Fri. 06/24 – TikTok Turns On The Money Machine

Could Intel exit the high-end chip game entirely? Why are public companies loading up on crypto? GPT-5 is probably coming in a matter of weeks. What if it’s actually AI jobpocalypse… not now? And in the Longreads, the best explainer of those GLP-1 drugs I’ve read so far. Links: Intel beats on revenue, slashes foundry investments as CEO says ‘no more blank checks’ (CNBC) Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal (TechCrunch) Companies load up on niche crypto tokens to boost share prices (Financial Times) OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August (The Verge) Is AI killing graduate jobs? (FT) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: First Look: macOS Tahoe Public Beta (SixColors) If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good For Everything, Should We All Be on Them? (Derek Thompson) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25 Heinä 202518min

The White House has rolled out its big AI Action Plan. Google reported earnings but really wanted you to know about consumer adoption of its AI. A new Kindle Colorsoft. TMobile’s Starlink service is available to anyone, and the Switch 2 is now the fastest selling console in history. Links: Trump Signs AI Orders, Vows US Will Win Race Over New Technology (Bloomberg) Donald Trump blocks AI groups with ‘ideological bias’ from government work (FT) Google’s AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India (TechCrunch) Google Photos adding free photo-to-video, Remix, and Create tab (9to5Google) Amazon is launching a cheaper color Kindle (The Verge) Starlink-powered ‘T-Satellite’ service is now live on T-Mobile (The Verge) The Nintendo Switch 2 Is the Fastest-Selling Gaming Hardware in U.S. History (IGN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Heinä 202517min

Don’t sleep on that SharePoint exploit from earlier this week as it seems to have led to a ton of still active breaches. Apple has a new insurance plan for you. Elon wants even more money for xAI. The Chinese are still churning ahead with their AI models. And three different stories about AI and privacy. Links: Microsoft links Sharepoint ToolShell attacks to Chinese hackers (BleepingComputer) Apple Launches $20-a-Month AppleCare One Plan Covering Up to Three Devices (Bloomberg) Musk Allies to Raise Up to $12 Billion for xAI Chips as Startup Burns Through Cash (WSJ) Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World (Simon Willison) Alibaba’s new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 beats Kimi-2 and offers low compute version (VentureBeat) Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say (The Verge) Proton is launching a privacy-focused AI chatbot (The Verge) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of an AI ‘fraud crisis’ (CNN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

23 Heinä 202517min

Well, just like that, AI’s winning the Math Olympiad is commonplace. Is Stargate struggling to get off the ground, or is Sam Altman just going to do Stargate on his own without Masa Son? The AI company who’s stated mission was to do AI ethically explains why it needs to get its hands dirty. And even if AI isn’t making scientific breakthroughs yet, there are early signs it is shaking things up nonetheless. Links: OpenAI and Google outdo the mathletes, but not each other (TechCrunch) SoftBank and OpenAI’s $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground (WSJ) Oracle to Supply OpenAI With 2 Million AI Chips for Data Centers (Bloomberg) Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All (Wired) AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. (Quanta Magazine) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

22 Heinä 202517min

Serious zero-day has been uncovered that is affecting everybody all around the world. There is a patch tho. Mark Gurman dishes on the foldable iPhone. TSMC joins the Trillion-Dollar-Club. If you’re an expert in a given field you too can join the AI goldrush. And did we just take a big step toward AGI, or is this just the latest in the hype-cycle? Sponsors: AGNTCY.ORG Links: Hackers Exploit Microsoft SharePoint as Firm Works to Patch (Bloomberg) The First Foldable iPhone Will Arrive Next Year in Un-Apple-Like Fashion (Bloomberg) Nvidia's CUDA platform now supports RISC-V — support brings open source instruction set to AI platforms, joining x86 and Arm (Tom's Hardware) TSMC’s Taiwan Stock Value Surpasses $1 Trillion Amid AI Frenzy (Bloomberg) AI groups spend to replace low-cost ‘data labellers’ with high-paid experts (FT) OpenAI's experimental model achieved gold at the International Math Olympiad (Engadget) OpenAI's gold medal performance on the International Math Olympiad. (Simon Willison's Weblog) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 Heinä 202518min

To find out more about Leap Labs go to Leap-Labs.com The white paper is here. Blog is here (with case studies). To get in touch with them: hello@leap-labs.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

19 Heinä 202542min

OpenAI has a new agent that can control your entire computer. You might soon be able to put crypto in your 401k. Why is Apple suing a prominent YouTuber? And in the Weekend Longreads, the one article that has done the most to radicalize me, as an investor, in a long, long time. Links: OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you (The Verge) OpenAI ChatGPT Agent announcement LIVE — all the big news from today's livestream (Tom's Guide) Netflix says it’s streamed 95 billion hours in 2025, and a lot of ads too (The Verge) Donald Trump set to open US retirement market to crypto investments (Financial Times) AI start-up Perplexity’s valuation tops $18bn months after latest funding round (Financial Times) Apple Sues Jon Prosser Over iOS 26 Leaks (Macrumors) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: 4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment (The New Yorker) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

18 Heinä 202520min

TSMC earnings suggest the AI buildout is continuing apace. Stablecoin regulation clears a major hurdle. Is Anthropic doing well growing revenue? Maybe not OpenAI well, but well enough? More signs Microsoft is struggling to sell its own branded AI. And how AI might be about to change how we pay for everything… forever. Links: TSMC Raises 2025 Outlook in a Big Boost for AI Demand Hopes (Bloomberg) US House agrees to consider crypto legislation in big win for the digital asset industry (Reuters) Investors Float Deal Valuing Anthropic at More Than $100 Billion (The Information) Microsoft's Copilot Is Getting Lapped by 900 Million ChatGPT Downloads (Bloomberg) Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket (Fortune) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

17 Heinä 202520min