Signal: OpenAI's PBC Race Is On 📧
While Microsoft and OpenAI will only give you 49 words to update their (beyond complicated) situation, I give you nearly 3,000 in an attempt to translate why they're even bothering to publish those 49 words in a joint statement on both corporate blogs, no less. Again, it's complicated. But the high-level may be decidedly straightforward: the race is officially on to convert OpenAI into a PBC.
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📰 Techmeme at 20
Fred Vogelstein looks back at the news aggregator of choice for so many of us, for so long. He also talks to Gabe Rivera about the state of the business and why the site looks almost exactly as it did in 2005. Gabe is a good friend of mine but wasn't in the site's early days when I would pester him over email about why my obviously excellent blog posts weren't on Techmeme. He nicely responded to those emails, though not in the nicest way, essentially noting that my posts added nothing to the topic. Which I didn't appreciate at the time, but now I do. Mediagazer, a sister site, launched later, remains great on days like this too. Happy 20th Techmeme, next year, drinks on me. 🍻🎂 [Crazy Stupid Tech]
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"An iPhone for the Ozempic era."
– Sam Schube, describing the iPhone Air, in his piece for The Wall Street Journal.
His sit down with several Apple executives including Tim Cook, is unsurprisingly fluffy. But it's also another data point that I brought up in my own piece on the unveiling: that Apple is explicitly trying to lean back into the design narrative that has long differentiated them. This is mainly about the fashion aspect of the device (and the new crossbody straps) but also the internal debate people might be having for the first time in a while when it comes to picking an iPhone model: Air or Pro?
Cook, of course, says he won't choose and will use both. 🙄
Below, members of The Inner Ring will find thoughts on:
• Larry Ellison Riding the AI Wave
• A Protocol for AI Data Licensing
• No AirPods Translation in the EU
• MountDance WarBroDisco
• and more...