Now Anthropic says it’s leapfrogged OpenAI with its new model and is the AI horserace in play? OpenAI is still focusing on things like shopping. Nvidia answers a question people weren’t asking. And is Google soaring because they also might be able to go after Nvidia’s chip throne?
Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model (Ars Technica)
ChatGPT's new shopping research tool is fast, fun, and free - but can it out-shop me? (ZDNet)
Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo (The Verge)
Google Further Encroaches on Nvidia’s Turf With New AI Chip Push (The Information)
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Where Does That X Account Live?
What sort of a world do we live in if you can’t be sure where an X account comes from? Google isn’t out of the woods yet when it comes to antitrust. Insurers still don’t want to touch AI. Let me tell you about “AI grooming.” And we might be running out of capacity for specific types of chips.
X’s messy About This Account rollout has caused utter chaos (The Verge)
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality (NYTimes)
The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands (NYTimes)
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts (Financial Times)
Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda (The Guardian)
AI boom is fueling a memory chip shortage that could hit cars and phones (CNBC)
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The iOS Walls Are Crumbling In The Garden
Google phone users can now work with Airdrop on the iPhone cause Google cleverly found a way. Google might have jumped ahead in the AI race and Sam Altman knows it. I’ve heard of quantum computing, but a quantum internet? The Weekend Longreads suggestions, and at the end, a long rant about my latest AI experiments.
Google cracked Apple’s AirDrop and is adding it to Pixel phones (The Verge)
Altman Memo Forecasts ‘Rough Vibes’ Due to Resurgent Google (The Information)
Source: Kalshi’s valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round (TechCrunch)
Americans' Social Media Use 2025 (Pew Research Center)
IBM, Cisco outline plans for networks of quantum computers by early 2030s (Reuters)
IBM, Cisco to collaborate on ‘internet’ of quantum computers (Silicon Republic)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Google’s new AI image creator took my shirt off (The Verge)
Google’s Nano Banana Pro generates excellent conspiracy fuel (The Verge)
The new silicon valley (literally) (The Verge)
How America’s Hottest Chicken Chain Keeps Its Secret Sauce a Secret (WSJ)
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Who Gets To Regulate AI?
Are we about to have a battle over who gets to regulate AI? Now there’s Nano Banana Pro. The creator ecosystem is exploding for advertisers. Battlefield did exactly what EA needed it to do. And I’m telling you, the consumer robots for your home… they’re actually starting to arrive.
Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws (The Verge)
Google rolling out Gemini 3-powered ‘Nano Banana Pro’ image gen, editing (9to5Google)
Ad Spend in the Creator Economy Expected to Hit $37 Billion in 2025 (The Wrap)
Nintendo and ‘Battlefield 6’ Pushed US Game Sales Up in October (Bloomberg)
This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself (Wired)
Bo Jackson AI Experiment
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Gemini 3, And Meta Beats The Government
Tons of things today. Google’s new Gemini 3 model. Signs the “second tier” of AI startups is starting to get product market fit. The EU has announced that watering down of GDPR that was rumored. And will Meta’s big win against the government mean mergers and acquisitions are back on the tech menu?
Google is launching Gemini 3, its ‘most intelligent’ AI model yet (The Verge)
AI Music Platform Suno Valued at $2.45 Billion (WSJ)
TikTok will let you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see (TechCrunch)
Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws (The Verge)
Meta Did Not Violate Antitrust Law, Judge Rules (NYTimes)
Meta’s Victory Opens the Way for Silicon Valley to Go Deal Shopping (NYTimes)
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