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Maybe You Can't Just Throw Money at AI

Maybe You Can't Just Throw Money at AI

Fixing the Windows in a Broken Home

Fixing the Windows in a Broken Home

Microsoft Steals a Stargate

Microsoft Steals a Stargate

Apple's Hail Mary, Anthropic's Savior

Apple's Hail Mary, Anthropic's Savior

Apple is Writing Product Checks That Siri Can't Cash

Apple is Writing Product Checks That Siri Can't Cash

The Lobster

When Knees Buckle, then Bend, then Break

When Knees Buckle, then Bend, then Break

The Death of the 30% Cut

The Death of the 30% Cut

MacBook Neo: Whoa

MacBook Neo: Whoa

There Are Signs...

There Are Signs...

AI Am Become Death

AI Am Become Death

Increasingly, Big Tech Owns Big AI

Increasingly, Big Tech Owns Big AI

TUDUMB

Apple is About to Have *Two* Toaster/Fridge Hybrids

Apple is About to Have Two Toaster/Fridge Hybrids

Tasty AI

Exbox

NVIDIA Inside

Can OpenAI Build Alexa Before Amazon Can Build ChatGPT?

Can OpenAI Build Alexa Before Amazon Can Build ChatGPT?

Apple's Next Big Thing: the iPhone

Apple's Next Big Thing: the iPhone

DeepSeek 2: The Movie

DeepSeek 2: The Movie

I Am the Great Glassholio!

I Am the Great Glassholio!

Apple Cannot Be Sirious

Apple Cannot Be Sirious

Love It If We Made It

Love It If We Made It

It's The Thought That Counts

It's The Thought That Counts

Sometimes It's Too Slow

Sometimes It's Too Slow

Wall Street Starts to Turn on AI

Wall Street Starts to Turn on AI

Alexa+ Plus ChatGPT?

Alexa+ Plus ChatGPT?

Space Twitter!

My 2026 iPhone Homescreen

My 2026 iPhone Homescreen

NVIDIA and the Case of the Missing $100B OpenAI Investment

NVIDIA and the Case of the Missing $100B OpenAI Investment

Where the Wild Bots Are

Where the Wild Bots Are

Meta Bets the Farm, Apple Milks the Cows

Meta Bets the Farm, Apple Milks the Cows

The Anyone-But-Google AI Alliance

The Anyone-But-Google AI Alliance

Apple's Dark Knight

Apple's Dark Knight

DeepSought

Aside From That, Mr. Cook, What Did You Think of the Movie?

Aside From That, Mr. Cook, What Did You Think of the Movie?

The Clock Starts for Star Wars: Episode X

The Clock Starts for Star Wars: Episode X

Apple's Twin Suns

Apple's Twin Suns

Pinning Hopes on New AI Hardware – Again – Even Apple

Pinning Hopes on New AI Hardware – Again – Even Apple

An Actual AiPhone

An Actual AiPhone

Make TVs Great Again

Make TVs Great Again

Hollywood Cuts Off Its Future to Spite Its Present

Hollywood Cuts Off Its Future to Spite Its Present

My Boy's Wicked Smart on AI

My Boy's Wicked Smart on AI

Will OpenAI Ads Click with Users?

Will OpenAI Ads Click with Users?

AI's Perception Problems

AI's Perception Problems

The Vision Pro Slam Dunk

The Vision Pro Slam Dunk

"Hello, Computer."

"Hello, Computer."

And the Winner of Apple's Great AI Bakeoff is... Google

And the Winner of Apple's Great AI Bakeoff is... Google

AI Needs Its Steve Jobs

AI Needs Its Steve Jobs

The "AI-Generated Hit Movie" Horror Story

The "AI-Generated Hit Movie" Horror Story

The Incredible Valuation Heights of the OpenAI "Constellations"

The Incredible Valuation Heights of the OpenAI "Constellations"

