Let's get smarter about everything that happened in tech last week - in less than 15 minutes! In this week’s episode: Deepmind’s AI releases the structure for every known protein in the universeAlgorithms push Bruce Springsteen’s tickets to $5.000AI impersonates a famous philosopher, fooling even expertsWhere else to find me: Website and newsletterInstagramLinkedInYoutube

Let's get smarter about everything that happened in tech last week - in less than 15 minutes! In this week’s episode: Amazon acquires a healthcare company for $3.9BTesla was banned in a Chinese district for privacy concernsA Coinbase employee and 2 friends face 40 years in prison for insider tradingMeta gives FB and IG the TikTok lookWhere else to find me: Website and newsletterInstagramLinkedInYoutube

Let's get smarter about everything that happened in tech last week - in less than 15 minutes! In this week’s episode: Celsius, one of the biggest crypto banks, has filed for bankruptcy.The biggest data break ever: 1B Chinese people impacted60 self-driving cars crash at the same timeFacebook’s new AI doesn’t leave any language behindWhy the James Webb space pictures are so amazingWhere else to find me: Website and newsletterInstagramLinkedInYoutube

Let's get smarter about everything that happened in tech last week - in less than 15 minutes! In this week’s episode: Food delivery startup Gorillas fires all its 540 Italian employeesA data leak about Uber reveals corruption and moreA new research proves that doctors using AI catch breast cancer more often than either does aloneElon Musk pulls out of $44bn deal to buy TwitterWhere else to find me: Website and newsletterInstagramLinkedInYoutube

Let's get smarter about everything that happened in tech last week - in less than 15 minutes! In this week’s episode: Is TikTok a surveillance tool for the Chinese government?FTX is stepping up to save BlockFiSnapchat introduced a paid version called Snapchat+Where else to find me: Website and newsletterInstagramLinkedInYoutube

Let's get smarter about everything that happened in tech last week - in less than 15 minutes! In this week’s episode: How tech can make the US abortion ban even worse and how to protect your data.3 news highlighting tech’s broken approach to AI ethics.Eminem and Snoop Dogg dropped a music video featuring their Bored Ape NFTs.Solana drops the Saga: the first crypto-native phone.Where else to find me: Website and newsletterInstagramLinkedInYoutube

Let's get smarter about everything that happened in tech last week - in less than 15 minutes! In this week’s episode: A crypto lending app took control of its own user’s accountNo one knows how safe self-driving cars areMeta launches avatar storeThe EU wants less phone chargersWhere else to find me: Website and newsletterInstagramLinkedInYoutube

Let's get smarter about everything that happened in tech last week - in less than 15 minutes! In this week's episode: A Google engineer thinks its AI has become sentient. Is he right?Crypto crashed! What happened and why it may be just the beginning.A new crypto bill teases what crypto regulation may look like.Elon will read our tweets. A new chapter in the Elon/Twitter drama.Wealth inequality in crypto. My analysis of the ApeCoin economy.Where else to find me: Website and...

Let's get smarter about everything that happened in tech last week - in less than 15 minutes! In this week's episode: How many companies did Apple make bankrupt in 1.5 hours?The future of cars. Apple wants to bring the iOS experience to every car.The future of taxi. You can now pay robots to drive you around.It turns out insider trading is illegal for NFTs. FBI charges OpenSea ex-employee.Japan is the first country in the world to regulate stablecoins.Where else to find me: Website and...

Let's get smarter about everything that happened in tech last week - in less than 15 minutes! In this week's episode: OpenAI: look at my cool image generation model! Google: Hold my beer!A(nother) confusing week in crypto: Andreessen Horowitz raised a $4.5B crypto fund; Christine Lagarde said crypto is worth nothing; Metamask announced a new feature; Adam Neumann raised $70M to fund a crypto startup.Where else to find me: Website and newsletterInstagramLinkedInYoutube

Let's get smarter about everything that happened in tech last week - in less than 15 minutes! In this week's episode: Is Deepmind close to general AI?RIP iPod. Apple discontinued the iPod after 20 years.Researchers managed to take a picture of Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy.Mastercard wants your face. They started trialing a system to allow you to pay in stores using your face.It turns out NFTs are pretty centralized. Olive Garden sued OpenSea.Where...

Let's get smarter about everything that happened in tech last week - in less than 15 minutes! In this week's episode: Crypto death spiral - how a cryptocurrency went from $40B market cap to 0 in a week.Google’s I/O event - lots of cool AI stuff taking center stageVatican NFTs - yep, the pope wants to enter the MetaverseA data broker is selling location data of people who visit abortion clinicsWhere else to find me: Website and newsletterInstagramLinkedInYoutube

Get smarter about tech in less than 15 minutes! In this week's episode: Bored Ape Yacht Club dropped NFTs for their upcoming metaverse, but almost crashed the Ethereum blockchain in the process. (btw, how many buzzwords did I manage to put in a single sentence? 🏆)Meta built one of the biggest AI language models in the world and released it for freeSnapchat released an autonomous drone that fits in your pocket!The EU launched their own Social MediaTikTok announced a new initiative to share ad...

