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Big new zero day to tell you about. Apple says Siri is safe, honest. Google rolls out an AI Daily Listen audio feature. Looking at the next wave of wearable AI. And let me tell you about WatchDuty, the app everyone in LA was using overnight.Sponsors:Timeline.com/ride33Links:Hackers are exploiting a new Ivanti VPN security bug to hack into company networks (TechCrunch)Apple says Siri isn’t sending your conversations to advertisers (The Verge)Google’s ‘Daily Listen’ lab is a personalized podcast based on your Discover feed (9to5Google)SoftBank’s Chip Designer Arm Considers Acquiring Ampere Computing (Bloomberg)Your Next AI Wearable Will Listen to Everything All the Time (Wired)With L.A. on alert, wildfire app Watch Duty adds 600,000 users overnight (Los Angeles Times)LA residents find a lifeline in this free wildfire-tracking app (The Verge)‘It’s not just alerts, it’s a state of mind’: How a wildfire monitoring app became essential in the US west (The Guardian)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tons and tons of controversy and fallout from Meta’s announced content moderation changes yesterday. I’ve got I think a fair, comprehensive rundown of all the angles. Interesting new rounds for Bluesky and Anthropic. And the coolest stuff I’ve seen from CES thus far, including: are rollable laptop screens finally ready for prime time?Sponsors:Acorns.com/rideLinks:Meta’s fact-checking changes are just what Trump’s FCC head asked for (The Verge)Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending Down (WSJ)AI Startup Anthropic Raising Funds Valuing It at $60 Billion (WSJ)Lenovo’s Latest Laptop Has a Rollable OLED Screen (Wired)BMW’s new iDrive turns the whole windshield into a heads-up display (The Verge)New Nike Therapeutic Shoes at CES 2025 Look Like Nothing You've Ever Seen Before (CNET)EcoFlow’s Solar hat is better for the planet than your style (Engadget)Anker made a solar beach umbrella, because of course (Engadget)This Slim Little Battery I Saw at CES 2025 Is Like a Tesla Powerwall for Your Fridge (CNET)I Watched a Printer-Size Gadget Boost a Phone's Battery Life in Seconds (CNET)This toaster-looking gadget boosts your phone’s battery in seconds (The Verge)If you’re constantly losing cables, this could be your ideal charger (The Verge)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Meta is completely revamping its fact-checking program, going instead with a version of Community Notes. A new Tesla recall, but for a different reason. Dell is taking rebranding to new, Google-like lows. All the headlines from a jam-packed Nvidia keynote. And what about an AI copilot but for gaming?Sponsors:LinkedIn.com/rideLinks:US opens probe into 2.6 million Tesla vehicles over remote driving feature (Reuters)Getty Images and Shutterstock agree to merge (Axios)Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge in $3.7 Billion Deal (The Wrap)Dell kills the XPS brand (The Verge)Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs (The Verge)Nvidia’s Project Digits is a ‘personal AI supercomputer’ (TechCrunch)Razer Project Ava: would you pay an AI to help you get good at games? (The Verge)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sam Altman says AGI isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Superintelligence. Why is nobody using Meta’s AI profiles? Keep an eye on Zuck, is my advice. The big trend at CES so far is AI inside smart TVs. And our first day wrap up of some of the cool things we’ve seen so far at CES.Sponsors:Oracle.com/techmemeLinks:Reflections (Sam Altman's Blog)Meta's AI Profiles Are Indistinguishable From Terrible Spam That Took Over Facebook (404 Media)Samsung spreads Vision AI across its 2025 TV portfolio (VentureBeat)LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs (The Verge)LG’s 2025 OLED TVs are its best yet — but they risk going overboard with AI (The Verge)CES 2025: We Spent Hours Watching a Robot Vacuum Pick Up Socks. It's a Dream Come True (CNET)Stop Scalding Your Tongue: This $25 Cat Robot 'Blows' on Your Drink to Cool It (CNET)Elvie unveils an app-controlled smart bouncer that transforms into a bassinet at CES 2025 (TechCrunch)TiVo-powered TVs are coming to the US (The Verge)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apple pays a fine cause Siri was listening in on what you said. Strava does a tie-in with Apple Fitness+. Net Neutrality is dead again, and it looks like for good this time. The nuclear winter in the VC space, CES is coming for us all, and a Weekend Longreads Suggestion.Links:Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit (Reuters)Apple Fitness Plus and Strava are collaborating with a new integration (The Verge)US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules (Reuters)AI-generated phishing scams target corporate executives (Financial Times)Number of US venture capital firms falls as cash flows to tech’s top investors (Financial Times)Asus, Samsung, and MSI announce world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitors (The Verge)Weekend Longreads Suggestion:AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse (Bloomberg)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Among other things, learn how Miami Vice inspired the Golden Girls, how the Golden Girls helped finance the making of the movie Reservoir Dogs, whether or not Betty White and Bea Arthur hated each other, where the Golden Girls house was, and the real ages of the actresses when they were playing Golden Girls.Special guest, Christina Warren, @film_girl!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

