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April 17, 2024
Wed. 04/17 – Copilots Or The Biggest Model Wins? The Competing AI Visions.
T-Mobile and Verizon employees are being offered bribes for SIM swaps. How much coding copilots have taken over. How much would you value Mistral or Cohere in the LLM race? How popular has Airchat gotten? How big has Amazon …
April 16, 2024
Tue. 04/16 – What Should An AI Wearable Be: AI Pin Or Limitless Pendant?
Microsoft continues to spread its AI bets. Disney wants to bring back tv channels. YouTube is not gonna let you block ads. What did Humane get wrong with the AI Pin? And can Limitless do any better with its AI Pendant?
April 15, 2024
Mon. 04/15 – Onshoring And Halving
Really looks like high-end re-shoring of chip tech is happening, and happening soon. What if satellite telephony becomes a table-stakes smartphone feature? Get ready for the bitcoin halving. Does anyone have invites to Airch…
April 15, 2024
Mon. 04/15 – Onshoring And Halving.
Really looks like high-end re-shoring of chip tech is happening, and happening soon. What if satellite telephony becomes a table-stakes smartphone feature? Get ready for the bitcoin halving. Does anyone have invites to Airch…
April 12, 2024
Fri. 04/12 – OpenAI Is The Biggest Drama Startup Since Twitter
Now a big business intelligence company has been breached. Do you get the sense that people are laying the groundwork for something? Google discontinues a product, but this time, its probably our fault. M4 chips are coming f…
April 11, 2024
Thu. 04/11 – Humane AI Pin Reviews
Apple is notifying people their iPhones may have been compromised. Spotify wants you to mix up your music. Adobe is paying handsomely for videos. And the biggest new gadget review event in a long time.
April 10, 2024
Wed. 04/10 – A Bunch Of Datapoints
More AI announces from Google. More hints on how Apple will bring AI to iPhones. And a bunch of interesting datapoints: how much Apple has moved away from manufacturing in China, how much money TikTok’s parent company is mak…
April 9, 2024
Tue. 04/09 – Google’s New AI Chips
Google has a ton of AI announces, including new Arm-based AI chips, utilizing Google search in Gemini, and more. They also released their own Find My network. Microsoft is confident they can release chips that can best Apple…
April 8, 2024
(Bonus) David Marcus And Lightspark
David Marcus comes on the pod to discuss what he's been working on since leaving Meta. Specificially: Lightspark, and efforts to expand the Lighting Network and bitcoin.
April 5, 2024
Fri. 04/05 – Apple Layoffs!
Apple joins the tech layoff club. Microsoft warns China is planning to disrupt elections using AI. Disney+ is joining Netflix in cracking down on password sharing. How much is the going rate to buy pictures or videos to trai…
April 4, 2024
Thu. 04/04 – How About A TRUE iRobot?
Is Apple pivoting to home robotics now that the Apple Car project is dead? Is Google about to pivot to subscription based search? Why is X handing back blue checkmarks whether people want them or not? Why Amazon merchants ar…
April 3, 2024
Wed. 04/03 – Quantum Computing Breakthrough?
Have we just had a major breakthrough in Quantum Computing? The earthquake in Taiwan might lead to some chip issues. We don’t quite know yet. Amazon is retooling it’s Just Walk Out technology. Venture capitalists are having …
April 2, 2024
Tue. 04/02 – Amazon To Enter The AI Group Chat
Big trove of AT&T customer data dumped online. Microsoft is unbundling Teams. Amazon is readying its own big LLM. We should probably assume Section 230 does not cover AI. And what do you name an AI supercomputer? Stargate, a…
April 1, 2024
(Bonus) Nat Friedman Interview
What prolific AI investor Nat Friedman expects from GPT-5, Microsoft's general strategy in AI, how he invests in startups, and his background an philosophy when it comes to investing.
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