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Mon. 10/21 – Google Get’s A Stay

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Google’s strategy of keeping it in the courts is already going to plan. New AI agents from Microsoft. New Open Source models from IBM. Perplexity is...

(Bonus) Goldeneye 007 With - John Gruber

19 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Did Nintendo try to kill GoldenEye 007 before it was completed? Why did Shigeru Miyamoto keep telling the development team to tone down the violence. ...

Fri. 10/18 – Netflix Wins

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Thu. 10/17 – Sigh Of Relief From Chip Stocks

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Now Amazon is building some modular nuclear reactors. TSMC’s results cheer up the chips industry. Uber but for buying plane tickets. No, I mean, rea...

Wed. 10/16 – Color Kindles

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kindles come roaring back, with significant updates to the Paperwhite and the Scribe, but also, for the first time ever, a Kindle with a color screen....

Tue. 10/15 – Tech Going Nuclear

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Nuclear Energy sector is clearly getting back in business, thanks to big tech and their AI needs. The latest back and forth in the Wordpress brouh...

Mon. 10/14 – Adobe Unleashes Firefly

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adobe unleashes its Firefly AI video model broadly. Mark Gurman lays out Apple’s headset strategy going forward. What’s been going on with the Int...

(Bonus) The Rise And Fall Of Blockbuster Video

12 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why was Blockbuster so successful? Was it the DVD that killed Blockbuster? What was the deal with late fees? Is there any way Blockbuster, not Netflix...

Fri. 10/11 - Cybercab

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All the headlines from Tesla’s robotaxi event. AMD unveils the chip it wants to use to go toe to toe with Nvidia. Are people actually making money b...

Thu. 10/10 – OpenAI Won’t Be Profitable Until When?

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Apple TV+ finally comes to Prime Video Channels. OpenAI says they’ve been disrupting AI election influence campaigns. But they won’t be profitable...

Wed. 10/09 – Big Podcast Announcement

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Subscribe to RAD! 80s90s History in your podcast app! Apple Podcasts Spotify Overcast The government says it does, in fact, want to break up Google. T...

Tue. 10/08 – Epic’s Win V. Google

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Crack… at least for the Google Play store. Two AI scientists have won the Nobel Prize for physics?! Samsung is in a similar boat to Intel, just not ...

Mon. 10/07 – Apple Intelligence Gets A Date

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We finally have a date for Apple Intelligence. Meta has a new text to video AI model. Google could soon drop under 50% in the search ads market. More ...

Fri. 10/04 – AI Slop Comes To Podcasting

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Google has updated Lens and is taking a page out of Perplexity’s book. OpenAI’s new canvas workspace. Why an upcoming iPhone SE might have some in...

Thu. 10/03 – The Monster OpenAI Raise

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI raised their round, and it basically broke all the records. The whole Wordpress mess has gotten so crazy that WPEngine is suing. Using Ray-Ban ...

Wed. 10/02 – A Tech Angle To The Hurricane

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Catching you up on a bunch of other Microsoft announcements we missed yesterday. Is Nvidia trying to break open the black box of AI? It’s absolutely...

Tue. 10/01 – Running This Pod Through NotebookLM

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do we have the first IPO of the AI era? Do we have the first AI model beyond the transformer architecture? Microsoft has a bunch of new AI tools insid...

Mon. 09/30 – Controversial AI Bill Vetoed

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

That controversial AI bill in California has been vetoed by Governor Newsom. Is even Apple now thinking that its Vision Pro strategy might need a reth...

Fri. 09/27 – Sam Altman Declines To Go “Founder Mode”

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Founder Mode? Not for me, says Sam Altman, but we will see. A few new gadgets from Samsung. Maybe ARM should buy Intel. Are AI startups hitting revenu...

Thu. 09/26 – The Orion Smartglasses

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s only two stories really. If you can believe it, more executive departures at OpenAI, as it looks like they’re serious about going for prof...

