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The famous frenemies seems awfully aligned again...| Spyglass
Instagram for iPad • AI Beyond Transformers • The Sphere Movies Are Not Movies • Google TPUs vs. NVIDIA • ReMarkable's New Note-Taking Tablet • Atlassian Buys The Browser Company • The Sexy Celeb AI Bot Epidemic • Bond, Young Bond| Spyglass
The iPad app – 15 years in the making – makes the priorities clear...| 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
Chrome stays. Payments stay. Exclusive placement goes. Some Search data goes.| 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
There is no known cure...| Spyglass
Zuckerberg & Trump • OpenAI Breaking ChatGPT • John Malone PR Tour • Meta's Bad Bots • Meta Outsourcing Their AI • Meta's Scale Situation • Big Short Back?| Spyglass
It's less than I thought, but still completely untenable...| Spyglass
A conversation about Google, Apple, AI, AGI, and everything in between...| Spyglass
Will they do a big AI deal? Should they?| Spyglass
As the remedies loom, AI is top of mind...| Spyglass
An interesting dilemma coming soon to iPhone users: choice.| 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
Apple is right not to rush headlong into generative AIOne day the Vision Pro could exploit the technology to the fullThe EconomistThe Economist It feels like The Economist hits all the right points in this clapback on the current wave of Apple backlash: In short, with its market value down| 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
