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Fri. 04/26 – Net Neutrality Is Back
Net Neutrality has been voted back into existence. Earnings from Microsoft and Google, but it’s the YouTube numbers that continue to impress me. ByteD...
Thu. 04/25 – Zuck Is Disappointing Wall Street Again
Meta’s earnings were fine, but it’s what Zuck warned about spending that has Wall Street nervous. Sub 2nm chips are on their way. An AI startup has a...
Wed. 04/24 – What Now For TikTok?
The TikTok divestment bill has probably already been signed into law. What happens now? What are the legal arguments that this thing can stick? What a...
Tue. 04/23 – Microsoft’s Own LLMs and Perplexity’s Big Raise
Microsoft has launched new lightweight AI models. Perplexity has a big new raise. Meta wants other people to build Quest headsets. Another reason Appl...
Mon. 04/22 – TikTok Back On The Chopping Block?
I know we’ve said this before, but TikTok really seems on the brink this time. What the heck is going on with Tesla? Tinder wants you to share your da...
Fri. 04/19 – All The News About Llama 3
Meta released Llama 3 yesterday, and some of the moves they made have made be consider if Zuck could win these first AI wars. Is Zuck also getting agg...
Thu. 04/18 – Game Emulators On iOS And The Atlas Robot Lives!
Google has fired 28 employees for political protests yesterday. A well-known coding school has been fined by the CFPB. Game emulators come to the iPho...
Wed. 04/17 – Copilots Or The Biggest Model Wins? The Competing AI Visions.
T-Mobile and Verizon employees are being offered bribes for SIM swaps. How much coding copilots have taken over. How much would you value Mistral or C...
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 Section 23...
(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...
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