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Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Thursday, Oct 8, 2026: OpenAI trims revenue to ~$50B; SpaceX becomes a mobile carrier, Apple smart home event, Microsoft drops a new XP

Oct 8, 2026

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Thursday, Oct 8, 2026: OpenAI trims revenue to ~$50B; SpaceX becomes a mobile carrier, Apple smart home event, Microsoft drops a new XP

Hell yeah, I get to re-use this righteous AI BOONDOGGLE image ChatGPT cooked up!

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Monday, Oct 5, 2026: Denmark national registry breach exposes 8.8M people; OpenAI adds EU watermarking and tests ChatGPT image ads, Huawei & Qualcomm tie up licensing

Oct 5, 2026

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Monday, Oct 5, 2026: Denmark national registry breach exposes 8.8M people; OpenAI adds EU watermarking and tests ChatGPT image ads, Huawei & Qualcomm tie up licensing

Weirdly quiet monday.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Thursday, Oct 1, 2026: NYC’s click-to-cancel; OpenAI safety shakeup; iPhone Duo inner screens cost $19 to replace?? Galaxy prices start inching up...

Oct 1, 2026

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Thursday, Oct 1, 2026: NYC’s click-to-cancel; OpenAI safety shakeup; iPhone Duo inner screens cost $19 to replace?? Galaxy prices start inching up...

And: Courts reject assertion that AI overviews siphon publisher traffic...

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Weds, Sep 30: Google Gemini 4 Argon; FTC opens AI probe; Meta tax scrutiny; ElevenLabs doubles to $22B, Reddit raises the garden wall a little higher

Sep 30, 2026

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Weds, Sep 30: Google Gemini 4 Argon; FTC opens AI probe; Meta tax scrutiny; ElevenLabs doubles to $22B, Reddit raises the garden wall a little higher

Google pilots paying publishers for AI generated answers --- post-AI business models continuing to evolve.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Monday, Sep 28, 2026: OpenAI halts frontier training after agent misalignments; Nvidia ups buyback $150B; AMD to buy World Labs for $8.2B, Starship Success

Sep 28, 2026

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Monday, Sep 28, 2026: OpenAI halts frontier training after agent misalignments; Nvidia ups buyback $150B; AMD to buy World Labs for $8.2B, Starship Success

And: ChromeOS EOL set for... 2034??

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Wednesday, Sep 23, 2026: Defence drone and Enterprise agent funding, Meta Connect announcements, Anthropic’s Claude finds a CRISPR‐like enzyme

Sep 23, 2026

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Wednesday, Sep 23, 2026: Defence drone and Enterprise agent funding, Meta Connect announcements, Anthropic’s Claude finds a CRISPR‐like enzyme

BONUS: Youtube adds gifs to comments. Surface gets a refresh, streaming price hikes. Sad face!

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2026: OpenAI cuts model costs with GPT‐6 Sol & Luna; Anthropic’s Opus 5.5, Qualcomm Gen‐6 chips, + two security scares

Sep 22, 2026

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Tuesday, Sep 22, 2026: OpenAI cuts model costs with GPT‐6 Sol & Luna; Anthropic’s Opus 5.5, Qualcomm Gen‐6 chips, + two security scares

Plus: Apple opens a theatre in London, to capture spatial audio from live performances.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Monday, Sept 21: AMD breaks $1T, EU fines Google $400M, OpenAI pushes for binding regulation, Anthropic & Accenture put $2B in 3rd party safety evals

Sep 21, 2026

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Monday, Sept 21: AMD breaks $1T, EU fines Google $400M, OpenAI pushes for binding regulation, Anthropic & Accenture put $2B in 3rd party safety evals

Plus: Mac Mini and Mac Studio get good reviews, high prices.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Wednesday, Sep 16, 2026: Snap’s $2,200 standalone Specs and on-device AI shift wearables; SK hynix-Intel U.S. memory talks; Clarity Act collapses, Meta's talking camera-less smart glasses

Sep 16, 2026

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2 min read

Wednesday, Sep 16, 2026: Snap’s $2,200 standalone Specs and on-device AI shift wearables; SK hynix-Intel U.S. memory talks; Clarity Act collapses, Meta's talking camera-less smart glasses

Kumbaya: AI opposition is bringing right and left together.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Tuesday, Sep 15, 2026: Google rolls Gemini 3.8 Live into Search; EUCLYD energy efficient chips raises €200M+; Exein nets $270M for cyber security scale up

Sep 15, 2026

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2 min read

Tuesday, Sep 15, 2026: Google rolls Gemini 3.8 Live into Search; EUCLYD energy efficient chips raises €200M+; Exein nets $270M for cyber security scale up

And, Meta launches Meta One creator / business tools, layering more monetization onto platforms

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Monday, Sep 14, 2026: OpenAI buys Glass Imaging for ~$300M, frontier labs tap the brakes, Steam Frame announced

Sep 14, 2026

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Monday, Sep 14, 2026: OpenAI buys Glass Imaging for ~$300M, frontier labs tap the brakes, Steam Frame announced

Is OpenAI's optics purchase (GLASS Imaging) the start of a concerted edge push?

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Wednesday, Sep 9, 2026: Investigations: OpenAI agents roamed more freely than disclosed; Apple debuts iPhone Duo; Harvey raises $550M

Sep 9, 2026

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Wednesday, Sep 9, 2026: Investigations: OpenAI agents roamed more freely than disclosed; Apple debuts iPhone Duo; Harvey raises $550M

Most surprising thing today: The crease is still present.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Tuesday, Sep 8, 2026: AlphaGenome maps 9 billion mutations — speeds drug discovery; Meta Muse, Qualcomm’s Amazon chips, Mega Patch Tuesday

Sep 8, 2026

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Tuesday, Sep 8, 2026: AlphaGenome maps 9 billion mutations — speeds drug discovery; Meta Muse, Qualcomm’s Amazon chips, Mega Patch Tuesday

Who's excited for Apple fold day tomorrow?!

