You might want to hold off on updating to macOS 15 Sequoia. What, exactly, is Europe trying to get Apple... more

Looks like they finally got around to suing that Palworld game. Google volunteered to break up some of its businesses... more

Messages between Android and iOS are about to be encrypted. A new XR headset from HTC and new Spectacles from... more

Intel announces a bunch of ways its hoping to turn its business around sooner rather than later. Is OpenAI about... more

A bunch of Apple stories today. FDA approval for sleep apnea detection for the watch. Signs of poor pre-order sales... more

The first of the Strawberry models is here. YC plans to have four cohorts a year, but each one is... more

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

Mistral goes multimodal for the first time. Meta admits to scraping the data of every adult Australian. The details on... more

Apple loses its longest standing regulatory battle in the EU. Some drips and drabs from yesterday’s iPhone event. Would a... more

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

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

The DOJ says it has taken down a big election influence campaign allegedly directed by Russia. The Internet Archive loses... more

SpaceX has agreed to block access to X, in Brazil, on Starlink. Looks like YubiKeys are hackable. Who is the... more

We missed a pretty big story this weekend. X getting banned in Brazil. I’ll try to catch you up on... more

At this point it would be quicker to name the big tech company that’s NOT investing in OpenAI’s latest round.... more

Nvidia’s earnings were huge but because they didn’t manage to beat the biggest expectations out there, it’s kind of a... more

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

As more details come out about the arrest of the founder of Telegram, a deeper look at Pavel Durov himself.... more

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

Breaking down the Crowdstrike outage with Overmind.tech

Microsoft deprecating a feature that it launched back in 1985. There’s a pretty big loophole that is still letting China... more

As Mike Lynch’s body is recovered off Sicily, a deeper look at what was a roller coaster of a life.... more

AI news has been a bit quiet for a little while now, but the headlines came roaring back today. More... more

New Raspberry Pi 5. Waymo’s rolling out its new self-driving tech. A major developer draws plaudits for going anti-AI. The... more

Is X closing up shop in Brazil? Remember how Apple is trying to make their own modems? How’s that going?... more

The Epic saga has reached a sort of conclusion. Epic saga. See what I did there? That California AI safety... more

The new version of Grok will pretty much let you make an AI image of anything or anyone. More rumors... more

All the details from yesterday’s pixel event, but especially the AI features that show how far ahead Google is. At... more

Patreon is forced to change how it does things because Apple finally came to claim their vig. Have basically all... more

Hey, want to know the iPhone product road map for the next year or so? I wonder why that’s coming... more

Apple’s new EU rules still aren’t acceptable to Spotify and Epic. Could we be getting a new, smaller Mac Mini... more

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

Google’s new TV streaming appliance, plus lots of lot of Gemini stuff is coming to Google Home and Nest and... more

Three big stories to catch you up on. A federal judge has ruled Google is an illegal monopoly. The Game... more

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

So, tech earnings continued to be boring. Apple was fine. Amazon was not quite so fine. And then someone we... more

So I guess Zuck has convinced Wall Street that all the capex spending on AI is fine. How good a... more

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

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

Apple Intelligence might be coming sooner than we dared hope. Might want to check your settings on X. The universe... more

OpenAI takes on Google search directly. Another Hollywood style with the same underlying causes. We know absolutely everything about the... more

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

Meta’s Llama 3.1 shows that open models can at least go toe to toe with proprietary AI models. Why did... more

I try to get my head around the whole Google and third-party cookies thing. Wiz turns down Google’s big money... more

Wait, did any news happen this weekend? IT people don’t know about it cause they’re still digging out from the... more

The big tech outage caused by a single software update that even my mom is texting me about. The new... more

It looks like crypto exchange hacks are back. And so are the North Koreans, I guess. Are the Meta Ray-Bans... more

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

JD Vance becomes the first Tech industry player, and especially Venture Capitalist, to ever be on a major presidential ticket.... more

The biggest tech exit in years might be in the offing as Alphabet eyes scooping up Wiz. The weird story... more

More about Josh Wolfe and Lux Capital here.

All the headlines from what was largely a foldable phone event from Samsung yesterday. Apple has settled with the EU.... more

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

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

Ok, fine. Give me a thinner watch if it’ll also somehow have a bigger screen. Apple and Epic are just... more

This about the man who invented the modern disc operating system (the OS) and the concept of the software platform.... more

This about the man who invented the modern disc operating system (the OS) and the concept of the software platform.... more

The deploying and then walking back of AI products and features is becoming something of a routine at this point.... more

A recent Evolve Bank and Trust cyberattack might impact a lot of tech customers. Why single points of failure impact... more

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

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

Is Uncle Sam about to unload a ton of Bitcoin? AI has helped Google Translate almost double the number of... more

The ChatGPT macOS app is now available for everybody. Google drops continuous scroll for search. Waymo drops the waitlist in... more

