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Nvidia’s earnings were huge but because they didn’t manage to beat the biggest expectations out there, it’s kind of a miss? Pavel Durov has been formally charged by France. Does TikTok fall outside of Section 230 protection? And it seems like the effort by the car companies to wean themselves off of smartphone tech is… not going great. Links: Nvidia’s CEO Says New Chip Will Have ‘Lots and Lots’ of Supply (Bloomberg) Telegram CEO Charged in France for Crimes Committed on His App (Bloomberg) TikTok must face lawsuit over 10-year-old girl's death, US court rules (Reuters) OpenAI in Talks for Funding Round Valuing It Above $100 Billion (WSJ) Top Movie Piracy Ring Taken Down, Major Studios’ Enforcement Group Claims (The Hollywood Reporter) GM's 'Google Built-In' Is Glitchy, Requires A Subscription To Use Google Maps (Jalopnik) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29 Elo 202417min

I explain why everyone has been posting strawberries in AI circles. It’s cause of a potential new breakthrough at OpenAI. Cerebras launches the first new AI chip competition to Nvidia. China has reportedly burrowed into US ISPs. And continuing interesting details pouring out of that Pavel Durov situation. Sponsors: Timeline.com/ride Links: OpenAI Shows ‘Strawberry’ AI to the Feds and Uses It to Develop ‘Orion’ (The Information) OpenAI Races to Launch ‘Strawberry’ Reasoning AI to Boost Chatbot Business (The Information) Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fastest’ AI inference service (SiliconAngle) Chinese government hackers penetrate U.S. internet providers to spy (Washington Post) Google Meet’s automatic AI note-taking is here (The Verge) Instagram adds what photos have always needed: words (The Verge) Telegram Founder Was Wooed and Targeted by Governments (WSJ) Can Tech Executives Be Held Responsible for What Happens on Their Platforms? (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

28 Elo 202417min

As more details come out about the arrest of the founder of Telegram, a deeper look at Pavel Durov himself. We have the date of the iPhone event. We have a new record gaming number from Steam. And are Apple’s experiment with big budget Hollywood movies losing them bucket loads of money? Sponsors: DataTribe.com/challenge Thorne.fit/ridehome Links: Telegram Founder’s Arrest Part of Broad Investigation, French Prosecutors Say (NYTimes) Macron loves Telegram. French judges hate it. (Politico) How Telegram’s Founder Went From Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg to Wanted Man (NYTimes) Steam surpasses 37 million concurrent users for the first time ever thanks to Black Myth: Wukong (PC Gamer) Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick (TechCrunch) Apple Rethinks Its Movie Strategy After a String of Misses (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

27 Elo 202416min

French authorities have arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. Chinese tech companies are spending like crazy on AI too, btw. What are the smart glasses and VR gear Meta is poised to give us next month? And Nvidia might make you rich, but it still seems like a bear of a place to work at. Sponsors: Lumen.me/ride Links: Telegram CEO Held Over Alleged Child Protection Failures on App (Bloomberg) Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France (Reuters) Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? (Matthew Green) China’s tech giants splash out on AI despite US restrictions (Financial Times) Apple Explores Robotics in Search of Life Beyond the iPhone (Bloomberg) Nvidia Rally Mints Millionaires Too Busy to Bask in New Wealth (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26 Elo 202416min

Breaking down the Crowdstrike outage with Overmind.tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Elo 202423min

Microsoft deprecating a feature that it launched back in 1985. There’s a pretty big loophole that is still letting China use H100 chips. The weird saga evolving over at Bolt. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Links: Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon (Neowin) Exclusive: Chinese entities turn to Amazon cloud and its rivals to access high-end US chips, AI (Reuters) AI-powered coding pulls in almost $1bn of funding to claim ‘killer app’ status (Financial Times) Bolt investors baffled by massive new deal proposal (Axios) Ryan Breslow’s ‘Lead Investor’ Blindsided By $450 Million Bolt Fundraise: ‘We Were Never In This Deal’ (Forbes) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: New Breed of EV Promises 700 Miles per Charge (Just Add Gas) (Bloomberg) Popping the Bubble of Noise-Cancelling Headphones (The New Yorker) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

23 Elo 202419min

As Mike Lynch’s body is recovered off Sicily, a deeper look at what was a roller coaster of a life. More cross posting for Meta’s apps. We have a date for the re-release of Recall. Interesting executive shuffle at Apple. And more data showing the degree to which free streaming is upending the Streaming Wars. Sponsors: QualiaLife.com/ride Links: Bodies of Mike Lynch and four yacht guests pulled from Bayesian wreck (Financial Times) Mike Lynch’s journey from tech founder to long legal battle (Financial Times) Meta lets you cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads. Here’s how to do it. (TechCrunch) Microsoft’s Recall AI feature won’t be available for Windows testers until October (The Verge) Neuralink Says Second Brain Device Implant ‘Went Well’ (Bloomberg) Apple’s App Store Head to Leave in Reorganization Amid Global Scrutiny (Bloomberg) Report: “FAST correcting issues that VoD created” (Advanced Television) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

22 Elo 202416min

AI news has been a bit quiet for a little while now, but the headlines came roaring back today. More evidence Waymo might be having some sort of tipping point. Can we really get 3D without the need to wear glasses? And the the interesting raise startup that is actually, literally, going to the moon, not in a figurative sense. Sponsors: LinkedIn.com/ride Links: Gemini in Gmail can now help polish up your drafts (The Verge) Microsoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and more (VentureBeat) OpenAI makes fine-tuning for GPT-4o customization generally available (SiliconAngle) Waymo says it has doubled its weekly paid robotaxi trips to 100,000 since May (CNBC) Samsung’s new Odyssey monitor lets you play games in glasses-free 3D (The Verge) Microsoft Teams’ new single app for personal and work is now available (The Verge) Big Tech’s bid to rewrite the rules on net zero (Financial Times) Starpath accelerates moon water mining plans with $12M in funding (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 Elo 202417min