Get smarter about everything that's happening in tech in just 15 minutes! In this week's episode:  Elon is actually buying Twitter, and he seems to be keen to open-sourcing its algorithm. Here's why it's a terrible ideaTrans men lose the ability of making children when they undergo testosterone treatment. A new research gives them that ability back.Bored Ape Yacht Club is the most successful NFT project. Someone hacked their Instagram profile and stole $7M worth of NFTs from their...

Let's get smarter about tech with all the most important news of the week. In less than 15 minutes! In this week’s episode: Netflix lost users for the first time, leading to -30% in market cap in a single day. How many other companies are living in the illusion of “infinite growth”?Someone crushed a cryptocurrency named Beanstalk, by exploiting its own rules.Coinbase launches NFTs, and a new NFT project raises more than $200M transparently saying “we want to make money to build this other...

Let's get smarter about tech in less than 15 minutes! In this week's episode: Elon Musk did a 360 on Twitter: he got offered a board seat, accepted, then refused, then tried buying the whole thing. Frustrating.Meta started allowing creators to sell Metaverse gadgets. They'll retain a 25% fee on top of a 30% platform fee, for a total of almost 50%. Apple's 30% tax doesn't seem too bad now.The police stopped a self-driving car in San Francisco. They looked confused.Walmart increased the...

Let's get smarter about tech in less than 15 minutes! In this week's episode: AI spaceship for human creativity. This new AI algorithm will blow your mind. It’s called dall-e 2, and it generates images of anything you want. Goodbye Photoshop?Elon Musk bought a majority stake in Twitter. The devil is in the details so let’s understand what that means.Amazon workers on Staten Island vote for the company’s first unionized warehouse in the U.S. An autonomous, snake-like robot. Researchers in the...

Let's get smarter about tech in less than 20 minutes with this week's most important news: It turns out AI can design biochemical weapons. We really need to re-think the way AI research is made and published.NVIDIA releases an AI algorithm capable of turning normal 2D pictures into 3D renderingsThe biggest NFT game got hacked for $600MThe EU approved the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which may make messaging apps terrible and less secure.Where else to find me: AI Academy clubWebsite and...

Let's get smarter about tech with all the most important news of the week. The UK internet regulator wants to make tech companies responsible for the harm they may bring to UK citizens. The punishment for failing? Jail.Microsoft was hacked and 37GB of their source code was published on the web. The hack seems to have started with an employee’s credentials.Tesla opened a €5b, 12.000 employees, 500.000 cars/year gigafactory in Berlin, on protected land. It seems like some rules have been...

Let's get smarter about tech with all the most important news of the week.  Bored Ape Yacht Club bought Cryptopunks, forming a giant NFT company with $3B of total trading volume. Oh, and Zuck said that NFTs are coming to Instagram...Deepmind resealed an AI algorithm called Ithaca, capable of reconstructing the text of old greek manuscriptsUkraine started using AI to recognize faces of dead soldiers and Russian Attackers. It’s a present from Clearview, a company famous for collecting data...

Let's get smarter about tech with all the most important news of the week, in less than 20 minutes! Coinbase wants crypto to become a tool in the hands of governments. Let’s discuss how.Apple introduced the Mac Studio: a new computer with a super powerful chip called M1 Ultra. Their chips keep destroying competition.Amazon is shutting down 68 popup stores selling books. Brick and mortar seem to be hard also for the tech giant.Where else to find me: AI Academy clubWebsite and...

This week is going to be focused on the role and impact of tech in the Ukrainian conflict. We’ll cover five different aspects: Information: the Russian government has a history of manipulating the media to push its propaganda through Social Media. Youtube, Meta, and Twitter banned Russian-backed media accounts, and Meta hired tens of experts who speak Ukrainian and Russian to label fake news, supported by AI. It’s working: the Russian government is retaliating by limiting access to the...

I don't know you, but it's tough for me to talk about tech with all the crazy stuff happening in Ukraine. I really had to pull myself together to publish this episode, I hope you'll appreciate it. In this episode: Donald Trump launched “Truth”, his alternative to Twitter. In its first week it attracted thousands of users, but not without a few technical glitches.Deepmind announced a new AI algorithm capable of controlling plasma: a gas heated up to hundreds of millions of degrees, key to...

Let's explain all the most important tech news of the week: New record in nuclear fusion, we replicated the sun on earth for 5 seconds! Encouraging signs to get free, clean energy, but there’s still a lot of work to do.Apple announced Tap To Pay: a system to make payments by tapping iPhones together. In the press release there seems to be a hint to crypto payments...NFTs trading platform Cent stopped trading due to too many scams. At the same time, founders of trading platform LooksRare...

Let's look at the most important tech news of last week: Meta (the old Facebook) announced some bad (like...very bad) quarterly earnings. Let's understand what happened and the risks the company is facing.Amazon also announced their quarterly earnings, but they were pretty dope instead. Now 1 out of 153 Americans work for Amazon, and their advertising business is bigger than Youtube. The US Department of Justice arrested the two hackers that stole 120k Bitcoin in 2016 and seized $3.6B worth...