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Recent Episodes of Techmeme Ride Home
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 the longreads, if Waymo is about to scale, what, exactly, is the business model, long-term?
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Pavel Durov: Telegram founder says France arrest is ‘misguided’ (The Guardian)Exclusive: Qualcomm explores acquiring pieces of Intel chip-design business (Reuters)Qualcomm says it’s working on mixed reality smart glasses with Samsung and Google (CNBC)Review: Honor Magic V3 (Wired)Exclusive: Honor's latest dev...Episode • 6 September 2024 • 18m and 4s
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 one I want to buy but probably won’t.
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Biden administration announces major actions to tackle Russian efforts to influence 2024 election (CNN)The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case (Wired)Android 15 will be available on supported Pixel devices in the coming weeks (TechCrunch)DJ...Episode • 5 September 2024 • 15m and 57s
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 need CHIPS Act money, but can their troubles mean the CHIPS Act money shouldn’t be spent on them?
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Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator (Reuters)No X in Brazil? No problem, Brazilians say. (Washington Post)Microsoft to announce ‘next phase...Episode • 4 September 2024 • 16m and 16s
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. And the two pretty big success stories in crypto this year that we haven’t spoken about yet.
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Brazil’s Most Powerful Judge Is in the Spotlight—Again (Americas Quarterly)How Brazil’s Experiment Fighting Fake News Led to a Ban on X (NYTi...Episode • 3 September 2024 • 17m and 24s
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 really worried about Intel y’all. And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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OpenAI Funding Round Tempts Nvidia as Big Tech Leans on ChatGPT (Bloomberg)Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (WSJ)Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp (Reuters)ChatGPT’s weekly users have doubled in l...Episode • 30 August 2024 • 17m and 20s
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? And it seems like the effort by the car companies to wean themselves off of smartphone tech is… not going great.
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Nvidia’s CEO Says New Chip Will Have ‘Lots and Lots’ of Supply (Bloomberg)Telegram CEO Charged in France for Crimes Committed on His App (Bloomberg)TikTok must face lawsuit over 10-year-old girl's death, US court rules (R...Episode • 29 August 2024 • 16m and 57s
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 ISPs. And continuing interesting details pouring out of that Pavel Durov situation.
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OpenAI Shows ‘Strawberry’ AI to the Feds and Uses It to Develop ‘Orion’ (The Information)OpenAI Races to Launch ‘Strawberry’ Reasoning AI to Boost Chatbot Business (The Information)Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fast...Episode • 28 August 2024 • 16m and 56s
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 big budget Hollywood movies losing them bucket loads of money?
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Telegram Founder’s Arrest Part of Broad Investigation, French Prosecutors Say (NYTimes)Macron loves Telegram. French judges hate it. (Politico)How Telegram’s Founder Went From Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg to Wanted Man...Episode • 27 August 2024 • 16m and 22s
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 rich, but it still seems like a bear of a place to work at.
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Telegram CEO Held Over Alleged Child Protection Failures on App (Bloomberg)Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France (Reuters)Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? (Matthew Green)China’s tech giant...Episode • 26 August 2024 • 15m and 54s
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