Warner Bros' loss of Michael Mann's sequel is Amazon's gain...| Spyglass
OpenAI Hardware • OpenAI's Windows Play • OpenAI's DevDay • Instagram's Ring Thing • Paramount Buys The Free Press • The MPA Fires Shots at Sora • Supreme Court Declines Google's Emergency Halt| Spyglass
Why Sora's Slop Works • OpenAI & AMD • Succession Tea Leaves at Apple • Succession Tea Leaves at Disney • Taylor Swift's Commercial Beats the Box Office • Bezos on Bubbles • Anthropic, the 'Anti-OpenAI'| Spyglass
Obvious challenges aside, it's starting to come into focus...| Spyglass
It’s about creative comedy creation, stupid| Spyglass
Apple's Vision Pro Correction • TikTok's American Dream • Sora Hits #1 • AI Team Turbulence Continues at Meta • Thinking Machines Lab First Product • Instagram's Threads Communities • Perplexity's Browser Goes Free| Spyglass
Sora Soars in Debut • Google's Gemini Home Event • Meta to Use AI Conversations to Target Ads • OpenAI Staff Grapples with Sora • Amazon's Gaming Strategy| Spyglass
By fully shifting focus to smart glasses...| Spyglass
Another viral product hit for OpenAI, this time in video...| Spyglass
Alexa+'s Curve • Apple & Intel • Amazon's 2025 Hardware Event • Apple's Leaky Product Pipelines • Apple Testing a ChatGPT-Like App • The Free TV with Always-On Ads • YouTube Pays Off President Trump| Spyglass
Hopefully new devices bring a better version, because Alexa+ sounds like a miss for Amazon thus far...| Spyglass
Europe is *finally* thinking about how to un-ruin their internet...| Spyglass
'One Battle After Another' is by all accounts fantastic. The marketing hasn't been.| Spyglass
Perhaps not that mysterious, maybe more circular...| Spyglass
A trip to the Scottish Highlands with a very orange iPhone 17 Pro Max (and Apple Watch Ultra 3 and AirPods Pro 3)...| Spyglass
Meta's Media AI Play • Kimmel Tick-Tock • Apple Injecting Talent into OpenAI • Google Injecting Gemini into Chrome • Prime Video Adding 'The Masters' • Optimus vs. the Global Economy| Spyglass
Meta Ray-Ban Display • Zuck on Glasses • NVIDIA's Investment in Intel • Jimmy Kimmel No Longer Live • Face-On Report with the AI Glasses| Spyglass
They're trying to back AI and Smart Glasses into the 'Metaverse'...| Spyglass
AI Safety • AI Settlements • RIP Robert Redford • The TikTok Deal • The iPhone Air Flop? • A Touchscreen MacBook? • Spies & Scotch & Martinis| Spyglass
A refocusing on design and hardware might be a good sign...| Spyglass
TikTok Everlasting • Public Company Quarterly Reporting • How People Are Using ChatGPT • How People Are Using Claude • John Malone Keeps Talking • Nintendo Virtual Boy Lives!| Spyglass
With Ray-Ban, they can keep the pressure on in the 'smart glasses' space as it shifts back to screens...| Spyglass
iPhone Air: Will it Bend? • OpenAI's $350B Problem • 'Demon' Box Office • Publishers Suing Google Over AI • Gemini Tops App Store Charts • Emmy Winners & Losers • The Tik Keeps Toking...| Spyglass
Paramount Skydance + WBD • Techmeme at 20 • The Ozempic iPhone • Larry Ellison Riding the AI Wave • A Protocol for AI Data Licensing • No AirPods Translation in the EU • MountDance WarBroDisco| Spyglass
An important step – but one of many – as they clearly try to race towards PBC conversion...| Spyglass
One good idea, so many names...| Spyglass
KPop, Sony, & Netflix • iPhone Strap • AI Resumes • Amazon's AR Glasses • Meta's AI Unit Sparks Tensions • Rise of Small Language Models • Crypto Holding Firms Struggle • 'Good Will Hunting' with Guns| Spyglass
A special edition of Spyglass Signal today, as I furiously try to catch up on every little nook and cranny of Apple news hidden in yesterday's iPhone event. And, of course, I wrote 2,000-ish words covering my own high-level thoughts about the event, the announcements, the products,| Spyglass
Some no-brainer upgrades to AirPods, Apple Watch, and iPhone...| Spyglass
Antitrust Victory Laps • OpenAI/Statsig • French Studio/Theater Deal • Anthropic's Round • Tesla's New 'Master Plan' • Gemini's Home Plan • More Apple AI Defections • Super Massive AI Data Centers| Spyglass
Standing Ovations • A Streaming Aggregator • Quantum Computer Race • The Atlantic Envy • Doing Things Early • Rising AI Costs • Sam Altman Speaks • YouTube Sportscasters • Walmart Streaming Options • Cracker Barrel Logo!| Spyglass
Netflix just had the number one movie at the box office – yes, Netflix.| Spyglass
Just a few of the ways Bill Atkinson changed computing at Apple...| Spyglass
The open weight model is important but also a bit subversive...| Spyglass
The anthropomorphized Copilot is interesting – in ways good and bad.| Spyglass
There was one key partnership to make the new ESPN streaming service a must-have on day one...| Spyglass
The message sent by the end of 'The Late Show' was obviously always going to be political even if it was driven by financial reasons...| Spyglass
...and that's great news for xAI, Meta, and maybe Apple!| Spyglass
A rough few weeks may signal some real talent trouble for OpenAI – at the worst possible time| Spyglass
7 from OpenAI, 2 from Google, 1 from Anthropic, 1 from Sesame... But just as interesting, what's *not* mentioned.| Spyglass
As predicted, Apple may outsource Siri to ChatGPT (or Claude)!| Spyglass
The writing isn't just on the wall for Llama, it's on the new paychecks...| Spyglass
Exaggeration, conflation, a game of Telephone, directional accuracy, brinksmanship, or all of the above?| Spyglass
Elon Musk backing out of Oracle's project opened the datacenter door to OpenAI...| Spyglass
OpenAI, Microsoft, SoftBank, Oracle, Trump, MGX, ARM, and NVIDIA all get double-dip wins in the announcement| Spyglass
OpenAI's shift to a for-profit is messy, complicated, conflicted, and yet necessary| Spyglass
Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account, clearing path for Epic Games Store on iPhone - 9to5MacAfter a whirlwind of events, Epic Games says Apple has reinstated their App Store developer account. The move clears the…9to5MacZac Hall Well, someone got to Apple. Either it was the EU or, perhaps| Spyglass
The EU Commission Fines Apple €1.8B for Stifling Music Competition iPhone maker hit by first-ever Brussels fine as competition watchdogs step up scrutiny of Big Tech Techmeme Various Another day, another EU v. Apple situation. This fine, while more than triple what was expected, is not what matters here.| Spyglass
Apple Ponders Whether to Develop Smart Glasses, Fitness RingApple has explored the idea of developing new wearable devices — including a fitness ring, smart glasses and even AirPods with cameras — to broaden one of its most important business areas. Also: Hear the latest on a HomePod with a screen, Apple’s| Spyglass
Over Half of Vision Pro-Only Apps are Paid Downloads Some promising early data from the Vision Pro App Store.... TechCrunch Sarah Perez Well this is sort of interesting: Apple’s Vision Pro offers consumers a new way to interact with apps via spatial computing, but it also offers app developers| Spyglass
The Apple Vision Pro Reviews Techmeme's collection of the reviews... Techmeme Roundup Okay, I've read most of the initial wave of Vision Pro reviews now – and watched a number of them on YouTube! I feel like I have a good sense of the takeaways. And I feel like those are| Spyglass
Happy Vision Pro Week to those who celebrate. The device ships on Friday.1 But we can expect the first official reviews to drop tomorrow. Those will be an interesting read for sure. Normally, reviews of Apple products are entirely predictable. This is not a knock on anyone who does| Spyglass
Apple’s Proposed Changes Reject the Goals of the DMA For almost five years – 1,782 days – we have been asking the European Commission to take action against Apple... Spotify For the Record Last week, immediately after Apple published their proposed changes to iOS and the App Store ahead of| Spyglass
Earlier today, I laid out why I thought Apple might end up taunting the EU with any changes they implement to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) laws set to take effect in March. And after a roughly 30 minute honeymoon period when folks thought Apple may actually be| Spyglass