Wed. 09/25 – Caroline Ellison Sentenced

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Caroline Ellison benefits from being cooperative. Has your company unknowingly hired remote workers from North Korea? What is going on with this WordP...

Tue. 09/24 – Sam Altman’s Few Thousand Days

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Altman has a manifesto. Kinda. Telegram is beginning to walk things back a bit. Cloudflare wants to help you block the AI bots. New streaming devi...

Mon. 09/23 – Qualcomm To Buy Intel?

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Qualcomm as a white knight to save Intel? A huge bitcoin heist gets busted for the usual reasons. What if the US bans imports of all cars from China? ...

Fri. 09/20 – MacOS 15 Sequoia Is Breaking Things

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You might want to hold off on updating to macOS 15 Sequoia. What, exactly, is Europe trying to get Apple to do? The AI energy crunch means they’re t...

Thu. 09/19 – Pokémon: No!

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Looks like they finally got around to suing that Palworld game. Google volunteered to break up some of its businesses but the EU said no. AI is coming...

Wed. 09/18 – New Messages, New Headsets

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Messages between Android and iOS are about to be encrypted. A new XR headset from HTC and new Spectacles from Snap. A big movie studio has signed up t...

Tue. 09/17 – Intel Has A Plan

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Intel announces a bunch of ways its hoping to turn its business around sooner rather than later. Is OpenAI about to have its chat bots query you? The ...

Mon. 09/16 – A Bunch Of Apple Stories

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A bunch of Apple stories today. FDA approval for sleep apnea detection for the watch. Signs of poor pre-order sales for the phone. And a quick review ...

Fri. 09/13 – The First Strawberry is o1

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The first of the Strawberry models is here. YC plans to have four cohorts a year, but each one is getting smaller. Waymo is already ready to expand to...

Thu. 09/12 – OpenAI’s Big New Raise

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As expected, OpenAI is in talks for a new capital raise at a $150B valuation. More layoffs in Microsoft’s gaming division. More holes poked in our c...

Wed. 09/11 – Mistral Goes Multimodel; And An AI Model Mystery

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mistral goes multimodal for the first time. Meta admits to scraping the data of every adult Australian. The details on the new PS5 Pro. Wouldn’t it ...

Tue. 09/10 – Strawberries In 2 Weeks?

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Apple loses its longest standing regulatory battle in the EU. Some drips and drabs from yesterday’s iPhone event. Would a phone you can fold three t...

Mon. 09/09 – The iPhone 16 Event

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All the headlines from today’s iPhone event. It IS interesting the degree to which Elon’s various businesses have potential synergy. The Times dig...

Fri. 09/06 – Telegram Blinks.

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pavel Durov speaks, and Telegram blinks, both for the first time since the French arrest. Are XR glasses tethered to smartphones the next big product ...

Thu. 09/05 – The DOJ Takes Down An Election Influence Campaign

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The DOJ says it has taken down a big election influence campaign allegedly directed by Russia. The Internet Archive loses a big case. Android 15 is he...

Wed. 09/04 – Elon Blinks In Brazil

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

SpaceX has agreed to block access to X, in Brazil, on Starlink. Looks like YubiKeys are hackable. Who is the mystery platform looking to expand AI dat...

Tue. 09/03 – The X Ban In Brazil

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We missed a pretty big story this weekend. X getting banned in Brazil. I’ll try to catch you up on all the contours of this. Canva’s raising price...

Fri. 08/30 – Who ISN’T Investing In OpenAI?

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At this point it would be quicker to name the big tech company that’s NOT investing in OpenAI’s latest round. Amazon’s new Alexa service is just...

Thu. 08/29 – Nvidia Earnings… Are Ok…

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nvidia’s earnings were huge but because they didn’t manage to beat the biggest expectations out there, it’s kind of a miss? Pavel Durov has been...

