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March 29, 2024Fri. 03/29 – SBF To The Hoosegow
SBF gets 25 years. X is maybe about to NSFW. Apple’s new OLED iPads should be coming in May. I can’t cram another acronym in here to tell you about Apple suing an employee for leaking. And, of course, the WLS… Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links:
Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud (Reuters)
Elon Musk’s X Is Testing ‘Adult Content’ Groups for Users (Bloomberg)
Apple Sues Former Employee for Leaking iPhone's Journal App and More (MacRumors)
Apple Plans New iPad Pro for May as Production Ramps Up Overseas (Bloomberg)
Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days, finish the week below first day close (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU (IEEE Spectrum)
How Jesse Plemons Came to Star in, Well, Pretty Much Everything (Texas Monthly)
17 min
March 28, 2024Thu. 03/28 – Claude 3 Opus Surpasses GPT-4 For The First Time
There’s a new king of the AI hill as Anthropic bests OpenAI for the first time. Amazon invests more in Anthropic and is investing a TON more in datacenters. Is that GPT sort of App Store not exactly catching fire? A big acquisition in gaming. And the tiny Caribbean island nation that is one of the biggest winners of the AI moment so far.
Links:
“The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time (ArsTechnica)
Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet (CNBC)
Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom (Bloomberg)
OpenAI’s app store draws investors and students seeking artificial aids (FT)
Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans ‘parts pairing’ (The Verge)
Take-Two Buys Gearbox From Embracer, Confirms Development on New Borderlands Game (IGN)
The A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguilla (NYTimes)
18 min
March 27, 2024Wed. 03/27 – Hulu Comes To Disney+; WWDC Gets A Date
Disney launches Hulu on Disney+. Apple schedules WWDC. Some Apple users report being victims of MFA bombing attacks. What it will mean to be certified as an AI PC. And more crazy data on the hunt for talent in the AI Wars.
Links:
Hulu on Disney+ Launches Out of Beta With Marketing Push to Grow Subscribers (The Hollywood Reporter)
The Disney Plus-Hulu merger is way more than a streaming bundle (The Verge)
Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event for June 10 to 14 (MacRumors)
Recent ‘MFA Bombing’ Attacks Targeting Apple Users (KrebsonSecurity)
Databricks launches DBRX, challenging Big Tech in the open source AI race (VentureBeat)
Databricks open-sources its own large language model, DBRX (SiliconAngle)
Databricks spent $10M on new DBRX generative AI model, but it can’t beat GPT-4 (TechCrunch)
Intel shares Microsoft's new AI PC definition, launches AI PC Acceleration Programs and Core Ultra Meteor Lake NUC developer kits at AI conference (Tom's Hardware)
The Fight for AI Talent: Pay Million-Dollar Packages and Buy Whole Teams (WSJ)
17 min
March 26, 2024Tue. 03/26 – Musical Chairs As Microsoft Reorganizes Itself Around AI
Executive shuffling indicates that Microsoft is serious about reorganizing itself around AI. The US and UK move against those alleged Chinese infrastructure hackers. OpenAI seems to be courting Hollywood for its Sora tool. And is the IPO window finally open for tech companies?
Links:
Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief (The Verge)
Canva Strikes Biggest Acquisition Yet in Chase to Take on Adobe (Bloomberg)
US sanctions APT31 hackers behind critical infrastructure attacks (BleepingComputer)
OpenAI shows off first examples of third-party creators using Sora (VentureBeat)
OpenAI Courts Hollywood in Meetings With Film Studios, Directors (Bloomberg)
Reddit options launch draws bulls, as shares soar (Reuters)
IPO Window Cracks Open and Silicon Valley Sees Some Daylight (Bloomberg)
Meta’s new opt-out setting limits visibility of politics on Instagram and Threads (The Verge)
Elon Musk’s Starlink Terminals Are Falling Into the Wrong Hands (Bloomberg)

Nat Friedman YouTube Video
17 min
March 25, 2024Mon. 03/25 – The Wheels Of DMA Justice Move Fast
They said this law would be one that was capable of moving fast. The EU has already opened formal DMA investigations into Apple and Google. Stability AI seems to be circling the Deadpool. Checking in on the health of X. Greater homescreen control coming to iPhones? And what should we make of tech insiders selling massive amounts of shares?
