Enters The Deadpool

• DNA Tester 23andMe Files Bankruptcy to Sell Firm, CEO Quits (Bloomberg)
• Big Startup Deals Soar to $55 Billion, Passing Quarterly Record (Bloomberg)
• Ticket reseller StubHub files for an IPO (Axios)
• AI Chip Startup FuriosaAI Rejects Meta’s $800 Million Offer (Bloomberg)
• Google is rolling out Gemini’s real-time AI video features (The Verge)
• Apple Working on Turning Watches Into AI Devices With Cameras (Bloomberg)
• How Software Engineers Actually Use AI (Wired)
• New York’s longest-running play offers AI-powered live translations to attract new audiences (Semafor)

Friday, March 21 2025 - Fri. 03/21 – A Look At LibGen

• The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem (The Atlantic)
• Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content (The Register)
• Apple Shuffles AI Executive Ranks in Bid to Turn Around Siri (Bloomberg)
• Gmail rolling out AI-powered ‘Most relevant’ search update (9to5Google)

Thursday, March 20 2025 - Thu. 03/20 – Is Apple In Its “Vista” Era?

• SoftBank Seals $6.5 Billion Deal for Chip Designer Ampere (Bloomberg)
• Nvidia CEO says company has not been asked to buy a stake in Intel (Reuters)
• Nvidia to spend hundreds of billions on US supply chain, says chief (FT)
• A First Look at How Apple’s C1 Modem Performs With Early Adopters (Ookla)
• OpenAI’s o1-pro is the company’s most expensive AI model yet (TechCrunch)
• Apple Streaming Losses Top $1 Billion a Year (The Information)
• Apple innovation and execution (Benedict Evans)

Wednesday, March 19 2025 - Wed. 03/19 – Nvidia Wants To Change All Of Computing

• EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices (TechCrunch)
• Google Search charged with breaking EU antitrust rules (The Verge)
• Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra and Rubin AI chips (CNBC)
• The key takeaways from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote (SiliconAngle)
• NVIDIA GTC 2025 – Built For Reasoning, Vera Rubin, Kyber, CPO, Dynamo Inference, Jensen Math, Feynman (SemiAnalysis)
• Google’s $32 billion deal for Wiz accelerated under Trump, sources say (Reuters)
• The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year (The Verge)
• The Pixel 9A is a midrange phone that actually looks like a good deal (The Verge)

Tuesday, March 18 2025 - Tue. 03/18 – The Big M&A Test I Was Waiting For

• Google Strikes $32 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Wiz (WSJ)
• “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen (Ars Technica)
• Critical RCE flaw in Apache Tomcat actively exploited in attacks (Bleeping Computer)
• Cognition AI Hits $4 Billion Valuation in Deal Led by Lonsdale’s Firm (Bloomberg)
• BYD Shares Jump to Record on Five-Minute EV Battery Charging (Bloomberg)
• They Named Their Companies Lumon. Then ‘Severance’ Aired. (WSJ)

Monday, March 17 2025 - Mon. 03/17 – Europe Wants To Ween Itself Off Silicon Valley

• European tech industry coalition calls for ‘radical action’ on digital sovereignty — starting with buying local (TechCrunch)
• Accusations of Corporate Espionage Shake a Software Rivalry (NYTimes)
• Klarna, nearing IPO, plucks lucrative Walmart fintech partnership from rival Affirm (CNBC)
• CoreWeave serves as bellwether for AI in soft IPO market (Semafor)
• Apple’s iPhone 17 ‘Air’ Is a Step Toward a Slimmer, Port-Free Era (Bloomberg)

Friday, March 14 2025 - Fri. 03/14 – E2EE For All!

• Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users (The Verge)
• OpenAI calls DeepSeek ‘state-controlled,’ calls for bans on ‘PRC-produced’ models (TechCrunch)
• Apple Plans AirPods Feature That Can Live-Translate Conversations (Bloomberg)
• Gemini can now personalize its answers based on your search history (The Verge)
• Sony’s new RGB backlight tech absolutely smokes regular Mini LED TVs (The Verge)

Thursday, March 13 2025 - Thu. 03/13 – Intel’s New Boss

• Intel appoints chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as CEO (Reuters)
• Intel CEO Signals That He’ll Stick With Contentious Foundry Plan (Bloomberg)
• Meta unveils new community notes program; will not apply distribution penalties nor limit flow of information (Fox News)
• Sonos has canceled its streaming video player (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s new Xbox Copilot will act as an AI gaming coach (The Verge)
• Adobe shares drop 13% as concerns about AI growth overshadow better-than-expected results (CNBC)
• Oracle Is Leading Contender to Help Run TikTok in New Deal (The Information)
• Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino (Daring Fireball)

Wednesday, March 12 2025 - Wed. 03/12 – Roomba Might Not Be Able To Clean Up This Mess

• Pokémon Go developer Niantic to sell gaming business to Saudi group (The Verge)
• Saudi-owned Scopely buys Pokémon Go in $3.5bn gaming deal (FT)
• One-Time Amazon Takeover Target iRobot Warns Doubt on Future (Bloomberg)
• Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU (The Verge)
• Sam Altman says OpenAI has trained a fiction writing AI model that’s actually decent (SiliconAngle)
• Google changes Chrome extension policies following the Honey link scandal (The Verge)
• Exclusive: TSMC pitched Intel foundry JV to Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom, sources say (Reuters)
• Hugging Face’s chief science officer worries AI is becoming ‘yes-men on servers’ (The Verge)

Tuesday, March 11 2025 - Tue. 03/11 – Biggest Changes To iOS Since 2013

• Apple Readies Dramatic Software Overhaul for iPhone, iPad and Mac (Bloomberg)
• Exclusive: Meta begins testing its first in-house AI training chip (Reuters)
• How ‘inference’ is driving competition to Nvidia’s AI chip dominance (FT)
• Sony is experimenting with AI-powered PlayStation characters (The Verge)
• AI Search Has A Citation Problem (CJR)
• Global Smartwatch Shipments in 2024: Market Declines for First Time, China Leads for First Time (Counterpoint Research)
• Apple Mac Studio (Early 2025) Review: Renewed vigor with M4 Max and M3 Ultra (Tom’s Hardware)
• Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra) first look: a weekend with an $8,000 powerhouse (The Verge)

Monday, March 10 2025 - Mon. 03/10 – Is Manus “DeepSeek” 2.0?

• China’s Autonomous Agent, Manus, Changes Everything (Forbes)
• Manus probably isn’t China’s second ‘DeepSeek moment’ (TechCrunch)
• Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices (BleepingComputer)
• ServiceNow Nears Deal to Buy AI Assistant Maker Moveworks (Bloomberg)
• Banks and fintechs join ‘stablecoin gold rush’ (FT)
• Apple Clears the Decks With Rare Early-Year Product Frenzy (Bloomberg)

Friday, March 07 2025 - Fri. 03/07 – “AI Wrappers” No Longer A Pejorative

• Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS (9to5Mac)
• Donald Trump signs executive order for Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (CoinTelegraph)
• Drone Defense Startup Shield AI Lands $5.3 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
• Larry Page Has a New AI Startup (The Information)
• The Hottest AI Companies Right Now Are ‘Apps’ (Bloomberg)

Thursday, March 06 2025 - Thu. 03/06 – Tech IPO Spring?

• Klarna to File for $1 Billion-Plus IPO as Soon as Next Week (Bloomberg)
• Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. (NYTimes)
• Alibaba’s new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with way smaller compute requirements (VentureBeat)
• OpenAI Plots Charging $20,000 a Month For PhD-Level Agents (The Information)
• Google Search’s new ‘AI Mode’ lets users ask complex, multi-part questions (TechCrunch)
• Kuo: Apple’s First Foldable iPhone to Feature Book-Style Design, Sell for Over $2,000 (MacRumors)
• New M4 MacBook Air fixes the line’s biggest problem (Apple Insider)
• YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription (TechCrunch)
• YouTube Music hits 125 million subscribers, adding 2m subs per month on average over the past year (Music Business Worldwide)

Wednesday, March 05 2025 - Wed. 03/05 – Digg Is Back!

