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Michael Love

@elkmovie
94 posts
2026-03-07
“Delay the launch of Adult Mode to focus on gaining intelligence” congratulations, you've invented college [embedded post]
2026-03-07 View on X
Sources

OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence

2026-03-06
“Delay the launch of Adult Mode to focus on gaining intelligence” congratulations, you've invented college [embedded post]
2026-03-06 View on X
Sources

OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence

“People's habits are not solidified” Liz Reid has one of the hardest jobs in tech.  She runs Google Search, arguably the best business ever built …

2026-03-03
If they can hold onto this price point amidst a year of punishing DRAM demand they're going to do very well indeed [embedded post]
2026-03-03 View on X
Apple

Apple updates the iPad Air with M4, featuring an 8-core CPU, 9-core GPU, 12GB of unified memory, an N1 networking chip, for $599+ and $799+ in 11" or 13" sizes

With blazing performance, more memory, enhanced connectivity, and game-changing iPadOS 26 features, iPad Air is a fantastic value

If they can hold onto this price point amidst a year of punishing DRAM demand they're going to do very well indeed [embedded post]
2026-03-03 View on X
Apple

Apple unveils the $599+ iPhone 17e, offering a 60Hz 6.1-inch display, a 3nm A19 chip, a C1X modem, MagSafe, and a 48MP Fusion camera, shipping from March 11

iPhone 17e delivers incredible value with faster performance, an advanced camera system, enhanced durability, the magic of MagSafe, and double the starting storage at 256GB

2026-03-02
If they can hold onto this price point amidst a year of punishing DRAM demand they're going to do very well indeed [embedded post]
2026-03-02 View on X
Apple

Apple updates the iPad Air with M4, featuring an 8-core CPU, 9-core GPU, 12GB of unified memory, an N1 networking chip, for $599+ and $799+ in 11" or 13" sizes

With blazing performance, more memory, enhanced connectivity, and game-changing iPadOS 26 features, iPad Air is a fantastic value

If they can hold onto this price point amidst a year of punishing DRAM demand they're going to do very well indeed [embedded post]
2026-03-02 View on X
Apple

Apple unveils the iPhone 17e, offering a 6.1-inch display, a 3nm A19 chip, a C1X modem, a 48MP Fusion camera, and more, for $599+ and shipping from March 11

iPhone 17e delivers incredible value with faster performance, an advanced camera system, enhanced durability, the magic of MagSafe, and double the starting storage at 256GB

2026-02-25
This would be both a) fantastic because I wouldn't need separate PayPal and Stripe integrations anymore but also b) awful because I'd be way too dependent on one company [embedded post]
2026-02-25 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Stripe, which is privately held, has expressed preliminary interest in a potential PayPal acquisition or buying its assets; PYPL closed up 6.7%

Payment processing firm Stripe Inc. is considering an acquisition of all or parts of PayPal Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

2026-02-24
This would be both a) fantastic because I wouldn't need separate PayPal and Stripe integrations anymore but also b) awful because I'd be way too dependent on one company [embedded post]
2026-02-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Stripe, which is privately held, has expressed preliminary interest in a potential acquisition of PayPal or its assets; PYPL jumps 6.7%

Payment processing firm Stripe Inc. is considering an acquisition of all or parts of PayPal Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

2025-10-15
10% speed bump and the same price = they're going to sell like 9 of these, I'm not sure why they're bothering except that maybe they feel like they have to keep it sort-of alive until their glasses launch? [embedded post]
2025-10-15 View on X
Apple

Apple debuts its M5 chip, with a 10-core GPU, a Neural Accelerator in each core, offering 4x+ the performance of M4, and a 10-core CPU with six efficiency cores

M5 delivers over 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4, featuring a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator …

10% speed bump and the same price = they're going to sell like 9 of these, I'm not sure why they're bothering except that maybe they feel like they have to keep it sort-of alive until their glasses launch? [embedded post]
2025-10-15 View on X
Apple

Apple upgrades its Vision Pro with an M5 chip for rendering 10% more pixels and a Dual Knit Band for a more comfortable fit, available on October 22 for $3,499+

The latest version improves performance, display rendering, battery life, and comfort, while offering innovative features …

2025-10-14
I continue to think that while “LLMs aren't actually that world-changing” is a risk people have at least started paying attention to, “good-enough LLMs are going to be cheap and ubiquitous and those $1B data centers are going to become a liability rather than a moat” is an equally serious problem [embedded post]
2025-10-14 View on X
@karpathy

Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase, deployable in 4 hours

It provides a full ChatGPT-style LLM, including training, inference and a web Ui … X: Clem / @clementdelangue : Am I wrong in sensing a paradigm shift in AI? Feels like we're movin...

