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April 11, 2023Tue. 04/11 - China's ChatGPT Competitors Are Here
Alibaba revealed its ChatGPT-style bot, and mere hours later the Cyberspace Administration of China announced plans to require security reviews of generative AI tools before they’re released. The Winklevoss twins made a $100 million loan to their crypto exchange, Gemini Trust, after it failed to raise enough from outside investors. The FBI has warned against using any public USB charging ports. And YouTube has announced new Premium features and also announced the pricing for their NFL Sunday Ticket packagers and they’re not cheap.
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Links:
China slaps security reviews on AI products as Alibaba unveils ChatGPT challenger (Ars Technica)
China proposes measures to manage generative AI services (Reuters)
Winklevoss Twins Lend $100 Million to Their Gemini Crypto Platform (Bloomberg)
Juice jacking rising, FBI says don't use airport USB outlets (Android Authority)
YouTube Premium adds more perks with SharePlay support, higher quality video and more (TechCrunch)
NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube starts at $249 for the 2023 season (The Verge)
19 min
April 10, 2023Mon. 04/10 - Would You Believe Me If I Told You Elon Changed His Mind?
Twitter has stopped throttling tweets with Substack links in them, but only after Elon Musk denied they were ever blocked. About 270 US Apple Stores have held staff meetings about unionization risks in the past two weeks. A New York Times article about the environmental and economic impact of bitcoin mines has some crypto proponents up in arms. And the 2023 Dell XPS 13 is… fine. Just fine.
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Links:
Twitter stops throttling tweets with Substack links (Engadget)
Elon Musk Denies Substack Links Are Blocked On Twitter, A Claim That’s Very Misleading (Forbes)
Apple (AAPL) Continues Efforts to Keep Retail Stores From Unionizing (Bloomberg)
The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin (NY Times)
Crypto enthusiasts go after New York Times for its BTC mining report (Cryptopolitan)
Rebuttal to the NYT article (Daniel Batten, Twitter)
Dell XPS 13 review: Dell is coasting (and that’s fine) (The Verge)
22 min
April 08, 2023(BNS EP) Anyone In Control Of Big Tech? W/ David Auerbach
Check out David Auerbach's books:
Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities
Bitwise: A Life in Code
1 hr 4 min
April 07, 2023Fri. 08/07 – Twitter Blocking Substack?
Shenanigans from some Elon companies. Twitter looks like it’s blocking Substack. Not just links to Substack but even mentioning the name, the word Substack, in some cases. Oh, and Tesla employees apparently liked to view videos from your car and share them with each other internally. Last quarter was epically bad when it came to venture investing. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links:
Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links (The Verge)
Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars (Reuters)
A third of organizations admit to covering up data breaches (VentureBeat)
Global VC Funding Falls Dramatically Across All Stages In Rocky Q1, Despite Massive OpenAI And Stripe Deals (CrunchBase News)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Behind the curtain: what it feels like to work in AI right now (Democratizing Automation)
Think of language models like ChatGPT as a “calculator for words” (Simon Willison's Blog)
Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI (TechCrunch)
Blockbuster pushed HBO to start investing in original content, cable giant’s ex-chief says (CNBC)
19 min
April 06, 2023Thu. 04/06 – The Secret Bitcoin Easter Egg On Your Mac
More examples of chatbots hallucinating might lead to the first lawsuits. Did you know that you have a copy of the bitcoin white paper on your Mac right now? You don’t know it, but you do. I’ll tell you why. Substack is the latest to launch a Twitter clone. And why E3 had to die. It’s called direct to consumer, or, I guess, gamer.
Sponsors:
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Links:
ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused (Washington Post)
The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS (Waxy.org)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says Search to Include Chat AI (WSJ)
Google to prohibit personal loan apps from accessing user photos, contacts (TechCrunch)
Substack’s new short-form ‘Notes’ feed looks a lot like Twitter (TechCrunch)
Streaming Killed E3 (Wired)
16 min
April 05, 2023Wed. 04/05 – The Grand Theory Of AI Varietals
Sony might be developing a sort of PS Vita mark 2. Sad news of the death of a well-known silicon valley luminary. Meta says its not going to be left behind in the AI race. What happens if the kids aren’t keen on the Metaverse. And I sketch out an example of our grand theory of AI varietals.