• Musk’s Fight With OpenAI Set for Expedited Trial This Year (Bloomberg)
• Trump Calls for End to $52 Billion Chips Act Subsidy Program (Bloomberg)
• Apple launches new Mac Studios with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips (The Verge)
• Digg is coming back, thanks to its founder — and Reddit’s (The Verge)
• Bored Ape Creator Yuga Labs Says SEC Closing Investigation in ‘Huge Win’ for NFT Sector (Decrypt)
• Google Urges Trump DOJ to Reverse Course on Breaking Up Company (Bloomberg)
• Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online (Ars Technica)

Tuesday, March 04 2025 - Tue. 03/04 – The First IPO Of The AI Era

• AI cloud provider CoreWeave files for IPO (CNBC)
• Anthropic Finalizes Megaround at $61.5 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
• Apple launches a new M3-powered iPad Air (The Verge)
• Waymo is now available exclusively on Uber in Austin (The Verge)
• Nothing’s Phone 3A and 3A Pro use AI to organize all your stuff (The Verge)
• Ghost hunting, pornography and interactive art: the weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect (The Guardian)

Monday, March 03 2025 - Mon. 03/03 – A National Crypto Reserve?

• Donald Trump Names Components Of Crypto Reserve (CoinDesk)
• Trump, Chip Maker TSMC Expected to Announce $100 Billion Investment in U.S. (WSJ)
• Google’s Gemini now lets you ask questions using videos and what’s on your screen (TechCrunch)
• Google’s Sergey Brin Urges Workers to the Office ‘at Least’ Every Weekday (NYTimes)
• Peter Thiel-backed fintech Ramp nearly doubles valuation to $13bn (FT)
• Apple’s Artificial Intelligence Efforts Reach a Make-or-Break Point (Bloomberg)

Friday, February 28 2025 - Fri. 10/28 – GPT-4.5

• OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, warns it’s not a frontier AI model (The Verge)
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is ‘out of GPUs’ (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025 (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft is killing Skype after 14 years of neglect (Windows Central)
• Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT (CNBC)
• SEC says most meme coins are not securities (CNBC)
• Illicit Crypto Volume in 2024 Hit a Record $40B in 2024 (CoinDesk)
• Meta is firing about 20 employees for leaking information (The Verge)

Thursday, February 27 2025 - Thu. 02/27 – Nvidia Earnings

• Nvidia sales grow 78% on AI demand, company gives strong guidance (CNBC)
• Sony drops PlayStation VR 2 price to $399 (The Verge)
• Bitcoin ETFs Are Hit by a Record $1 Billion Outflow in One Day (Bloomberg)
• FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of Musk’s Starlink, sources say (Washington Post)
• Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code (Ars Technica)
• iPhone 16E review: Eh, it’s alright (The Verge)

Wednesday, February 26 2025 - Wed. 02/26 – Alexa+

• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus (The Verge)
• Amazon unveils a new and improved Alexa, Alexa+ (TechCrunch)
• DeepSeek rushes to launch new AI model as China goes all in (Reuters)
• Meta Discusses AI Data Center Project That Could Cost $200 Billion (The Information)
• How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history (Ars Technica)
• Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming (The Verge)

Tuesday, February 25 2025 - Tue. 02/25 – Claude 3.7 Sonnet

• Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want (TechCrunch)
• AI Startup Anthropic Finalizing $3.5 Billion Funding Round (WSJ)
• Microsoft Quietly Launched a Free Ad-Supported Office App, and No One Noticed (Beebom)
• Apple’s $500 Billion U.S. Investment Is Mostly Already in the Books (WSJ)
• Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI (NeimanLab)
• A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups (NYTimes)

Monday, February 24 2025 - Mon. 02/24 – Apple’s $500B Investment In The US

• Apple Will Add 20,000 US Jobs Amid Threat from Trump Tariffs (Bloomberg)
• Apple Abandons Budget Smartphone Market With the iPhone 16e (Bloomberg)
• Google Confirms Gmail To Ditch SMS Code Authentication (Forbes)
• Bybit Hit by Crypto’s Worst Hack With Almost $1.5 Billion Stolen (Bloomberg)
• Bybit Hack (CoinDesk)
• Microsoft Dropped Some AI Data Center Leases, TD Cowen Says (Bloomberg)
• When There’s No School Counselor, There’s a Bot (WSJ)