Wed. 08/28 – Strawberry Emoji

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I explain why everyone has been posting strawberries in AI circles. It’s cause of a potential new breakthrough at OpenAI. Cerebras launches the firs...

Tue. 08/27 – More On Pavel Durov

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As more details come out about the arrest of the founder of Telegram, a deeper look at Pavel Durov himself. We have the date of the iPhone event. We h...

Mon. 08/26 – Telegram CEO Arrested

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

French authorities have arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. Chinese tech companies are spending like crazy on AI too, btw. What are the smart glasses a...

(BNS) The Crowdstrike Thing (With Overmind.tech)

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Fri. 08/23 – The Bolt Saga

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft deprecating a feature that it launched back in 1985. There’s a pretty big loophole that is still letting China use H100 chips. The weird s...

Thu. 08/22 – The Mike Lynch Saga

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Mike Lynch’s body is recovered off Sicily, a deeper look at what was a roller coaster of a life. More cross posting for Meta’s apps. We have a ...

Wed. 08/21 – AI Grabs The Spotlight Back

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI news has been a bit quiet for a little while now, but the headlines came roaring back today. More evidence Waymo might be having some sort of tippi...

Tue. 08/20 – Checkin On How The Vision Pro Is (Or Is Not) Coming Along

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New Raspberry Pi 5. Waymo’s rolling out its new self-driving tech. A major developer draws plaudits for going anti-AI. The tragic and odd story of t...

Mon. 08/19 – Everything Eventually Becomes An Advertising Business

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is X closing up shop in Brazil? Remember how Apple is trying to make their own modems? How’s that going? Why is the online dating sector suddenly st...

Fri. 08/16 – Epic Saga Conclusion?

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Epic saga has reached a sort of conclusion. Epic saga. See what I did there? That California AI safety bill has been pruned a bit. You can now add...

Thu. 08/15 – Grok Will Let You AI Anything

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The new version of Grok will pretty much let you make an AI image of anything or anyone. More rumors of an iPad/robot/smart home hybrid from Apple. Ma...

Wed. 08/14 – When It Comes To AI On Phones, Google Does It Itself

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All the details from yesterday’s pixel event, but especially the AI features that show how far ahead Google is. At least when it comes to putting AI...

Tue. 08/13 – Apple Comes For Patreon

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Patreon is forced to change how it does things because Apple finally came to claim their vig. Have basically all our social security numbers been leak...

Mon. 08/12 – Some Apple Rumors Before Pixel Day

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hey, want to know the iPhone product road map for the next year or so? I wonder why that’s coming out today? Instagram is copying something it forgo...

Fri. 08/09 – Mac Mini To Get Mini-er?

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Apple’s new EU rules still aren’t acceptable to Spotify and Epic. Could we be getting a new, smaller Mac Mini this year? Perplexity AI is showing ...

Thu. 08/08 – Would You Buy A Subscription Mouse?

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

TikTok launches Spotlight. Meta’s budget kills a VR studio. Why did everyone think Logitech was going to create a mouse you had to pay a subscriptio...

Wed. 08/07 – Is The New Google TV Streamer An Apple TV 4K Killer?

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Google’s new TV streaming appliance, plus lots of lot of Gemini stuff is coming to Google Home and Nest and such. Elon tries to get advertisers to c...

Tue. 08/06 – Google Loses In Court

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Three big stories to catch you up on. A federal judge has ruled Google is an illegal monopoly. The Game Of Thrones style drama at OpenAI is just getti...

Mon. 08/05 – OpenAI Can Detect AI Text But Isn’t Sure It Wants To

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why is OpenAI sitting on technology that could detect AI cheating? Why is Bitcoin so correlated to the stock market? Why is Elon restarting his lawsui...

Fri. 08/02 – Intel Is Bailing Water

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So, tech earnings continued to be boring. Apple was fine. Amazon was not quite so fine. And then someone we don’t cover closely really messed the be...

Thu. 08/01 – Now Meta’s AI Spending Is Fine?

