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Brian McCullough
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Fri. 09/27 – Sam Altman Declines To Go “Founder Mode”
Founder Mode? Not for me, says Sam Altman, but we will see. A few new gadgets from Samsung. Maybe ARM should buy Intel. Are AI startups hitting revenu...
Thu. 09/26 – The Orion Smartglasses
There’s only two stories really. If you can believe it, more executive departures at OpenAI, as it looks like they’re serious about going for profit....
Wed. 09/25 – Caroline Ellison Sentenced
Caroline Ellison benefits from being cooperative. Has your company unknowingly hired remote workers from North Korea? What is going on with this WordP...
Tue. 09/24 – Sam Altman’s Few Thousand Days
Sam Altman has a manifesto. Kinda. Telegram is beginning to walk things back a bit. Cloudflare wants to help you block the AI bots. New streaming devi...
Mon. 09/23 – Qualcomm To Buy Intel?
Qualcomm as a white knight to save Intel? A huge bitcoin heist gets busted for the usual reasons. What if the US bans imports of all cars from China?...
Fri. 09/20 – MacOS 15 Sequoia Is Breaking Things
You might want to hold off on updating to macOS 15 Sequoia. What, exactly, is Europe trying to get Apple to do? The AI energy crunch means they’re tur...
Thu. 09/19 – Pokémon: No!
Looks like they finally got around to suing that Palworld game. Google volunteered to break up some of its businesses but the EU said no. AI is coming...
Wed. 09/18 – New Messages, New Headsets
Messages between Android and iOS are about to be encrypted. A new XR headset from HTC and new Spectacles from Snap. A big movie studio has signed up t...
Tue. 09/17 – Intel Has A Plan
Intel announces a bunch of ways its hoping to turn its business around sooner rather than later. Is OpenAI about to have its chat bots query you? The...
Mon. 09/16 – A Bunch Of Apple Stories
A bunch of Apple stories today. FDA approval for sleep apnea detection for the watch. Signs of poor pre-order sales for the phone. And a quick review...
Fri. 09/13 – The First Strawberry is o1
The first of the Strawberry models is here. YC plans to have four cohorts a year, but each one is getting smaller. Waymo is already ready to expand to...
Thu. 09/12 – OpenAI’s Big New Raise
As expected, OpenAI is in talks for a new capital raise at a $150B valuation. More layoffs in Microsoft’s gaming division. More holes poked in our cre...
Wed. 09/11 – Mistral Goes Multimodel; And An AI Model Mystery
Mistral goes multimodal for the first time. Meta admits to scraping the data of every adult Australian. The details on the new PS5 Pro. Wouldn’t it be...
Tue. 09/10 – Strawberries In 2 Weeks?
Apple loses its longest standing regulatory battle in the EU. Some drips and drabs from yesterday’s iPhone event. Would a phone you can fold three tim...
Mon. 09/09 – The iPhone 16 Event
All the headlines from today’s iPhone event. It IS interesting the degree to which Elon’s various businesses have potential synergy. The Times digs in...
Fri. 09/06 – Telegram Blinks.
Pavel Durov speaks, and Telegram blinks, both for the first time since the French arrest. Are XR glasses tethered to smartphones the next big product...
Thu. 09/05 – The DOJ Takes Down An Election Influence Campaign
The DOJ says it has taken down a big election influence campaign allegedly directed by Russia. The Internet Archive loses a big case. Android 15 is he...
Wed. 09/04 – Elon Blinks In Brazil
SpaceX has agreed to block access to X, in Brazil, on Starlink. Looks like YubiKeys are hackable. Who is the mystery platform looking to expand AI dat...
Tue. 09/03 – The X Ban In Brazil
We missed a pretty big story this weekend. X getting banned in Brazil. I’ll try to catch you up on all the contours of this. Canva’s raising prices an...
Fri. 08/30 – Who ISN’T Investing In OpenAI?
At this point it would be quicker to name the big tech company that’s NOT investing in OpenAI’s latest round. Amazon’s new Alexa service is just going...
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