Thursday, February 20 2025 - Thu. 02/20 – Microsoft’s Quantum Breakthrough

• Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s Xbox AI era starts with a model that can generate gameplay (The Verge)
• Google app on iOS removing Gemini as it pushes users to full app (9to5Google)
• The world’s thinnest foldable phone doesn’t come cheap (The Verge)
• Rabbit shows off the AI agent it should have launched with (The Verge)
• ‘Bond’ Producers Stepping Back From Iconic Franchise As Amazon MGM Studios Takes Creative Control (Deadline)

Wednesday, February 19 2025 - Wed. 02/19 – The iPhone 16e

• Apple launches new iPhone 16e: Here’s everything you need to know (9to5Mac)
• All of Humane’s AI pins will stop working in 10 days (Engadget)
• ‘Pokémon Go’ Maker Nears $3.5 Billion Deal to Sell Games Unit (Bloomberg)
• Mira Murati debuts Thinking Machines Lab, her AI startup (Axios)
• ByteDance’s US Backers Say China Growth to Counter Any TikTok Ban Damage (Bloomberg)
• Can AI Predict the Next Big IPO? Crunchbase Thinks So. (WSJ)

Tuesday, February 18 2025 - Tue. 02/18 – Grok-3

• Elon Musk’s xAI releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3 (TechCrunch)
• Impressions of Grok-3 (@karpathy)
• Huawei’s trifold phone launches outside of China (The Verge)
• Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO (Tom’s Hardware)
• OpenAI Co-Founder Sutskever’s Startup Is Fundraising at $30 Billion-Plus Valuation (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s quiet pivot to India (FT)

Monday, February 17 2025 - Mon. 02/17 – Folks Are Circling Intel

• TSMC Considers Running Intel’s US Factories After Trump Team Request (Bloomberg)
• Broadcom, TSMC Weigh Possible Intel Deals That Would Split Storied Chip Maker (WSJ)
• OpenAI Rejects Elon Musk’s $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of the Company (NYTimes)
• Zelle payments top $1 trillion in 2024 as network’s growth outpaces rivals including PayPal (CNBC)
• TikTok Grabs Market Share From Shein Despite Looming Risks (Bloomberg)
• Meta Plans Major Investment Into AI-Powered Humanoid Robots (Bloomberg)
• Apple and Meta Are Set to Battle Over Humanoid Robots (Bloomberg)
• The Unicorn Boom Is Over, and Startups Are Getting Desperate (Bloomberg)

Friday, February 14 2025 - Fri. 02/14 – Arm Upends The Entire Semiconductor Industry

• Apple, Google Restore TikTok App After Assurances From Trump (Bloomberg)
• Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry (FT)
• Shein IPO plans hit by Trump’s low-cost parcels crackdown (FT)
• AI Licensing Deals With Google and OpenAI Make Up 10% of Reddit’s Revenue (AdWeek)

Thursday, February 13 2025 - Thu. 02/13 – Do We Maybe Have A Roadmap For GPT-5?

• OpenAI postpones its o3 AI model in favor of a ‘unified’ next-gen release (TechCrunch)
• Elon Musk will withdraw bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit if its board agrees to terms (TechCrunch)
• Musk, Altman Spar Over $97.4 Billion OpenAI Bid in Court Filings (Bloomberg)
• The Apple TV app is now available on Android: watch Apple TV+ and MLS Season Pass (9to5Mac)
• Meta Opens Facebook Marketplace to Rivals in EU Antitrust Clash (Bloomberg)
• Data Center Power Demand Almost Doubled in Virginia, Utility Says (Bloomberg)
• AI Agents Are Everywhere…and Nowhere (WSJ)

Wednesday, February 12 2025 - Wed. 02/12 – The First Big AI Legal Ruling

• Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US (Wired)
• Apple Plans to Learn More About Your Holistic Health With Its New Apple Health Study. You Can Enroll Now (CNET)
• Meta In Talks To Buy Korean AI Chip Startup Founded By Samsung Engineer (Forbes)
• Meta Accounting Move on AI Servers to Boost Profit This Year (Bloomberg)
• Sam Altman Dismisses Elon Musk’s Bid to Buy OpenAI in Letter to Staff (Wired)
• Sure Elon Musk Might Buy OpenAI (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, February 11 2025 - Tue. 02/11 – Elon Wants To Buy OpenAI

• Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI (WSJ)
• Exclusive: OpenAI is not for sale, CEO Sam Altman says (Axios)
• Musk’s $97.4 Billion OpenAI Bid Piles Pressure on Sam Altman (WSJ)
• YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as “Primary Device” for Viewing (THR)
• Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ (The Verge)
• Powerbeats Pro 2 Debut With Heart Rate Monitoring, H2 Chip, Active Noise Cancellation, and More (MacRumors)
• Chinese EV leader BYD to offer ‘God’s Eye’ self-driving system on all models (FT)

Monday, February 10 2025 - Mon. 02/10 – How Sam Altman Outflanked Elon Musk?

