Category Archives: Tech News

on a weekly level, 43% of consumers used Spotify and 16% turned to Apple (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity [...]

08
Nov
Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to establish a Europe-led satellite constellation, operated out of Germany, to provide satellite-to-smartphone connectivity (Reuters)

Featured Podcasts Hard Fork: We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT The future [...]

07
Nov
Google says Ironwood, its seventh-gen TPU, will launch in the coming weeks and is more than 4x faster than its sixth-gen TPU; it comes in a 9,216-chip config (CNBC)

Featured Podcasts Great Chat: Tech is getting more political—should you? A podcast mostly about tech. [...]

06
Nov
Letter: the MPA sent a cease-and-desist to Meta over Instagram's use of PG-13 for teen content restrictions, calling it "literally false and highly misleading" (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: Letter: the MPA sent a cease-and-desist to Meta over [...]

05
Nov
A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)

Featured Podcasts Invest Like the Best: Luca Ferrari – Building Bending Spoons The leading destination [...]

04
Nov
in a deposition, Ilya Sutskever documented significant internal conflicts at OpenAI prior to Sam Altman’s firing and discusses his OpenAI exit (Rocket Drew/The Information)

Featured Podcasts Grit: Rebuilding Front for the AI Era | CEO Dan O’Connell Grit explores [...]

03
Nov
AI browsers can bypass some paywalls; OpenAI’s Atlas seems to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, providing summaries or alternate reporting instead (Columbia Journalism Review)

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show With John Gruber: ‘Meat Bags’, With Brian Mueller The director’s [...]

02
Nov
MediaTek says it is on track to generate $1B in revenue from its data center AI accelerator ASIC chips in 2026, after reporting Q3 revenue up 7.8% YoY to $4.64B (Reuters)

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show With John Gruber: ‘Meat Bags’, With Brian Mueller The director’s [...]

01
Nov
Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools; GETY jumps 55%+ (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

Kritika Lamba / Reuters: Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the [...]

31
Oct
WhatsApp launches passkey-encrypted backups for iOS and Android, letting users encrypt their stored message history using their face, fingerprint, or a code (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: WhatsApp launches passkey-encrypted backups for iOS and Android, letting users [...]

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Oct