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The big FTC-led lawsuit against Amazon is live. Is Jony Ive working with OpenAI to create an AI hardware product? OpenAI might soon be 3x-ing its private valuation. What the writers won from Hollywood. And what it’s actually like to ...

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09.27.2023 Wed. 09/27 – The Big Amazon Lawsuit The big FTC-led lawsuit against Amazon is live. Is Jony Ive working with OpenAI to create an AI hardware product? OpenAI might soon be 3x-ing its private valuation. What the writers won from Hollywood. And what it’s actually like to ...
09.26.2023 Tue. 09/26 – Spotify Pumps Up The Jam Spotify’s new Jam product is kind of the coolest new feature I’ve heard in a while. Looks like the FCC is bringing net neutrality back. Google discontinues some products. New drone reviews and a new drone that either will eliminate ...
09.25.2023 Mon. 09/25 – Amazon Makes A Big Bet On Anthropic Amazon makes a big bet on Anthropic. A big DeFi hack. The US government is weighing a sort of “know your customer” rule for big cloud providers. OpenAI has rolled out some cool new ways to interact with their AI. ...
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09.22.2023 Fri. 09/22 – Microsoft… Wins? The UK CMA looks like it’s folding, so the Microsoft/Activision acquisition can go through now? YouTube unveils some cool AI tools. Amazon is adding ads to Prime Video and raising the price. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
09.21.2023 Thu. 09/21 – The Microsoft And Amazon Fall Events All the headlines from the Microsoft Fall event. The Amazon Fall event. OpenAI teasing DALL-E 3. And one more review of a recent Apple product, and for the first time in a long time, the consensus seems to be it’s ...
09.20.2023 Wed. 09/20 – Even AI Could Benefit From An Encouraging Word The UK looks like it’s going to make that Online Safety Bill into law. Instacart closed up, but Arm has been trending down on the markets. Could Apple really have considered getting into the stock trading game? Is the iPad ...
09.19.2023 Tue. 09/19 – Bunch Of Microsoft Roadmaps Leak Bunch of internal Microsoft documents have leaked, so now we know the new Xbox that is coming next year, and their full gaming roadmap which includes “convergence” by 2028. Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer looks like he might take over Alexa. ...
09.18.2023 Mon. 09/18 – Streaming Has Changed How Music Sounds Google won’t support screen repairs on your watch but will extend support of Chromebooks. How Spotify and other streamers have changed the way music sounds. And the software update coming to AirPods that might change the way you listen.
09.15.2023 Fri. 09/15 – Maybe Don’t Have AI Write Obituaries Big fine in Europe of TikTok. Apple thinks it can fix that iPhone radiation issue with a software update. The whole Unity controversy has gotten crazy. Maybe it’s a bad idea to have AI write obituaries. And, of course, the ...
09.14.2023 Thu. 09/14 – Ocean’s Eleven-Style Hacks Arm’s IPO is happening as I record these words. Vegas and the casino industry in general seem to be the target of some widescale cyberattacks. Unity acknowledges people’s ire about their proposed pricing change. And the wildest new laptop design ...
09.13.2023 Wed. 09/13 – Unity Plays A Dangerous Game (Get It?) Unity has upset game developers across the world with new pricing changes. France has ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12 over radiation concerns. Lots of extra drips and drabs from yesterday’s iPhone event. And Stability AI gets into ...
09.12.2023 Tue. 09/12 – The iPhone 15 Apple Event All the headlines from the iPhone event today at Apple HQ. Why is Meta blocking some basic terms on their new Threads search feature? TikTok Shop is rolling out broadly. And the US Copyright Office keeps knocking down copyright claims ...
09.11.2023 Mon. 09/11 – ChatGPT Is Thirsty The Instacart IPO is coming with a helluva haircut. Meta is planning a big new LLM trained on its own stuff. Some eye-watering details on how much water ChatGPT uses. If you don’t do that AI tech, that doesn’t mean ...
09.08.2023 Fri. 09/08 – An AI To Talk To The Animals? You really need to update your Apple devices. Today. Here come the AI generated misinformation campaigns. Microsoft will defend you from lawsuits if you use their AI. And in the Weekend Longreads Suggestions, might AI finally give us a real ...