• T-Mobile to Charge $15 Per Month for Starlink Satellite Texting Feature (Bloomberg)
• Polymarket Bettors Punt $1.1B on Superbowl Results, Despite Regulatory Overhang (CoinDesk)
• Exclusive: OpenAI set to finalize first custom chip design this year (Reuters)
• IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs (WSJ)
• Exclusive: Anthropic’s “index” tracks AI economy (Axios)
• Christie’s announces AI art auction, and not everyone is pleased (TechCrunch)
• How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump (NYTimes)

Friday, February 07 2025 - Fri. 02/07 – UK Backdoor Into iPhones?

• U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts (Washington Post)
• Amazon plans to spend $100 billion this year to capture ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in AI (CNBC)
• Tech Giants Double Down on Their Massive AI Spending (WSJ)
• Apple’s Long-Awaited Overhaul of iPhone SE Nears Release (Bloomberg)
• Softbank set to invest $40 billion in OpenAI at $260 billion valuation, sources say (CNBC)

Thursday, February 06 2025 - Thu. 02/06 – A $50 (!!) AI Model?

• Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI’s o1 ‘reasoning’ model for under $50 (TechCrunch)
• Google Kills Diversity Hiring Targets (WSJ)
• Google Unwinds Employee Diversity Goals, Citing Trump’s D.E.I. Orders (NYTimes)
• OpenAI Set to Make Super Bowl Ad Debut (WSJ)
• OpenAI to Air Its First Super Bowl Ad (AdWeek)
• Amazon’s AI revamp of Alexa assistant nears unveiling (Reuters)
• Bill banning social media for youngsters advances (Politico)
• Trump’s de minimis cancellation is bad news for Temu, but worse for Shein (Reuters)
• Amazon, King of Online Retail, Can’t Seem to Make Its Physical Stores Work (WSJ)

Wednesday, February 05 2025 - Wed. 02/05 – Shein And Temu In Deep Trouble

• USPS Resumes Accepting Packages From China After Unexpected Suspension (Wired)
• Google expects to spend $75 billion this year on the AI race (The Verge)
• Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance (The Washington Post)
• Meta says it may stop development of AI systems it deems too risky (TechCrunch)
• After a bruising year, Sonos readies its next big thing: a streaming box (The Verge)
• 35% Year-over-Year Decrease in Ransomware Payments, Less than Half of Recorded Incidents Resulted in Victim Payments (Chainalysis)
• Apple Launches New ‘Invites’ App (MacRumors)

Tuesday, February 04 2025 - Tue. 02/04 – Uncle Sam As A VC?

• Trump Signs Executive Action to Create Sovereign Wealth Fund (Bloomberg)
• China Hits Back Against Trump’s Tariffs With Targeted Actions (Bloomberg)
• China targets Google, Nvidia and Intel as Trump tariffs bite (FT)
• Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more (9to5Mac)
• Opera’s new browser might save you from doomscrolling (The Verge)
• Spotify Reports First Full-Year Profit (WSJ)

Monday, February 03 2025 - Mon. 02/03 – OpenAI Deep Research

• OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT agent for ‘deep research’ (TechCrunch)
• Trump Targets Loophole Temu, Shein Used to Take On Amazon (Bloomberg)
• Shein to Face EU Consumer Law Probe Under E-Commerce Crackdown (Bloomberg)
• Apple Scraps Work on Mac-Connected Augmented Reality Glasses (Bloomberg)
• Stablecoins are finding product-market fit in emerging markets (TechCrunch)
• That AI-restored Beatles song won Grammy for Best Rock Performance (The Verge)

Friday, January 31 2025 - Fri. 01/31 – Zuck’s Complaints About Leaks… Leaks

• Apple shares rise 3% as boost in services revenue overshadows iPhone miss (CNBC)
• Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta missed TikTok’s rise because it didn’t seem ‘social’ enough, leaked recording reveals (Business Insider)
• OpenAI in Talks for Huge Investment Round Valuing It at Up to $300 Billion (WSJ)
• OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Are AI’s New Power Couple (WSJ)

Thursday, January 30 2025 - Thu. 01/30 – Everyone Reports Earnings But Wall Street Only Wants Capex Answers.

