Episodes

Sept. 27, 2024

Fri. 09/27 – Sam Altman Declines To Go “Founder Mode”

Founder Mode? Not for me, says Sam Altman, but we will see. A few new gadgets from Samsung. Maybe ARM should buy Intel. Are AI startups hitting revenue traction faster than SaaS startups did? And, of course, the Weekend Long…
Sept. 26, 2024

Thu. 09/26 – The Orion Smartglasses

There’s only two stories really. If you can believe it, more executive departures at OpenAI, as it looks like they’re serious about going for profit. And yes, Meta announced a new Quest headset, but the real headlines are th…
Sept. 25, 2024

Wed. 09/25 – Caroline Ellison Sentenced

Caroline Ellison benefits from being cooperative. Has your company unknowingly hired remote workers from North Korea? What is going on with this WordPress back and forth? Why OpenAI has to let people look at their training d…
Sept. 24, 2024

Tue. 09/24 – Sam Altman’s Few Thousand Days

Sam Altman has a manifesto. Kinda. Telegram is beginning to walk things back a bit. Cloudflare wants to help you block the AI bots. New streaming device from Roku. And I guess TikTok can’t win at everything.
Sept. 23, 2024

Mon. 09/23 – Qualcomm To Buy Intel?

Qualcomm as a white knight to save Intel? A huge bitcoin heist gets busted for the usual reasons. What if the US bans imports of all cars from China? And why can’t US car makers keep up when it comes, simply, to software?
Sept. 20, 2024

Fri. 09/20 – MacOS 15 Sequoia Is Breaking Things

You might want to hold off on updating to macOS 15 Sequoia. What, exactly, is Europe trying to get Apple to do? The AI energy crunch means they’re turning Three Mile Island back on. Could AI usage mean we use up all our 5G c…
Sept. 19, 2024

Thu. 09/19 – Pokémon: No!

Looks like they finally got around to suing that Palworld game. Google volunteered to break up some of its businesses but the EU said no. AI is coming to YouTube in a big way. A new social media platform that is ENTIRELY AI.…
Sept. 18, 2024

Wed. 09/18 – New Messages, New Headsets

Messages between Android and iOS are about to be encrypted. A new XR headset from HTC and new Spectacles from Snap. A big movie studio has signed up to use AI. Neuralink has implants for blindness. And why I’m kinda NOT gonn…
Sept. 17, 2024

Tue. 09/17 – Intel Has A Plan

Intel announces a bunch of ways its hoping to turn its business around sooner rather than later. Is OpenAI about to have its chat bots query you? The whole TikTok divestment case is coming to a head right now. And speaking o…
Sept. 16, 2024

Mon. 09/16 – A Bunch Of Apple Stories

A bunch of Apple stories today. FDA approval for sleep apnea detection for the watch. Signs of poor pre-order sales for the phone. And a quick review of the new Airpods. Also, how did Intel lose out on making the chips for t…
Sept. 13, 2024

Fri. 09/13 – The First Strawberry is o1

The first of the Strawberry models is here. YC plans to have four cohorts a year, but each one is getting smaller. Waymo is already ready to expand to more pretty big markets. And in the long reads, a deep dive look into the…
Sept. 12, 2024

Thu. 09/12 – OpenAI’s Big New Raise

As expected, OpenAI is in talks for a new capital raise at a $150B valuation. More layoffs in Microsoft’s gaming division. More holes poked in our creaking internet infrastructure. The tiny SpaceX competitor who’s stock has …
Sept. 11, 2024

Wed. 09/11 – Mistral Goes Multimodel; And An AI Model Mystery

Mistral goes multimodal for the first time. Meta admits to scraping the data of every adult Australian. The details on the new PS5 Pro. Wouldn’t it be wild if, through stablecoins, crypto BECOMES the banking system instead o…
Sept. 10, 2024

Tue. 09/10 – Strawberries In 2 Weeks?

Apple loses its longest standing regulatory battle in the EU. Some drips and drabs from yesterday’s iPhone event. Would a phone you can fold three times be more enticing than a phone that folds two times? And are we about to…
Sept. 9, 2024

Mon. 09/09 – The iPhone 16 Event

All the headlines from today’s iPhone event. It IS interesting the degree to which Elon’s various businesses have potential synergy. The Times digs into the content on Telegram and says, it ain’t pretty. And e-bikes seem to …
Sept. 6, 2024

Fri. 09/06 – Telegram Blinks.

Pavel Durov speaks, and Telegram blinks, both for the first time since the French arrest. Are XR glasses tethered to smartphones the next big product category? What if your smartphone could cure your vision problems? And in …
Sept. 5, 2024

Thu. 09/05 – The DOJ Takes Down An Election Influence Campaign

The DOJ says it has taken down a big election influence campaign allegedly directed by Russia. The Internet Archive loses a big case. Android 15 is here. And two really interesting new gadgets, one I probably need to buy and…
Sept. 4, 2024

Wed. 09/04 – Elon Blinks In Brazil

SpaceX has agreed to block access to X, in Brazil, on Starlink. Looks like YubiKeys are hackable. Who is the mystery platform looking to expand AI datacenters at an historic scale? And the Catch 22 that Intel is in. They nee…
Sept. 3, 2024

Tue. 09/03 – The X Ban In Brazil

We missed a pretty big story this weekend. X getting banned in Brazil. I’ll try to catch you up on all the contours of this. Canva’s raising prices and it’s pissing people off because, I mean, they are REALLY raising prices.…
Aug. 30, 2024

Fri. 08/30 – Who ISN’T Investing In OpenAI?

At this point it would be quicker to name the big tech company that’s NOT investing in OpenAI’s latest round. Amazon’s new Alexa service is just going to be Anthropic’s Claude in drag disguise I guess. I’m starting to get re…
Aug. 29, 2024

Thu. 08/29 – Nvidia Earnings… Are Ok…

Nvidia’s earnings were huge but because they didn’t manage to beat the biggest expectations out there, it’s kind of a miss? Pavel Durov has been formally charged by France. Does TikTok fall outside of Section 230 protection?…
Aug. 28, 2024

Wed. 08/28 – Strawberry Emoji

I explain why everyone has been posting strawberries in AI circles. It’s cause of a potential new breakthrough at OpenAI. Cerebras launches the first new AI chip competition to Nvidia. China has reportedly burrowed into US I…
Aug. 27, 2024

Tue. 08/27 – More On Pavel Durov

As more details come out about the arrest of the founder of Telegram, a deeper look at Pavel Durov himself. We have the date of the iPhone event. We have a new record gaming number from Steam. And are Apple’s experiment with…
Aug. 26, 2024

Mon. 08/26 – Telegram CEO Arrested

French authorities have arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. Chinese tech companies are spending like crazy on AI too, btw. What are the smart glasses and VR gear Meta is poised to give us next month? And Nvidia might make you…