Fri. 10/21 – What If Uncle Sam Let’s Elon Off The Hook?

Fri. 10/21 – What If Uncle Sam Let’s Elon Off The Hook?

I said Elon’s name five times in front of a mirror and the whole Elon/Twitter headlines came flooding back into our lives. Forbes alleges that they’ve caught TikTok doing the thing that everybody fears. What if I told you there was a third huge AI raise story to round out this week? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Links: Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce (Washington Post) Twitter Tumbles as US Weighs Security Reviews for Musk Deals (Bloomberg) TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens (Forbes) OpenAI, Valued at Nearly $20 Billion, in Advanced Talks with Microsoft For More Funding (The Information) Snap plunges more than 25% on third-quarter revenue miss (CNBC) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready? (MIT Technology Review) How Gamers Beat NFTs (Bloomberg) The Hottest App Right Now? One Where Teens Have to Say Nice Things About Each Other (WSJ) I Turned My Home Into a Fortress of Surveillance (The Atlantic) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Friday Of All The Headlines

The Friday Of All The Headlines

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An AI Has A Substack

An AI Has A Substack

Nano Banana 2 is here already. Nvidia tries to assure everybody there IS no bubble. Marc Benioff tries to assure everybody there IS not SaaS-pocalypse. Did Google just do exactly what Apple has been u...

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Galaxy Unpacked

Galaxy Unpacked

The new Galaxy S26 lineup is here. Remote control for Claude is here. But is Anthropic about to wash its hands when it comes to working with the Pentagon? Could Stripe buy PayPal. Oh, and speaking of ...

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The AI Essays Are Moving Markets

The AI Essays Are Moving Markets

That AI essay I shared with you yesterday sure got Wall Street’s attention. Anthropic says Chinese models are training off of Claude. A significant new breakthrough in chip production technology. And ...

24 Feb 20min

Sam Says Some Things

Sam Says Some Things

Sam Altman has a lot of stuff to say about AI and let’s just say comms needs to have a quiet word with him. SaaS may or may not be dead, but is the replacement vertical AI? And a big thought experimen...

23 Feb 23min

When AI Breaks Things

When AI Breaks Things

When your AI bot breaks your operations, even when you’re AWS. More on OpenAI’s hardware plans. Hey, remember Perplexity? What’s up with them? Is Uber roadkill in the self-driving car horserace? And, ...

20 Feb 19min

A Canticle For Leibowitz

A Canticle For Leibowitz

Gemini is getting with the increased cadence of AI releases. Honestly, can we even keep up at this point? A dispatch from the social media trial as Zuck takes the stand. At long last, Amazon dethrones...

19 Feb 21min

New Pixel

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New pixel phone. A bunch of new AI models including Gemini’s entry into the music AI space. Everybody is trying to make AI fetch happen in India. And Matthew Ball’s state of the gaming industry report...

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