• Microsoft shares slide as cloud forecast, AI spending disappoint (Reuters)
• Meta’s Reality Labs posts $5 billion loss in fourth quarter (CNBC)
• Zuck shrugs off DeepSeek, vows to spend hundreds of billions on AI (TechCrunch)
• Meta to Pay $25 Million to Settle 2021 Trump Lawsuit (WSJ)
• Waymo to test in 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego (The Verge)
• SoftBank in talks to invest up to $25bn in OpenAI (FT)
• Copyright Office Offers Assurances on AI Filmmaking Tools (Variety)
• Authors Guild sets up ‘Human Author’ portal to certify books come from ‘human intellect’ (AP)

Wednesday, January 29 2025 - Wed. 01/29 – OpenAI Says: No Copying!

• OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor (FT)
• Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data (Bloomberg)
• Alibaba releases AI model it says surpasses DeepSeek (Reuters)
• Alibaba Announces AI Model That ‘Outperforms ChatGPT & DeepSeek’ (Tech.co)
• Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 surpasses DeepSeek as China’s AI race heats up (BGR)
• Apple and SpaceX Link Up to Support Starlink Satellite Network on iPhones (Bloomberg)
• Comcast is rolling out ‘ultra-low lag’ tech that could fix the internet (The Verge)
• Streaming prices climb in 2025 after already surpassing inflation rates (Ars Technica)
• Netflix won the streaming wars, and we’re all about to pay for it (The Verge)
• Civilian jet breaks sound barrier during historic test flight over Mojave Desert (CBSNews)

Tuesday, January 28 2025 - Tue. 01/28 – Day 2 Of The DeepSeek Era

• Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family (TechCrunch)
• Smartwatch pioneer and Kickstarter darling Pebble is returning in a new form (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies (CNBC)
• Spotify Paid Out $10 Billion to the Music Industry in 2024 — $1 Billion More Than Last Year — and $60 Billion Total (Variety)
• Inside a network of AI-generated newsletters targeting “small town America” (NiemanLab)

Monday, January 27 2025 - Mon. 01/27 – Why DeepSeek Has Stunned Silicon Valley (And Wall Street)

• China’s DeepSeek Tops iPhone Downloads and Spurs AI Selloff (Bloomberg)
• The Short Case for Nvidia Stock (Jeffrey Emanuel)
• DeepSeek R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost (VentureBeat)
• DeepSeek resets the board (Axios)
• 17 Thoughts About the Big DeepSeek Selloff (Bloomberg)

Friday, January 24 2025 - Fri. 01/24 – Operator AI

• OpenAI’s new Operator AI agent can do things on the web for you (The Verge)
• We Tried OpenAI’s New Agent—Here’s What We Found (Every)
• Trump staff ‘furious’ after Musk trashes AI project (Politico)
• Stargate artificial intelligence project to exclusively serve OpenAI (FT)
• Trump signs executive order promoting crypto, paving way for digital asset stockpile (CNBC)
• Mark Zuckerberg’s Post (Facebook)

Thursday, January 23 2025 - Thu. 01/23 – “Humanity’s Last Exam”

• OpenAI, SoftBank Each Commit $19 Billion to Stargate Data Center Venture (The Information)
• OpenAI’s Stargate Deal Heralds Shift Away From Microsoft (WSJ)
• TikTok’s parent company is in active discussions about a deal, board member says (CNN)
• Co-founder of French Crypto Startup Freed After Kidnapping (Bloomberg)
• Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars (Wired)
• Oscar Nomination Scorecard: Netflix Leads Among Studios With 16, A24 Close Behind With 14 (Variety)
• When A.I. Passes This Test, Look Out (NYTimes)

Wednesday, January 22 2025 - Wed. 01/22 – The Galaxy S25 Lineup

• The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra smooths out some sharp edges (The Verge)
• Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace (NYTimes)
• OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center project (TechCrunch)
• ‘Stargate’ Squares Some AI Circles (Spyglass)
• Trump Says He’s Open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison Purchasing TikTok (Bloomberg)
• Meta Plans Oakley-Branded Glasses, Explores Watches and Earbuds (Bloomberg)
• Meta will soon let you link your WhatsApp account with Instagram and Facebook (TechCrunch)
• Netflix Adds 19 Million Subscribers in Latest Quarter (NYTimes)

Tuesday, January 21 2025 - Tue. 01/21 – TikTok Lives?

