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On the business, strategy, and impact of technology.
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Apple Books and Amazon Are Lousy With AI-Generated Books Ripping Off Legitimate Authors
Joanna Stern at New Things, last month: Last month, just days after my book went on sale, AI knockoffs of the ebook version flooded Apple Books. There was Joanna Stern...
Google Runs Out of Appeals, Must Pay Record $4.7 Billion EU Antitrust Fine
Arjun Kharpal, reporting for CNBC, back on July 2: Europe’s top court on Thursday upheld Google’s fine of around 4.1 billion euros ($4.67 billion) over alleged anti-competitive practices. In 2018,...
Roblox Set to Introduce AI Game-Building Feature, Including on iOS
Roblox executives Nick Tornow and Vlad Loktev, on the Roblox blog: Twenty years ago, Roblox launched with a simple idea: “You make the game.” At the time, that was a...
Apple Raises Prices for Apple Music and Apple One Subscriptions
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here are the new monthly prices for Apple Music and Apple One as of today: Apple Music: Individual: $11.99 (up from $10.99) Family: $19.99 (up from $16.99)...
OpenAI’s Product Shake-Up Put the Complexifiers in Charge
Wired, back on May 15: OpenAI says it’s folding ChatGPT, its AI coding agent Codex, and its developer-facing API into one core product team. The company says that Codex is...
MG Siegler: ‘OpenAI Makes ChatGPT ChatGPT Again’
MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: In that light, we can see the dilemma. But there were also probably about a dozen better ways to do this roll-out — as highlighted...
OpenAI Starts Cleaning Up the Utter Mess It Made of ChatGPT
Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux, the OpenAI engineering lead who’s taking the most public credit for this and thus probably deserves the most blame, on Twitter/X: Evening! We’ve gotten lots of great...
Linus Torvalds: ‘AI Is a Tool, Just Like Other Tools We Use. And It’s Clearly a Useful One.’
Linus Torvalds: I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I’m willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is...
BBEdit 16
Speaking of BBEdit, version 16 dropped just before WWDC, and adds a slew of nifty improvements, headlined by vastly expanded support for Shortcuts. You can also search for text in...
ArtfulType: Markdown Writing App for the 68K Macintosh
Sean Malseed — “Action Retro” on YouTube — created a Markdown editor for the original Macintosh. Source code on GitHub; intro video on YouTube. It’s written in C, not Pascal,...
Happy iCal Day
Joanna Stern explains why this emoji is correct today: 📅. (This one too: 📆) ★
Google and Epic Give Up Fighting — Third-Party Android App Stores Are Coming Next Week
Sean Hollister, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Here’s Google’s full statement on withdrawing its proposed modifications to Judge Donato’s permanent injunction, via Google spokesperson Dan Jackson: We’ve agreed with...
European Commission Adds Exemptions for Watches and Earbuds to Portable Battery Removal Rules
The European Commission: The European Commission adopted a delegated act today (14 July) introducing new rules that exempt additional products from EU requirements on the removability and replaceability of portable...
Quiche Browser Now Defaults to No-AI Web Search Results
Quiche Industries (Greg de J.): Starting today, Quiche Browser disables AI overviews in search results by default, out of the box. Compare how much space and time they waste. I...
Quiche Browser Now Defaults to No-AI Web Search Results
Quiche Industries (Greg de J.): Starting today, Quiche Browser disables AI overviews in search results by default, out of the box. Compare how much space and time they waste. I...
Dithering: ‘Apple Sues OpenAI’
Tuesday’s episode of Dithering was a good one, especially for the DF audience, so we’ve moved it outside the paywall and made it free-to-listen on the web. (We don’t (yet?)...
OpenAI Takes a Second Crack at a Response to Apple’s Trade Secret Theft Lawsuit
OpenAI, in a statement to Bloomberg this week: “While we take these allegations seriously, we’re not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit. We believe in fair competition...
Lawyer for Apple Mixed Up Two OpenAI Employees’ Names, Sent One Email to the Wrong Guy, Back in February
David Ingram, reporting for NBC News (which recently added a paywall without gift links, alas): Apple alleged in a lawsuit last week that OpenAI “never responded” to its concerns this...
Louie Mantia: ‘The Shape of Apps’
Louie Mantia, with a thoughtful essay on app icon design and the squircle-jail controversy on the Parakeet blog: It’s worth noting that some of the platform’s best icons look worse,...
OpenAI Releases Codex Micro, a Stupid $230 Hardware Keypad
Remember back in March when then-co-CEO Fidji Simo announced to the company that “We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests”? And then weeks later they...