Fri. 05/21 – Snap Is Dead Serious About This AR Stuff

Fri. 05/21 – Snap Is Dead Serious About This AR Stuff

Snap releases its first true AR glasses, and buys the company that helped make them a reality. Is Netflix going to get into gaming to help juice growth in North America? Is the IRS going to crack down ever harder on Crypto? Twitter’s newly revamped verification system. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Skiff.org/ride Tovala.com/ride Links: Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality (The Verge) Snap is buying its AR display supplier for more than $500 million (The Verge) Spotify finally adds offline music downloads on Apple Watch (The Verge) Netflix Seeks Executive to Expand Game Efforts (The Information) U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk (CNBC) Twitter is letting anyone apply for verification for the first time since 2017 (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Now that WarnerMedia and Discovery have tied the knot, the pressure’s on ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal (CNBC) $ASS Coin Billionaire: Tales From the Fringe of the Crypto Craze (Bloomberg) Can Sony reclaim its former glory? (Engadget) How to Make Carbon-Neutral Gasoline Out of Thin Air (Intelligencer) Twitter Thread About Shift+2 (@figmadesign) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I’m Calling It: The Metaverse Is Over

I’m Calling It: The Metaverse Is Over

More fallout from the Thinking Machines stuff. I’m officially calling it: I think the Metaverse is over, at least at Meta. Cloudflare continues to make an effort to protect the web and creators from A...

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Ain’t No Drama Like AI Industry Drama

Ain’t No Drama Like AI Industry Drama

Apparently their ain’t no drama like AI industry drama, proven once again by some high-profile defections from Thinking Machine Labs. Grok says it’s cleaned up its act. TSMC is winning thanks to AI. M...

15 Jan 21min

NOT Alright, Alright, Alright

NOT Alright, Alright, Alright

Nvidia can officially sell its chips in China, but not if China doesn’t let anyone buy them. Tesla will stop selling FSD beginning next month. Matthew McConaughey says NOT alright alright alright to u...

14 Jan 20min

Microsoft Pledges To Pay Its Own Way

Microsoft Pledges To Pay Its Own Way

Microsoft tries to calm data center buildout backlash. Layoffs come to the Metaverse. Apple has a new creator subscription package. More implications from that Apple/Google AI deal from yesterday. And...

13 Jan 20min

Siri Goes With Gemini

Siri Goes With Gemini

Apple announces that its going with Google’s Gemini to power Siri later this year, and Google joins the $4T club on the news. Governments around the world are still mad at Grok. AI has essentially kil...

12 Jan 20min

Grok Still Groking

Grok Still Groking

Grok dials back the AI image generation thing. Kinda. xAI just raised all that money cause it kinda has to. Looks like the next Deep Seek model is incoming. Why a16z is officially the biggest VC firm ...

9 Jan 21min

ChatGPT Health

ChatGPT Health

Grok and X have been letting people create some risqué and in some cases, probably illegal images, and governments around the world are getting pissed. Does Google think AI can obviate your email inbo...

8 Jan 21min

CES Day 3

CES Day 3

xAI has raised another monster round. Polymarket has yet another controversy around whether a bet should pay out or not. Could the AI datacenter buildout actually disrupt politics in local America? An...

7 Jan 21min

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