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(Bonus) BlueSky CEO Jay Graber Feb 19, 2024

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

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Fri. 02/16 – Sora Brings Text To Video AI To Life Feb 16, 2024

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Huge watershed reveal of OpenAI’s Sora, its first text-to-video model, which can create up to a minute of 1080p video. We used to have a Today In Elon segment. We’re close to needing a Today In Sam Altman one. Increasing signs the Crypto winter is ending. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

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OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model (The Verge)
OpenAI’s Sora Turns AI Prompts Into Photorealistic Videos (Wired)
OpenAI’s newest model Sora can generate videos — and they look decent (TechCrunch)
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Seeks US Blessing to Raise Billions for AI Chips (Bloomberg)
Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund (Axios)
Crypto exits remain low but investors remain unfazed (TechCrunch)
Crypto venture funding climbs for first time in nearly 2 years after bitcoin’s stellar run (CNBC)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

The fediverse, explained (The Verge)
How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix (RestOfWorld)

Thu. 02/15 – We Already Have Gemini 1.5! Feb 15, 2024

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Google’s moving fast. They’ve already launched Gemini 1.5. An EU court rules breaking encryption violates human rights. Why social media is flooded with posts of users returning their Apple Vision Pros. And more proof that the AI moment is making Nvidia one of the most powerful tech companies in the world.

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Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready (The Verge)
Google’s new Gemini model can analyze an hour-long video — but few people can use it (TechCrunch)
Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (Ars Technica)
People are returning Vision Pro in droves … or are they? (Cult of Mac)
OpenAI Develops Web Search Product in Challenge to Google (The Information)
ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like (The Verge)
What comes after Stable Diffusion? Stable Cascade could be Stability AI’s future text-to-image generative AI model (VentureBeat)
Nvidia Overtakes Alphabet, One Day After Eclipsing Amazon (Bloomberg)

Wed. 02/14 – Zuck Has His Own Social Media Post About The Vision Pro Feb 14, 2024

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Even Mark Zuckerberg is posting about the Apple Vision Pro. In short: he’s not impressed. Walmart might buy a smart TV maker for the ads. Y Combinator has a new list of the type of startups it wants to see. Maybe don’t give all your secrets to those AI “girlfriend” bots. And why you might have a hard time getting an Uber after your Valentine’s Day dinner tonight.

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After trying the Vision Pro, Mark Zuckerberg says Quest 3 ‘is the better product, period’ (The Verge)
Walmart in Talks to Buy TV Maker Vizio (WSJ)
Walmart Eyeing Deal to Buy Vizio for More Than $2 Billion: Report (Variety)
Y Combinator Seeks Startups in Robotics, Space and Defense (Bloomberg)
OpenAI Researcher Andrej Karpathy Departs (The Information)
Apple’s Longest-Serving Designer to Depart Company, Adding to Exodus (Bloomberg)
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show (Gizmodo)
Uber, Lyft drivers to strike on Valentine’s Day over pay (Washington Post)

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Tue. 02/13 – Why Microsoft’s Xbox Strategy Shift Is A Big Deal Feb 13, 2024

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Threads gets “today’s topics.” iMessage and Bing dodge EU DMA regulation. Why Temu bought a bunch of SuperBowl ads. Nvidia’s Chat with RTX lets you run your own ChatGPT right on your Windows machine. And why Microsoft’s forthcoming Xbox strategy shift is potentially such a big deal.

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In battle with X, Threads gets trending topics where politics will be allowed (TechCrunch)
Apple iMessage, Microsoft Bing Dodge EU’s Big Tech Crackdown (Bloomberg)
Temu Spent Millions on Six Super Bowl Ads as It Tries to Win Back US Shoppers (Bloomberg)
The unsettling scourge of obituary spam (The Verge)
Chat With RTX brings custom local chatbots to Nvidia AI PCs (VentureBeat)
NVIDIA's New AI Chatbot Relies On Local Files, Not the Cloud (HowToGeek)
Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC (The Verge)
Microsoft prepares to take Xbox everywhere (The Verge)

Mon. 02/12 – Luddite Riots? Feb 12, 2024

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Is actual neo-ludditeism going to become a thing, as some people have predicted? Google reveals the strength of its subscription businesses. A review of Google’s Gemini. Bluesky is open and doing some interesting things. And what about the strategic position Snap suddenly finds itself in?

