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July 25, 2023Tue. 07/25 – X Fallout Continues (Insert Xander Cage Joke Here)
Big potential vulnerability in AMD chips. Fallout from the whole X re-branding continues. Now TikTok is cloning Twitter. The Arc Browser is now available for anyone to try out. And if you think Elon likes to have his hand in a lot of pies, a look at the increasing, and increasingly ambitious portfolio of Sam Altman-related companies.
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AMD 'Zenbleed' Bug Leaks Data From Ryzen, EPYC CPUs: Most Patches Coming Q4 (Updated) (TomsHardware)
Musk Explains Why He’s Axing Twitter Name, Iconic Bird Logo (Bloomberg)
TikTok is adding support for text posts (TechCrunch)
The excellent Arc browser is now available for anyone to download (The Verge)
Spotify now has 220 million paying subscribers (The Verge)
Sam Altman’s vision for AI puts him on collision course with regulators (Financial Times)
Sam Altman explains why he’s helping to take nuclear microreactor company Oklo public via SPAC (CNBC)
19 min
July 24, 2023Mon. 07/24 – This Podcast Is Now Called X Ride Home
Elon makes good on his promise to rebrand Twitter as… X. Moar price hikes in streaming! Worldcoin has officially rolled out its token, so long as you’ve scanned your eyeball. Let me introduce you to the Flipper Zero. And should it be titled: Hollywood Strike: Rise Of The TikTok Stars?
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Twitter is being rebranded as X (The Verge)
Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ (TechCrunch)
It’s Spotify’s turn to increase prices (The Verge)
Peer-to-Peer Crypto Exchanges Lose Ground in Shrunken Market (Bloomberg)
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin crypto project begins international rollout (FT)
The Flipper Zero is a Swiss Army knife of antennas (The Verge)
The Flipper Zero has an app store now (The Verge)
The creator economy was already exploding. Then Hollywood went on strike. (Washington Post)
20 min
July 21, 2023Fri. 07/21 – Reddit Doesn’t Blink
Reddit is choosing violence with their biggest holdouts. More data on the ebbing of Threads usage. AI seems to be bringing Sergey Brin back into the office. Why you should be getting your paycheck quicker. And an Oppenheimer-themed Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Reddit takes over one of the biggest protesting subreddits (The Verge)
Threads Is Already Losing Its Allure for Users, Adding Urgency for New Features (WSJ)
Meta, Google, and OpenAI promise the White House they’ll develop AI responsibly (The Verge)
The Federal Reserve’s 24/7 payment system could deposit your paycheck instantly (The Verge)
Sergey Brin Is Back in the Trenches at Google (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
A $25,000 Prize Still Sits in the Maine Woods. Meteorite Hunters Aren’t Giving Up. (WSJ)
Fable unveils Showrunner AI to create South Park-like TV shows with you as the star (VentureBeat)
The Airstocracy: Six things to know about flying with the superrich. (NYMag)
THE REAL LESSON FROM THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB (The Atlantic)
19 min
July 20, 2023Thu. 07/20 – An Apple GPT
Rumors that Apple already has an LLM framework and their own generative chatbot. Google is shopping an AI bot that can write news stories to various journalism outlets. Has GPT-4 actually gotten dumber of late? More streaming price raises. And it’s the last chance saloon for Microsoft’s AR headset for the US Military.
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Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI (Bloomberg)
Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles (NYTimes)
Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced (ArsTechnica)
Meta open-sources Llama 2, but with strings attached (MoneyControl)
Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals (BBC News)
Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5Google)
Microsoft Poised to Deliver Improved Combat Goggles, US Army Says (Bloomberg)
17 min
July 19, 2023Wed. 07/19 – More Proof The Big Folks Are Winning AI (For Now)
Microsoft announced aggressive pricing for their AI products and got rewarded with an all-time high stock market valuation. More price aggression in the streaming wars. Meta released Llama 2. Google is asking for employees to voluntarily work on air gapped machines. And let me introduce you to the concept of “synthetic data” for LLMs.
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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard extend merger agreement to October (The Verge)
Microsoft will charge businesses $30 per user for its 365 AI Copilot (Engadget)
Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription (CNBC)
Netflix Shakes Up Pricing: ‘Basic’ Tier Axed in UK, US (Cord Busters)
Meta launches Llama 2, an open source AI model that allows commercial applications (Ars Technica)
Google restricting internet access to some employees to reduce cyberattack risk (CNBC)
Why computer-made data is being used to train AI models (FT)
18 min
July 18, 2023Tue. 07/18 – Checking In With Threads
It’s been… two weeks. Let’s check in on how Threads is doing. Streaming players continue to raise prices. Microsoft still plans on fighting for its prize. Are the incumbents winning the AI race? And the interesting startup that wants to use light instead of electricity in computer chips.