History is rhyming today as AI music startups get the Napster treatment and Microsoft gets dinged for product bundling. Google... more

Could Apple soon owe Europe a ton of money as they are the first to run afoul of the DMA?... more

The government has banned Kaspersky antivirus sales in the US. People are losing their minds over Claude 3.5 Sonnet from... more

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

Does Apple pumping the breaks on the Vision Pro indicate problems for the category, or was this always the plan?... more

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

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

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

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

Elon Musk has withdrawn his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. I guess Wall Street likes Apple’s AI strategy. But... more

All of the drips and drabs details from yesterday’s WWDC keynote. Spotify is about to announce a higher tier of... more

All the headlines from WWDC. All the AI goodness, even if Apple spent half the time not even mentioning the... more

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As we prep for WWDC on Monday, word of a completely new Passwords app from Apple. Also, it’s a day... more

Nvidia hits $3T. US regulators aren’t sleeping on the AI market, including Nvidia itself. Humane tells users of the AI... more

As I said on that bonus episode with Alex Kantrowitz, the research side of OpenAI isn’t happy, and they’re starting... more

More headlines from Computex. More layoffs at Microsoft, but why? Instagram is copying YouTube’s unskippable ads. Why Samsung is pre-emptively... more

Computex brings a slew of announcements from AMD and Nvidia, including an AI bot to help you with your gaming.... more

OpenAI Teases GPT-5, Musk Raises $6B for xAI, Loneliness in Remote Work Era.

OpenAI has a new “affordable” version of ChatGPT for universities and schools. They also are planning to get back into... more

Global authorities take down what they say is the biggest botnet of all time. More big AI deals for big... more

A big leak at Google might be the tech equivalent of the secret formula for Coca-Cola being revealed for the... more

We have a rough timeline of when we can expect GPT5 and it looks like it won’t be this summer.... more

Out of nowhere, the SEC has approved spot ETFs for ether. Spotify is killing its Car Thing. Google’s AI Overview... more

Nvidia’s earnings are still historic, but what could upset their apple cart? A few things, actually. I think we know... more

All the AI announcements from Microsoft Build. I know it’s only been a minute, but is Humane already circling the... more

There are only 2 stories today, but they’re big ones. First, at an event yesterday, Microsoft showed off what they... more

No, that ChatGPT voice is not Scarlett Johansson, stop asking. In fact, that voice is going away. What does it... more

As telegraphed for the last year, Reddit is going all in on being an all you can eat buffet for... more

Some AI companies want to go after web search. But by hiring an Instagram founder, is Anthropic going in a... more

All the announces from Google’s massive I/O event yesterday, including, yes, generative AI summaries are fully coming to Google Search.... more

OpenAI unveils GPT-4o which makes Siri look like the technical cul-de-sac it very much is. But what does it mean... more

Well, looks like my worries about solar weather being a threat to technology wasn’t just in my head. Ask farmers.... more

Well that was fast. Apple apologized for the “Crush” Ad, saying they missed the mark on that one. Microsoft is... more

AlphaFold 3 is a new AI model to predict interactions and structures of proteins, the better to cure diseases and... more

Multiple Bethesda studios are being shut down by Xbox and gamers are worried. The new Pixel phone announcement yesterday that... more

All the headlines from today’s Spring Apple event. New iPads? M4 chip? I don’t actually know cause I’m recording this... more

Jack Dorsey abandoned Twitter and now he’s abandoned Bluesky as well. YouTube rolls out Jump Ahead. Threads launches post quote... more

Apple earnings are out and revenue was down almost everywhere. Boy, AI can’t come fast enough for them. Did you... more

The music is back on TikTok with a new deal struck. Maybe a third of Americans were affected by that... more

Binance founder CZ looks like he’s heading to jail too, but for way less time than SBF. Is the Rabbit... more

The FCC has fined all the major telecom companies. You’ll never guess why. Why the DMA actions from the EU... more

Apple continues discussions with folks to partner for AI product. Will the upcoming iPad event kick off Apple’s AI strategy?... more

Net Neutrality has been voted back into existence. Earnings from Microsoft and Google, but it’s the YouTube numbers that continue... more

Meta’s earnings were fine, but it’s what Zuck warned about spending that has Wall Street nervous. Sub 2nm chips are... more

The TikTok divestment bill has probably already been signed into law. What happens now? What are the legal arguments that... more

Microsoft has launched new lightweight AI models. Perplexity has a big new raise. Meta wants other people to build Quest... more

I know we’ve said this before, but TikTok really seems on the brink this time. What the heck is going... more

Meta released Llama 3 yesterday, and some of the moves they made have made be consider if Zuck could win... more

Google has fired 28 employees for political protests yesterday. A well-known coding school has been fined by the CFPB. Game... more