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A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (The Verge)
Google One hits 100 million subscribers (The Verge)
Google’s Gemini assistant is a fantastic and frustrating glimpse of the AI future (The Verge)
ASML's next chip challenge: rollout of its new $350 mln 'High NA EUV' machine (Reuters)
Meta turns its back on politics again, angering some news creators (Washington Post)
Bluesky Opens Up (TechDirt)
It’s Snap versus the world (The Verge)

Fri. 02/09 – Sam Altman Wants To Raise $5 Trillion Dollars. With a T. Feb 09, 2024

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Sam Altman wants to raise more money for his chip ambitions than the entire semiconductor industry. The Feds might put the breaks on Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision… again. Is Ring raising its subscription doorbell prices too much? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
AI Just Discovered 'Unreadable' Ancient Scrolls (National Geographic)

Thu. 02/08 – Google Releases Gemini Ultra 1.0 Feb 08, 2024

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Google has released Gemini Ultra 1.0, renamed Bard as Gemini and looks to be replacing Google Assistant with Gemini. Disney has invested in a big stake of Epic Games to get at Fortnite IP. Leaked images of the Pixel Fold 2. And what if OpenAI is facing the same strategic dilemma that Mark Zuckerberg was never able to overcome?

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Google’s AI now goes by a new name: Gemini (The Verge)
Google Assistant Just Got Supercharged With AI. It Might Be the Biggest Update in Google's History. (Gizmodo)
Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King (Wired)
Google Joins Effort to Help Spot Content Made With A.I. (NYTimes)
Disney to take $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, work with Fortnite maker on new content (CNBC)
China had "persistent" access to U.S. critical infrastructure (Axios)
Exclusive: This could be the Google Pixel Fold 2 (Android Authority)
OpenAI Shifts AI Battleground to Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks (The Information)

Wed. 02/07 – AI Watermarks And New Apple AI Models Feb 07, 2024

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OpenAI is adding watermarks to Dall-E 3 images. A new AI model from Apple. A new open source model that is king of the LLM hill. More rumors of a foldable iPhone. A new streaming service that will be like Hulu but for sports. And the specific words and phrases that will get your college application essay flagged as being AI-generated.

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OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3 (The Verge)
Apple Develops a Foldable Clamshell iPhone (The Information)
ESPN, Fox and Warner Team Up to Create Sports Streaming Platform (WSJ)
Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing (VentureBeat)
Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI (VentureBeat)
Did You Use ChatGPT On Your School Applications? These Words May Tip Off Admissions (Forbes)

Tue. 02/06 – Don’t Forget Your Vision Pro Password! Feb 06, 2024

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Don’t forget your Vision Pro password, or else you’re going to have to return it to the Apple Store to use it again. Why are the gaming platforms willing to play nice all of the sudden? The AI that can spit out fake IDs in seconds. Does Google owe you yet more money? And more signs the tech recession is over.

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Forgot Your Apple Vision Pro’s Passcode? You May Have to Take It Back to Store (Bloomberg)
YouTube says a Vision Pro app is ‘on the roadmap’ (The Verge)
Microsoft to share details on bringing Xbox games to PlayStation next week (The Verge)
Roblox rolls out real-time AI translation for all users — is this the start of true global multiplayer? (Tom's Guide)
Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs (404Media)
Google agrees to pay $350 million settlement in data privacy case (Washington Post)
Digital ad market shows signs of sharp rebound as Meta, Amazon point to growth (CNBC)

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