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Where is all the creativity and breakthroughs now when we have supercomputers in our pockets?
Marc Andreessen — Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin — Overcast
A-players and the Bozo effect
”Hundreds of thousands of ordinary apps, including popular ones such as 9gag, Kik, and a series of caller ID apps, are part of a global surveillance capability that starts with ads inside each app, and ends with the apps’ users being swept up into a powerful mass monitoring tool advertised to national security agencies that can track the physical location, hobbies, and family members of people to build billions of profiles”
404 Media
Inside a Global Phone Spy Tool Monitoring Billions
A wide-spanning investigation by 404 Media reveals more details about a secretive spy tool that can tracks billions of phone profiles through the a...
”OpenAI’s reports to US tax authorities have from its founding said that any member of the public can review copies of its governing documents, financial statements, and conflict of interest rules”
WIRED
OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public
From its founding, OpenAI said its governing documents were available to the public. When WIRED requested copies after the company’s boardroom dr...
How the Spotify app will look in a few months in the EU with Apple’s restrictions to in-app purchases lifted
Spotify
The DMA Means a Better Spotify for Artists, Creators, and You — Spotify
What’s one of the top complaints about Spotify? It’s actually something that until now has been outside of our control: the ability to seamless...
”…its unit costs leave considerable margins to spend on some AI processing it outsources, like understanding user intention via ChatGPT. (Their own analysis finds the heaviest users would run about $15/month in billings to OpenAI, which Rabbit will cover.)…
If Rabbit were simply an app, Apple could see his code, which Lyu feels would equate to sharing his company’s IP.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/91013196/how-design-drove-10m-in-pre-orders-for-rabbit-r1-ai-hardware
”The car will use what is known as a Level 2+ system, the people said. That’s a downgrade from previously planned Level 4 technology — and, before that, even more ambitious aims for a Level 5 system.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-23/apple-car-ev-set-to-debut-in-2028-with-limited-autonomous-driving
”Satellite-to-smartphone technology is generally seen as a supplement to cellular networks in hard-to-reach areas…
In September 2023, AST SpaceMobile said it made "the first-ever 5G connection for voice and data between an everyday, unmodified smartphone and a satellite in space" and that it achieved a download rate of 14Mbps.”
Ars Technica
Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service
AST SpaceMobile gets $206.5 million and is partnering with Google and AT&T.
”Nowadays, many are wondering what happened to Russia and how to solve it. Let me explain to you that nothing happened to Russia. You are witnessing “normal” Russia. Russia has always been like this and will remain so as long as Russia is Russia.”
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/a-letter-from-a-russian-friend/
What would be today’s version of this?
Hard to imagine Apple doing anything like that.
The Apple Vision Pro’s Missing Apps – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
And, Poland is in Nato.
”The UK has become the world’s biggest insurer of shipborne Russian oil, and that the Russian oil trade “remains highly reliant on vessels insured in the UK”, which have transported a third of Russia’s ocean-going energy exports (by volume) since sanctions were imposed at the end of 2022.”
New Statesman
Revealed: how the City of London keeps Putin’s oil flowing
The Russian war machine is being helped by British companies.
”Ukraine will still manage to keep Putin at bay, he predicted, and has already proved that “the whole legend of [Russia’s] power is a soap bubble”.
Kyrylo Budanov: the Ukrainian military spy chief who ‘likes the darkness’
General who has survived 10 assassination attempts keeps Russia guessing about his directorate’s reach and abilities
”Microsoft didn’t detect the breach until January 12, exactly a week before Friday’s disclosure. Microsoft's account raises the prospect that the Russian hackers had uninterrupted access to the accounts for as long as two months.”
Ars Technica
Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russia-state hackers
Senior execs' emails accessed in network breach that wasn't caught for 2 months.
Is Rabbit the new Raspberry Pi?
”Perplexity will be providing up-to-date search results via Rabbit's $199 orange brick — without the need of any subscription”
Engadget
The Rabbit R1 will offer up-to-date answers powered by Perplexity's AI
The Rabbit R1 AI device will offer up-to-date answers powered by Perplexity.
”We're currently training our next-gen model Llama 3, and we're building massive compute infrastructure to support our future roadmap, including 350k H100s by the end of this year -- and overall almost 600k H100s equivalents of compute if you include other GPUs.”
https://venturebeat.com/ai/meta-is-all-in-on-open-source-agi-says-zuckerberg/
Is the coder the new plumber?
You know how stuff works, and you can build things.
The rest ask AI to do something.
”On average, more than 2,000 companies shared data with Meta about each participant, with some volunteers' data being shared by more than 7,000 companies. ”
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-privacy-consumer-reports-study-tracking