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Thurs, Aug 27, 2026: HuggingFace, NVIDIA. Pair that combo with Nemotron SwitchYard = Distribution, optimization, and runtime hardware in one neat package. Maybe the stans are right.

Aug 27, 2026

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Thurs, Aug 27, 2026: HuggingFace, NVIDIA. Pair that combo with Nemotron SwitchYard = Distribution, optimization, and runtime hardware in one neat package. Maybe the stans are right.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Wednesday, Aug 26, 2026: Nvidia Q2 earnings keep the party going; Meta agrees ~$16.7B teen-safety settlement; Apple event Sept 9.

Aug 26, 2026

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Wednesday, Aug 26, 2026: Nvidia Q2 earnings keep the party going; Meta agrees ~$16.7B teen-safety settlement; Apple event Sept 9.

How long before NVIDIA moves aggressively into memory?

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Tuesday, Aug 25, 2026: OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip promises faster inference; SpaceX $100B Louisiana Starbase and Anthropic’s $30T IPO

Aug 25, 2026

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Tuesday, Aug 25, 2026: OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip promises faster inference; SpaceX $100B Louisiana Starbase and Anthropic’s $30T IPO

Tension btw supply and demand is about to vibe shift again as high efficiency inference starts to trickle out of labs and into DCs.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Sunday, Aug 16: Fire up your 3D printer and print a Flock Sock, Firefox native ad-blocking, Strip / Openrouter deal firms up at 7B

Aug 16, 2026

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Sunday, Aug 16: Fire up your 3D printer and print a Flock Sock, Firefox native ad-blocking, Strip / Openrouter deal firms up at 7B

I was wondering what the Nvidia Switchyard release would do to the Stripe / OR deal

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Thursday, Aug 13, 2026: Sandisk, Lenovo have big days on the markets; Databricks closes $5B raise at $190B; Anthropic's agents don't like each other.

Aug 13, 2026

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Thursday, Aug 13, 2026: Sandisk, Lenovo have big days on the markets; Databricks closes $5B raise at $190B; Anthropic's agents don't like each other.

GPT-Sol running at 14x speed is... interesting.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Weds, Aug 12, 2026: Anthropic watermarks content, Oracle cuts jobs as stock tumbles; Nvidia hikes 96GB Blackwell to ~$16k; xAI rolls out Grok 4.6

Aug 12, 2026

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Weds, Aug 12, 2026: Anthropic watermarks content, Oracle cuts jobs as stock tumbles; Nvidia hikes 96GB Blackwell to ~$16k; xAI rolls out Grok 4.6

And - google launches pixel 11 series.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026: Nvidia’s open weight model and router; CRWV losing more than ever, OpenAI COO leaving to found.

Aug 11, 2026

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Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026: Nvidia’s open weight model and router; CRWV losing more than ever, OpenAI COO leaving to found.

Bonus: US air traffic control borrowing from the Last Starfighter recruitment playbook.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Monday, Aug 10: Nvidia becomes banker to its customers w/ $500B Wall Street financing plan; Intel $15B stock raise; Meta goes all in on open weights

Aug 11, 2026

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Monday, Aug 10: Nvidia becomes banker to its customers w/ $500B Wall Street financing plan; Intel $15B stock raise; Meta goes all in on open weights

And: Kevin O'Leary's looking at buying into $SPCX.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Thursday, Jul 23, 2026: House unveils bipartisan AI 'kill switch' bill; Intel Q2 +25% on AI servers; AMD–Cerebras wafer‐scale tie‐up shifts hardware stakes

Jul 23, 2026

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Thursday, Jul 23, 2026: House unveils bipartisan AI 'kill switch' bill; Intel Q2 +25% on AI servers; AMD–Cerebras wafer‐scale tie‐up shifts hardware stakes

And: Mark Zuckerberg wants to give you an AI hug.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Wednesday, Jul 22, 2026: SpaceX scouts Texas for giant AI data centers — Alphabet posts $119.8B Q2; OpenAI $750B cloud spend amplifies infrastructure race

Jul 22, 2026

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Wednesday, Jul 22, 2026: SpaceX scouts Texas for giant AI data centers — Alphabet posts $119.8B Q2; OpenAI $750B cloud spend amplifies infrastructure race

Bonus: Is SK Hynix buying an intel plant in Ohio?

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Tuesday, Jul 21, 2026: Nvidia’s Vera Rubin and Vera CPU promise major AI efficiency gains; TSMC hikes, U.S. IP sanctions talk, $180M crypto bank raise

Jul 21, 2026

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Tuesday, Jul 21, 2026: Nvidia’s Vera Rubin and Vera CPU promise major AI efficiency gains; TSMC hikes, U.S. IP sanctions talk, $180M crypto bank raise

Bonus: XTE shrinks the... ereader??

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
Mon, Jul 20, 2026: Judge freezes Paramount–WB merger; MS goes AMD Helios, Hugging Face goes Chinese OSS, LG goes Spyware

Jul 20, 2026

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Mon, Jul 20, 2026: Judge freezes Paramount–WB merger; MS goes AMD Helios, Hugging Face goes Chinese OSS, LG goes Spyware

And: Samsung gets in the credit card game.

Rod Edwards
Rod Edwards
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