09.07.2023 Thu. 09/07 – And Now A Drone Breakthrough? Chrome is getting a new coat of paint. China is increasingly banning iPhones. Are drones about to have a breakthrough moment just like self-driving cars? Apple is increasingly serious about AI. And in a way, are we seeing the first ...
09.06.2023 Wed. 09/06 – The Modern Antitrust Era Begins Now The EU has listed 22 services falling under its Digital Markets Act. Britain pulls back from an encryption law. And if that’s not enough, the Google antitrust trial begins next week so the modern antitrust era is officially here. Which ...
09.05.2023 Tue. 09/05 – China’s Chip End Run Some more controversies surrounding Elon Musk and X. China looks like it is managing its chip situation better than the US might have hoped. Is Spotify’s podcasting bet officially a failure? Is Apple’s Lionel Messi bet already a winner? And ...
08.31.2023 Thu. 08/31 – In A Sense, Bundling Is Always Consumer Friendly Microsoft unbundles Teams to stay ahead of EU antitrust action. But is that actually good for European consumers? Elon wants to collect your biometric data. Can AI police online smack talking in games? Lessons from the grocery delivery bubble. And, ...
08.30.2023 Wed. 08/30 – OpenAI Making Bank The FBI took down a huge botnet. OpenAI is apparently ahead of schedule in terms of making a ton of revenue. Why Samsung wants to apply AI to your refrigerator. Why OnStar is doubling down on AI. And we officially ...
08.29.2023 Tue. 08/29 – The Crypto Regulators Come For NFTs Google’s Cloud Next conference drops a ton of AI announces. OpenAI releases a business-oriented version of ChatGPT. The regulators have come for NFTs and now the question is, are all NFTs securities, or just the ones they just fined? And ...
08.28.2023 Mon. 08/28 – The Tech IPO Is Back? Apple looks to refresh the iPad to reinvigorate sales. Huge network crash is grounding planes in the UK. Some tentative sign that the Tech IPO window might be creaking open. Do you need a 100 year domain renewal? And the ...
08.25.2023 Fri. 08/25 - ESPN To Amazon? Amazon has apparently held talks with Disney about maybe teaming up for a streaming ESPN partnership. Dropbox ends its unlimited storage option. Shein takes over Forever21. A product release so star-crossed, it’s being recalled after just 3 months. And, of ...
08.24.2023 Thu. 08/24 – Nvidia Blows The Roof Off The Place Nvidia gives new meaning to the words “earnings beat.” Meta announces Code Llama. TikTok might start banning links to Amazon. SpaceX wants Starlink to be viable in cities too. And turning thoughts into speech via an AI interface becomes real.
08.23.2023 Wed. 08/23 – The Playstation Portal Sony announces the PlayStation Portal handheld device. IBM announces an AI model to translate code from one type to another. OpenAI lets anyone fine tune. Is LinkedIn the big winner in social media right now? And what happens when you ...
08.22.2023 Tue. 08/22 – Is Elon Tanking Things On Purpose? Microsoft tries to appease His Majesty’s Regulators. The Arm IPO is a go. Why Nvidia continues to be huge even in China. A new AI translation model from Meta. I continue to wonder if Elon is tanking things on purpose. ...
08.21.2023 Mon. 08/21 – Twit Pics Disappear More X shenanigans over the weekend. Some solid evidence that some major LLMs have in fact been trained on copyrighted material. A ton of it, in fact. As Arm prepares to IPO, who might join them, depending on how things ...
08.18.2023 Fri. 08/18 – Werner Herzog Is The AI Voice We Deserve More drips and drabs Threads feature releases. Meta is readying a “Code Llama.” Throwback Friday with Uber and Lyft threatening to leave a major municipality. Our first fall hardware event is on the calendar. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads ...
08.17.2023 Thu. 08/17 – Sometimes Startup Acquires You OpenAI makes its first acquisition. Has AI really done anything for Bing marketshare? A really cool looking new gaming handheld. The most recent tally of tech industry layoff numbers. And Eric Schmidt says he wants to pull a Sam Altman.
08.16.2023 Wed. 08/16 – And Now I’m A Blue Subscriber By the time you hear these words, I guess I’ll be a blue subscriber cause I’m locked out of Tweetdeck otherwise. Coinbase gets regulatory approval from one agency, while another is suing them. Generative AI in Google search, while Google ...
