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Brian McCullough
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Wed. 02/22 – ChatGPT Hits A Chinese Wall
This chatbot AI revolution has hit a major roadblock in China. What does it mean if science fiction publications are up in arms about AI generated con...
Tue. 02/21 – Microsoft Swears To Play Nice With Call Of Duty
Microsoft tries again to convince people it won’t hoard Call of Duty as an Xbox exclusive. Linux now plays nice with Apple Silicon. Chrome swears it w...
Fri. 02/17 - Susan Wojcicki Rides Off Into The Sunset
The US is suing Terraform Labs and Do Kwon. The UK is investigating rumors that Google paid Apple NOT to spin up its own search engine. Susan Wojcicki...
Thu. 02/16 – Microsoft Reflects On The New Bing
Microsoft is revealing what it’s learned from us poking around on the new Bing. It seems that once developers begin using generative AI to code, they...
Wed. 02/15 – The New Bing Is Questioning Its Own Existence
More signs the chat bots are maybe a little undercooked, and whooo doggy. Wait until you hear what I mean. Some datapoints suggesting the faddish natu...
Tue. 02/14 – Elon, If You Want It Or Not
People are saying Elon is showing you his tweets whether you asked to see them or not. More fodder for the charge that these chat bots are being rolle...
Mon. 02/13 – Are Stablecoins Dead?
Binance’s stablecoin seems to be dead, but with regulatory questions swirling around Paxos, I’m wondering if all stablecoins might about to see a rug...
Fri. 02/10 – A Record Year For Bots (The Other Kind Of Bots)
More job cuts at Microsoft make me wonder if the HoloLens is still a thing. But also, we have data to explain why Apple hasn’t done layoffs yet. More...
Thu. 02/09 – Twitter Blue Breaks The Character Barrier
Feel free to tweet your manifestos now as Twitter Blue subscribers can tweet up to 4,000 characters. Is the Fediverse failing or doing just fine, than...
Wed. 02/08 – AI’s Big Week Continues
Microsoft unveils a new Bing search that basically moves the yardsticks down the field in terms of what chat can do. But Google continues to drip-feed...
Tue. 02/07 – AI’s Big Debut Week Is NOW!
Bored of phone and gadget launches, well prepare yourself for AI product launches, cause we’re getting a bunch of them starting now, this week. Meta i...
Mon. 02/06 – iPhone Ultra?
Is Apple considering launching an “Ultra” version of the iPhone as soon as this year? Have the good Twitter bots gotten a reprieve from Elon Musk? Is...
Fri. 02/03 – The Startup Planning To De-Extinct The Dodo
Earnings wrapups from Alphabet: investors just want to know when the AI is coming. From Apple: they’re still not planning any layoffs. From Amazon: Lo...
Thu. 02/02 – Meta Whistles Past The Metaverse
Meta singlehandedly bucks the narrative that it’s the sick man of Silicon Valley. Twitter is cutting off free access to its API. ChatGPT launches a pr...
Wed. 02/01 – The Memory Chip Rout (Again)
You think things are bad in your corner of the tech sector? Wait until I tell you about the memory chip industry. OpenAI releases a tool to let you ch...
Tue. 01/31 – Weird Gaming News
Today, some weird headlines from the world of gaming. Is VR gaming a big nothingburger for gamers themselves? Is E3 dead as a gaming industry event? S...
Mon 01/30 – Every Platform Is Hustling To Unveil An AI Play
Après ChatGPT, prepare yourself for the generative AI deluge. Amazon says the free lunch for grocery delivery is over. More speculation about foldable...
Fri. 01/27 – More Buzzfeed News, If You Can Believe It
What can make Buzzfeed hit our headlines two days in a row? How about jumping on the ChatGPT bandwagon? Amazon is apparently launching a major NFT pro...
Thu. 01/26 – Where Is The Line Going For Tech Right Now?
I get all metaphysical about where the tech industry is going right now with a record slowdown in smartphone shipments, Masa Son seemingly misplacing...
Wed. 01/25 – Is This Latest Suit The Biggest Threat To Google
I’m gonna tell you why I think the latest antitrust suit against Google might be the most important one in terms of the overall tech ecosystem. And ma...
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