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Brian McCullough
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Fri. 08/02 – Intel Is Bailing Water
So, tech earnings continued to be boring. Apple was fine. Amazon was not quite so fine. And then someone we don’t cover closely really messed the bed....
Thu. 08/01 – Now Meta’s AI Spending Is Fine?
So I guess Zuck has convinced Wall Street that all the capex spending on AI is fine. How good a business is Tether? A gooooood business. The first arr...
Wed. 07/31 – CapCut Ascendant
Another big pullback of a major AI tool. Microsoft earnings. How CapCut is taking over the creator tools space. Amazon speedy delivery is rolling out...
Tue. 07/30 – A (Mostly) AI Day
Perplexity wants to share ad revenue with publishers. But lots of AI companies are continuing to gamble with scraping. Meta’s new Segment Anything 2 m...
Mon. 07/29 – Big Tech IPO From… Honeywell?
Apple Intelligence might be coming sooner than we dared hope. Might want to check your settings on X. The universe of alt coins is back. A big tech IP...
Fri. 07/26 – SearchGPT
OpenAI takes on Google search directly. Another Hollywood strike with the same underlying causes. We know absolutely everything about the new Pixel 9...
Thu. 07/25 – Reddit’s Throwing Elbows Again
Once again, Reddit looks like it’s not worried about upsetting people. New generative search on Bing, new models from Mistral and a new video model fr...
Wed. 07/24 – Llama 3.1 Bests The “Frontier Models”?
Meta’s Llama 3.1 shows that open models can at least go toe to toe with proprietary AI models. Why did the Google-Wiz deal fall apart? Was the CrowdSt...
Tue. 07/23 – Wiz Turns Down The Money
I try to get my head around the whole Google and third-party cookies thing. Wiz turns down Google’s big money acquisition offer. Spot ether ETFs can b...
Mon. 07/22 – The Big Outage Weekend
Wait, did any news happen this weekend? IT people don’t know about it cause they’re still digging out from the CrowdStrike thing. But why is everybody...
Fri. 07/19 – The Big CrowdStrike Outage Explained
The big tech outage caused by a single software update that even my mom is texting me about. The new mini AI models are bring prices down as we hoped....
Thu. 07/18 – Crypto Exchange Hacks Are Back
It looks like crypto exchange hacks are back. And so are the North Koreans, I guess. Are the Meta Ray-Bans selling so well Zuck might invest in the Ra...
Wed. 07/17 – Sorry, More Politics…
Sorry, we gotta do more politics. Can’t avoid it cause now Trump likes TikTok and seemingly hates Mark Zuckerberg. Mistrals two new models. A big Pixe...
Tue. 07/16 – A VC VP Pick
JD Vance becomes the first Tech industry player, and especially Venture Capitalist, to ever be on a major presidential ticket. It’s never been easier...
Mon. 07/15 – Google To Make Its Biggest Acquisition Ever?
The biggest tech exit in years might be in the offing as Alphabet eyes scooping up Wiz. The weird story of that huge AT&T hack. A new ARM-powered...
(First Ones) Josh Wolfe Of Lux Capital
More about Josh Wolfe and Lux Capital here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#...
Thu. 07/11 – Samsung’s Foldable Event
All the headlines from what was largely a foldable phone event from Samsung yesterday. Apple has settled with the EU. More numbers on Apple Vision Pro...
Wed. 07/10 – Why Everyone Is Fleeing OpenAI’s Board
Suddenly nobody wants to be on OpenAI’s board, even as observers. I’ll tell you why. More on how AI has thrown everybody’s carbon neutral plans into c...
Tue. 07/09 – The New Nothing Phone Costs Practically Nothing
The new nothing phone costs almost nothing. I’m not punning. Sam Altman has founded yet another AI startup. Is the hype around AI PCs underdelivering?...
Mon. 07/08 – Thinner And Bigger Watches
Ok, fine. Give me a thinner watch if it’ll also somehow have a bigger screen. Apple and Epic are just petty, squabbling children at this point. What i...
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