Sponsors:
Bloomberg.com/careers

Links:
EXCLUSIVE – SONY’S NEXT PLAYSTATION HANDHELD (Insider Gaming)
Bob Lee, creator of Cash App and former CTO of Square, stabbed to death (TechCrunch)
Google says its AI supercomputer is faster, greener than Nvidia A100 chip (Reuters)
Meta to debut ad-creating generative AI this year, CTO says (NikkeiAsia)
American teens aren’t excited about virtual reality, with only 4% using it daily (CNBC)
What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? BloombergGPT aims to be a domain-specific AI for business news (NeimanLab)
20 min
April 04, 2023Tue. 04/04 – Dogecoin Twitter Logo (Cause Why Not?)
We’ve said before that Elon owns Twitter, so if he decides to change the logo to a Shiba Inu, you know, why not? Apple kinda sorta bites the bullet on layoffs. What’s going on with the Apple Weather app? Do we want universities to call the use of ChatGPT plagiarism? And data on the corporate takeover of AI development.
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OregonState.edu
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Links:
Twitter’s new dog icon is sending dogecoin — sigh — to the moon (TechCrunch)
Spotify shuts down its Clubhouse-style audio app Spotify Live (Musically)
Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers for ‘multi-year’ savings (CNBC)
Apple to Cut Jobs in Some Corporate Retail Teams in First Known Layoffs (Bloomberg)
Apple Weather forecasts suffer rare outage (AppleInsider)
Universities express doubt over tool to detect AI-powered plagiarism (Financial Times)
AI is entering an era of corporate control (The Verge)
18 min
April 03, 2023Mon. 04/03 – Schrödinger’s Blue Check
The blue checks went away on Twitter over the weekend. Or did they? More interesting details on those Pinduoduo app allegations. In a headline from 2019, Paris says no to e-scooters. And what does the recent move by GM say about the relationship between the car companies and the tech platforms?
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Links:
Twitter had a very messy weekend (The Verge)
Twitter’s blue check mark was loved and loathed. Now it’s pay for play. (Washington Post)
‘I’ve never seen anything like this:’ One of China’s most popular apps has the ability to spy on its users, say experts (CNN Business)
Paris votes overwhelmingly to ban shared e-scooters (TechCrunch)
GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs (The Verge)
The rest of the auto industry still loves CarPlay and Android Auto (The Verge)
18 min
March 31, 2023Fri. 03/31 – Is E3 Dead?
I can tell you E3 is officially cancelled this year, but I’m kinda thinking it might be dead for good. Bunch of stuff about Twitter and checkmarks. Italy has temporarily banned ChatGPT. Some of the signatories of that AI letter are having second thoughts. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Sponsors:
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LInks:
E3 Has Been Canceled (IGN)
Elon Musk Tried to Meet With F.T.C. Chair About Twitter but Was Rebuffed (NYTimes)
Japan restricts chipmaking equipment exports as it aligns with US China curbs (Reuters)
Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT (Politico)
The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess (Motherboard)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Fitbit’s attempt to disappear the button proved why they matter (The Verge)
The influencers getting rich by teaching you how to get rich (Vox)
“I’LL WALK AWAY FROM ANYTHING”: KARA SWISHER CALLS THE SHOTS (Vanity Fair)
18 min
March 30, 2023Thu. 03/30 – No Headset Reveal At WWDC?
Wait, are we NOT going to see the new Apple headset at WWDC? Twitter’s new API tiers? Ads are coming to Bing Chat. Is Elon Musk guilty of laundering his grudge against OpenAI through AI concern trolling? And is TikTok creating more one hit wonders?
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Miro.com/podcast
Links:
Kuo: Apple Mixed-Reality Headset May Not Appear at WWDC as Mass Production Pushed Back Yet Again (MacRumors)
Twitter announces new API pricing, including a limited free tier for bots (Engadget)
Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting more ads (The Verge)
Alphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI (The Information)
Elon Musk's AI History May Be Behind His Call To Pause Development (Forbes)
Is TikTok Actually Creating More One-Hit Wonders? (Billboard)
17 min