AT&T and Verizon say they’ve rooted out Salt Typhoon. Trump asks the Supreme Court to intervene in the TikTok situation. All the banks want to be like Tether. And as we slide into this new year, it’s a USB-C world now, we’re just living in it.Links:AT&T, Verizon Say Networks Now Clear After Salt Typhoon Hack (Bloomberg)Trump Asks Supreme Court to Pause Law Threatening TikTok Ban (Bloomberg)Biden administration proposes new cybersecurity rules to limit impact of healthcare data leaks (Reuters)Banks Want In on Tether’s Billions in Stablecoin Profits (Bloomberg)‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ set to break records despite gaming slowdown (FT)The USB-C charging mandate arrives in the EU — here’s what that means (The Verge)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly having problems deciding how make this whole, reclassifying as for-profit thing work. Oh, also, they secretly decided on a new definition of artificial general intelligence that is tied to tangible dollar value. At the tail end of the year, the most interesting new AI model of the year. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.Links:Microsoft and OpenAI Wrangle Over Terms of Their Blockbuster Partnership (The Information)Microsoft and OpenAI’s Secret AGI Definition (The Information)DeepSeek-V3, ultra-large open-source AI, outperforms Llama and Qwen on launch (VentureBeat)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good (NYTimes)Hawk Tuah Wasn’t What It Seemed (The Atlantic)The Paper Passport Is Dying (Wired)You Need to Create a Secret Password With Your Family (Wired)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Was Calvin And Hobbes the greatest comic strip ever? Or maybe a great work of art of the 20th Century? Why did Bill Watterson disappear? Was Calvin "good" (morally)? Was Hobbes "real"? Why were there never any toys? Would we ever really want Calvin and Hobbes to come back?With special guest @kibblesmith!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How about a Ring Doorbell, but from Apple? How about Meta Ray Ban’s but crossed with Google Glass? How everybody is combining forces to bid for defense contracts. How Tether won the crypto profitability wars. And how Britannica has not only survived the Internet era, but is actually thriving?Sponsors:1Password.com/rideLinks:Apple Explores a Face ID Doorbell and Lock Device in Smart Home Push (Bloomberg)Meta to add display to Ray-Bans as race over smart glasses intensifies (FT)Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts (FT)Tether Sees $10 Billion in Net Profits for 2024 (Bloomberg)Britannica Didn’t Just Survive. It’s an A.I. Company Now. (NYTimes)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Gemini Flash Thinking a model making a serious run at “reasoning.” The FAA has had to ban drones in New Jersey cause of all those weird drone sightings. Self Driving technology continues to prove it is safer. An open source generative physics engine for robots.Sponsors:WashingtonPost.com/rideLinks:Google reveals AI ‘reasoning’ model that ‘explicitly shows its thoughts’ (The Verge)FAA Bans Drone Flights in Parts of New Jersey (Bloomberg)Instagram teases AI editing tools that will completely reimagine your videos (The Verge)Waymo still doing better than humans at preventing injuries and property damage (The Verge)New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality (ArsTechnica)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apple says Meta is getting annoying. You can now call 1800CHATGPT to, you know, talk to ChatGPT. Apple scraps plans for a hardware subscription package. Oura’s big new raise also indicates how well its smart-ring business is going. And has Bengaluru grown to quickly for its own good?Links:Apple hits out at Meta's numerous interoperability requests (Reuters)OpenAI makes ChatGPT available for phone calls and texts (CNBC)Apple Halts Effort to Build iPhone Hardware Subscription Service (Bloomberg)Smart ring start-up Ōura raises $200mn as valuation leaps to $5.2bn (Financial Times)Oura closes $200M round, bringing its valuation to $5.2B (TechCrunch)3 Changes That Would Make Samsung's Galaxy Ring So Much Better (CNET)PS5 Pro deep dive reaction: GPU and RT improvements, PSSR and Sony's new AMD Amethyst partnership (EuroGamer)Inside India's 'Silicon Valley' (BusinessInsider)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Is your home internet router about to be banned? The US has a new Chinese tech target. An AI dev kit from Nvidia. Who actually buys the most chips from Nvidia? Hollywood has flip-flopped on the whole theatrical release strategy. And why Instagram is officially king of the hill at Meta.Sponsors:Lumen.me/rideLinks:U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes (WSJ)Nvidia's new $249 AI development board promises 67 TOPS at half the price of the previous 40 TOPS model (TomsHardware)Nvidia’s $249 dev kit promises cheap, small AI power (The Verge)Microsoft acquires twice as many Nvidia AI chips as tech rivals (Financial Times)Grubhub to pay $25 million for misleading customers, restaurants, drivers (Reuters)‘Red One’ Becomes Most-Watched Prime Video Film Debut Ever With 50 Million Viewers After Modest Theatrical Run (Variety)Here’s a Hollywood Twist: Streaming Success Runs Through Theaters (NYTimes)Instagram Expected to Generate 50% of Meta’s US Ad Sales in 2025 (Bloomberg)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On the same day that ByteDance asks the US Supreme Court to intervene, the TikTok CEO meets with Donald Trump. DeepMind’s