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Thu. 04/03 – How Tariffs Might Impact Tech
Well we gotta talk about this tariff thing because the early indications are this could impact almost every nook and cranny of the tech industry. Coul...
Wed. 04/02 – The Nintendo Switch 2
All the details from the big Nintendo Switch 2 reveal this morning. Wikimedia says AI bots are increasing its costs by 50%. North Korean IT workers al...
Tue. 04/01 – OpenAI Closes The Biggest Private Tech Round Ever
Masa Son came through for OpenAI, to the tune of a $40 billion dollar round at a $300 billion-dollar post-money valuation. Sam Altman says OpenAI is g...
Mon. 03/31 – xAI Acquires X
Over the weekend Elon said that xAI has acquired X. Elon does love to blend his companies together. Tensions between SpaceX and Apple. Apple is workin...
Me On The Big Technology Podcast Talking This Week In Tech
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(Essay) Silicon Valley's "Sovereign Tech Stack" Problem
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Fri. 03/28 – CoreWeave’s Weak IPO
Move big moves in the gaming space. But we need to talk about that CoreWeave IPO. It. Didn’t. Go. Well. Facebook has a shocking idea: what if you coul...
Thu. 03/27 – AI Studio Ghibli
Everyone is using that new ChatGPT image generator to make Miyazaki memes. Google is taking Android development private. Are we seeing signs of an AI...
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 AI c...
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...
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