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June 5, 2025
Thu. 06/05 – Some In Hollywood (Quietly) LOVE AI
Reddit goes after Anthropic. Meta seems to be reading a much cheaper Vision Pro killer, while still moving forward with their ambitious smartglasses product. What if your Amazon delivery person was not a person at all, but a ...
June 4, 2025
Wed. 06/04 – State Of The AI Coding Landgrab
Windsurf accuses Anthropic of blocking it from AI models in a sign that competition in the AI coding space is fierce. But will the real battle happen when the likes of Microsoft and Google really go after the startups? Notebo...
June 3, 2025
Tue. 06/03 – Framing The AI Debate
Elon Musk is suddenly fundraising everywhere. An attempt to solve the nomenclature problem around hacking groups. Is the solution to more energy for data centers already hidden inside the grid? And the final two pieces today ...
June 2, 2025
Mon. 06/02 – How DoorDash Has Quietly Been Killing It
We know WWDC might be underwhelming this year, but to what degree? Is Samsung about to pick Perplexity as its horse in the AI race? AI based acquisition and wrapups continue to be the new hotness in VC investing. And how Door...
May 30, 2025
Fri. 05/30 – Big Meta/Anduril Deal Is A Big Deal
Why Meta’s big deal with Anduril is a big deal for the entire tech industry. Microsoft is kinda not joining, but also kind of all in on the handheld gaming race. Count Hugging Face as someone else serious about AI robots. And...
May 29, 2025
Thu. 05/29 – Somebody Knows Victoria’s Secrets
Nvidia had solid earnings, though they’re quite concerned about being boxed out of China. The apparent hack of Victoria’s Secret gave me a dad-joke-title for today’s episode. Why DeepSeek’s recent R1 update is a bigger deal t...
May 28, 2025
Wed. 05/28 – Apple Playing Games Again
Apple is making noises in the gaming space once again, but I feel like we’ve heard this all before. Getty is still deadly serious about suing AI companies. Self driving trucks seem to be juuuust about to hit the roads. And a ...
May 27, 2025
Tue. 05/27 – The “Holy Grail” Of AI Models
Salesforce is back in the acquisition swing. Circle is going for an IPO. Is Netflix about to lose the streaming service crown? The Holy Grail of AI Models. And is your boss more demanding of your output now that you use AI? L...
May 26, 2025
(Bonus) Calmwave Profile
Find out more about Calmwave at Calmwave.ai . The case study we mention is here: https://catalyst.wellstar.org/casestudies/calmwave/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art...
May 23, 2025
Fri. 05/23 – Tim Apple’s Very Bad Week
Tariff fun is back and this time there’s only one tech company in the crosshairs: Apple. Anthropic releases flagship new Claude models, and they seem to be impressive, but half the story here is how weird they behave. Like, r...
May 22, 2025
Thu. 05/22 – OpenAI Acquihires Jony Ive!
Is this is biggest acquihire of all time? Jony Ive is joining OpenAI to the tune of $6.5 billion dollars. And what is he going to do there? Create hardware devices that Sam Altman expects to ship 100 million of. Why Google ha...
May 21, 2025
Wed. 05/21 – Everything Google Everywhere And All At Once
It’s Google day. Everything Google, everywhere, all at once. All the headlines from IO and there were a ton. What even is Google search in the age of AI? Google’s big push into smartglasses, a wild new video model and a ton, ...
May 20, 2025
Tue. 05/20 – Microsoft Build 2025
He noted the firm has the OVX computer that is meant to do simulation and graphic simulation physics engine, and it is used to synthesize and generate data. And this data is consumed by the DGX computer, which are used to tra...
May 19, 2025
Mon. 05/19 – How Apple Lost AI
The big, long saga of how Apple lost the AI race. Nvidia wants you to bring your own gear. 23andMe’s assets are acquired. Why are Apple and Epic still bickering? And why has kidnapping suddenly become a major issue for big cr...
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