Dec 3rd 2023
This Week in Tech 956
A Giant Rolling Brick
Hosted by
Jason Howell
Cybertruck is out, ChatGPT turns 1, Black Friday & Cyber Monday, NameDrop
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Cybertruck is out, ChatGPT turns 1, Black Friday & Cyber Monday, NameDrop
- ChatGPT’s 1st birthday and mainstream AI adoption
- Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board as a non-voting observer
- Pika raises $55 million for AI video generation tool
- Amazon launches Q chatbot service for companies
- Concerns over Q hallucinating responses and leaking data
- Rethinking reactions to Tesla’s Cybertruck design
- Police warn about issues with NameDrop social media app
- Why Apple adding RCS may not resolve green vs blue bubbles
- Apple dropping Goldman Sachs as Apple Card issuer
- Inside Spotify Wrapped’s annual personalized listening stats
- Fears over Plex exposing users’ viewing habits
- Black Friday online sales hit record $9.8 billion in US
- Cyber Monday sales beat estimates at $12.4 billion
- Extreme complexity in rebuilding an ultimate car pinball machine
- Kiss launches digital avatars for virtual concerts
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Links
- ChatGPT turns 1 today: Here’s how it made AI mainstream
- OpenAI adds Microsoft as a non-voting observer on the nonprofit board that controls OpenAI, and makes Sam Altman's return as CEO official
- Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
- Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn
- Don't hate the Cybertruck, hate the game
- NameDrop is safe. The fearmongering about it is not.
- How I Feel One Year After Ditching My Android for an iPhone
- Google celebrates 1 billion RCS users with emoji-filled messaging features
- Why Apple Adding RCS Won't Change Blue Bubble, Green Bubble Drama
- Pika, which is building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raises $55M
- Inside Spotify Wrapped, an Annual Song of Ourselves
- Apple Music Replay is here, and it’s still no Spotify Wrapped
- Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family
- Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership
- Black Friday online buying hits a record $9.8B in the US, $70.9B globally
- Kiss say farewell to live touring, become first US band to go virtual and become digital avatars
- Tim's latest pinball project
- Here’s How Ridiculously Complicated It Was To Rebuild The Ultimate Car Pinball Machine
- First test of the Williams Space Shuttle restoration. It lives!