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So I guess Zuck has convinced Wall Street that all the capex spending on AI is fine. How good a business is Tether? A gooooood business. The first arr...

Wed. 07/31 – CapCut Ascendant

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Another big pullback of a major AI tool. Microsoft earnings. How CapCut is taking over the creator tools space. Amazon speedy delivery is rolling out ...

Tue. 07/30 – A (Mostly) AI Day

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Perplexity wants to share ad revenue with publishers. But lots of AI companies are continuing to gamble with scraping. Meta’s new Segment Anything 2...

Mon. 07/29 – Big Tech IPO From… Honeywell?

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Apple Intelligence might be coming sooner than we dared hope. Might want to check your settings on X. The universe of alt coins is back. A big tech IP...

Fri. 07/26 – SearchGPT

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI takes on Google search directly. Another Hollywood strike with the same underlying causes. We know absolutely everything about the new Pixel 9 ...

Thu. 07/25 – Reddit’s Throwing Elbows Again

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Once again, Reddit looks like it’s not worried about upsetting people. New generative search on Bing, new models from Mistral and a new video model ...

Wed. 07/24 – Llama 3.1 Bests The “Frontier Models”?

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meta’s Llama 3.1 shows that open models can at least go toe to toe with proprietary AI models. Why did the Google-Wiz deal fall apart? Was the Crowd...

Tue. 07/23 – Wiz Turns Down The Money

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I try to get my head around the whole Google and third-party cookies thing. Wiz turns down Google’s big money acquisition offer. Spot ether ETFs can...

Mon. 07/22 – The Big Outage Weekend

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Wait, did any news happen this weekend? IT people don’t know about it cause they’re still digging out from the CrowdStrike thing. But why is every...

Fri. 07/19 – The Big CrowdStrike Outage Explained

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The big tech outage caused by a single software update that even my mom is texting me about. The new mini AI models are bring prices down as we hoped....

Thu. 07/18 – Crypto Exchange Hacks Are Back

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It looks like crypto exchange hacks are back. And so are the North Koreans, I guess. Are the Meta Ray-Bans selling so well Zuck might invest in the Ra...

Wed. 07/17 – Sorry, More Politics…

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sorry, we gotta do more politics. Can’t avoid it cause now Trump likes TikTok and seemingly hates Mark Zuckerberg. Mistrals two new models. A big Pi...

Tue. 07/16 – A VC VP Pick

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

JD Vance becomes the first Tech industry player, and especially Venture Capitalist, to ever be on a major presidential ticket. It’s never been easie...

Mon. 07/15 – Google To Make Its Biggest Acquisition Ever?

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The biggest tech exit in years might be in the offing as Alphabet eyes scooping up Wiz. The weird story of that huge AT&T hack. A new ARM-powered CoPi...

(First Ones) Josh Wolfe Of Lux Capital

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Thu. 07/11 – Samsung’s Foldable Event

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All the headlines from what was largely a foldable phone event from Samsung yesterday. Apple has settled with the EU. More numbers on Apple Vision Pro...

Wed. 07/10 – Why Everyone Is Fleeing OpenAI’s Board

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Suddenly nobody wants to be on OpenAI’s board, even as observers. I’ll tell you why. More on how AI has thrown everybody’s carbon neutral plans ...

Tue. 07/09 – The New Nothing Phone Costs Practically Nothing

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The new nothing phone costs almost nothing. I’m not punning. Sam Altman has founded yet another AI startup. Is the hype around AI PCs underdeliverin...

Mon. 07/08 – Thinner And Bigger Watches

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ok, fine. Give me a thinner watch if it’ll also somehow have a bigger screen. Apple and Epic are just petty, squabbling children at this point. What...

(IHP) The Gary Kildall Legend Part 2

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This about the man who invented the modern disc operating system (the OS) and the concept of the software platform. That man was Gary Kildall. And the...

