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The day's tech news, every day at 5pm. From Techmeme.com, Silicon Valley's most-read news source. 15 minutes and you're up to date.
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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, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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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 might have a smoking gun. But what if the dream of synthetic data for AI training is a mirage?
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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 of the recent Samsung foldable phones say to us about those Apple foldable phone rumors?
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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 breakthrough of this AI era.
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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 bandwagon. Japan wants AI startups. And what do you do when you need 22 thousand football player avatars real quick? AI of course!
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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 longreads suggestions.
Customer Reviews
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A great summary of the day’s tech news, giving context where needed, and adding just the right amount of personal opinion and insight.
I have a subscription, which is well worth it to know I’m supporting the podcast, even though I’m not interested in the bonus episodes.
Solid for daily recaps only
The 15 min daily ‘macro’ update on tech-related news is great. Anything beyond headline news in the daily pod is a huge stretch for the host that extends beyond the scope of his SV bubble. Also desperately wants Twitter to not exist so any relative news is lol bias.
Update: host has shown his hand that he will be filling your ears with Kamala propaganda this election season
Awesome!
Brian does a phenomenal job with his research and sharing important insights for today’s tech news. I always look forward to each episode. Highly recommend!