The tech trade war is really heating up again, in case you missed it. What if Coronavirus is what helps Google win at messaging? Clubhouse is an interesting raise raising eyebrows. And why Pizza arbitrage shows that the food delivery space is not only broken, but basically spits in the face of efficient market theory.
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Yesterday
Even OpenAI Folks Are Freaked Out
OpenAI staff were reportedly freaked out after its models breached Hugging Face, as aggressive training raced Anthropic. Google posted its first-ever negative free cash flow on AI spending, added selfie-video account recovery, and Light unveiled a minimalist flip phone. Sources: ... Show More
21m 27s
Jul 22
The AI Has Escaped Containment
OpenAI said its models breached Hugging Face's infrastructure during a cyber-capability test. The White House accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3, and Samsung unveiled its Z Fold 8 Ultra, Fold 8, and Flip 8. OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5 ... Show More
21m 7s
Feb 2020
Iowa caucus app issues, Panos Panay takes over both Microsoft’s hardware and software, and Google reveals Q4 earnings
Stories discussed this week; Election tech was supposed to clean up the Iowa caucus … Iowa's caucus fracas shows we're still too ignorant about how … America is bad at voting (it isn’t just Iowa) US attorney general says tech and telecom industries should invest in Huawei competi ... Show More
1h 9m
May 2020
Uber offers to gobble up GrubHub, Elon Musk is “Re-open America guy”, and a prediction on mergers in digital media
Kara and Scott talk about Uber's offer to buy GrubHub, which would give the company a majority of food delivery market share. They talk about whether this merger would be good for Uber (yes) and whether it would be bad for the commonwealth (also, yes). Meanwhile, Elon Musk is reo ... Show More
57m 47s
Jun 2021
👻 “My boss is a hologram Jedi ghost” — Chipotle’s brisket effect. WeWork’s hologram-ification. Klarna’s TikTok credit card.
WeWork, Google, and Microsoft are all investing in the Second Coming of Zoom: Holograms. Chipotle’s jacking up prices on your burrito bowl, but doing something no one else is: Elevating the Burrito, too. And Klarna hit a $46B valuation because it’s TikTokified the credit card.$GO ... Show More
18m 27s
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