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Brian McCullough
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Thu. 02/27 – Nvidia Earnings
Nvidia’s first earnings are out after the whole DeepSeek thing. Do they seem nervous or no? A pretty big price cut for the PlayStation VR2. Huge outfl...
Wed. 02/26 – Alexa+
Amazon finally updated Alexa with generative AI. It’s called Alexa+ and it can do plenty of neat things, but unless you’re a Prime subscriber, it’s go...
Tue. 02/25 – Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic releases its latest cutting-edge model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Would you tolerate ads inside your Excel spreadsheet if you could use Excel for f...
Mon. 02/24 – Apple’s $500B Investment In The US
Apple makes a huge investment in US manufacturing and hiring. Are SMS messages as 2-factor authentication on the way out? The biggest crypto theft of...
The 2,000th Episode Spectacular
Well, kinda... But we do talk about how the show started, get a bit into the process of what I do every day. But mostly we get deep into where AI is g...
Thu. 02/20 – Microsoft’s Quantum Breakthrough
Microsoft is claiming a historical quantum breakthrough with its first quantum processor, the Majorana 1. Google is going all in on the Gemini brand....
Wed. 02/19 – The iPhone 16e
Apple has announced the new iPhone 16e. I’ve got all the details for you. The Humane AI Pin is definitively dead, and HP is acquiring the ashes. Yet A...
Tue. 02/18 – Grok-3
xAI and Elon Musk have launched Grok-3, their cutting-edge AI model. Is it really a step forward? It’s really the cutting-edge? Andrej Karpathy is gon...
Mon. 02/17 – Folks Are Circling Intel
The vultures are circling Intel, if that’s not too aggressive an analogy. OpenAI’s board officially rejects Elon’s bid. Zelle is quietly the biggest p...
Fri. 02/14 – Arm Upends The Entire Semiconductor Industry
TikTok is back in the app stores. But the biggest news is that Arm is going to make its own chips, thereby upending how the entire semiconductor indus...
Thu. 02/13 – Do We Maybe Have A Roadmap For GPT-5?
We maybe have a roadmap for GPT-5, but also, is it not really GPT-5 just a renaming of what they already have in the pipeline? It’s kind of weird. Elo...
Wed. 02/12 – The First Big AI Legal Ruling
The first big AI legal ruling has come down, and it might not be good news for AI startups. Apple launches its biggest health study yet. This one weir...
Tue. 02/11 – Elon Wants To Buy OpenAI
Elon makes an unsolicited bid to buy OpenAI, or at least the non-profit that controls it, and maybe he doesn’t really want to own it, it’s complicated...
Mon. 02/10 – How Sam Altman Outflanked Elon Musk?
According to the Super Bowl ad I saw last night, anyone can use Starlink on their phone soon, not just T-Mobile users. Was this the Super Bowl of cryp...
(Omnibus) Week Of 02/03/2025
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Fri. 02/07 – UK Backdoor Into iPhones?
Is the UK government about to force Apple to put backdoors into all of our iPhones? Tallying up the Tech Earnings week of CAPEX announcements. We migh...
Thu. 02/06 – A $50 (!!) AI Model?
Now researchers say they have trained a cutting edge AI model for… checks notes… $50. Not $50 million dollars. $50. Dollars. Get ready for the superbo...
Wed. 02/05 – Shein And Temu In Deep Trouble
Temu And Shein got a reprieve from the USPS, but they are still in deep, deep trouble. I’ll explain why. Alphabet earnings disappoint their investors...
Tue. 02/04 – Uncle Sam As A VC?
Is the US government about to get into, or at least, heavily impact the VC investing business? Apparently, the trade war with China is still on. The r...
Mon. 02/03 – OpenAI Deep Research
OpenAI unveils Deep Research, an AI agent just for that. I’ll explain. Are Shein and Temu first up to feel the brunt of the new Trump tariffs? Apple c...
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