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Links:
EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law (Financial Times)
Stability AI Founder Emad Mostaque Plans To Resign As CEO, Sources Say (Forbes)
Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (NBCNews)
Spotify adds video learning courses in latest experiment (The Verge)
Sources: iOS 18 Lets Apps Be Placed Anywhere on Home Screen Grid (MacRumors)
Justice Department Risks Picking the Wrong Fight With Apple (Bloomberg)
Thiel, Bezos and Zuckerberg join parade of insiders selling tech stocks (Financial Times)
16 min
March 22, 2024Fri. 03/22 – Apple Antitrust Suit Fallout
Everyone is analyzing the DOJ’s case against Apple. An unpatchable vulnerability in Apple Silicon has been uncovered. Threads joins the Fediverse. How that whole Microsoft hiring the Inflection AI team actually maths out. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links:
Apple CarPlay is anticompetitive, too, US lawsuit alleges (The Verge)
U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction (Six Colors)
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (ArsTechnica)
Threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too (The Verge)
Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff (The Information)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story (Wired)
China’s Super-Cheap EVs Offer Hope for Average American Buyers (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Indie, rocked (The Verge)
19 min
March 21, 2024Thu. 03/21 – The DOJ Sues Apple
The DOJ opened a lawsuit against Apple. Reddit’s IPO should be happening today. An Epic Games Store on iOS should be coming later this year. Carvana is a Covid-times high-flier that has actually recovered. And Neuralink’s first human patient reveals himself to the world.
Links:
U.S. Sues Apple, Alleges Tech Giant Exploits Illegal Monopoly (WSJ)
Reddit prices IPO at $34 per share in first major social media offering since 2019 (CNBC)
The Epic Games Store is coming to Android (9to5Google)
Apple Faces Legal Protest From Meta, Microsoft, X, Spotify and Match (WSJ)
Carvana makes U-turn away from financial abyss (Financial Times)
Amazon’s New Focus: Fending Off Rivals Temu and Shein (WSJ)
Watch Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrate His Brain-Computer Interface (Wired)
16 min
March 20, 2024Wed. 03/20 – Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-Founder And Rocks The AI Community
Microsoft hiring DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run their new AI division might sound like boring c-suite musical chairs, but it’s actually super interesting. Intel gets the first huge check from the CHIPS Act. Stardew Valley is breaking gaming records. And the interesting startup that does AI music.
Links:
Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-Founder Suleyman to Run Consumer AI (Bloomberg)
Microsoft bets on start-ups to extend AI lead with hiring of Inflection chief (Financial Times)
Intel to receive $8.5bn in US funding for high-end chip manufacturing (Financial Times)
Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update smashes its Steam player record (The Verge)
A ChatGPT for Music Is Here. Inside Suno, the Startup Changing Everything (Rolling Stone)
18 min
March 19, 2024Tue. 03/19 – Nvidia Developer Event
Nvidia announced… well, a ton of things. Two new AI tools show that video is having an AI moment. An update on how TikTok is faring in the Senate. And an interesting raise from a startup that wants to become a major new platform player in Gaming.
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Links:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’ (CNBC)
Nvidia launches NIM to make it smoother to deploy AI models into production (TechCrunch)
Nvidia enlists humanoid robotics’ biggest names for new AI platform, GR00T (TechCrunch)
Nvidia announces Earth-2 digital twin to forecast planet’s climate change (VentureBeat)
Google researchers unveil ‘VLOGGER’, an AI that can bring still photos to life (VentureBeat)
Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D (VentureBeat)
DOJ to Push for TikTok Divestiture in Senate Briefings (Bloomberg)
Playtron: the startup hoping to Steam Deck-ify the world (The Verge)
32 min
March 18, 2024Mon. 03/18 – Apple To Partner With Google For AI On iOS?
I did NOT have on my bingo card Apple turning to Google to power its first big foray into modern AI on its hardware. Even while a new Apple AI model might be pointing to breakthroughs in AI reasoning. One of the biggest e-sports competitions in the world has been hacked by cheaters. And some pretty bearish news for the VR industry.
Links:
Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features (Bloomberg)
Apple researchers achieve breakthroughs in multimodal AI as company ramps up investments (VentureBeat)
xAI open-sources base model of Grok, but without any training code (TechCrunch)
Musk’s Grok AI goes open source (VentureBeat)
Massive ‘Apex Legends’ Hack Disrupts NA Finals, Raises Serious Security Concerns (Forbes)
Sony Hits Pause on PSVR2 Production as Unsold Inventory Piles Up (Bloomberg)
18 min