Dell kicks off CES season with two new laptops, Imagination Technologies is back in Apple’s good graces, the IRS is finally sticking it to tax prep software firms, and a grand unified theory of the Google Civil War.

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Links:Dell’s latest XPS 13 has a new design with a bigger display and Ice Lake chips (The Verge)Dell debuts 5G-ready Latitude 9510 laptop, adds iOS mirroring to PCs (VentureBeat)Apple restores Imagination GPU chip agreement after public dispute and employee poaching (9to5Mac)IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax (ProPublica)I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left. (Ross LaJeunesse/Medium)Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’ (CNBC)

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Thu. 01/02 - A Grand Unified Theory of the Google Civil War

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Multiple Bethesda studios are being shut down by Xbox and gamers are worried. The new Pixel phone announcement yesterday that probably nobody heard about. What if OpenAI decides to go after web search? And the surprising fact that FTX investors could be made whole, and then some. With interest!

Wed. 05/08 – Bethesda Bloodbath

All the headlines from today’s Spring Apple event. New iPads? M4 chip? I don’t actually know cause I’m recording this bit beforehand. I can tell you Apple might make its own server chips tho. Nintendo has outlined plans to replace the Switch. And Microsoft is training its own high-end LLM, separate from OpenAI.

Tue. 05/07 – The Spring Apple Event

Jack Dorsey abandoned Twitter and now he’s abandoned Bluesky as well. YouTube rolls out Jump Ahead. Threads launches post quote controls. More than 40 thousand books on Audible are now voiced by AI. The Air Force is planning more than a thousand AI fighter jets by the end of the decade. And if you’re listening to this on Apple Podcasts, please listen to the end for an important announcement.

Mon. 05/06 – AI Generated Books, Music Videos And… Fighter Pilots?

Apple earnings are out and revenue was down almost everywhere. Boy, AI can’t come fast enough for them. Did you know you can send Bluetooth signals to satellites in space? The full Rabbit R1 reviews turned out exactly how we expected. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions.

Fri. 05/03 – Apple Earnings Underline Their Predicament

The music is back on TikTok with a new deal struck. Maybe a third of Americans were affected by that Change Healthcare hack. Why are companies suddenly cutting teams you’d think would be sacred cows? Airbnb wants you to stay in the house from the movie Up. And we finally know just how much Google pays Apple for the search default in iOS.

Thu. 01/02 - A Grand Unified Theory of the Google Civil War

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