Roundup: Elon Musk's China links and Microsoft's misleading merger arguments
Read to the end for another worrying aspect of proliferating AI tools
Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.
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Netflix is bringing back piracy
The streaming reality is a far cry from its early promise
Meta Verified is a sign of stagnation
Social media's best days are behind it, but companies will squeeze users as they decline
Roundup: Chatting with Sydney Bing*, Elon's narcissism, and a warning from Keanu Reeves
Plus, stay tuned to the end for a more realistic Amazon ad
Tech was supposed to make cars safer. It didn’t deliver.
A new Sony concept vehicle exemplifies a worrying trend kicked off by Tesla
Roundup: The reality of ChatGPT, Woz feels "robbed" by Musk, and Microsoft’s merger woes
Stay tuned to the end for a fun (not AI-generated) illustration
Elon Musk wants to relive his start-up days. He’s repeating the same mistakes.
What PayPal’s history teaches us about Elon Musk’s management of Twitter
ChatGPT sets Google’s AI ambitions free
AI tools will increase the power of tech’s incumbents
Roundup: Private space fictions, enclosing podcasts, and what’s old is new again
Roundup - February 5, 2022