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The day's tech news, every day at 5pm. From Techmeme.com, Silicon Valley's most-read news…
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In just 15 minutes, the coolest stuff that happened in the world today. Science, progress…
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A live-audio creator collective. All the best Clubhouse Rooms and Twitter Spaces from the…
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March 28, 2023
Tue. 03/28 – Rise Of The Blue Checks
I titled an episode last week “Twilight Of The Blue Checks.” Well, today is the sequel, “Rise Of The Blue Checks” cause starting April 15, you’ll have to be a blue check to appear on Twitter’s For You tab. Also: the feds go after Binance. Disney cuts its entire metaverse unit. And the UK cancels its NFT.
March 27, 2023
Mon. 03/27 – SVB Finds A New Home
Looks like the short, sharp, SVB saga has reached the beginning of a conclusion. Twitter source code has been leaked. The doubts inside Apple about the upcoming mixed reality headset. Why has no one presented any evidence for why TikTok might need to be banned? And, again, will generative AI lead to a physical robot revolution?
March 25, 2023
(Portfolio Profile) Investor Update (And How To Do Them) With Rownd
Robert from Rownd shares his most recent investor update live and in real time, so you can hear how these things go.
March 24, 2023
Fri. 03/24 – Twilight Of The Blue Checks
Twitter is finally sunsetting its legacy verified program. OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins. Do Kwan has been detained and is facing formal charges here in the US. The FTC’s “click to cancel” proposal. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
March 23, 2023
Thu. 03/23 – Coinbase Wells Notice
Coinbase got a Wells Notice, which is not good. Hindenburg research has a new note out and is making short run on Block, which is not good. Apple might expand its sports streaming and release more things in actual theaters. And the space startup that 3d prints its own rockets.
March 22, 2023
Wed. 03/22 – Google Bard Joins The Fray
Well, we’ve got Google Bard. We’ve got a new Copilot from GitHub. Bing Image Creator is rolling out. Mozilla AI launches. The low hanging fruit that is plugging AI into NPCs to make games more realistic. And at the very end, some actual non AI news!
March 21, 2023
Tue. 03/21 – TikTok Showdown
Ahead of a major showdown in Congress this week, TikTok wants the US to know exactly how popular it is. Why ChatGPT was shut down for a while yesterday. Why Google is suspending PinDuoDuo from the play store. The AI powered doctor’s office of the future. And is Andy Jassy the David Moyes of Amazon? If you get that reference, congratulations.
March 20, 2023
Mon. 03/20 – Robots All The Way Down
New bots to make video from text prompts. Fending off the bots from biting your style. Falling in love with the bots. In the streaming wars, the ad supported experiments are working, and pricing power is a thing. And the startup that says it’s about to introduce humanoid bots. Real, definitional robots.
March 17, 2023
Fri. 03/17 – Midjourney 5 Is Amazing
Amazon Kindle gets out of the magazine business. An ironically named PE firm is buying Porn Hub. Midjourney v5 is really mind blowing. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
March 16, 2023
Thu. 03/16 – We’re A Long Way From Clippy
For the first time ever, I had to delay producing this show so I could watch and cover and AI product announcement. Let me tell you about how Microsoft is bringing GPT-4, to basically all their most famous apps with Copilot. Looks like the potential for a TikTok ban is getting really real. And why folks are suddenly turning on OpenAI.
March 15, 2023
Wed. 03/15 – GPT-4 Is Here
GPT-4 is unveiled and it’s multimodal, and man, is everybody rushing to make use of this stuff. Alleged renders of Google's Pixel 8 Pro appear to show a mysterious new sensor. The state of the music industry in the streaming era. And Deadpool sells his phone company to another phone company.
March 14, 2023
Tue. 03/14 – Meta Has Now Cut 1/4th Of Its Workforce
Those expected layoffs have come to Meta. AI tools come to Google Workspace and an API for Google’s PaLM language model. Seems like things have generally worked out with this Silicon Valley Bank aftermath. Microsoft laid off its AI risk team. Layoffs at Y Combinator. And a look at the standard that’s trying to keep over the air broadcast television relevant.
March 13, 2023
Mon. 03/13 – Crisis Averted?
Unless it affected you, you might have missed a huge tech story this weekend. But now that depositors to Silicon Valley Bank are being made whole, is the whole crisis averted? Tim Cook is pressing ahead with the Apple headset over the objections of Apple’s design team. And the varied and complex dilemmas of this new AI reality in two, somewhat oppositional segments.
March 12, 2023
(Portfolio Profile) Cadre.com
Cadre.com is revolutionizing commercial real estate investing.