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Brian McCullough
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Fri. 02/23 – Reddit To IPO And Nvidia To The Moon
We have all the details of the Reddit IPO. And Sam Altman of all people makes an appearance in the S1! What that big cell phone outage yesterday was a...
Thu. 02/22 – Nvidia’s Earnings Are Epic
The most important tech company in the world right now reported earnings yesterday, and they were historic. Stability AI is previewing Stable Diffusio...
Wed. 02/21 – Apple Has Quantum Encrypted iMessage
Signal finally rolls out usernames, but Apple goes one better security-wise, by quantum encrypting iMessage. Weirdly, Apple also launched a standalone...
Tue. 02/20 – LockBit Ransomware Gang Taken Down
Perhaps the biggest law enforcement action against a ransomware gang ever. Once again, you could view other people’s cameras on your Wyze camera. How...
(Bonus) BlueSky CEO Jay Graber
An interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the future of social media.Sponsors:FactorMeals.com/ride50 and code ride50 for 50% offSee Privacy...
Fri. 02/16 – Sora Brings Text To Video AI To Life
Huge watershed reveal of OpenAI’s Sora, its first text-to-video model, which can create up to a minute of 1080p video. We used to have a Today In Elon...
Thu. 02/15 – We Already Have Gemini 1.5!
Google’s moving fast. They’ve already launched Gemini 1.5. An EU court rules breaking encryption violates human rights. Why social media is flooded wi...
Wed. 02/14 – Zuck Has His Own Social Media Post About The Vision Pro
Even Mark Zuckerberg is posting about the Apple Vision Pro. In short: he’s not impressed. Walmart might buy a smart TV maker for the ads. Y Combinator...
Tue. 02/13 – Why Microsoft’s Xbox Strategy Shift Is A Big Deal
Threads gets “today’s topics.” iMessage and Bing dodge EU DMA regulation. Why Temu bought a bunch of SuperBowl ads. Nvidia’s Chat with RTX lets you ru...
Mon. 02/12 – Luddite Riots?
Is actual neo-ludditeism going to become a thing, as some people have predicted? Google reveals the strength of its subscription businesses. A review...
Fri. 02/09 – Sam Altman Wants To Raise $5 Trillion Dollars. With a T.
Sam Altman wants to raise more money for his chip ambitions than the entire semiconductor industry. The Feds might put the breaks on Microsoft’s acqui...
Thu. 02/08 – Google Releases Gemini Ultra 1.0
Google has released Gemini Ultra 1.0, renamed Bard as Gemini and looks to be replacing Google Assistant with Gemini. Disney has invested in a big stak...
Wed. 02/07 – AI Watermarks And New Apple AI Models
OpenAI is adding watermarks to Dall-E 3 images. A new AI model from Apple. A new open source model that is king of the LLM hill. More rumors of a fold...
Tue. 02/06 – Don’t Forget Your Vision Pro Password!
Don’t forget your Vision Pro password, or else you’re going to have to return it to the Apple Store to use it again. Why are the gaming platforms will...
Mon. 02/05 – The Most Shocking Deepfake Scam Of The AI Era
Let me tell you the story of the most shocking AI deepfake scam we’ve heard yet, because it’s a warning to all of us going forward. An Apple Vision Pr...
(Bonus) a16z's Chris Dixon On His New Book And Web3
Our friend Chris Dixon is back to talk about his new book: Read Write Own! How Web3 and the blockchain can save the web as we know it!See Privacy Poli...
Fri. 02/02 – Facebook’s Golden Age Is Now
A run down of some interesting details from Tech’s big earnings day yesterday. Rufus is Amazon’s AI-powered shopping assistant. The Browser Company co...
Thu. 02/01 – A Tech Regulation Tipping Point?
Why I think yesterday’s Congressional hearings might actually be a tipping point for tech regulation. What would a Kids Online Safety Act actually mea...
Wed. 01/31 – Tech Execs Back Before Congress
The tech execs have been called before Congress once again. Universal Music Group pulls its songs from TikTok. Is 23andMe in danger of going out of bu...
Tue. 01/30 – The Vision Pro Reviews Are Here
Elon Musk says Neuralink implanted its device into a human for the first time. You can search for Taylor Swift X again, but was a Microsoft tool to bl...
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