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October 27, 2022Thu. 10/27 – Meta (Insert Bomb Emoji Here)
(BOMB SOUND). That’s the sound of Meta’s disastrous earnings announcement yesterday. That’s the sort of insightful analysis you come to this podcast for. But also, Argo AI is shutting down. Google Cloud has a new blockchain tool for developers. And the Elon Twitter thing is happening. It’s really happening, people. Behave accordingly.
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Meta Tumbles as Sales Forecast Shows Depth of Ad-Market Weakness (Bloomberg)
Meta Plummets 25% as Zuckerberg’s Plea for ‘Patience’ Falls Flat (Bloomberg)
It’s Official: Meta Is a Disaster (Intelligencer)
Mark Zuckerberg Is Going To Kill His Company (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
Ford, VW-backed Argo AI is shutting down (TechCrunch)
Samsung's Third-Quarter Profit Plunges Amid Chip Market Woes (CNET)
Google's new service helps Web3 developers build for blockchain-based platforms (ZDNet)
Elon Musk Is In Twitter’s Office and Will Address Staff Friday (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk, on Eve of Twitter Deal Close, Promises Advertisers It Won’t Become a ‘Free-for-All Hellscape’ (Variety)
17 min
October 26, 2022Wed. 10/26 – Meta Calls Apple On Its "Rentier Capitalism"
Meta and Spotify both call Apple out on their recent App Store aggressiveness. Soft earnings from Microsoft and worrying earnings from Alphabet. Twitter seems to already be hemorrhaging its power users. LinkedIn fights its own bot war. And are unicorns back to becoming a rare thing?
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Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta (The Verge)
Spotify says Apple is ‘choking competition’ and ruining its audiobook store (The Verge)
Spotify Boosts Subscribers and Revenue, Says 2023 Price Increases Likely (WSJ)
Microsoft Plunges on Forecast for Lackluster Azure Growth (Bloomberg)
Twitter Asks: Where Have All the Tweeters Gone? (Gizmodo)
Alphabet misses on earnings as YouTube shrinks; company will cut headcount growth by half in Q4 (CNBC)
Intel unit Mobileye prices IPO above range to raise $861 mln (Reuters)
Developers Complain About Gambling Ads Appearing in Their App Store Listings (MacRumors)
First on CNN: LinkedIn knows there are fake accounts on its site. Now it wants to help users spot them (CNN Business)
The billion-dollar tech unicorn is becoming rare again (The Washington Post)
18 min
October 25, 2022Tue. 10/25 – “Extractive Rentier Capitalists”
Apple tries to wedge the App Store vig into another market. Prices are going up for your favorite Apple services. Shutterstock is partnering with OpenAI cause if you can’t something them, join them! And what is the deal with Stage Manager on the iPad?
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App Store guidelines updated with new rules for apps with NFT and ad managers (9to5Mac)
Apple is raising the price of Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Apple One from today (9to5Mac)
Project Volterra launches today as the 'Windows Dev Kit 2023' with 32GB RAM and costs less than a Mac mini (Windows Central)
Meta shareholder writes critical open letter saying company needs to slash headcount and stop spending so much money on ‘metaverse’ (CNBC)
Shutterstock will start selling AI-generated stock imagery with help from OpenAI (The Verge)
Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 (13.5-inch) review: a few steps forward and one big step back (The Verge)
Microsoft Surface Pro 9 (SQ3) review: Windows on Arm is not ready (The Verge)
iPadOS 16’s Stage Manager is not the future of multitasking you were hoping for (The Verge)
17 min
October 24, 2022Mon. 10/24 – Investing In Chinese Tech Means Investing One Man’s Whims?
Did investing in Chinese tech become a fool’s errand over the weekend? A deep dive on how TSMC is caught in the middle of all the things. Is Elon’s Twitter deal presenting systemic risk to corporate finance? Are M2 Mac Pro and Macbook Pro’s still coming soon? And Bono tries to justify putting that U2 album on your iphone.
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China Stocks Crater in US as Alibaba Leads $130 Billion Wipeout (Bloomberg)
TSMC: the Taiwanese chipmaker caught up in the tech cold war (Financial Times)
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Debt to Be Held by Banks Amid Turbulent Markets (WSJ)
These artists found out their work was used to train AI. Now they’re furious (CNN Business)
The iPad Lineup Is Perplexing — Here’s How Apple Could Fix It (Bloomberg)
Bono on the birth of U2, that iTunes album and Live Aid: ‘There’s only one thing I can see when I watch it: the mullet’ (The Guardian)
19 min
October 22, 2022 (TWTR SPC) The AI Moment With @pt, @miguelisolano & @mignano
Talking this week's big week for AI, with Parker Thompson (@pt) plus@miguelisolano&@mignano
1 hr 34 min
October 21, 2022Fri. 10/21 – What If Uncle Sam Let’s Elon Off The Hook?
I said Elon’s name five times in front of a mirror and the whole Elon/Twitter headlines came flooding back into our lives. Forbes alleges that they’ve caught TikTok doing the thing that everybody fears. What if I told you there was a third huge AI raise story to round out this week? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Links:
Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce (Washington Post)
Twitter Tumbles as US Weighs Security Reviews for Musk Deals (Bloomberg)
TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens (Forbes)
OpenAI, Valued at Nearly $20 Billion, in Advanced Talks with Microsoft For More Funding (The Information)
Snap plunges more than 25% on third-quarter revenue miss (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready? (MIT Technology Review)
How Gamers Beat NFTs (Bloomberg)
The Hottest App Right Now? One Where Teens Have to Say Nice Things About Each Other (WSJ)
I Turned My Home Into a Fortress of Surveillance (The Atlantic)
19 min
October 20, 2022Thu. 10/20 – A Day Of Reviews
The big Solana challenger had a terrible first day of trading. Previews of the new Thunderbolt standard. Reviews of the new Raptor Lake chips. Uber takes a page out of the New York City taxi playbook. And the first hands-on, quasi-review of Meta’s high end VR headset.
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Links:
Aptos Token Plummets 40% After APT Airdrop for 'Early Network Participants' (Decrypt)
Android 13 (Go edition) announced with Material You, Google Play System Updates, and more (9to5Google)
The next generation of Thunderbolt seems nice but less necessary than ever (The Verge)
Intel Core i9-13900K review: an AMD Zen 4 beater (The Verge)
Uber rolls out ad business to reach more riders (FT)
I Tried the $1,500 Quest Pro and Saw the Best of the Metaverse (NYTimes)
18 min
October 19, 2022Wed. 10/19 – What Even IS Apple’s iPad Strategy?
Netflix actually beat on earnings and customer additions. Why their pivot to ads might actually be in line with their long-term strategy. Yesterday’s iPad releases were even more complicated, and stranger, frankly, than I told you. Bluesky is still plugging away on decentralized social media. And another monster interesting raise in the AI space.
Links:
Netflix adds more than 2.4 million subscribers, reveals details about password-sharing crackdown (CNBC)
The New Netflix Age Has Arrived (Puck/Julia Alexander)
The iPad’s erratic odyssey continues (Jason Snell/Six Colors)
Jack Dorsey-Founded Bluesky Unveils Roadmap for Decentralized Social Networks (Decrypt)
AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.5B valuation (TechCrunch)
19 min
October 18, 2022Tue. 10/18 – It’s AI Vs. The Metaverse, And AI Seems To Be Winning
New iPad Pros and new Apple TV 4ks. Meta walks away from the Giphy acquisition. Layoffs at Microsoft. High attrition at Amazon. Mobileye is probably going to IPO at a significant discount than people hoped? And why I’ve been telling you that the energy in Silicon Valley is switching to AI startups.
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Links:
Apple introduces next-generation iPad Pro, supercharged by the M2 chip (Apple Newsroom)
Apple announces new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro with M2 chip, Apple Pencil hover feature (9to5Mac)
Apple Announces 10th-Generation iPad With Complete Redesign, 10.9-Inch Display, USB-C, and More (MacRumors)
Meta gets final order to sell Giphy from UK antitrust watchdog (TechCrunch)
Microsoft becomes latest tech firm to cut staff (Axios)
Exclusive: Amazon’s attrition costs $8 billion annually according to leaked documents. And it gets worse. (Engadget)
Intel Eyes Significantly Lower Valuation in IPO of Mobileye Unit (WSJ)
Stability AI Raises Seed Round at $1 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
18 min
October 17, 2022Mon. 10/17 – Kanye To Elon: Hold My Beer
Looks like Ye, née Kanye West, is going to try to buy the social network Parler. A look at the Chinese export controls that could potentially force American executives to choose between their jobs and their American citizenship. Wait until you hear about the Mango Markets exploit. And what do you think is the global population of robots, right now? Today?
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Links:
Kanye West is buying ‘free speech platform’ Parler (The Verge)
Kanye West to buy social media app Parler (The Verge)
Decentralized Solana-based trading platform Mango reportedly hit by $100 million exploit (Fortune)
Biden declares economic war on the Chinese semiconductor industry (Noahpinion)
With New Crackdown, Biden Wages Global Campaign on Chinese Technology (NYTimes)
American Executives in Limbo at Chinese Chip Companies After U.S. Ban (WSJ)
Meet the Army of Robots Coming to Fill In for Scarce Workers (WSJ)
18 min