Episodes

Feb. 26, 2024

Mon. 02/26 – Mobile World Congress Is All About AI This Year (Corrected)

Mobile World Congress kicks off this week, and I bet you can guess what the big theme this year is. All the hardware that is being announced to allow you to do AI on your existing devices. Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Ring, b…
Feb. 24, 2024

(Bonus) Ed Zitron On The Social Landscape

Catching you up on the great Substack controversy and who is winning the race to be the new Twitter? Ed's new podcast is called Better Offline, which you can find wherever fine podcasts are found. And his newsletter is call…
Feb. 23, 2024

Fri. 02/23 – Reddit To IPO And Nvidia To The Moon

We have all the details of the Reddit IPO. And Sam Altman of all people makes an appearance in the S1! What that big cell phone outage yesterday was all about. Can Mark Zuckerberg be held personally liable in some of these M…
Feb. 22, 2024

Thu. 02/22 – Nvidia’s Earnings Are Epic

The most important tech company in the world right now reported earnings yesterday, and they were historic. Stability AI is previewing Stable Diffusion 3.0. Google has to fix some if its AI image generation details. Amazon i…
Feb. 21, 2024

Wed. 02/21 – Apple Has Quantum Encrypted iMessage

Signal finally rolls out usernames, but Apple goes one better security-wise, by quantum encrypting iMessage. Weirdly, Apple also launched a standalone sports scores app. Gemma is an open-source flavor of Gemini from Google. …
Feb. 20, 2024

Tue. 02/20 – LockBit Ransomware Gang Taken Down

Perhaps the biggest law enforcement action against a ransomware gang ever. Once again, you could view other people’s cameras on your Wyze camera. How Anthropic is raising to do battle with OpenAI. Are the VCs flocking back t…
Feb. 19, 2024

(Bonus) BlueSky CEO Jay Graber

An interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the future of social media.
Feb. 16, 2024

Fri. 02/16 – Sora Brings Text To Video AI To Life

Huge watershed reveal of OpenAI’s Sora, its first text-to-video model, which can create up to a minute of 1080p video. We used to have a Today In Elon segment. We’re close to needing a Today In Sam Altman one. Increasing sig…
Feb. 15, 2024

Thu. 02/15 – We Already Have Gemini 1.5!

Google’s moving fast. They’ve already launched Gemini 1.5. An EU court rules breaking encryption violates human rights. Why social media is flooded with posts of users returning their Apple Vision Pros. And more proof that t…
Feb. 14, 2024

Wed. 02/14 – Zuck Has His Own Social Media Post About The Vision Pro

Even Mark Zuckerberg is posting about the Apple Vision Pro. In short: he’s not impressed. Walmart might buy a smart TV maker for the ads. Y Combinator has a new list of the type of startups it wants to see. Maybe don’t give …
Feb. 13, 2024

Tue. 02/13 – Why Microsoft’s Xbox Strategy Shift Is A Big Deal

Threads gets “today’s topics.” iMessage and Bing dodge EU DMA regulation. Why Temu bought a bunch of SuperBowl ads. Nvidia’s Chat with RTX lets you run your own ChatGPT right on your Windows machine. And why Microsoft’s fort…
Feb. 12, 2024

Mon. 02/12 – Luddite Riots?

Is actual neo-ludditeism going to become a thing, as some people have predicted? Google reveals the strength of its subscription businesses. A review of Google’s Gemini. Bluesky is open and doing some interesting things. And…
Feb. 9, 2024

Fri. 02/09 – Sam Altman Wants To Raise $5 Trillion Dollars. With a T.

Sam Altman wants to raise more money for his chip ambitions than the entire semiconductor industry. The Feds might put the breaks on Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision… again. Is Ring raising its subscription doorbell pri…
Feb. 8, 2024

Thu. 02/08 – Google Releases Gemini Ultra 1.0

Google has released Gemini Ultra 1.0, renamed Bard as Gemini and looks to be replacing Google Assistant with Gemini. Disney has invested in a big stake of Epic Games to get at Fortnite IP. Leaked images of the Pixel Fold 2. …
Feb. 7, 2024

Wed. 02/07 – AI Watermarks And New Apple AI Models

OpenAI is adding watermarks to Dall-E 3 images. A new AI model from Apple. A new open source model that is king of the LLM hill. More rumors of a foldable iPhone. A new streaming service that will be like Hulu but for sports…
Feb. 6, 2024

Tue. 02/06 – Don’t Forget Your Vision Pro Password!

Don’t forget your Vision Pro password, or else you’re going to have to return it to the Apple Store to use it again. Why are the gaming platforms willing to play nice all of the sudden. The AI that can spit out fake IDs in s…
Feb. 5, 2024

Mon. 02/05 – The Most Shocking Deepfake Scam Of The AI Era

Let me tell you the story of the most shocking AI deepfake scam we’ve heard yet, because it’s a warning to all of us going forward. An Apple Vision Pro teardown explains why EyeSight looks so blurry. Another sign that Google…
Feb. 3, 2024

(Bonus) a16z's Chris Dixon On His New Book And Web3

Our friend Chris Dixon is back to talk about his new book: Read Write Own! How Web3 and the blockchain can save the web as we know it!
Feb. 2, 2024

Fri. 02/02 – Facebook’s Golden Age Is Now

A run down of some interesting details from Tech’s big earnings day yesterday. Rufus is Amazon’s AI-powered shopping assistant. The Browser Company continues to be the catalyst for me thinking about how AI is going to change…
Feb. 1, 2024

Thu. 02/01 – A Tech Regulation Tipping Point?

Why I think yesterday’s Congressional hearings might actually be a tipping point for tech regulation. What would a Kids Online Safety Act actually mean? More proof of YouTube’s dominance. Celsius and FTX customers are about …
Jan. 31, 2024

Wed. 01/31 – Tech Execs Back Before Congress

The tech execs have been called before Congress once again. Universal Music Group pulls its songs from TikTok. Is 23andMe in danger of going out of business? Figure is an AI robotics company that Microsoft and OpenAI might b…
Jan. 30, 2024

Tue. 01/30 – The Vision Pro Reviews Are Here

Elon Musk says Neuralink implanted its device into a human for the first time. You can search for Taylor Swift X again, but was a Microsoft tool to blame for the deepfakes? Better AI coding from Meta. And I read all the Appl…
Jan. 29, 2024

Mon. 01/29 – Is Arc Search The Future Of Search I Was Talking About?

Amazon calls off its iRobot acquisition. Is Arc Search the future of search we were talking to Baratunde about this weekend? Why you can’t search for Taylor Swift on X at the moment. How many ads will be in streaming? And wh…
Jan. 27, 2024

(Bonus) Baratunde Thurston On The Apple Vision Pro

The great Baratunde Thurston join Chris and Brian to talk about his hour-long in-person demo with the Apple Vision Pro. In the second half, we discuss the idea of whether or not Google Search (and maybe the web) is doomed in…