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Wed. 08/14 – When It Comes To AI On Phones, Google Does It Itself
All the details from yesterday’s pixel event, but especially the AI features that show how far ahead Google is. At least when it comes to putting AI o...
Tue. 08/13 – Apple Comes For Patreon
Patreon is forced to change how it does things because Apple finally came to claim their vig. Have basically all our social security numbers been leak...
Mon. 08/12 – Some Apple Rumors Before Pixel Day
Hey, want to know the iPhone product road map for the next year or so? I wonder why that’s coming out today? Instagram is copying something it forgot...
Fri. 08/09 – Mac Mini To Get Mini-er?
Apple’s new EU rules still aren’t acceptable to Spotify and Epic. Could we be getting a new, smaller Mac Mini this year? Perplexity AI is showing some...
Thu. 08/08 – Would You Buy A Subscription Mouse?
TikTok launches Spotlight. Meta’s budget kills a VR studio. Why did everyone think Logitech was going to create a mouse you had to pay a subscription...
Wed. 08/07 – Is The New Google TV Streamer An Apple TV 4K Killer?
Google’s new TV streaming appliance, plus lots of lot of Gemini stuff is coming to Google Home and Nest and such. Elon tries to get advertisers to com...
Tue. 08/06 – Google Loses In Court
Three big stories to catch you up on. A federal judge has ruled Google is an illegal monopoly. The Game Of Thrones style drama at OpenAI is just getti...
Mon. 08/05 – OpenAI Can Detect AI Text But Isn’t Sure It Wants To
Why is OpenAI sitting on technology that could detect AI cheating? Why is Bitcoin so correlated to the stock market? Why is Elon restarting his lawsui...
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...
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