Nov. 21, 2025
The iOS Walls Are Crumbling In The Garden
Google phone users can now work with Airdrop on the iPhone cause Google cleverly found a way. Google might have jumped ahead in the AI race and Sam Altman knows it. I’ve heard of quantum computing, but a quantum internet? The Weekend Longreads suggestions, and at the end, a long rant about my latest AI experiments.
- Google cracked Apple’s AirDrop and is adding it to Pixel phones (The Verge)
- Altman Memo Forecasts ‘Rough Vibes’ Due to Resurgent Google (The Information)
- Source: Kalshi’s valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round (TechCrunch)
- Americans' Social Media Use 2025 (Pew Research Center)
- IBM, Cisco outline plans for networks of quantum computers by early 2030s (Reuters)
- IBM, Cisco to collaborate on ‘internet’ of quantum computers (Silicon Republic)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Google’s new AI image creator took my shirt off (The Verge)
- Google’s Nano Banana Pro generates excellent conspiracy fuel (The Verge)
- The new silicon valley (literally) (The Verge)
- How America’s Hottest Chicken Chain Keeps Its Secret Sauce a Secret (WSJ)
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