Fri. 08/09 - Can Ride Hailing EVER Make Money?

Fri. 08/09 - Can Ride Hailing EVER Make Money?

Uber and Lyft continue to lose money hand over fist, Huawei has a backup OS plan, Piano has a smarter paywall for news outlets, people are texting their “number neighbors” and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Mealime CognitoHQ.com Links: Uber Posts $5.2 Billion Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate (NYTimes) Huawei reveals HarmonyOS, its alternative to Android (Engadget) Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content (WSJ) How Piano built a propensity paywall for publishers — and what it’s learned so far (NiemanLab) Here's why the internet is obsessed with 'number neighbors,' a viral trend where people text phone numbers one digit away from their own (Business Insider) The Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (The New Yorker) I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets (Bloomberg Businessweek) How Globalization Broke Gateway, the Cow Computer Company (Motherboard) Python is eating the world: How one developer's side project became the hottest programming language on the planet (ZDNet) With warshipping, hackers ship their exploits directly to their target's mail room (TechCrunch) Scientists Are Stuck on the Mystery of Tape (Engadget) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Another DeepSeek Moment On The Horizon?

Another DeepSeek Moment On The Horizon?

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Elon Buys Cursor?

Elon Buys Cursor?

SpaceX struck a deal giving it the option to acquire Cursor for $60B or pay $10B, as xAI scrambles to catch up in AI coding. Google unveiled new TPUs and an agent platform, OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Imag...

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Tim Cook Rides Into The Sunset

Tim Cook Rides Into The Sunset

Apple named John Ternus as its next CEO, with Tim Cook stepping up to executive chairman on September 1. Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B more in Anthropic, Bezos' Project Prometheus nears a $10B ra...

21 Apr 21min

Robots Winning The (Literal) Race

Robots Winning The (Literal) Race

Vercel confirmed a breach traced to an AI platform's compromised OAuth app. The NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite the Pentagon blacklist. Mac Minis face 12-week wait times from AI agent demand, ...

20 Apr 21min

Reed Hastings Rides Into The Sunset

Reed Hastings Rides Into The Sunset

Netflix beat on revenue and income but dropped 10%+ on weak Q2 guidance as Reed Hastings exits the board. Anthropic launches Claude Design, OpenAI overhauls Codex Desktop with computer control, and De...

17 Apr 22min

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 4.7

Anthropic drops Claude Opus 4.7 for coding and rolls out government ID verification for some users. TSMC beats earnings, raises forecasts on strong AI demand. X launches Cashtags, and Google's SpaceX ...

16 Apr 20min

Our Shoe Company Is Now An AI Company

Our Shoe Company Is Now An AI Company

Snap is cutting 16% of its workforce—about 1,000 people—as Spiegel blames AI for making everyone more efficient (read: expendable). Allbirds, the shoe company that sold for $39M, is pivoting its shell...

15 Apr 20min

Space Race Acquisition

Space Race Acquisition

Amazon's dropping $10.8 billion on Globalstar to beef up its Leo satellite network and challenge Starlink — and Apple's along for the ride. Plus, federal charges for the Sam Altman attacker, OpenAI ac...

14 Apr 20min

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