08.15.2023 Tue. 08/15 – iPhone “Maximum Capacity” Concerns Very interesting executive departure at Amazon. A popular Mac service is gonna launch an alternative iOS app store. Now nation states are trying to stockpile Nvidia chips, not just tech companies. And what is the maximum capacity of your iPhone’s ...
08.14.2023 Mon. 08/14 – An Apple Watch X? Apple is planning a huge revamp for the Apple Watch in honor of it’s 10th birthday. Amazon is using generative AI to summarize product reviews. It’s finally official. Paying for all the big streaming services is now more expensive than ...
08.11.2023 Fri. 08/11 – Unleash The Robotaxis! A major regulatory breakthrough is going to open the floodgates for self-driving taxis in California. Two different stories about dealing with the China restrictions, including one US company that is directly benefiting, and Meta’s AR ambitions, which are not. And, ...
08.10.2023 Thu. 08/10 – Streaming $$$+ Oh why not? Disney+ is raising prices too. A new executive order targeting Chinese tech. New features in Threads, but not the ones they need. Are the robot card shufflers in Vegas easily hackable? And we did the Flip. Now ...
08.09.2023 Wed. 08/09 – CAPTCHA Supremacy Slack announces its biggest ever redesign. Sony signals that the smartphone recession is real and is not getting better anytime soon. Is WeWork circling the drain? Why a Gizmodo editor is suing Apple over Tetris. And guess what? The bots ...
08.08.2023 Tue. 08/08 – UK Election Hack? Hackers accessed the UK Electoral Commission, so how worried should we be? Apple, Samsung and others can’t wait to buy Arm stock. OpenAI explains how its bot is crawling the web. More details on the new M3 chips Apple is ...
08.07.2023 Mon. 08/07 – Is Apple Facing An iPhone Recession? In earnings last week, Apple was forced to admit softness in iPhone sales. But the big question is, will the iPhone 15 be enough to turn things around? A stablecoin from PayPal. What the world being flooded with cheap AI-produced ...
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08.04.2023 Fri. 08/04 – HUGE Show News Apple and Amazon earnings make me wonder if the law of large numbers is dead. Coinbase is willing to argue over what the definition of is is. Threads continues its precipitous decline. The weekend longreads suggestions. And be sure to ...
08.03.2023 Thu. 08/03 – Pandemic High Fliers Crash To Earth Two stories today of startups who flew high during the pandemic, but have crashed down to earth in meaningful ways. NFT trading volumes might be sinking, but developers continue to flood into the space. And does Goldman Sachs want out ...
08.02.2023 Wed. 08/02 – Elon’s Gonna Get Me To Pay For Blue Seems like I’ll have to be paying up for an X Blue subscription any day now. Meta releases a new AI music generator. We might actually be getting a big tech IPO in a matter of weeks. Amazon is readying ...
08.01.2023 Tue. 10/01 – Uber Profitable Uber reports meaningful, not gimmicky profitability for the first time ever. Meta’s gonna give you AI chatbots with personality. Google is overhauling Assistant with AI stuff. Even Pierson is getting ahead of the whole, let AI tutor you on stuff, ...
07.31.2023 Mon. 07/31 – Will Only Bitcoin Survive? Brian Armstrong strongly hints that US regulators believe only Bitcoin is legal. A deep dive into what we can expect from this year’s iPhones. Is the US crackdown on tech to China having a real impact? And the artist that ...
07.28.2023 Fri. 07/28 – Is The Clock Ticking For Threads? The whole Threads saga has been a whirlwind. At the beginning of the month I asked if Threads had already won. At the end of the month, I’m wondering if the clock is ticking in terms of their chances of ...
07.27.2023 Thu. 07/27 – Meta Back To Par Meta’s earnings say, hey, let’s just forget the last two years even happened. Is the next iPhone about to get an “action” button? What does it mean if Waymo is basically hitting pause on self driving trucks? Checking in on ...
07.26.2023 Wed. 07/26 – Samsung Unpacked Event All the headlines from the big Galaxy Unpacked event today. This was the foldable event, but there were interesting watch announces too. Quick earnings roundup. Threads gets a follower tab. And the group that wants to battle Apple and Google ...
07.25.2023 Tue. 07/25 – X Fallout Continues (Insert Xander Cage Joke Here) 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.
07.24.2023 Mon. 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 ...
07.21.2023 Fri. 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 ...
07.20.2023 Thu. 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 ...