T-Mobile and Verizon employees are being offered bribes for SIM swaps. How much coding copilots have taken over. How much... more

Microsoft continues to spread its AI bets. Disney wants to bring back tv channels. YouTube is not gonna let you... more

Really looks like high-end re-shoring of chip tech is happening, and happening soon. What if satellite telephony becomes a table-stakes... more

Now a big business intelligence company has been breached. Do you get the sense that people are laying the groundwork... more

Apple is notifying people their iPhones may have been compromised. Spotify wants you to mix up your music. Adobe is... more

More AI announces from Google. More hints on how Apple will bring AI to iPhones. And a bunch of interesting... more

Google has a ton of AI announces, including new Arm-based AI chips, utilizing Google search in Gemini, and more. They... more

David Marcus comes on the pod to discuss what he's been working on since leaving Meta. Specificially: Lightspark, and efforts... more

Apple joins the tech layoff club. Microsoft warns China is planning to disrupt elections using AI. Disney+ is joining Netflix... more

Is Apple pivoting to home robotics now that the Apple Car project is dead? Is Google about to pivot to... more

Have we just had a major breakthrough in Quantum Computing? The earthquake in Taiwan might lead to some chip issues.... more

Big trove of AT&T customer data dumped online. Microsoft is unbundling Teams. Amazon is readying its own big LLM. We... more

What prolific AI investor Nat Friedman expects from GPT-5, Microsoft's general strategy in AI, how he invests in startups, and... more

SBF gets 25 years. X is maybe about to NSFW. Apple’s new OLED iPads should be coming in May. I... more

There’s a new king of the AI hill as Anthropic bests OpenAI for the first time. Amazon invests more in... more

Disney launches Hulu on Disney+. Apple schedules WWDC. Some Apple users report being victims of MFA bombing attacks. What it... more

Executive shuffling indicates that Microsoft is serious about reorganizing itself around AI. The US and UK move against those alleged... more

They said this law would be one that was capable of moving fast. The EU has already opened formal DMA... more

Everyone is analyzing the DOJ’s case against Apple. An unpatchable vulnerability in Apple Silicon has been uncovered. Threads joins the... more

The DOJ opened a lawsuit against Apple. Reddit’s IPO should be happening today. An Epic Games Store on iOS should... more

Microsoft hiring DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run their new AI division might sound like boring c-suite musical chairs, but... more

Nvidia announced… well, a ton of things. Two new AI tools show that video is having an AI moment. An... more

I did NOT have on my bingo card Apple turning to Google to power its first big foray into modern... more

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas tell Chris and I to expect more partnerships like the recent one with Yelp; how Perplexity... more

Remember that Apple has quietly made more AI acquisitions than anyone else? They quietly made another one. The FCC has... more

If this TikTok bill is actually going to become law, who would actually be in the running to take it... more

The TikTok legislation has passed the House, but it’s path through the Senate is uncertain to say the least. The... more

More App Store changes from Apple will allow developers to offer apps via their website. In Europe only, of course.... more

Epic got Apple to blink! Sam Altman got back on OpenAI’s board of directors. Reddit finally gets to IPO. Elon... more

Guy Kawasaki shares key insights on how to have a successful career, found in his new book: Think Remarkable. Also,... more

Did TikTok overplay its hand yesterday? The potential legislation against them is suddenly moving quickly. How Temu might be single... more

On the first day of the DMA regime, the whole battle between Apple and Epic Games has gotten hella weird.... more

Apple shows how it is complying with the DMA. We’ve got a Microsoft hardware event coming up. I wonder if... more

The big DMA deadline is mere hours away. A big Twitter related lawsuit has arrived that I kind of can’t... more

The EU Commission has fined Apple for stifling music streaming competition. New Macbook Airs with the M3 chip. Why the... more

Elon is suing Sam Altman and OpenAI. Meta continues to get out of the news business, especially when it’s being... more

The SEC has subpoenaed OpenAI. What if the Vision Pro is selling better than even Apple thought? Beware of the... more

The Apple car project is dead. Really, this time. We think. Google is working to fix Gemini. If you’re using... more

If you can believe it, MOAR layoffs in gaming. Big layoffs at Sony. We might see Meta’s first AR glasses... more

Mobile World Congress kicks off this week, and I bet you can guess what the big theme this year is.... more

Catching you up on the great Substack controversy and who is winning the race to be the new Twitter? Ed's new... more

We have all the details of the Reddit IPO. And Sam Altman of all people makes an appearance in the... more

The most important tech company in the world right now reported earnings yesterday, and they were historic. Stability AI is... more

Signal finally rolls out usernames, but Apple goes one better security-wise, by quantum encrypting iMessage. Weirdly, Apple also launched a... more

Perhaps the biggest law enforcement action against a ransomware gang ever. Once again, you could view other people’s cameras on... more

An interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the future of social media.