Snapchat has led the way, but are we going to see everybody in social media offering subscription plans? An interesting raise for AI investing. Satya Nadella was on the stand yesterday at the Google trial. And what’s up with Threads? Has it missed its moment?
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Oct 30
How Hackers Drained $6.3B From Binance
Overnight brought the biggest heist in crypto history, as hackers drained $6.3 billion from Binance. Amazon’s AI spending soared while retail growth stalled, Spotify eyed a $5-a-month AI remix tool, and longreads covered El Niño forecasting and old-time fiddlers. Binance says ini ... Show More
22m 21s
Oct 29
A Chinese Spy Inside Nvidia?
I covered the NYT report that US officials think Megaspeed’s Alice Huang is a Chinese asset who cozied up to Jensen Huang, the leak of 41,000 DHS workers’ data, DoorDash’s $17B Instacart grab, and Alphabet’s ugly free cash flow. US officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huan ... Show More
22m 9s
Oct 28
Apple Caves: A Touchscreen Mac
Apple unveiled a touchscreen MacBook Pro, finally ditching Jobs’s stance. Then Amazon unloaded gadgets: a $500 Echo Show 16, the Echo Time alarm clock, an Alexa Photo Frame, and an Echo Studio with a camera. Not one AI story all day. Apple unveils a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a ... Show More
21m 44s
Apr 2025
OpenAI is making a social network?
This week, Marques, Andrew, and David talk about the biggest tech release of 2025, the Beats USB C Cable. After that they'll talk about some tariff updates for the iPhone, Meta in the midst of an antitrust case, and OpenAI making their own social media network. Then wrap it up wi ... Show More
1h 20m
Jan 2023
But Even With Nothing On, TikTok Made You Look
<p><span>There's a media spend slowdown? Nobody told TikTok. Microsoft and Google both battle to become the Kings of AI. A stock photo company, meanwhile, takes AI to court. Meta's Oversight Board sends another policy back to the drafting table. And the Twitter Blue reven ... Show More
8m 44s