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The spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’ (TechCrunch)
Five reasons Threads could still go the distance (Platformer)
Peacock to raise its subscription prices on August 17 (TechCrunch)
Microsoft-Activision Deal Poised to Close Later Than Planned (Bloomberg)
Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts (TechCrunch)
UK chip designer raises millions from Agnelli fund (FT)
18 min
July 17, 2023Mon. 07/17 – Sony And Microsoft Stop Fragging Each Other Over Call Of Duty
Sony and Microsoft have made nice. Bitcoin ETFs continue to look like a possibility. How the Vision Pro is shaking up Apple’s org structure in a meaningful way for the first time since the Steve Jobs Era. And why Netflix’s recent turnaround have rekindled those perpetual rumors that Apple is gonna end up buying Disney some day.
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Sony agrees to 10-year Call of Duty deal with Microsoft (The Verge)
SEC accepts BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF application, signaling regulatory review (CoinTelegraph)
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (StackDiary)
Hacker News Thread On The Brave Thing
Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator (Financial Times)
Apple’s New Vision Group Reflects Shift Away From Steve Jobs Approach (Bloomberg)
Bob Iger Shifts From Building an Empire to a Disney Yard Sale (Bloomberg)
18 min
July 14, 2023Fri. 07/14 – Twitter Starts Showing People The Money
Elon has made good on his promise to share ad revenue with some big Tweeters. The fact that you can’t use Threads in Europe continues to be weird. Meta unveils a new AI image generator that they say is significantly smaller and better. Why AI is at the center of the Hollywood strike part eleven. And one choice Weekend Longreads Suggestion.
Links:
Twitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators (TechCrunch)
Musk's Twitter sues four Texas entities for data scraping, seeks damages (Reuters)
Meta confirms it is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN (TechCrunch)
Meta claims its new art-generating model is best-in-class (TechCrunch)
Exclusive: AP strikes news-sharing and tech deal with OpenAI (Axios)
Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever (The Verge)
Here’s the new default font for Microsoft Outlook and Word: Aptos (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Apple, Lionel Messi and the $2.5bn question: What’s next? (The Athletic)
18 min
July 13, 2023Thu. 07/13 – Elon Launches An AI Company
Elon has launched his own AI company with some pretty big names involved. The FTC will appeal! Roblox is coming to Zuckerberg’s metaverse. Meta does plan to commercialize LLaMA. And a cool new “do a napkin sketch and have AI turn it into an actual work of art” tool.
Links:
Musk Unveils xAI in New Bid to Rival Startup OpenAI (Bloomberg)
FTC appeals its loss to Microsoft in Activision Blizzard case (The Verge)
Ex-Celsius CEO Mashinsky Charged in Latest DOJ Crypto Case (Bloomberg)
Roblox is coming to Meta’s Quest VR headsets (The Verge)
macOS Sonoma Brings Apple Password Manager to Third-Party Browsers (MacRumors)
Meta to release commercial AI model in effort to catch rivals (FT)
Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool (TechCrunch)
18 min
July 12, 2023Wed. 07/12 – Microsoft Wins Big In The FTC Case
A big win for Microsoft leads critics of FTC chair Lina Khan to come out of the woodwork. Anthropic has released its Claude 2 chatbot. Say hello to the Nothing Phone (2). And while the market caps of the big players might have been boosted by AI, might the need for on premises AI lead to a unique opening for the likes of Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise?
Links:
Microsoft-Activision deal moves closer as judge denies FTC injunction request (CNBC)
Microsoft and UK regulators agree to pause their Activision battle to negotiate (The Verge)
FTC would face tough appeal of Microsoft-Activision order, experts say (Reuters)
F.T.C.’s Court Loss Raises Fresh Questions About Its Chair’s Strategy (NYTimes)
AI Startup Anthropic Releases a New Version of Its ChatGPT Rival, Claude (Bloomberg)
Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux (TechCrunch)
Bigger, Brighter, More Expensive: Nothing Reveals the Phone (2) (Gizmodo)
The AI Boom Is Here. The Cloud May Not Be Ready. (WSJ)
16 min