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June 27, 2023Tue. 06/27 – What If OpenAI Did Its Own Copilot?
Checking in with the FTC vs. Microsoft case. Checking in with the effort to recover funds from FTX. What if OpenAI did its own Copilot? Would Microsoft be pissed? And reviews of the Pixel Fold include one reviewer’s unit dying after a mere few days.
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Microsoft exec was ready to ‘go spend Sony out of business’ to strengthen Xbox (The Verge)
FTX Bankruptcy Team Says the Exchange Owed Customers $8.7B (CoinDesk)
Thomson Reuters buys Casetext, an AI legal tech startup, for $650M in cash (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Plans ChatGPT ‘Personal Assistant for Work,’ Setting Up Microsoft Rivalry (The Information)
RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days (ArsTechnica)
Google Pixel Fold review: closing the gap (The Verge)
18 min
June 26, 2023Mon. 06/26 – The M&A Deluge In AI Begins
Well, this AI moment is only about 6 months old, but it looks like the mergers and acquisitions are beginning in earnest. Wait, we’re still worried about 5G interfering with airplanes? Amazon wants your local florist to deliver your packages. An Amazon/FTC kerfuffle we missed. And what are the OTHER Apple products we can expect in the next year or so?
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Databricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML (WSJ)
Pete Buttigieg Warns of Flight Delays as 5G Deadline Looms (WSJ)
Exclusive: Amazon launches local business delivery network (Axios)
FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process (CNBC)
Amazon, Friction, and the FTC (Stratechery)
Apple Has Finally Unveiled the Vision Pro. Here’s What It’s Launching Next (Bloomberg)
18 min
June 24, 2023 (Portfolio Profile) The Player's Lounge
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37 min
June 23, 2023Fri. 06/23 – Meta To Turn Off The (Canadian) News Spigot?
Are Canadians about to lose their access to news on Instagram and maybe Google too? More details about what that Apple headset will actually be like to use. The newest claimant to the supercomputer crown is about to come online. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Meta says it's blocking news on Facebook, Instagram after government passes online news bill (National Post)
Apple Vision Pro has a speed limit, Travel Mode required for use on flights (9to5Mac)
The Aurora Supercomputer Is Installed (AnandTech)
Randomly received a smartwatch? Don’t turn it on, investigators warn. (ArmyTimes)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Dolby Atmos Wants You to Listen Up. (And Down. And Sideways.) (NYTimes)
The hottest new perk in tech is freedom (Vox)
This Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’t be trusted (SFGate)
Meet the Vocal Coach Who’s Helping Timothée Chalamet Sound Like Bob Dylan (GQ)
19 min
June 22, 2023Thu. 06/22 – So, Elon And Zuck Are Gonna Fight, I Guess
Well, I guess Elon and Zuck are gonna fight? Literally? New Stability AI. Xbox prices are going up. The visionOS SDK is out. A Motorola Razr Plus review. And why celebrities are racing to duplicate themselves using AI.
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Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match (The Verge)
Startup Stability Debuts a New AI Model For Stable Diffusion (Bloomberg)
Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Series X and Xbox Game Pass (The Verge)
Apple releases visionOS SDK for creating Vision Pro apps, dev kit applications opening soon (9to5Mac)
Motorola Razr Plus review: the right moves (The Verge)
Celebrities Use AI to Take Control of Their Own Images (WSJ)
18 min
June 21, 2023Wed. 06/21 – Dropbox AI
Dropbox joins the AI bandwagon. Lots of news from Twitch. Netflix changes how it calculates its top 10. Mark your calendars for Prime Day. And what all the things Apple DIDN’T demo for their new headset might reveal about the directions in which the product could evolve.
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Dropbox’s AI tools can help you find your stuff — from everywhere on the internet (The Verge)
Twitch will require new labels for streams with sexual themes, gambling and M-rated games (TechCrunch)
Netflix Tweaks Its Top 10 Rankings, Adds View Count (THR)
Amazon will hold Prime Day 2023 on July 11-12, adding invite-only deals and ‘Buy with Prime’ sites (GeekWire)
What Apple Didn’t Reveal About the Vision Pro (The Information)
18 min
June 20, 2023Tue. 06/20 – Spotify To Go “Supremium”
Spotify is thinking of bucking the “max” and “ultra” naming convention and might introduce “supremium.” What if FTX, the exchange, makes a comeback? One of the hottest sectors in VC right now is defense. And the story of how Meta is playing catchup when it comes to AI.
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Spotify Plans New Premium Tier, Expected to Include HiFi Audio (Bloomberg)
FTX paid over $120 million in advisor fees between February 1 and April 30 (The Block)
Masayoshi Son Ends Seven-Month Silence to Make Case for SoftBank’s Future (Bloomberg)
Silicon Valley VCs rush into defence technology start-ups (FT)
Mark Zuckerberg Was Early in AI. Now Meta Is Trying to Catch Up. (WSJ)
When AI Overrules the Nurses Caring for You (WSJ)
18 min
June 18, 2023(IHP) Eugene Wei On How Amazon Won
No joke, this is one of my favorite episodes we've ever done. Eugene Wei was an early employee at Hulu, so we get some details on that company for the first time, and he also worked at Flipboard and Oculus, so we get some important context especially on the future of VR and the like. But the most fascinating stories you'll hear will be about Amazon, where Eugene was the first analyst in the strategic planning department. As you'll hear, Eugene had a unique perspective on Amazon's early strategy and business structure, almost a historically unique perspective... he could see month to month, how Amazon was built, what Amazon was trying to do, and why. This is such an amazing perspective on such an important company.
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1 hr 15 min
June 16, 2023Fri. 06/16 – Google Does it Again
Google does it again. For like the 10th time just since I’ve been doing this podcast. What is “it?” You’ll hear in a second. The whole Reddit thing is simultaneously seeming to calm down, AND heat up, largely thanks to Reddit’s CEO. Will we finally get a bitcoin ETF this time? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Alphabet Selling Google Domains Assets to Squarespace (Bloomberg)
Reddit says it won’t force subreddits back open (but will it?) (The Verge)
Reddit CEO slams protest leaders, saying he'll change rules that favor ‘landed gentry’ (NCBNews)
AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content (Financial Times)
BlackRock files for bitcoin ETF in push into crypto (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Microsoft’s Sudden AI Dominance Is Scrambling Silicon Valley’s Power Structure (Bloomberg Businessweek)
How Nvidia Became ChatGPT’s Brain and Joined the $1 Trillion Club (Bloomberg Businessweek)
How MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube (NYTimes Magazine)
18 min
June 15, 2023Thu. 06/15 – Everbody Does Ads Now
The every platform can be an ad platform too march continues. This time, it’s Uber. Intel drops the “I.” Google lens can check your skin condition. Another breakthrough in quantum computing. And why Apple bringing back the answering machine is a feature lots of folks, including me, are actually happy about.
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Video Ads Are Coming to All Your Uber Apps (The Wall Street Journal)
Intel To Launch New Core Processor Branding: Drop the i, Add Ultra Tier (AnandTech)
Google Lens can now identify rashes and other skin conditions (9to5Google)
Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human (TechCrunch)
Fake zero-day PoC exploits on GitHub push Windows, Linux malware (BleepingComputer)
Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era, IBM Says (NYTimes)
iOS 17 Live Voicemail will return the glory of the answering machine to your iPhone (TechRadar)
18 min