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Brian McCullough
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Tue. 01/07 – Nvidia Still Takes CES Seriously
Meta is completely revamping its fact-checking program, going instead with a version of Community Notes. A new Tesla recall, but for a different reaso...
Mon. 01/06 – Sam Altman Is Already Moving Past AGI
Sam Altman says AGI isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Superintelligence. Why is nobody using Meta’s AI profiles? Keep an eye on Zuck, is my advice. Th...
Fri. 01/03 – Turns Out, Siri WAS Listening To You!
Apple pays a fine cause Siri was listening in on what you said. Strava does a tie-in with Apple Fitness+. Net Neutrality is dead again, and it looks l...
(BNS) The Golden Girls - With Christina Warren
Among other things, learn how Miami Vice inspired the Golden Girls, how the Golden Girls helped finance the making of the movie Reservoir Dogs, whethe...
Mon. 12/30 – Welcome To A USB-C Life
AT&T and Verizon say they’ve rooted out Salt Typhoon. Trump asks the Supreme Court to intervene in the TikTok situation. All the banks want to be...
Fri. 12/27 – A New “Definition” Of AGI
Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly having problems deciding how make this whole, reclassifying as for-profit thing work. Oh, also, they secretly deci...
(BNS) Calvin And Hobbes - With Daniel Kibblesmith
Was Calvin And Hobbes the greatest comic strip ever? Or maybe a great work of art of the 20th Century? Why did Bill Watterson disappear? Was Calvin "g...
Mon. 12/23 – The Revenge Of Google Glass?
How about a Ring Doorbell, but from Apple? How about Meta Ray Ban’s but crossed with Google Glass? How everybody is combining forces to bid for defens...
Fri. 12/20 – Gemini Flash Thinking
Gemini Flash Thinking a model making a serious run at “reasoning.” The FAA has had to ban drones in New Jersey cause of all those weird drone sighting...
Thu. 12/19 – 1800CHATGPT
Apple says Meta is getting annoying. You can now call 1800CHATGPT to, you know, talk to ChatGPT. Apple scraps plans for a hardware subscription packag...
Wed. 12/18 – Is Your Home Internet Router About To Be Banned?
Is your home internet router about to be banned? The US has a new Chinese tech target. An AI dev kit from Nvidia. Who actually buys the most chips fro...
Tue. 12/17 – TikTok CEO Dines With Trump
On the same day that ByteDance asks the US Supreme Court to intervene, the TikTok CEO meets with Donald Trump. DeepMind’s big new competitor to Sora c...
Mon. 12/16 – The Coming Battle Of Elon v. Sam
I break down the coming battle of the titans that is going to likely play out in 2025 between Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Mark Gurman says Apple is fina...
(BNS) Top 10 Tech Stories Of 2024 (On The Newsworthy Podcast)
Brian on The Newsworthy podcast with Erica Mandy. Find out more about the show here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californi...
Fri. 12/13 – Gemini As The New Android/OS?
Ok, what if AI models are really the new OS for… everything. But also: smartglasses and a Vision Pro competitor. I’ll explain. Could NotebookLM become...
Thu. 12/12 – The “Killer App” For Vision Pro?
More fallout from the whole Cruise wind-down. What it’s like to use some of the new Gemini 2.0 features. Has Apple, quite belatedly, finally done a fe...
Wed. 12/11 – Gemini 2.0
GM shocked everybody by shutting down the Cruise robotaxi business. ChatGPT is finally on your iPhone once you update it. Could all Apple watches some...
Tue. 12/10 – Amazon Autos
You can now buy a car on Amazon. A new AI unicorn doing something with AI I hadn’t heard about before. New AI enhanced smartglasses. Microsoft says it...
Mon. 12/09 – OpenAI Releases Sora
OpenAI’s Sora model is here! TikTok is still in trouble. China does more turnabouts is fair play, this time with Nvidia. I Apple, belatedly, getting s...
Fri. 12/06 – Santa Sam Makes His First Delivery
Santa Sam has made his first delivery of the promised 12 days of launches from OpenAI. David Sacks is named the AI and Crypto Czar. Samsung’s entire U...
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