(IHP) The Gary Kildall Legend Part 1

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This about the man who invented the modern disc operating system (the OS) and the concept of the software platform. That man was Gary Kildall. And the...

Wed. 07/03 – Walking Back AI Products

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The deploying and then walking back of AI products and features is becoming something of a routine at this point. Apple is joining OpenAI’s board, k...

Tue. 07/02 – Single Points Of Failure For Cyberattacks

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A recent Evolve Bank and Trust cyberattack might impact a lot of tech customers. Why single points of failure impact cyberattacks. YouTube will soon l...

Mon. 07/01 – Now Brussels Sprouts For Meta

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meta’s turn to be accused of breaching the DMA. Smarter AirPods as part of an AR/VR strategy. Better AI leaderboards. And is the Surface Laptop fina...

(Profile) Casemark.ai

29 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Fri 06/28 – The Real King Of All Media Is… YouTube?

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The growing backlash over Perplexity is getting interesting. OpenAI possibly exiting China will be interesting in terms of a massive land grab. AI Al ...

Thu. 06/27 – Add Consultants To The List Of Big Winners Of AI So Far

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is Uncle Sam about to unload a ton of Bitcoin? AI has helped Google Translate almost double the number of languages it supports. No surprise, but Amaz...

Wed. 06/26 – An eInk Phone That Might Be Worth Buying?

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The ChatGPT macOS app is now available for everybody. Google drops continuous scroll for search. Waymo drops the waitlist in San Francisco. Are the AI...

Tue. 06/25 – AI Music Startups Get The Napster Treatment

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

History is rhyming today as AI music startups get the Napster treatment and Microsoft gets dinged for product bundling. Google wants you to build your...

Mon. 06/24 – Apple The First To Run Afoul Of The DMA

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Could Apple soon owe Europe a ton of money as they are the first to run afoul of the DMA? Could Meta soon join OpenAI as part of Apple Intelligence. W...

Fri. 06/21 – Kaspersky Banned By The US Government

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The government has banned Kaspersky antivirus sales in the US. People are losing their minds over Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic. Soon all devices c...

Thu. 06/20 - Ilya Sutskever’s New AI Startup

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ilya Sutskever wants to go straight to Safe Superintelligence, do not pass go, but do probably collect hundreds of millions of dollars. Is Perplexity ...

Wed. 06/18 – Apple Pumping The Breaks On The Vision Pro?

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Does Apple pumping the breaks on the Vision Pro indicate problems for the category, or was this always the plan? What if AI means bots do the social m...

Tue. 06/18 – Adobe’s Time In The Woodshed

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The regulators have come for adobe and their alleged subscription shenanigans. Apple might settle with the EU. But it’s also shutting down its BNPL ...

Mon. 06/17 – Thinner And Lighter It Is

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Gurman says Apple is going to go all in on making the thinnest and lightest devices in the industry. Though the Apple Watch is probably going to ...

Fri. 06/14 – Now Microsoft Delays Recall

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The recall of some Microsoft AI products continues as literally Recall gets delayed. Another deep dive into how Apple’s AI actually works. Dream Mac...

Thu. 06/13 – The Excel World Championships

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Apple isn’t paying OpenAI anything for their partnership. Guess they’ll make it up on volume. More details on how much money OpenAI IS making. The...

Wed. 06/12 – Elon Pulls His OpenAI Lawsuit

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk has withdrawn his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. I guess Wall Street likes Apple’s AI strategy. But why is Microsoft already putti...

Tue. 06/11 – Did Apple Nail AI, Or Just Do AI In An Apple Way?

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All of the drips and drabs details from yesterday’s WWDC keynote. Spotify is about to announce a higher tier of membership with some perks. Mistral ...

Mon. 06/10 – The WWDC 2024 Keynote

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All the headlines from WWDC. All the AI goodness, even if Apple spent half the time not even mentioning the words Artificial Intelligence. Also, what ...

(Profile) Traceloop

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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