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Brian McCullough
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Tue. 04/16 – What Should An AI Wearable Be: AI Pin Or Limitless Pendant?
Microsoft continues to spread its AI bets. Disney wants to bring back tv channels. YouTube is not gonna let you block ads. What did Humane get wrong w...
Mon. 04/15 – Onshoring And Halving
Really looks like high-end re-shoring of chip tech is happening, and happening soon. What if satellite telephony becomes a table-stakes smartphone fea...
Fri. 04/12 – OpenAI Is The Biggest Drama Startup Since Twitter
Now a big business intelligence company has been breached. Do you get the sense that people are laying the groundwork for something? Google discontinu...
Thu. 04/11 – Humane AI Pin Reviews
Apple is notifying people their iPhones may have been compromised. Spotify wants you to mix up your music. Adobe is paying handsomely for videos. And...
Wed. 04/10 – A Bunch Of Datapoints
More AI announces from Google. More hints on how Apple will bring AI to iPhones. And a bunch of interesting datapoints: how much Apple has moved away...
Tue. 04/09 – Google’s New AI Chips
Google has a ton of AI announces, including new Arm-based AI chips, utilizing Google search in Gemini, and more. They also released their own Find My...
(Bonus) David Marcus And Lightspark
David Marcus comes on the pod to discuss what he's been working on since leaving Meta. Specificially: Lightspark, and efforts to expand the Lighting N...
Fri. 04/05 – Apple Layoffs!
Apple joins the tech layoff club. Microsoft warns China is planning to disrupt elections using AI. Disney+ is joining Netflix in cracking down on pass...
Thu. 04/04 – How About A TRUE iRobot?
Is Apple pivoting to home robotics now that the Apple Car project is dead? Is Google about to pivot to subscription based search? Why is X handing bac...
Wed. 04/03 – Quantum Computing Breakthrough?
Have we just had a major breakthrough in Quantum Computing? The earthquake in Taiwan might lead to some chip issues. We don’t quite know yet. Amazon i...
Tue. 04/02 – Amazon To Enter The AI Group Chat
Big trove of AT&T customer data dumped online. Microsoft is unbundling Teams. Amazon is readying its own big LLM. We should probably assume Sectio...
(Bonus) Nat Friedman Interview
What prolific AI investor Nat Friedman expects from GPT-5, Microsoft's general strategy in AI, how he invests in startups, and his background an philo...
Fri. 03/29 – SBF To The Hoosegow
SBF gets 25 years. X is maybe about to NSFW. Apple’s new OLED iPads should be coming in May. I can’t cram another acronym in here to tell you about Ap...
Thu. 03/28 – Claude 3 Opus Surpasses GPT-4 For The First Time
There’s a new king of the AI hill as Anthropic bests OpenAI for the first time. Amazon invests more in Anthropic and is investing a TON more in datace...
Wed. 03/27 – Hulu Comes To Disney+; WWDC Gets A Date
Disney launches Hulu on Disney+. Apple schedules WWDC. Some Apple users report being victims of MFA bombing attacks. What it will mean to be certified...
Tue. 03/26 – Musical Chairs As Microsoft Reorganizes Itself Around AI
Executive shuffling indicates that Microsoft is serious about reorganizing itself around AI. The US and UK move against those alleged Chinese infrastr...
Mon. 03/25 – The Wheels Of DMA Justice Move Fast
They said this law would be one that was capable of moving fast. The EU has already opened formal DMA investigations into Apple and Google. Stability...
Fri. 03/22 – Apple Antitrust Suit Fallout
Everyone is analyzing the DOJ’s case against Apple. An unpatchable vulnerability in Apple Silicon has been uncovered. Threads joins the Fediverse. How...
Thu. 03/21 – The DOJ Sues Apple
The DOJ opened a lawsuit against Apple. Reddit’s IPO should be happening today. An Epic Games Store on iOS should be coming later this year. Carvana i...
Wed. 03/20 – Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-Founder And Rocks The AI Community
Microsoft hiring DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run their new AI division might sound like boring c-suite musical chairs, but it’s actually s...
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