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Techmeme Ride Home episodes:

Wed. 09/27 – The Big Amazon Lawsuit

Tue. 09/26 – Spotify Pumps Up The Jam

Mon. 09/25 – Amazon Makes A Big Bet On Anthropic

(Portfolio Profile) Play

Fri. 09/22 – Microsoft… Wins?

Thu. 09/21 – The Microsoft And Amazon Fall Events

Wed. 09/20 – Even AI Could Benefit From An Encouraging Word

Tue. 09/19 – Bunch Of Microsoft Roadmaps Leak

Mon. 09/18 – Streaming Has Changed How Music Sounds

Fri. 09/15 – Maybe Don’t Have AI Write Obituaries

Thu. 09/14 – Ocean’s Eleven-Style Hacks

Wed. 09/13 – Unity Plays A Dangerous Game (Get It?)

Tue. 09/12 – The iPhone 15 Apple Event

Mon. 09/11 – ChatGPT Is Thirsty

Fri. 09/08 – An AI To Talk To The Animals?

Thu. 09/07 – And Now A Drone Breakthrough?

Wed. 09/06 – The Modern Antitrust Era Begins Now

Tue. 09/05 – China’s Chip End Run

Thu. 08/31 – In A Sense, Bundling Is Always Consumer Friendly

Wed. 08/30 – OpenAI Making Bank

Tue. 08/29 – The Crypto Regulators Come For NFTs

Mon. 08/28 – The Tech IPO Is Back?

Fri. 08/25 - ESPN To Amazon?

Thu. 08/24 – Nvidia Blows The Roof Off The Place

Wed. 08/23 – The Playstation Portal

Tue. 08/22 – Is Elon Tanking Things On Purpose?

Mon. 08/21 – Twit Pics Disappear

Fri. 08/18 – Werner Herzog Is The AI Voice We Deserve

Thu. 08/17 – Sometimes Startup Acquires You

Wed. 08/16 – And Now I’m A Blue Subscriber

Tue. 08/15 – iPhone “Maximum Capacity” Concerns

Mon. 08/14 – An Apple Watch X?

Fri. 08/11 – Unleash The Robotaxis!

Thu. 08/10 – Streaming $$$+

Wed. 08/09 – CAPTCHA Supremacy

Tue. 08/08 – UK Election Hack?

Mon. 08/07 – Is Apple Facing An iPhone Recession?

Ride Home AI Fund With Big Technology Podcast

Fri. 08/04 – HUGE Show News

Thu. 08/03 – Pandemic High Fliers Crash To Earth

Wed. 08/02 – Elon’s Gonna Get Me To Pay For Blue

Tue. 10/01 – Uber Profitable

Mon. 07/31 – Will Only Bitcoin Survive?

Fri. 07/28 – Is The Clock Ticking For Threads?

Thu. 07/27 – Meta Back To Par

Wed. 07/26 – Samsung Unpacked Event

Tue. 07/25 – X Fallout Continues (Insert Xander Cage Joke Here)

Mon. 07/24 – This Podcast Is Now Called X Ride Home

Fri. 07/21 – Reddit Doesn’t Blink

Thu. 07/20 – An Apple GPT

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