Fri. 05/12 – Twitter Has A New CEO
Elon says he’s hired a new CEO for Twitter, and folks think they know who this person will be. The Claude chatbot has expanded so much you can now write entire novels with it. Seeing what Meta is doin...
12 Touko 202318min
Thu. 05/11 – Twitter Encrypts DMs? (Corrected)
Twitter finally rolled out encrypted DMs… or did they? More drips and drabs from yesterday’s Google event including an AI music generating tool that sounds pretty wild. Even the crypto miners are pivo...
11 Touko 202316min
Wed. 05/10 – Google I/O
I’m writing this this morning before Google’s I/O, so I’m assuming that’s going to be the entirety of this episode. But who knows. Maybe I’ll be able to squeeze something non-Google stuff at the end. ...
10 Touko 202320min
Tue. 05/09 – AI Comes To The Drive Through Window
More roiling questions about crypto and regulator enforcement. Nintendo’s Switch is getting long in the tooth. AI’s are coming to the Wendy’s drive through lane. An AI startup to protect against AI. A...
9 Touko 202318min
Mon. 05/08 – The Big Discord Username Shift
What to expect from Google IO. The big discord username switch. Sam Altman’s side hustle is launching a thing. But also a look at the regulatory issues his OpenAI is facing in Europe. And what if I to...
8 Touko 202317min
(Bonus) Brian On Big Technology Podcast
This is the crossover episode of when I went on the Big Technology podcast on Friday. We ask where the moat is in AI? And we celebrate Ed Sheeran if you can believe it. Learn more about your a...
7 Touko 202356min
(Bonus) @semaforben On The Golden Age Of Digital Media And His AMAZING New Book About It
This is the book I've been dying for someone to write! This is how digital media happened for 20 years! Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. Yay to finally ha...
6 Touko 202344min
Fri. 05/05 – Can Open Source Win Out Over Open AI? (Corrected)
Apple earnings recap. A new, free code generating AI tool. Which, actually, lots of people are starting to ask the question: will open source AI actually come out on top in the AI revolution? And, of ...
5 Touko 202318min
