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Good morning. It’s Monday, March 31. Today we are covering: * SpaceX trying to block Apple satellite messaging expansion * Humanoid Robots Are Lousy Co-Workers . China Wants to Be First to Change That. * Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD and it might change to black * Inside arXiv-the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science * Banks and tech groups commit to live data-sharing in UK f...

Good morning. It’s Friday, March 28. Today we are covering: * Silicon Valley bubble risks heighten as investors pile into funds that bet on a single buzzy startup * JPMorgan Just Beat Big Tech to a Quantum Breakthrough * Inside Google's Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up With OpenAI * Facebook's New Friends Tab Brings App Back to Its Roots * Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping h...

Good morning. It’s Thursday, March 27. Today we are covering: * Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why * X Integrates Grok AI Chatbot with Telegram * I Quit Google Search for AI-and I'm Not Going Back * OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns * EU Pressed Meta to Separate Marketplace to Fix Antitrust Issues This is a public episode. If you'...

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, March 26. Today we are covering: * Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google's 'most intelligent AI model' with thinking built-in * OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT * DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show * U.S. Adds Export Restrictions to More Chinese Tech Firms Over Security Concerns * Maxar's first-of-its-kind...

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, March 25. Today we are covering: * Microsoft announces security AI agents to help overwhelmed humans * Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT * OpenAI says its AI voice assistant is now better to chat with * China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms * Waymo Robotaxis Are Heading To Washington This is a public episode....

Good morning. It’s Monday, March 24. Today we are covering: * Google is rolling out Gemini's real-time AI video features * Apple Working on Turning Watches Into AI Devices With Cameras * How to Get Computers-Before Computers Get You * Google says it may have accidentally deleted your Google Maps Timeline data * How a Japanese entrepreneur built Ethiopia's fastest-growing EV maker This is a public...

Good morning. It’s Friday, March 21. Today we are covering: * Introducing next-generation audio models in the API * Anthropic adds web search to its Claude chatbot * How NASA's 'Autonomy Choreography' Will Impact Advanced Technologies * Google finds 10,000 fake listings on Google Maps , sues alleged network of scammers * Threads finally lets you set the following feed as default This is a public e...

Good morning. It’s Thursday, March 20. Today we are covering: * What Google and Meta's Leaked Internal Memos Reveal About Power , AI, and Control * Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse * Big Tech’s data center boom poses new risk to US grid operators * UK cybersecurity agency warns over risk of quantum hackers * Google Search charged with breaking EU antitrust rules Let’s dive in...

Good morning. It’s Thursday, March 13. Today we are covering: * Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino * Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a 'few lines of code' * Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world * UK investigation says Apple and Google are 'holding back' mobile browsers * D-Wave Claims 'Quantum Supremacy ,' Beating Traditional Computers This is a publi...

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, March 12. Today we are covering: * Google announces Gemma 3 as 'world's best single-accelerator model' * Amazon, Google and Meta support tripling of nuclear capacity by 2050 * Waymo expands its robotaxi service across Silicon Valley * Google changes Chrome extension policies following the Honey link scandal * Hackers leak stolen Tata Technologies data following ransom...

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, March 11. Today we are covering: * Sony is experimenting with AI-powered PlayStation characters * America Is Missing The New Labor Economy * Musk Blames ‘Massive Cyberattack’ for Series of Outages on X * Eric Schmidt Joins Relativity Space as C.E.O. * Lasers, Magnets and the $40 Billion Fight to Store the World's Data This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss t...

Good morning. It’s Monday, March 10. Today we are covering: * Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices * Apple does AI as Microsoft did mobile * GeoCities in 1995 : Building a Home Page on the Internet * China needs to boost its tech sector more than ever. How to play it * Banks and fintechs join 'stablecoin gold rush' Let’s dive in We're thrilled to bring you ad-fre...

Good morning, it’s Monday March 6th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings In today's edition: They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam. Scammers are using voice-cloning AI to impersonate family members in distress, sometimes spoofing specific numbers to further...

Good morning, it’s Monday December 26th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings In today's edition: A startup says it's begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate . That's in part because it's highly controversial, as little is known about the real-w...

Good morning, it’s Friday December 23rd. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings In today's edition: ByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists . ByteDance, the China-based parent company of TikTok, said on Thursday that an internal investigation found that empl...

Good morning, it’s Thursday November 10th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings In today's edition: Meta Lays Off More Than 11,000 Employees . Since Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, the Silicon Valley company has steadily hired more employees. At the end of September it had am...

Good morning, it’s Wednesday November 9th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings In today's edition: Binance to Buy FTX in Megadeal of Crypto Exchanges . The cryptocurrency world was rocked on Tuesday as one of the largest exchanges for digital currencies, seemingly on the verge of coll...

Good morning, it’s Tuesday November 8th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings In today's edition: IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker's $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash . The legendary dark web market for drugs known as the Silk Road was designed to be an anarchic underworld economy that ev...

Good morning, it’s Monday November 7th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings In today's edition: Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week . Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week, according to people familiar with the matter...

Good morning, it’s Friday November 4th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings In today's edition: The world is missing its lofty climate targets. Time for some realism . To accept that the world's average temperature might rise by more than 1.5°C, declared the foreign minister of the Ma...

Good morning, it’s Thursday November 3rd. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings In today's edition: Musk Plans to Eliminate Half of Twitter Jobs in Cost-Cut Drive . Elon Musk plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at Twitter Inc., or half of the social media company's workforce, in a bid t...

Good morning, it’s Wednesday November 2nd. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings In today's edition: Food Prices Soar, and So Do Companies' Profits . A year ago, a bag of potato chips at the grocery store cost an average of $5.05. These days, that bag costs $6.05. A dozen eggs that coul...

Good morning, it’s Tuesday November 1st. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings Today’s pick Instagram outage tells millions their accounts are suspended . An Instagram outage that started Monday morning is locking users out and telling many of them that “we suspended your account on Oct...

Good morning, it’s Monday October 10th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings In today's edition: Skepticism, Confusion, Frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Struggles . The team at New York Times took a look at the past year of metaverse developments at Meta and the ups and...

Good morning, it’s Monday September 26th. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings In today's edition: Sterling falls to record low of $1.035 against the dollar . The pound tumbled to a record low on Monday while government bonds extended heavy losses, stirring expectations of an emer...