Weekly roundup
Roundup: Apple wants to hike iPhone prices again
Read to the end for an important statement about X… or Twitter?
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Artificial Intelligence
AI hype is over. AI exhaustion is setting in.
Google and OpenAI’s latest showcases suggest the AI bubble’s days are numbered
Weekly roundup
Roundup: Apple delivers an insult to life itself
Read to the end for Sam Bankman-Fried’s new prison financial scheme
Microsoft
Phil Spencer isn’t your friend
The Xbox head uses his gamer image to sell terrible corporate decisions
Reading
A critical tech reading list for mid-2024
13 book recommendations to get you through the next few months
Weekly roundup
Roundup: How bias can creep into tech coverage
Read to the end for a perfect example of worst person you know just made a great point
Geopolitics
Embrace the splinternet
We’re being told to pick between US and Chinese tech. What if we don’t choose either?
Weekly roundup
Roundup: Should we ditch smartphones?
Read to the end for Ridley Scott not doing a George Lucas
Apple
The Vision Pro is a big flop
The product’s failure should further dispel the myth of tech inevitability
Hollywood
Hollywood is reviving its war on piracy
As the streaming deal gets worse, people are going back to piracy. The industry wants to stop them.
Weekly roundup
Roundup: Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover team
Read to the end for a video of Musk proving he may be a simulation after all
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is using Twitter to defend Brazil’s fascists
The fight shows countries will no longer put up with the drawbacks of unregulated social media