TikTok threatens shutdown 📱, FCC passes net neutrality 🌐, the robotics renaissance 🤖

TLDR 2024-04-26

📱Big Tech & Startups

ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off
ByteDance would rather shut down TikTok than sell the company. The US only provides a quarter…

US TikTok ban 📱, Meta's $200B drop 📉, Node.js 22 👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-04-25

📱Big Tech & Startups

US bans TikTok owner ByteDance, will prohibit app in US unless it is sold
President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill that orders TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the company within…

Tesla's ride hailing app 🚗, Apple AI server chips 🤖, building a new city 🏙️

TLDR 2024-04-24

📱Big Tech & Startups

Tesla teases its upcoming Uber-like self-driving ride-hailing app
Tesla teased screenshots of its ride-hailing feature along with the release of its Q1 2024…

Apple World Cup bid ⚽, Meta opens VR OS 🌎, Anthropic's prompt library 🤖

TLDR 2024-04-23

📱Big Tech & Startups

Apple Working to Secure Streaming Rights to FIFA Club World Cup
Apple is working to secure an exclusive TV deal with FIFA, who plans to launch a revamped version…

Tesla cuts prices 🚗 , Samsung 6-day workweek 💼, ChatGPT's architecture 👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-04-22

📱Big Tech & Startups

Tesla Spends Weekend Cutting Prices of Cars and FSD Software
Tesla has cut the prices of its models across China, Europe, and the US. Full Self-Driving is now…

Google's massive reorg 🧑‍🤝‍🧑, Meta's Llama 3 launch 🤖, China bans WhatsApp 💬

TLDR 2024-04-19

📱Big Tech & Startups

Meta's battle with ChatGPT begins now
Meta's AI assistant is being integrated into search boxes within its apps. It will start appearing directly in the main…

Third party iOS app stores 📱, Boston Dynamics next-gen bot 🤖, Stable Diffusion 3 API 👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-04-18

📱Big Tech & Startups

Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe
AltStore PAL, a third-party iOS app store, is now live in the EU. Access to the…

YouTube's war on adblock 📺, DeepMind robot demo 🤖, a Typescript standard library 👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-04-17

📱Big Tech & Startups

YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked
YouTube is strengthening its enforcement on third-party apps that violate its Terms…

Tesla layoffs 🚗, OpenAI Batch API 🤖, tech jobs leaving California 💼

TLDR 2024-04-16

📱Big Tech & Startups

Tesla will lay off more than 10% of global workforce: Read the Elon Musk memo
Elon Musk sent a memo to Tesla employees saying that the company will lay off more than…

iPhone retro gaming 📱, Tesla halves FSD price 🚗, lessons building LLM features 👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-04-15

📱Big Tech & Startups

Game emulators arrive in App Store following rule changes
A recent change to Apple's App Store Review Guidelines means that a rule that effectively banned…

Apple M4 chips 💻, Humane AI pin reviews 🤖, why devs aren't faster 👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-04-12

📱Big Tech & Startups

Macs to Get AI-Focused M4 Chips Starting in Late 2024
The entire Mac lineup may get the M4 chip in late 2024 and early 2025. The chip will start appearing in the iMac,…

Google Vids 🎥, Intel's AI chip 🤖, GPT-4 Turbo Vision API 👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-04-10

📱Big Tech & Startups

With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work
Google's new Vids app can create collaborative shareable videos for things people do at work. The app…

Microsoft AI PCs 💻, Android Find My Device 📱, using LLMs in products👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-04-09

📱Big Tech & Startups

Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple
Microsoft will unveil its vision for AI PCs at an event in Seattle on May 20. The company is confident…

Google may buy Hubspot 💰, the AI talent war 🧠, Signals for Tailwind 👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-04-05

📱Big Tech & Startups

Alphabet reportedly weighing offer for HubSpot, sending shares in the $32 billion marketing company up 5%
Alphabet is in talks with advisors as it considers making…

Apple personal robots 🤖, state of founder compensation 💰, why observably is expensive 👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-04-04

📱Big Tech & Startups

Apple Exploring 'Mobile Robot' That 'Follows Users Around Their Homes'
Apple is reportedly exploring various personal robotics projects in an…

Tesla's disastrous quarter 🚗, Vision Pro Personas 🧍‍♂️, Bun supports Windows 👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-04-03

📱Big Tech & Startups

Apple's Spatial Personas for the Vision Pro bring your FaceTime callers into the room
The Apple Vision Pro's new Spatial Personas feature creates floating…

AirPods Lite 🎧, Google deletes Incognito data 🥸, inside the xz exploit 👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-04-02

📱Big Tech & Startups

‘AirPods Lite’ to debut later this year, new report says
Apple is expected to release multiple new models of its AirPods this year. A report says that a new…

OpenAI's $100B supercomputer 🧠, Linux almost hacked 👨‍💻, design engineering 🎨

TLDR 2024-04-01

📱Big Tech & Startups

OpenAI’s voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work
OpenAI's Voice Engine can create synthetic voices based on a 15-second clip of someone's…

Apple RCS 📱, SBF's 25 year sentence 👮, Linux Foundation's Redis fork 👨‍💻

2024-03-29

📱Big Tech & Startups

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for FTX fraud
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to a total of 300 months in prison for seven counts of…

Anthropic beats GPT-4 🤖, Pixel 9 leaks 📱, the fight for AI talent 👨‍💻

2024-03-28

📱Big Tech & Startups

“The king is dead” — Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus has surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot…