Fri 06/28 – The Real King Of All Media Is… YouTube?

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The growing backlash over Perplexity is getting interesting. OpenAI possibly exiting China will be interesting in terms of a massive land grab. AI Al Michaels will deliver personalized Olympics updates for you. And in the Longreads: is the real King of All Media… YouTube?Sponsors:ConstantContact.comLinks:Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse (Wired)OpenAI’s China Block to Reshape AI Scene as Big Players Pounce (Bloomberg)OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI (Wired)An AI version of Al Michaels will deliver Olympic recaps on Peacock (The Verge)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:YouTube dominates streaming, forcing media companies to decide whether it’s friend or foe (CNBC)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Is Uncle Sam about to unload a ton of Bitcoin? AI has helped Google Translate almost double the number of languages it supports. No surprise, but Amazon is gonna take a page out of Temu’s book. Figma’s big redesign. And another way the AI era is rhyming with the DotCom era: the consultants are back.Sponsors:Miro.comLinks:Bitcoin Falls After U.S. Sends $240M Worth of Silk Road-Related BTC to Coinbase (Coindesk)Google Translate is getting support for more than 110 new languages (The Verge)Amazon To Launch Temu-Like Discount Section With Direct Shipping From China (The Information)Amazon Hits $2 Trillion in Value as AI Frenzy Fuels Rally (Bloomberg)Figma announces big redesign with AI (The Verge)Webtoon Entertainment to debut on Nasdaq as latest Korean cultural export success (Financial Times)The A.I. Boom Has an Unlikely Early Winner: Wonky Consultants (NYTimes)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The ChatGPT macOS app is now available for everybody. Google drops continuous scroll for search. Waymo drops the waitlist in San Francisco. Are the AI characters on Character.ai somehow… changed? And is there an eInk phone that I might actually have to try out?Sponsors:Lumen.me/rideLinks:OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac app is now available to everyone (9to5Mac)Google dropping continuous scroll in search results (Search Engine Land)Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco (The Verge)Tech Investor Sean Parker Leads Rescue of Struggling AI Startup (WSJ)‘No Bot is Themselves Anymore:’ Character.ai Users Report Sudden Personality Changes to Chatbots (404 Media)The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn’t even know I wanted (The Verge)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

History is rhyming today as AI music startups get the Napster treatment and Microsoft gets dinged for product bundling. Google wants you to build your own AI celebrity. Amazon wants to go at ChatGPT directly. And two hella-interesting and hella-big AI raises.Sponsors:Miro.comLinks:Major record labels sue AI company behind ‘BBL Drizzy’ (The Verge)EU charges Microsoft with antitrust violations over Teams (FT)Apple Spurned Idea of iPhone AI Partnership With Meta Months Ago (Bloomberg)Uber Is Locking Out NYC Drivers Mid-Shift to Lower Minimum Pay (Bloomberg)Google Develops Challenger to Meta’s Chatbots and Character.AI (The Information)Amazon is secretly working on a ChatGPT killer (Business Insider)Etched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model (TechCrunch)EvolutionaryScale lands $142 mln to advance AI in biology (Reuters)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Could Apple soon owe Europe a ton of money as they are the first to run afoul of the DMA? Could Meta soon join OpenAI as part of Apple Intelligence. Why food delivery apps are seeing plunging usage in NYC and Seattle. And a big new AI focused bill in California that AI startups are worried about.Sponsors:1password.com/rideWashingtonPost.com/rideLinks:Brussels accuses Apple of breaking EU ‘gatekeeper’ rules (FT)Apple is first company charged with violating EU’s DMA rules (The Verge)Apple Won’t Roll Out AI Tech In EU Market Over Regulatory Concerns (Bloomberg)Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership (WSJ)Delivery Drivers Got Higher Wages. Now They’re Getting Fewer Orders. (WSJ)AI Doesn’t Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers (WSJ)‘Little Tech’ brings a big flex to Sacramento (Politico)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The government has banned Kaspersky antivirus sales in the US. People are losing their minds over Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic. Soon all devices can pair to your iPhone as easily as AirPods do. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.Links:US bans sale of Kaspersky software citing security risk from Russia (TechCrunch)Anthropic claims its latest model is best-in-class (TechCrunch)Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet wows AI power users: ‘this is wild’ (VentureBeat)New iOS 18 API brings AirPods setup experience to third-party accessories (9to5Mac)SpaceX unveils backpack-sized ‘Starlink Mini’ satellite internet antenna for $599 (CNBC)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:Why are mobile game ads so weird and bad? (Sherwood)From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction (ArsTechnica)The song Stevie Nicks wrote to “haunt” Lindsey Buckingham (Far Out)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ilya Sutskever wants to go straight to Safe Superintelligence, do not pass go, but do probably collect hundreds of millions of dollars. Is Perplexity ignoring robots.txt files? Xreal’s hybrid AR glasses play. And how many apps did Apple sherlock at WWDC last week?Sponsors:GreenLight.com/rideLinks:Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Safe Superintelligence (Bloomberg)Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (Wired)For Apple’s AI Push, China Is a Missing Piece (WSJ)Xreal’s new gadget is a phone-sized Android tablet just for your AR glasses (The Verge)iOS 18 could ‘sherlock’ $400M in app revenue (TechCrunch)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Does Apple pumping the breaks on the Vision Pro indicate problems for the category, or was this always the plan? What if AI means bots do the social media-ing for you? Actual RISC-V PCs coming to market. And a review of the new slate of CoPilot+ PCs that are available now.Links:Apple Suspends Work on Next Vision Pro, Focused on Releasing Cheaper Model in Late 2025 (The Information)Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist (TechCrunch)The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops (The Verge)Here are all of the Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X chips that were released today (Engadget)ASUS VivoBook S 15 Copilot+ PC Review: Is the Snapdragon X Elite hype real? (Windows Central)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The regulators have come for adobe and their alleged subscription shenanigans. Apple might settle with the EU. But it’s also shutting down its BNPL service. The Threads API is here. Tether is making bank. Uber might be having a breakthrough moment. And back to using Reddit for search.Sponsors:A Better Paradise PodcastLinks:US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel (The Verge)Apple to settle ‘tap-and-go’ payments probe with EU (FT)Apple discontinuing Apple Pay Later, ahead of new features launching this fall (9to5Mac)Threads finally launches its API for developers (TechCrunch)Tether Announces a New Synthetic Dollar That Is Backed by Gold (Bloomberg)A Robotaxi Business Is A Dream For Elon Musk–But Already A Reality For Waymo (Forbes)Can You Replace Google Search With Reddit? I Tried It for a Week (WSJ)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.