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Sept. 11, 2024
Wed. 09/11 – Mistral Goes Multimodel; And An AI Model Mystery
Mistral goes multimodal for the first time. Meta admits to scraping the data of every adult Australian. The details on the new PS5 Pro. Wouldn’t it be wild if, through stablecoins, crypto BECOMES the banking system instead o…
Sept. 10, 2024
Tue. 09/10 – Strawberries In 2 Weeks?
Apple loses its longest standing regulatory battle in the EU. Some drips and drabs from yesterday’s iPhone event. Would a phone you can fold three times be more enticing than a phone that folds two times? And are we about to…
Sept. 9, 2024
Mon. 09/09 – The iPhone 16 Event
All the headlines from today’s iPhone event. It IS interesting the degree to which Elon’s various businesses have potential synergy. The Times digs into the content on Telegram and says, it ain’t pretty. And e-bikes seem to …
Sept. 6, 2024
Fri. 09/06 – Telegram Blinks.
Pavel Durov speaks, and Telegram blinks, both for the first time since the French arrest. Are XR glasses tethered to smartphones the next big product category? What if your smartphone could cure your vision problems? And in …
Sept. 5, 2024
Thu. 09/05 – The DOJ Takes Down An Election Influence Campaign
The DOJ says it has taken down a big election influence campaign allegedly directed by Russia. The Internet Archive loses a big case. Android 15 is here. And two really interesting new gadgets, one I probably need to buy and…
Sept. 4, 2024
Wed. 09/04 – Elon Blinks In Brazil
SpaceX has agreed to block access to X, in Brazil, on Starlink. Looks like YubiKeys are hackable. Who is the mystery platform looking to expand AI datacenters at an historic scale? And the Catch 22 that Intel is in. They nee…
Sept. 3, 2024
Tue. 09/03 – The X Ban In Brazil
We missed a pretty big story this weekend. X getting banned in Brazil. I’ll try to catch you up on all the contours of this. Canva’s raising prices and it’s pissing people off because, I mean, they are REALLY raising prices.…
Aug. 30, 2024
Fri. 08/30 – Who ISN’T Investing In OpenAI?
At this point it would be quicker to name the big tech company that’s NOT investing in OpenAI’s latest round. Amazon’s new Alexa service is just going to be Anthropic’s Claude in drag disguise I guess. I’m starting to get re…
Aug. 29, 2024
Thu. 08/29 – Nvidia Earnings… Are Ok…
Nvidia’s earnings were huge but because they didn’t manage to beat the biggest expectations out there, it’s kind of a miss? Pavel Durov has been formally charged by France. Does TikTok fall outside of Section 230 protection?…
Aug. 28, 2024
Wed. 08/28 – Strawberry Emoji
I explain why everyone has been posting strawberries in AI circles. It’s cause of a potential new breakthrough at OpenAI. Cerebras launches the first new AI chip competition to Nvidia. China has reportedly burrowed into US I…
Aug. 27, 2024
Tue. 08/27 – More On Pavel Durov
As more details come out about the arrest of the founder of Telegram, a deeper look at Pavel Durov himself. We have the date of the iPhone event. We have a new record gaming number from Steam. And are Apple’s experiment with…
Aug. 26, 2024
Mon. 08/26 – Telegram CEO Arrested
French authorities have arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. Chinese tech companies are spending like crazy on AI too, btw. What are the smart glasses and VR gear Meta is poised to give us next month? And Nvidia might make you…
Aug. 24, 2024
(BNS) The Crowdstrike Thing (With Overmind.tech)
Breaking down the Crowdstrike outage with Overmind.tech
Aug. 23, 2024
Fri. 08/23 – The Bolt Saga
Microsoft deprecating a feature that it launched back in 1985. There’s a pretty big loophole that is still letting China use H100 chips. The weird saga evolving over at Bolt. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Brian McCullough
Host, Techmeme Ride Home
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.