• Trump signs order refusing to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days (The Verge)
• Trump signs executive order to halt TikTok ban, risking legal showdown (Washington Post)
• President Trump signs exec order to make Musk’s DOGE commission more official (TechCrunch)
• Meta announces a new CapCut rival called Edits (TechCrunch)
• Bluesky adds TikTok mode while Elon mulls reviving Vine in the latest banning drama (Windows Central)
• Apple Is Unlikely to Buy Sonos, But Amazon or Spotify Might Consider It (Bloomberg)
• IMDb Founder Col Needham Steps Aside as CEO, COO Nikki Santoro Promoted to Chief Exec (Variety)

Friday, January 17 2025 - Fri. 01/17 – TikTok Loses In The Supreme Court

• Supreme Court Upholds Law That Threatens US TikTok Ban (Bloomberg)
• Bumble Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd to Return as CEO in March (Bloomberg)
• iOS 18.3 temporarily disables Apple Intelligence notification summaries for select apps, more (9to5Mac)
• General Motors Is Banned From Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years (NYTimes)
• FBI Warned Agents It Believes Phone Logs Hacked Last Year (Bloomberg)
• Chinese Hackers Accessed Yellen’s Computer in US Treasury Breach (Bloomberg)

Thursday, January 16 2025 - Thu. 01/16 – Nintendo Switch 2

• Here’s the Nintendo Switch 2 (The Verge)
• Trump considers executive order hoping to ‘save TikTok’ from ban or sale in U.S. law (Washington Post)
• Biden administration looks for ways to keep TikTok available in the U.S. (NBCNews)
• AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI (TechCrunch)
• Phone Startup Nothing Raises Funding, Crosses $1 Billion in Lifetime Sales (Bloomberg)
• Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, January 15 2025 - Wed. 01/15 – SEC Sues Elon Musk

• Musk Accused by SEC of Cheating Twitter Investors Out of Millions (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents (The Verge)
• Google Workspace business users getting full Gemini experience, price increasing (9to5Google)
• LinkedIn adds free AI tools for job hunters and recruiters (TechCrunch)
• TikTok Prepares for Immediate Shut-Off in the U.S. on Sunday (The Information)
• Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps (TechCrunch)
• Apple starts pushing AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 owners into Transparency or Noise Cancellation modes repeatedly, without an easy opt out (Key Discussions)

Tuesday, January 14 2025 - Tue. 01/14 – Could Elon Buy TikTok?

• China Weighs Sale of TikTok US to Musk as a Possible Option (Bloomberg)
• EU reassesses tech probes into Apple, Google and Meta (FT)
• Meta to Cut Roughly 5% of Staff, Targeting Lowest Performers (Bloomberg)
• Databricks Inks $5 Billion of Private Credit, Bank Funding (Bloomberg)
• Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox Pull the Plug on Venu Sports Streaming Venture (THR)
• Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery call off plans to launch Venu sports streaming service (CNBC)
• How Barcelona became an unlikely hub for spyware startups (TechCrunch)

Monday, January 13 2025 - Mon. 01/13 – Nvidia Isn’t Happy With New Chip Rules

• US imposes export controls on chips for AI to counter China (FT)
• Sonos CEO Leaving After Botched App Revamp Led to Customer Revolt (Bloomberg)
• Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch (The Verge)
• Silicon Valley’s largest start-ups to shun IPOs in 2025 (FT)
• Nvidia’s Top Customers Face Delays From Glitchy AI Chip Racks (The Information)
• Xiaohongshu, China’s answer to Instagram, hits no. 1 on the App Store as TikTok faces US shutdown (TechCrunch)

