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April 9, 2025
Wed. 04/09 – Instagram iPad App But For REAL This Time?
Google unveils its new TPU’s, this time with inference! Temu and Shein officially get nuked from orbit. More signs of pullback in AI datacenter buildout. Are we actually, for real, about to get an iPad Instagram app? And a cute little home robot from ages ago, looks like it’s finally coming to a ho…
April 8, 2025
Tue. 04/08 – It’s Already Starting…
Uh oh, it looks like the tech price hikes are already starting! People are accusing Meta of doing some weird things with those latest AI models. Shopify tells workers that they need to embrace AI for everything. Is AI killing web traffic? And how AI is being used to automatically create sequels for…
April 7, 2025
Mon. 04/07 – Will Tech Raise Prices Cause Of Tariffs?
TikTok lives! Again. Again. At least for another 75 days. Meta’s big new Llama models are out. AI coding assistant Cursor has become the big breakout hit of the AI moment. And then yes, we get into the tariff situation, including, me polling tech execs who make consumer facing gadgets: do you plan …
April 5, 2025
(BNS) The Legality Of The AI Stuff
Is what happened with the Studio Ghibli ChatGPT image generation stuff even legal? I spoke with AI lawyer Rob Rosenberg, former general counsel at Showtime Networks and founder and principal of Telluride Legal Strategies about it, and what he told me was very interesting.
April 4, 2025
Fri. 04/04 – Has Intel Found A Way Out?
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
April 3, 2025
Thu. 04/03 – How Tariffs Might Impact Tech
Well we gotta talk about this tariff thing because the early indications are this could impact almost every nook and cranny of the tech industry. Could we get an announcement about TikTok within days? I think I figured out why CoreWeave’s stock popped back up. And how Nintendo plans to fight the sc…
April 2, 2025
Wed. 04/02 – The Nintendo Switch 2
All the details from the big Nintendo Switch 2 reveal this morning. Wikimedia says AI bots are increasing its costs by 50%. North Korean IT workers allegedy continue to go after remote IT jobs worldwide. Meta is reading its more ambitious, more expensive smartglasses for maybe later this year. And …
April 1, 2025
Tue. 04/01 – OpenAI Closes The Biggest Private Tech Round Ever
Masa Son came through for OpenAI, to the tune of a $40 billion dollar round at a $300 billion-dollar post-money valuation. Sam Altman says OpenAI is going back to open weights. A new encryption model for Gmail. A new movie strategy for Amazon. And why the Switch 2 represents a new revenue strategy …
March 31, 2025
Mon. 03/31 – xAI Acquires X
Over the weekend Elon said that xAI has acquired X. Elon does love to blend his companies together. Tensions between SpaceX and Apple. Apple is working on a major Health app overhaul. And in this era of crypto ascendency, is Ethereum being left behind?
March 30, 2025
Me On The Big Technology Podcast Talking This Week In Tech
Me On The Big Technology Podcast Talking This Week In Tech
March 29, 2025
(Essay) Silicon Valley's "Sovereign Tech Stack" Problem
Silicon Valley is in more trouble than I think people are talking about...
March 28, 2025
Fri. 03/28 – CoreWeave’s Weak IPO
Move big moves in the gaming space. But we need to talk about that CoreWeave IPO. It. Didn’t. Go. Well. Facebook has a shocking idea: what if you could see what your friends were up to? Anthropic says it’s getting close to understanding how LLM’s actually work. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads…
March 27, 2025
Thu. 03/27 – AI Studio Ghibli
Everyone is using that new ChatGPT image generator to make Miyazaki memes. Google is taking Android development private. Are we seeing signs of an AI datacenter pullback? Now even you can do extra gig work for Instacart. And quantum computers seem to have cracked truly random random number generato…
March 26, 2025
Wed. 03/26 – The Day Of AI Announces
It’s all AI today basically. New Gemini “thinking” models. New “deep reasoning” agents for Copilot. But the really big news is the new image generator from OpenAI. Fidelity wants to get in the stablecoin business. And if Europe wants to create its own Starlink, it’s got some serious hurdles to over…
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