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Brian McCullough
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Wed. 03/26 – The Day Of AI Announces
It’s all AI today basically. New Gemini “thinking” models. New “deep reasoning” agents for Copilot. But the really big news is the new image generator...
Tue. 03/25 – Napster Lives! Again!
Looks like the EU is bringing down the hammer on Meta. Waymo’s next city is Washington DC. Napster continues to live! And it has a new owner! Maybe do...
Mon. 03/24 – 23andMe Enters The Deadpool
23andMe files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Are mergers and acquisitions officially back on the menu of Silicon Valley? Are cameras coming to the Apple W...
Fri. 03/21 – A Look At LibGen
That whole thing with Meta allegedly scraping all the world’s books using LibGen is back in the news. Cloudflare is fighting AI scraping with AI slop....
Thu. 03/20 – Is Apple In Its “Vista” Era?
SoftBank acquires a chip making startup. Nvidia says it hasn’t been approached to help save Intel. OpenAI announces another expensive AI tier. Apple T...
Wed. 03/19 – Nvidia Wants To Change All Of Computing
The EU Commission has brought the hammer down on Apple and Google at the same time. All the big news from Nvidia’s big event yesterday. More details o...
Tue. 03/18 – The Big M&A Test I Was Waiting For
We get that first big test of M&A I was looking for as Alphabet acquires Wiz. Is Roku going to force us to watch ads just to turn on our TVs? The...
Mon. 03/17 – Europe Wants To Ween Itself Off Silicon Valley
Europe wants to ween itself off of foreign big tech. Could this be the sign of a future rift with Silicon Valley? The weird case of Rippling versus De...
Fri. 03/14 – E2EE For All!
The new RCS messaging standard makes encryption universal, and even Apple is getting on the bandwagon. OpenAI calls for a US ban of DeepSeek. Is Apple...
Thu. 03/13 – Intel’s New Boss
Intel has a new boss and they seem to want to double down on the Foundry strategy. Meta is testing community notes. Sonos is abandoning its big stream...
Wed. 03/12 – Roomba Might Not Be Able To Clean Up This Mess
Niantic officially sells to that Saudi-owned game developer. iRobot says it might not be alive in about 12 months time. Sam Altman believes he has an...
Tue. 03/11 – Biggest Changes To iOS Since 2013
Are we about to get the biggest overhaul of iOS since 2013? Is inference the way that everybody is going to eat Nvidia’s lunch? Exactly how much to AI...
Mon. 03/10 – Is Manus “DeepSeek” 2.0?
Well, do we have another DeepSeek moment on our hands? I tell you about Manus, which had some people losing their minds over the weekend. Now do we ha...
(Omnibus) Week Of 03/03/2025
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Fri. 03/07 – “AI Wrappers” No Longer A Pejorative
Will Apple have to allow side loading in Brazil? The US Strategic Crypto Reserve becomes a reality. Larry Page has a new startup. The concept of a sta...
Thu. 03/06 – Tech IPO Spring?
More signs the tech IPO logjam is breaking. Another cheap new AI model from China. Would you pay 20 THOUSAND dollars a month to use an OpenAI agent? T...
Wed. 03/05 – Digg Is Back!
Elon can’t stop OpenAI, but the case will go on. Trump wants to stop the Chips Act immediately. Apple released more new Macs today. If you can believe...
Tue. 03/04 – The First IPO Of The AI Era
We have our first official IPO of the AI Era coming. Anthropic has a big new round. New iPads from Apple. New phones from Nothing. Waymo rolls out in...
Mon. 03/03 – A National Crypto Reserve?
Maybe we really will be getting that national crypto reserve after all. TSMC doubles down on manufacturing in the US. Return to the office is one thin...
Fri. 10/28 – GPT-4.5
OpenAI has launched GPT-4.5, but they want you to know, this is not a frontier model, it’s a stepping stone. Skype enters the Deadpool. Memecoins are...
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