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Tue. 05/23 – Shutterstock Nabs Giphy
Apple continues to play nice with Broadcom despite hoping to drop them someday. The thing people warned about with these bluechecks happened yesterday...
Mon. 05/22 – Meta Hit With Biggest Ever GDPR Fine
Meta got hit by the biggest ever GDPR fine in Europe. A crypto project got taken over by hackers who voted themselves into power. The startup that wan...
BETTER SOUND! (IHP) Amazon's First Employee Shel Kaphan
Re-releasing this one, hopefully with improved sound quality!The earliest days of Amazon with its earliest hire: Shel Kaphan.See Privacy Policy at htt...
(BNS) @BradyDale On SBF, FTX, All The Stuff
I didn't know the whole story of Sam Bankman-Fried. This book will do that for you. From our very good friend of the show Brady Dale: SBF: How th...
Fri. 05/19 – ChatGPT Comes To The App Store
OpenAI has launched an official ChatGPT app for iPhones and iPads. Android coming soon. The Supreme Court actually propped up Section 230, allowing it...
Thu. 05/18 – Montana Bans TikTok
The first official ban of TikTok by a US state is here. Unskippable tv-like ads are coming to YouTube when you’re watching on your TV. How much can be...
Wed. 05/17 – Open Source Vs. Centralized AI, Part II
If you’ve been letting some of your Google accounts sit fallow, you better look into that cause Google is gonna start deleting things. Why some new to...
Tue. 05/16 – Open Source Vs. Centralized AI, Part I
The EU actually approved the Microsoft Activision acquisition so… what now? The IRS might finally allow us to file our taxes online for free. The EU p...
Mon. 05/15 – Media Day On The Podcast
After some news about Apple testing M3 chips, it’s media day on the podcast. Wither Motherboard, as Vice declares bankruptcy. Netflix is cutting spend...
(IHP Bonus) Tesla Cofounder Marc Tarpenning (Corrected)
Marc Tarpenning, along with Martin Eberhard, was the cofounder of Tesla Motors back in 2003. But before that, Tarpenning and Eberhard were also the co...
(Bonus) Apple II History With Laine Nooney
Yes, the Apple II is maybe more historically important than the Macintosh, at least for Apple as a company. I agree with the argument my friend Laine...
Fri. 05/12 – Twitter Has A New CEO
Elon says he’s hired a new CEO for Twitter, and folks think they know who this person will be. The Claude chatbot has expanded so much you can now wri...
Thu. 05/11 – Twitter Encrypts DMs? (Corrected)
Twitter finally rolled out encrypted DMs… or did they? More drips and drabs from yesterday’s Google event including an AI music generating tool that s...
Wed. 05/10 – Google I/O
I’m writing this this morning before Google’s I/O, so I’m assuming that’s going to be the entirety of this episode. But who knows. Maybe I’ll be able...
Tue. 05/09 – AI Comes To The Drive Through Window
More roiling questions about crypto and regulator enforcement. Nintendo’s Switch is getting long in the tooth. AI’s are coming to the Wendy’s drive th...
Mon. 05/08 – The Big Discord Username Shift
What to expect from Google IO. The big discord username switch. Sam Altman’s side hustle is launching a thing. But also a look at the regulatory issue...
(Bonus) Brian On Big Technology Podcast
This is the crossover episode of when I went on the Big Technology podcast on Friday. We ask where the moat is in AI? And we celebrate Ed Sheeran if y...
(Bonus) @semaforben On The Golden Age Of Digital Media And His AMAZING New Book About It
This is the book I've been dying for someone to write! This is how digital media happened for 20 years! Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the...
Fri. 05/05 – Can Open Source Win Out Over Open AI? (Corrected)
Apple earnings recap. A new, free code generating AI tool. Which, actually, lots of people are starting to ask the question: will open source AI actua...
Thu. 05/04 – The Regulators Come For AI
The regulators have not been sleeping on the AI revolution. Everybody wants to get in on the blue checkmark game. But this time, with actual utility....
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