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Aug. 5, 2024
Mon. 08/05 – OpenAI Can Detect AI Text But Isn’t Sure It Wants To
Why is OpenAI sitting on technology that could detect AI cheating? Why is Bitcoin so correlated to the stock market? Why is Elon restarting his lawsuit against OpenAI? Why are the Chinese launching a Starlink competitor? And…
Aug. 2, 2024
Fri. 08/02 – Intel Is Bailing Water
So, tech earnings continued to be boring. Apple was fine. Amazon was not quite so fine. And then someone we don’t cover closely really messed the bed. I’ll tell you who. Are we starting to see the first next-generation AI st…
Aug. 1, 2024
Thu. 08/01 – Now Meta’s AI Spending Is Fine?
So I guess Zuck has convinced Wall Street that all the capex spending on AI is fine. How good a business is Tether? A gooooood business. The first arrival of Apple Intelligence is sort of a ho-hum for now. And how sports is …
July 31, 2024
Wed. 07/31 – CapCut Ascendant
Another big pullback of a major AI tool. Microsoft earnings. How CapCut is taking over the creator tools space. Amazon speedy delivery is rolling out to the nooks and crannies of North America. And the startup taking a new r…
July 30, 2024
Tue. 07/30 – A (Mostly) AI Day
Perplexity wants to share ad revenue with publishers. But lots of AI companies are continuing to gamble with scraping. Meta’s new Segment Anything 2 model. AI influencers on Instagram. Canva makes an AI acquisition. And in n…
July 29, 2024
Mon. 07/29 – Big Tech IPO From… Honeywell?
Apple Intelligence might be coming sooner than we dared hope. Might want to check your settings on X. The universe of alt coins is back. A big tech IPO coming from an unexpected source. And is that Galaxy Ring a thing or no?
July 26, 2024
Fri. 07/26 – SearchGPT
OpenAI takes on Google search directly. Another Hollywood style with the same underlying causes. We know absolutely everything about the new Pixel 9 series already. Is WhatsApp finally catching on in the US? And, of course, …
July 25, 2024
Thu. 07/25 – Reddit’s Throwing Elbows Again
Once again, Reddit looks like it’s not worried about upsetting people. New generative search on Bing, new models from Mistral and a new video model from Stability. But did Runway train it’s video models on YouTube videos? We…
July 24, 2024
Wed. 07/24 – Llama 3.1 Bests The “Frontier Models”?
Meta’s Llama 3.1 shows that open models can at least go toe to toe with proprietary AI models. Why did the Google-Wiz deal fall apart? Was the CrowdStrike outage a part of it? Kamala Harris, AI czar? And what do the reviews …
July 23, 2024
Tue. 07/23 – Wiz Turns Down The Money
I try to get my head around the whole Google and third-party cookies thing. Wiz turns down Google’s big money acquisition offer. Spot ether ETFs can begin trading. And why weather prediction might be the first big scientific…
July 22, 2024
Mon. 07/22 – The Big Outage Weekend
Wait, did any news happen this weekend? IT people don’t know about it cause they’re still digging out from the CrowdStrike thing. But why is everybody pointing fingers at Microsoft? Samsung jumps on the Google Messages bandw…
July 19, 2024
Fri. 07/19 – The Big CrowdStrike Outage Explained
The big tech outage caused by a single software update that even my mom is texting me about. The new mini AI models are bring prices down as we hoped. How Netflix completely righted its ship. And, of course, the weekend long…
July 18, 2024
Thu. 07/18 – Crypto Exchange Hacks Are Back
It looks like crypto exchange hacks are back. And so are the North Koreans, I guess. Are the Meta Ray-Bans selling so well Zuck might invest in the Ray-Ban maker? The continuing trend of tech companies withholding products f…
July 17, 2024
Wed. 07/17 – Sorry, More Politics…
Sorry, we gotta do more politics. Can’t avoid it cause now Trump likes TikTok and seemingly hates Mark Zuckerberg. Mistrals two new models. A big Pixel phone leak. And the interesting new “sketch to image” AI tool on the new…
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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.