Gmail's First Lunge Towards Stabbing Email to Death with AI

Gmail's First Lunge Towards Stabbing Email to Death with AI

Microsoft's Would-Have-Been $30B "Hackquisition" of OpenAI

Microsoft's Would-Have-Been $30B "Hackquisition" of OpenAI

Microsoft 365 XP Copilot 3.11 for Workgroups Office 2024 app

Microsoft 365 XP Copilot 3.11 for Workgroups Office 2024 app

Stranger Things Have Happened Than Netflix's Theatrical Success

Stranger Things Have Happened Than Netflix's Theatrical Success

10 Big Predictions for 2026

10 Big Predictions for 2026

Manus: The Hands of AI Fate

Manus: The Hands of AI Fate

2025 Predictions Revisited

2025 Predictions Revisited

Apple's 'Pluribus' Slop

Apple's 'Pluribus' Slop

NVIDIA’s Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle

NVIDIA’s Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle

The AI Chaos Ladder

The AI Chaos Ladder

ChatGPT Starts to Break the Bounds of Chat

ChatGPT Starts to Break the Bounds of Chat

Conflicts & Interests in AI

Conflicts & Interests in AI

Congrats Regulators, You Killed Roomba

Congrats Regulators, You Killed Roomba

The Grand Netflix Hollywood Unification Theory

The Grand Netflix Hollywood Unification Theory

The Trillion Dollar Business Staring Apple in the Face

The Trillion Dollar Business Staring Apple in the Face

OpenAI Strikes Back

OpenAI Strikes Back

Meta Bought a Headache

Meta Bought a Headache

Has Netflix Truly Found Religion in Movie Theaters?

Has Netflix Truly Found Religion in Movie Theaters?

Apple Turnover

Oh No, a Tech Company is Buying a Movie Studio

Oh No, a Tech Company is Buying a Movie Studio

The Albanian Army Closes in on Warner Bros

The Albanian Army Closes in on Warner Bros

Drop the 'Meta'. It's Cleaner.

Drop the 'Meta'. It's Cleaner.

Live and Let Dye

Live and Let Dye

OpenAI's One Battle After Another

OpenAI's One Battle After Another

The AI Snow Globe is Shaken

The AI Snow Globe is Shaken

Intel Inside, In a Way

Intel Inside, In a Way

DeepMind Should Make the UK Proud and Embarrassed

DeepMind Should Make the UK Proud and Embarrassed

NVIDIA's "Delight"

NVIDIA's "Delight"

Big Tech's Wild Market Cap Ride

Big Tech's Wild Market Cap Ride

NVIDIA Evokes the 'E' Word

NVIDIA Evokes the 'E' Word

Failing to Realize Why Modern Antitrust Keeps Failing

Failing to Realize Why Modern Antitrust Keeps Failing

'Pluribus' as AI Allegory

'Pluribus' as AI Allegory

Google Starts to Bridge OpenAI's Product Moat

Google Starts to Bridge OpenAI's Product Moat

Big Tech Cash Was a Hammer Seeking an NVIDIA

Big Tech Cash Was a Hammer Seeking an NVIDIA

When Steve Jobs Fused Silicon Valley & Hollywood at Pixar

When Steve Jobs Fused Silicon Valley & Hollywood at Pixar

Judge Rules FTC Wasted Everyone's Time with Meta Case

Judge Rules FTC Wasted Everyone's Time with Meta Case

Collect Them All (AI Edition)

Collect Them All (AI Edition)

LLMs vs. the World (Models)

LLMs vs. the World (Models)

Let Tim Cook

Group ChatGPT

Why Microsoft Pushed OpenAI Aside

Why Microsoft Pushed OpenAI Aside

Meta AI vs. the World (Models)

Meta AI vs. the World (Models)

The Wearable iPhone

The Wearable iPhone

Two AI Roads Diverged...

Two AI Roads Diverged...

"Hey, There's a Bubble."

"Hey, There's a Bubble."

IPOpenAI

OpenAI's Local AI Device Dreams

OpenAI's Local AI Device Dreams

Apple Finally Agrees to Fix Siri

Apple Finally Agrees to Fix Siri

Google's Epic Play Store Trade Puts More Pressure on Apple

Google's Epic Play Store Trade Puts More Pressure on Apple

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29

Comcast is Unbundling... Comcast

#comcast

Jun

28

Natural Born Bloggers

#rip

Jun

25

The Market Shifts Apple

#apple

Jun

21

Amazon Meddles

#openai

Jun

19

About Those "Hackquisitions"...

#hackquisition

Jun

17

Can 'Specs' Snap Snap's Losing Streak?

#snap

Jun

15

Regulation for Thee, Not for Me

#anthropic

Jun

13

Anthropic's Heel Turn

#anthropic

Jun

12

The AI Overkill Era

#ai

Jun

11

The Resuscitation of Xbox

#microsoft

Jun

10

Big Tech Conference Season

#big technology

Jun

09

Apple Wins Consumer AI By Default

#wwdc

Jun

08

Dreams of a Siri That Doesn't Suck

#siri

Jun

07

"Chat is dead."

#openai

Jun

03

They're Building AI PCs, Will Users Come?

Premium

#microsoft

Jun

02

The Summer of 'Super Apps'

#microsoft

Jun

01

YouTube Beats AI to Disrupting Hollywood

#hollywood