Friday, January 10 2025 - Fri. 01/10 – The Controversies Continue

• Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims (TechCrunch)
• Automattic says it will reduce its contribution to WordPress core project to match WP Engine (TechCrunch)
• Billionaire Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty proposes bid for TikTok’s US assets (Reuters)
• Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location (Wired)
• Call of Duty’s massive development budgets revealed: $700 million for Black Ops Cold War (Game File)

Thursday, January 09 2025 - Thu. 01/09 – The Wildfire App Everyone In LA Has Been Using

• Hackers are exploiting a new Ivanti VPN security bug to hack into company networks (TechCrunch)
• Apple says Siri isn’t sending your conversations to advertisers (The Verge)
• Google’s ‘Daily Listen’ lab is a personalized podcast based on your Discover feed (9to5Google)
• SoftBank’s Chip Designer Arm Considers Acquiring Ampere Computing (Bloomberg)
• Your Next AI Wearable Will Listen to Everything All the Time (Wired)
• With L.A. on alert, wildfire app Watch Duty adds 600,000 users overnight (LA Times)
• LA residents find a lifeline in this free wildfire-tracking app (The Verge)
• ‘It’s not just alerts, it’s a state of mind’: How a wildfire monitoring app became essential in the US west (The Guardian)

Wednesday, January 08 2025 - Wed. 01/08 – Fallout From Meta’s Content Moderation Changes

• Meta’s fact-checking changes are just what Trump’s FCC head asked for (The Verge)
• Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending Down (WSJ)
• AI Startup Anthropic Raising Funds Valuing It at $60 Billion (WSJ)
• Lenovo’s Latest Laptop Has a Rollable OLED Screen (Wired)
• BMW’s new iDrive turns the whole windshield into a heads-up display (The Verge)
• New Nike Therapeutic Shoes at CES 2025 Look Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen Before (CNET)
• EcoFlow’s Solar hat is better for the planet than your style (Engadget)
• Anker made a solar beach umbrella, because of course (Engadget)
• This Slim Little Battery I Saw at CES 2025 Is Like a Tesla Powerwall for Your Fridge (CNET)
• I Watched a Printer-Size Gadget Boost a Phone’s Battery Life in Seconds (CNET)
• This toaster-looking gadget boosts your phone’s battery in seconds (The Verge)
• If you’re constantly losing cables, this could be your ideal charger (The Verge)

Tuesday, January 07 2025 - Tue. 01/07 – Nvidia Still Takes CES Seriously

• US opens probe into 2.6 million Tesla vehicles over remote driving feature (Reuters)
• Getty Images and Shutterstock agree to merge (Axios)
• Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge in $3.7 Billion Deal (The Wrap)
• Dell kills the XPS brand (The Verge)
• Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs (The Verge)
• Nvidia’s Project Digits is a ‘personal AI supercomputer’ (TechCrunch)
• Razer Project Ava: would you pay an AI to help you get good at games? (The Verge)

Monday, January 06 2025 - Mon. 01/06 – Sam Altman Is Already Moving Past AGI

• Reflections (Sam Altman’s Blog)
• Meta’s AI Profiles Are Indistinguishable From Terrible Spam That Took Over Facebook (404 Media)
• Samsung spreads Vision AI across its 2025 TV portfolio (VentureBeat)
• LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs (The Verge)
• LG’s 2025 OLED TVs are its best yet — but they risk going overboard with AI (The Verge)
• CES 2025: We Spent Hours Watching a Robot Vacuum Pick Up Socks. It’s a Dream Come True (CNET)
• Stop Scalding Your Tongue: This $25 Cat Robot ‘Blows’ on Your Drink to Cool It (CNET)
• Elvie unveils an app-controlled smart bouncer that transforms into a bassinet at CES 2025 (TechCrunch)
• TiVo-powered TVs are coming to the US (The Verge)

Friday, January 03 2025 - Fri. 01/03 – Turns Out, Siri WAS Listening To You!

• Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit (Reuters)
• Apple Fitness Plus and Strava are collaborating with a new integration (The Verge)
• US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules (Reuters)
• AI-generated phishing scams target corporate executives (FT)
• Number of US venture capital firms falls as cash flows to tech’s top investors (FT)
• Asus, Samsung, and MSI announce world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitors (The Verge)