Wed. 07/24 - Is Media Piracy Coming Back?

Forget text-to-video AI, we’re rapidly moving into the text-to-world-generating AI models. What if you showed up to your Airbnb and the fridge was already fully stocked? It seems like there is NO uncanney valley when it comes to AI generated music. And does the Big Short guy have a point when he concern trolls about the AI CAPEX buildout? Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product (TechCrunch) Airbnb Will Test Adding Instacart Grocery Delivery to Its App in Services Push (Bloomberg) Are you listening to bots? Survey shows AI music is virtually undetectable (Reuters) 50,000 AI tracks flood Deezer daily – as study shows 97% of listeners can’t tell the difference between human-made vs. fully AI-generated music (MusicBusinessWorldwide) The AI Bubble Is Ignoring Michael Burry’s Fears (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12 Nov 202520min

The iPhone Air isn’t selling, and it isn’t selling to the degree that Apple is delaying the next version. Yan LeCun is gonna strike out on his own. The big illegal streaming site takedown you might not have hear about. And Facebook doesn’t like likes anymore, at least not external likes. Apple Delays Release of Next iPhone Air Amid Weak Sales (The Information) Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up (FT) SoftBank sells Nvidia stake for $5.8bn as it prepares for AI investments (FT) Anthropic Is on Track to Turn a Profit Much Faster Than OpenAI (WSJ) Streameast: How the authorities took down the world’s largest illegal sports streaming platform (The Athletic) Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button (Engadget) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11 Nov 202521min

Is the EU about to pull back on tech regulation because they are feeling FOMO about AI? Is the whole initial COIN offering craze about to come back? Is Apple Music falling behind because they don’t have a free tier? And it turns out AI might not be that good at trading crypto. Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom (Politico) Coinbase Launches Platform for Digital Token Offerings (WSJ) TSMC Posts Slowest Growth in 18 Months Amid AI Bubble Debate (Bloomberg) Apple Music Risks Losing the Next Generation of Listeners (Bloomberg) AI models given $10K to compete in first-of-its-kind crypto-trading competition — and most crashed and burned (NYPost) Clem Delangue IHP Episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Nov 202520min

Here is how Wikipedia happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Nov 20251h 21min

Elon’s $1T payday… nice deal if you can get it. The lawsuits against OpenAI are exploding. The new Grand Theft Auto gets delayed (again). Now the Texas Attorney General is going after Roblox. And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package (WSJ) Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions (NYTimes) ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 (Bloomberg) Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases its second AI update in four months as China’s AI race heats up (CNBC) Texas sues Roblox for 'putting paedophiles and profits' over safety (BBC) 'It's organized crime': TikTok Shop says it's fighting a new wave of AI scammers (Business Insider) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time (MIT Technology Review) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 Nov 202520min

Apple is probably going to let Gemini power the new Siri, at least for a while. Does OpenAI want the government to backstop its AI buildout? And two new AI products. How about an AI smart-ring to remember your shower-thoughts, and what if Foursquare, but for the AI era? Apple Nears $1 Billion-a Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri (Bloomberg) OpenAI Isn’t Yet Working Toward an IPO, CFO Says (WSJ) Microsoft Lays Out Ambitious AI Vision, Free From OpenAI (WSJ) Google’s rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia with custom silicon (CNBC) Whisper Into This AI-Powered Smart Ring to Organize Your Thoughts (Wired) The Foursquare founder's new app is an AI-powered 'DJ' for neighborhood updates (Engadget) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6 Nov 202520min

Google and Epic Games settle their beef. Ripple wants to claim the stablecoin crown. Hyperscalers are about to claim the power generation equivalent to 40 million homes. And the wonkiest analysis I’ve seen in a while on whether or not AI can scale productivity in some sort of up and to the right way. Google proposes app store reforms in settlement with ‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games (Reuters) Cloud streaming finally arrives on the PlayStation Portal (The Verge) Citadel Securities and Fortress take stakes in Ripple at $40bn valuation (FT) How many ‘bragawatts’ have the hyperscalers announced so far? (Financial Times) Amazon Sues to Stop Perplexity From Using AI Tool to Buy Stuff (Bloomberg) Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics (Windows On Theory) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Nov 202521min

Apple brings the App Store to the web. When the cyber white hats turn black hat. Jensen didn’t get what he really wants from Trump. Coca-Cola says nobody cares if the commercials are AI. Is Common Crawl the secret AI infrastructure? And why Google Cloud is the thing sending Google stock to new all-time highs. Apple brings its App Store to the web (The Verge) Prosecutors allege incident response pros used ALPHV/BlackCat to commit string of ransomware attacks (Cyberscoop) Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to three new cities (The Verge) Trump Officials Torpedoed Nvidia’s Push to Export AI Chips to China (WSJ) Coca-Cola Injects ‘Holidays Are Coming’ Ads With an Upgraded Dose of AI (WSJ) The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work (The Atlantic) AI turned Google Cloud from also-ran into Alphabet’s growth driver (Reuters) Steven Bartlett's Steve Jobs Cartoon Video Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4 Nov 202523min