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Feb. 10, 2025
Mon. 02/10 – How Sam Altman Outflanked Elon Musk?
According to the Super Bowl ad I saw last night, anyone can use Starlink on their phone soon, not just T-Mobile users. Was this the Super Bowl of crypto-betting? Are we seeing the first signs that AI is stealing jobs from te…
Feb. 7, 2025
Fri. 02/07 – UK Backdoor Into iPhones?
Is the UK government about to force Apple to put backdoors into all of our iPhones? Tallying up the Tech Earnings week of CAPEX announcements. We might get a new iPhone next week. The Weekend Longreads suggestions. And liste…
Feb. 6, 2025
Thu. 02/06 – A $50 (!!) AI Model?
Now researchers say they have trained a cutting edge AI model for… checks notes… $50. Not $50 million dollars. $50. Dollars. Get ready for the superbowl of AI ads. Amazon has scheduled an Alexa AI event. And also, why does A…
Feb. 5, 2025
Wed. 02/05 – Shein And Temu In Deep Trouble
Temu And Shein got a reprieve from the USPS, but they are still in deep, deep trouble. I’ll explain why. Alphabet earnings disappoint their investors but cheer investors of Nvidia. Google and Meta going in different directio…
Feb. 4, 2025
Tue. 02/04 – Uncle Sam As A VC?
Is the US government about to get into, or at least, heavily impact the VC investing business? Apparently, the trade war with China is still on. The resurrection of Twitterific. And how Spotify has quietly stopped investing,…
Feb. 3, 2025
Mon. 02/03 – OpenAI Deep Research
OpenAI unveils Deep Research, an AI agent just for that. I’ll explain. Are Shein and Temu first up to feel the brunt of the new Trump tariffs? Apple canceled the AR project I assumed they would be pivoting toward. And the Be…
Feb. 1, 2025
(BNS) Terra Trust And How To Build In Uncertain Times
If the entire world shifts after you launch your startup, what do you do? Terra Trust founder Mike DiPetrillo tells you how to do it. What was our original use-case? DOUBLE DOWN on what you do well.
Jan. 31, 2025
Fri. 01/31 – Zuck’s Complaints About Leaks… Leaks
Apple’s earnings are decidedly mixed. Mark Zuckerberg’s complaints about everything he says leaking… leaked, and there are a lot of interesting details in those leaks. Looks like the SoftBank and OpenAI courtship is a seriou…
Jan. 30, 2025
Thu. 01/30 – Everyone Reports Earnings But Wall Street Only Wants Capex Answers.
Meta and Microsoft reported earnings, but all Wall Street cared about was getting Capex updates. Meta settles with… the President. Waymo’s expansion continues apace. Why Masa Son is the perfect white knight for OpenAI. And A…
Jan. 29, 2025
Wed. 01/29 – OpenAI Says: No Copying!
Essentially, OpenAI suspects that DeekSeek might have copied them. I’ll explain the term, “distillation.” Could you soon be able to connect to Starlink on your iPhone? Is Comcast about to make the Internet… better? And the h…
Jan. 28, 2025
Tue. 01/28 – Day 2 Of The DeepSeek Era
More fallout from the DeepSeek realignment of everybody’s thinking about AI. Could this be a signal that the large model business model is over and value is going to be in the application layer? Pebble lives! Spotify says it…
Jan. 27, 2025
Mon. 01/27 – Why DeepSeek Has Stunned Silicon Valley (And Wall Street)
It’s one of those days where there’s only one story. Maybe you saw that tech stocks got obliterated today. I’m here to tell you why. It’s solely because of DeepSeek and Chinese AI tech generally. How this tech is making peop…
Jan. 24, 2025
Fri. 01/24 – Operator AI
OpenAI releases its agentic bot that can do things on your behalf on your computer. Has the Stargate controversy driven a rift between Musk and Trump? Will the US government create a strategic crypto stockpile? And, of cours…
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Brian McCullough is the co-founder of Ride Home Media and host of The Techmeme Ride Home. He founded ResumeWriters.com and is the author of How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone.
