Episodes

July 1, 2024

Mon. 07/01 – Now Brussels Sprouts For Meta

Meta’s turn to be accused of breaching the DMA. Smarter AirPods as part of an AR/VR strategy. Better AI leaderboards. And is the Surface Laptop finally a true MacBook Air killer?
June 29, 2024

(Profile) Casemark.ai

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June 28, 2024

Fri 06/28 – The Real King Of All Media Is… YouTube?

The growing backlash over Perplexity is getting interesting. OpenAI possibly exiting China will be interesting in terms of a massive land grab. AI Al Michaels will deliver personalized Olympics updates for you. And in the Lo…
June 27, 2024

Thu. 06/27 – Add Consultants To The List Of Big Winners Of AI So Far

Is Uncle Sam about to unload a ton of Bitcoin? AI has helped Google Translate almost double the number of languages it supports. No surprise, but Amazon is gonna take a page out of Temu’s book. Figma’s big redesign. And anot…
June 26, 2024

Wed. 06/26 – An eInk Phone That Might Be Worth Buying?

The ChatGPT macOS app is now available for everybody. Google drops continuous scroll for search. Waymo drops the waitlist in San Francisco. Are the AI characters on Character.ai somehow… changed? And is there an eInk phone t…
June 25, 2024

Tue. 06/25 – AI Music Startups Get The Napster Treatment

History is rhyming today as AI music startups get the Napster treatment and Microsoft gets dinged for product bundling. Google wants you to build your own AI celebrity. Amazon wants to go at ChatGPT directly. And two hella-i…
June 24, 2024

Mon. 06/24 – Apple The First To Run Afoul Of The DMA

Could Apple soon owe Europe a ton of money as they are the first to run afoul of the DMA? Could Meta soon join OpenAI as part of Apple Intelligence. Why food delivery apps are seeing plunging usage in NYC and Seattle. And a …
June 21, 2024

Fri. 06/21 – Kaspersky Banned By The US Government

The government has banned Kaspersky antivirus sales in the US. People are losing their minds over Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic. Soon all devices can pair to your iPhone as easily as AirPods do. And, of course, the Weeken…
June 20, 2024

Thu. 06/20 - Ilya Sutskever’s New AI Startup

Ilya Sutskever wants to go straight to Safe Superintelligence, do not pass go, but do probably collect hundreds of millions of dollars. Is Perplexity ignoring robots.txt files? Xreal’s hybrid AR glasses play. And how many ap…
June 19, 2024

Wed. 06/18 – Apple Pumping The Breaks On The Vision Pro?

Does Apple pumping the breaks on the Vision Pro indicate problems for the category, or was this always the plan? What if AI means bots do the social media-ing for you? Actual RISC-V PCs coming to market. And a review of the …
June 18, 2024

Tue. 06/18 – Adobe’s Time In The Woodshed

The regulators have come for adobe and their alleged subscription shenanigans. Apple might settle with the EU. But it’s also shutting down its BNPL service. The Threads API is here. Tether is making bank. Uber might be havin…
June 17, 2024

Mon. 06/17 – Thinner And Lighter It Is

Mark Gurman says Apple is going to go all in on making the thinnest and lightest devices in the industry. Though the Apple Watch is probably going to get a bigger screen. McDonalds pumps the breaks on AI in the drive through…
June 14, 2024

Fri. 06/14 – Now Microsoft Delays Recall

The recall of some Microsoft AI products continues as literally Recall gets delayed. Another deep dive into how Apple’s AI actually works. Dream Machine is an open source AI video generator you can use this weekend. And in t…
June 13, 2024

Thu. 06/13 – The Excel World Championships

Apple isn’t paying OpenAI anything for their partnership. Guess they’ll make it up on volume. More details on how much money OpenAI IS making. The surprise Galaxy Watch FE. And do you think you’d have the skills to compete i…
June 12, 2024

Wed. 06/12 – Elon Pulls His OpenAI Lawsuit

Elon Musk has withdrawn his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. I guess Wall Street likes Apple’s AI strategy. But why is Microsoft already putting the brakes on some of its AI features? BeReal gets acquired. What does th…
June 11, 2024

Tue. 06/11 – Did Apple Nail AI, Or Just Do AI In An Apple Way?

All of the drips and drabs details from yesterday’s WWDC keynote. Spotify is about to announce a higher tier of membership with some perks. Mistral raises a big new round. The Raspberry Pi IPO is a success. And what if AI co…
June 10, 2024

Mon. 06/10 – The WWDC 2024 Keynote

All the headlines from WWDC. All the AI goodness, even if Apple spent half the time not even mentioning the words Artificial Intelligence. Also, what if the audio quality of cell phones didn’t have to suck? And what if AI co…
June 9, 2024

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June 7, 2024

Fri. 06/07 – It’s Backlash Day

As we prep for WWDC on Monday, word of a completely new Passwords app from Apple. Also, it’s a day of backlashes. The backlash against Adobe’s terms of service. The backlash against Windows Recall. The new social media app t…
June 6, 2024

Thu. 06/06 – Regulators Stirring On AI

Nvidia hits $3T. US regulators aren’t sleeping on the AI market, including Nvidia itself. Humane tells users of the AI Pin to stop using the charging case “immediately.” Google is gonna store your Maps data on device. And wo…
June 5, 2024

Wed. 06/05 – An Open Letter To OpenAI

As I said on that bonus episode with Alex Kantrowitz, the research side of OpenAI isn’t happy, and they’re starting to speak out. More details on AI at WWDC next week. More price hikes in digital media. Palmer Luckey can’t s…
June 4, 2024

Tue. 06/04 – Wait. Why More Layoffs?

More headlines from Computex. More layoffs at Microsoft, but why? Instagram is copying YouTube’s unskippable ads. Why Samsung is pre-emptively suing Oura. And Palmer Lucky is personally bankrolling a modern-day Gameboy.
June 3, 2024

Mon. 06/03 – An AI To Game With

Computex brings a slew of announcements from AMD and Nvidia, including an AI bot to help you with your gaming. Another price hike from Spotify. Perplexity launches Pages. X is now officially NSFW. And a look at Sam Altman’s …
June 1, 2024

(BNS) Big Technology Crossover OpenAI Teases GPT-5, Musk Raises $6B for xAI

OpenAI Teases GPT-5, Musk Raises $6B for xAI, Loneliness in Remote Work Era.