big new competitor to Sora called Veo 2. The FTC comes down against so called “junk fees.” And on their historic raise, a deep dive look at Databricks, one of the biggest private companies in the world.Sponsors:Miro.comLinks:Trump meets with TikTok CEO as video app challenges potential ban (NBCNews)TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Block Law Banning Its U.S. Operations (NYTimes)Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora (TechCrunch)FTC issues rules requiring hotels, ticket sellers to reveal ‘junk fees’ (WashingtonPost)Waymo to begin testing in Tokyo, its first international destination (CNBC)His Startup Is Now Worth $62 Billion. It Gave Away Its First Product Free. (WSJ)Google’s Whisk AI generator will ‘remix’ the pictures you plug in (The Verge)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I break down the coming battle of the titans that is going to likely play out in 2025 between Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Mark Gurman says Apple is finally going foldable. Oh, and that Magic Mouse is finally that sin against God charger design. Every country wants a Starlink. And the big legal battle happening this week.Links:Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI From Becoming For-Profit (WSJ)OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk's lawsuit in court filing (Axios)Sam Altman reckons with a growing threat to OpenAI: Elon Musk (Financial Times)Apple’s New Vision for Computing Is a Giant Foldable iPad (Bloomberg)Europe signs €10.6bn Iris² satellite deal in bid to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink (Financial Times)Chip groups Arm and Qualcomm square off in high-stakes US trial (Financial Times)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Brian on The Newsworthy podcast with Erica Mandy. Find out more about the show here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ok, what if AI models are really the new OS for… everything. But also: smartglasses and a Vision Pro competitor. I’ll explain. Could NotebookLM become a fully fledged product? Seemingly the leader in the clubhouse in the race to create the next AI paradigm beyond the transformer model. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.Links:I saw Google’s plan to put Android on your face (The Verge)Google’s NotebookLM AI podcast hosts can now talk to you, too (The Verge)Google says its breakthrough quantum chip can’t break modern cryptography (The Verge)Liquid Set to Raise $250 Million to Build AI Inspired by Tiny Worm Brains (Bloomberg)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:The Cult of Claude (NYTimes)How WhatsApp ate the world (Rest Of World)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

More fallout from the whole Cruise wind-down. What it’s like to use some of the new Gemini 2.0 features. Has Apple, quite belatedly, finally done a feature update that provides the Vision Pro with a “killer app?” An Instagram-like app from China I had never heard of. And one singular, eye-popping datapoint from the CHIPS Act.Links:The end of Cruise is the beginning of a risky new phase for autonomous vehicles (The Verge)Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming model (Simon Willison's Blog)FCC Opens Entire 6-GHz Band to Very-Low-Power Device Operations (TV Tech)The Vision Pro’s ultrawide Mac display is very close to being a killer app (The Verge)China’s Instagram-Style Xiaohongshu Crosses $1 Billion in Profit (Bloomberg)Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft (Wired)US chipmaking boom in doubt after Biden’s defeat (Financial Times)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

GM shocked everybody by shutting down the Cruise robotaxi business. ChatGPT is finally on your iPhone once you update it. Could all Apple watches someday have satellite texting? And then, I guess Google wanted to pre-empt Santa Sam, because they released an absolute slew of AI products today.Links:GM to refocus autonomous driving development on personal vehicles (GM Investor Relations)GM Calls It Quits on Mary Barra’s $50 Billion Robotaxi Dream (Bloomberg)Apple’s Next Ultra Smartwatch Will Be Able to Send Texts Via Satellite (Bloomberg)Google Rolls Out Faster Gemini AI Model to Power Agents (Bloomberg)Google’s new Trillium AI chip delivers 4x speed and powers Gemini 2.0 (VentureBeat)Gemini 2.0, Google’s newest flagship AI, can generate text, images, and speech (TechCrunch)Google unveils AI coding assistant ‘Jules,’ promising autonomous bug fixes and faster development cycles (VentureBeat)Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you (TechCrunch)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

You can now buy a car on Amazon. A new AI unicorn doing something with AI I hadn’t heard about before. New AI enhanced smartglasses. Microsoft says it has a new datacenter design that uses zero water. And if you were able to use Sora yesterday, what was that like?Sponsors:Shopify.com/rideLinks:You Can Buy a Car on Amazon Now (Wired)US finalizes $6.1 bln Micron chip-making subsidy (Reuters)Memory chip maker Micron’s $6.1 billion grant confirmed by Commerce Dept. (Washington Post)OpenAI-Backed Language Tutor Startup Doubles Value to $1 Billion (Bloomberg)Solos challenges Meta’s Ray-Bans with $299 ChatGPT smart glasses (The Verge)Microsoft Unveils Zero-Water Data Centers to Reduce AI Climate Impact (Bloomberg)Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup (TechCrunch)I just went hands-on with Sora — the good, the bad, and the wow (Tom's Guide)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.