2025-07-02
STOP.  NAMING.  COMPANIES.  AFTER.  MIDDLE.  EARTH.  LOCATIONS.
2025-07-02 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Palmer Luckey is preparing to launch Erebor, a US bank backed by Joe Lonsdale and other tech investors to serve startups, including crypto businesses

Start-up named after the dragon's mountain in ‘Lord of the Rings’  —  A group of tech billionaires led by Palmer Luckey …

2025-06-23
They've probably got enough data on the consequences of the Epic ruling and how it varies from app to app to have a sense of which concessions would have a bigger / smaller impact, and I hope the EU holds firm and demands the same deal the US got rather than accepting a few scraps [embedded post]
2025-06-23 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Apple is locked in last-minute EU negotiations over App Store changes to avoid fines set for this week, and is expected to offer “steering” concessions

Tech group must make concessions to comply with Digital Markets Act or be hit by escalating levies from Thursday

2025-06-05
The thing is that if everybody can spin up a generic version of blah blah feature very quickly, nobody has a real moat and it's all going to come back to partnerships and platform lock-in again [embedded post]
2025-06-05 View on X
The Verge

OpenAI says it has 3M “paying business users”, up from 2M in February; ChatGPT Team users can now use a “record mode” for taking notes during meetings

ChatGPT now has 3 million “paying business users” and is adding new features like meeting notes.

2025-05-26
2 weeks left to for developers to finish whatever else you were working on before you spend the summer working on this.  [embedded post]
2025-05-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: the main topic at WWDC will be a redesigned software interface, dubbed Solarium, for all of Apple's operating systems, including tvOS and watchOS

Jony Ive's deal with OpenAI should cause major shockwaves at Apple, especially after a design-team brain drain and struggles in artificial intelligence.

2025-05-02
ARGs updated to allow external links - seemingly without restriction - for apps distributed in the US.  [image]
2025-05-02 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple updates its App Store Guidelines to comply with a US judge's April 30 Epic injunction, letting app developers link to external payment methods in the US

Apple has officially updated the App Store Guidelines to comply with yesterday's injunction handed down in its legal case with Epic Games.

2025-03-02
Masa Son gonna get another mortgage on his house just to have a little bit more money to throw into the AI hole
2025-03-02 View on X
The Information

Source: SoftBank plans to borrow $16B to invest in AI, and might borrow another $8B in early 2026, which could strain its already debt-heavy balance sheet

www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/o... … Casey / @ig.ht : who on earth would loan this money knowing softbank is investing it in what seems to be the least profitable sector in existence [em...

2025-02-09
I can think of few things more destructive to US tech monopolies than users learning how to sideload apps.  [embedded post]
2025-02-09 View on X
Engadget

TikTok advises its US Android users to sideload the app through APKs on its website; its app still isn't back in Apple's App Store and Google Play in the US

The social media app is still not available on Apple App Store and Google Play.  —  If you need to download and install TikTok in the US …

2025-02-08
I can think of few things more destructive to US tech monopolies than users learning how to sideload apps.  [embedded post]
2025-02-08 View on X
Engadget

TikTok advises its US Android users to sideload the app through APKs made available for download on its official website

The social media app is still not available on Apple App Store and Google Play.  —  If you need to download and install TikTok in the US, you can do so on Android …

2025-01-27
DeepSeek showing up and making some of the absolute worst people in America lose their frikkin heads is a wonderful gift from China in these dark times [embedded post]
2025-01-27 View on X
Bloomberg

DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US' AI lead

- App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom  — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge