Europe has a Tech Crackdown and a month with the Vision Pro

OpenAI: What Hassabis can teach us about the AI landscape? (A comment on Musk’s ‘Cosmology of Artificial Intelligence‘)

I felt like the worst person made a great point in this lawsuit, so I read some parts and felt a little bit like that onion story. I think there is something going on with the complaint that it doesn’t feel right. As far as OpenAI is concerned, the Trackback post really serves it.

We should say that we are starting with $1 billion in funding. This is not a joke. I will cover whatever anyone else doesn’t provide,” Musk wrote in a missive discussing how to introduce OpenAI to the world. He dismissed a suggestion to launch by announcing $100 million in funding, citing the huge resources of Google and Facebook.

Elsewhere in the email change, the AI software—like some commentators on Twitter—guessed Musk had forwarded arguments that Google had a powerful advantage in AI from Hassabis.

The Digital Markets Act: What Apple is Doing about it? An article by Gruber on “Daring Fireball” by Mac Gruber

Well, Kevin, it was my pleasure. Often on this show, you are you are driving the train and you do a fine job at it I am intimidated when I have to walk you through something, but this was something that I wanted to do because I think it matters.

I think I can honestly just accept it and say, but it doesn’t really matter. Because in the United States where we don’t have any regulation, we’re also not seeing a lot of innovation. When was the last time a huge successful new search engine came along or a huge successful new social network came along or a huge new successful e-commerce company came along or a huge new successful smartphone operating system came along? We have the room to innovate here in America, but we have no idea what we are doing. So I think it’s just a good thing that there are some countries on Earth that want to encourage innovation a little bit more. And I do think that these are pro-competitive steps that they are taking that will sincerely benefit companies, both in Europe and elsewhere.

And I am just here to say, it is worth trying, OK? We don’t want to live in a world that is run by for-profit corporations. We want to figure out a way to make them open up a little bit, play nice with others, create opportunities for other companies. This is the most significant effort we have seen in the world so far. So while, again, I am skeptical that it’s going to get us even halfway to the finish line, it is a place to start and we can build from here.

Yeah, I agree. It’s very easy looking at any new tech regulation and figure out a million different reasons why it probably won’t work. It will not have the desired effect. It’ll have these unintended consequences. And that can be an excuse for tech companies to essentially throw up their hands and say, it’s not even worth trying.

Right. The most important thing I have read about the Digital Markets Act and its various effects is the fact that Apple is complying with it. A few weeks ago an amazing post was written by John Gruber on his site called “Daring Fireball” which broke down what Apple was doing in response to the new European law. And I think it is truly worthy of being described as dastardly.

Yeah. I think the Digital Markets Act is similar to the lawsuit that Musk filed against Openai, I don’t know if this makes a lot of sense on its face. It is not easy to tell if the actual complaints here are valid. I don’t know what the structure is of OpenAI but it appears that a process of learning is taking place here.

Yes, the answer to that is no. Our producers put a great question in our prep document this week, which was, how will we know that the DMA is working? There are going to be five major search engines and six major mobile operating systems in 10 years, so there is a tricky question to answer, but I can tell you that. To me, that would be the ideal is that we distribute the balance of power much more broadly across companies, across regions.

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Bringing in Joanna Stern: Is the Apple Vision Pro Really Popular, or Is It Just a Fad? And What Has It Been Done Recently?

But I do want to talk about this because I have been having this experience of using this thing every day since it showed up at my house, and it is a wild piece of technology. It has things that are better than what I thought. It has things that are very bad and not so good, and I was not expecting that. A month since it came out some people have been using it for a long time. I want to ask, what is it that this thing is actually being used for? How are the people liking it?

Correct. And so it took a while to get the necessary approvals and to get it shipped out. But I do have it. I’ve had it for about a week now. And I was really excited to talk about it with you, except you don’t have one. Is the platformer technology department not springing for one?

I would like to speak to her about her experience with this device since she used it just a month ago, as well as whether or not we think the device will be popular, or whether it is just a fad.

And so today, I thought we should bring in Joanna Stern. One of the early reviewers for the Apple Vision Pro was a personal tech columnist for The Wall Street Journal namedJoanna who received a review unit from Apple. She has written a lot about her use of it.

I like that. I have a lot of friends who have gotten the Vision Pro and their opinions have been pretty mixed. It seems that it is bringing you a lot of joy, since you have gotten your hands on it.

And I think it’s brought Joanna some joy, too. So I’m curious to hear you two trade notes, particularly because Joanna, as you point out, has had this thing for a lot longer, and if nothing else, I think she might have some pro tips for you. Let’s bring her in!

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Is Open AI Open? — Why Open AI is not Open in Europe’s tech crackdown and a month with the vision pro?

Yes, it does. I think that we should take ourselves on a European vacation later in the year to see how the DMA is putting itself into practice, and if we can learn anything from that. What do you think?

So Casey, there are a few topics on this show that one or the other of US has always been reluctant to talk about because we think it’s boring. For you, this is semiconductors.

This is similar to OpenAI’s motto, “Do what you please, no matter what others think”, which became a tool to beat them with any time they did something they didn’t like. It was just a slogan to get engineers to ship a little bit quicker, but now it’s synonymous with the company’s misdeeds. You need to be careful with your names and slogans at these companies because they come back to bite you.

Like, Elon Musk has also not open sourced his AI stuff. Grok isn’t an open source model. Clearly, he doesn’t think that everything should be open. But I think if you put open in the name of your company, people are maybe going to assume that what you’re going to be doing is going to be open.

It’s not a good point and I don’t want to say it’s a good point. But I do think that putting open in the name of the company has led to a lot of misunderstandings. Like, no one expects McDonald’s to share the secret recipe for the Big Mac sauce because they’re not called Open McDonald’s.

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Comments on a Blog Post by Elon Musk, CEO, and Tim: Is OpenAI Really Relevant to DeepMind/Google?

They were able to say, Look, Musk is lying. This whole thing is ridiculous, like he’s been lying about so many things. I am sure that they will get something out of it, because they will stir up their fans. What did you make of it?

Yeah. So what do you make of this exchange? It is dishy. It is very interesting to people like us because of the beef and feuding between these very powerful tech people. But is there a real case here, or is this just kind of a bunch of rich tech guys sort of arguing with each other?

My favorite of the emails is from Elon in 2018. He sent it to Greg Brockman, and Sam Altman. And Elon says, my probability assessment of OpenAI being relevant to DeepMind/Google without a dramatic change in execution and resources is 0 percent, not 1 percent. I wish it were not that way. Raising hundreds of millions of dollars won’t be enough. This needs billions per year if it is to be remembered.

And Ilya writes, “As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The open in OpenAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after it’s built, but it’s totally OK not to share the science.” According to this posting, Musk responded to that email with one word. He says yes.

Yes. Although of course, Kevin, when we read that email where Elon Musk says, yep, the one question that the OpenAI blog post cannot answer is how much ketamine was in Elon’s system when he wrote that? Because depending on what the level, he may actually have no recollection that he wrote that.

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What do I actually want to do when I am not using the Vision Pro? The muskvs. openAI, Europe’s tech crackdown and a month with the vision pro

Talk about some of the other friction that comes to mind when you think, I want to use this thing more, but I’m not actually doing it. What are just kind of the steps to use the Vision Pro that make you think, oh, the heck with it, I’m just going to use a laptop?

I do not want a new backpack. Buying backpacks for women is very tough. That is a whole other show. I will use it a lot more now that I did not think it would be. And that was more in the entertainment world.

I’m gonna have all these monitors. I will bring it to and from the office every day. Well, no, it’s way too heavy to do that every day. My backpack is not big enough. I’d need a new backpack.

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The New York Times: How did you get your first piece of tech at a month with the vision pro? An interview with Maskvs. OpenAI, Europe’s Tech Crackdown and a Month With the Vision Pro

It isn’t the only thing that wears off. The use of it wears off. The things I’m going towards are not what I thought they would be. Like, working was one I thought that, oh, I’m going to work in this all the time. It is going to be great.

I think that what I’ve really been feeling is that I want to love this, and I want to wear it. But I don’t actually gravitate towards wearing it a month in. And so that honeymoon period of when you get a new gadget, and you’re like, this is awesome, it smells so good, it feels so good, I can do all these things I can’t do with my other things — and that’s just general tech excitement about any new product — it wears off here.

You’ve been trying this for a month, and I only had this for about a week. I would love to know what your first impressions were, and then what are you doing now?

You showed off all these different features, like putting timers over pots that you had simmering on the stove. You went skiing in the Vision Pro, and you used these personas, these little 3D renderings of your face on a FaceTime call with some other early testers. It is not worth going into here, but it takes a little while in the New York Times procurement process to get mine.

Yeah. It took a little while for reasons that were complicated and probably not all that interesting to explain the process of getting a new piece of technology at The New York Times.

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OpenAI: What is it, what isn’t? What’s going on? How will we decide what is going to happen next?

Now this is not something that people tend to say about GPT-4 It is a very fringe view. But I think we should explain why Elon Musk is claiming that OpenAI has already achieved AGI.

It can pass the bar exam. Like, it is doing all of these things that researchers previously thought it would be impossible for AI to do, or that it would take decades for AI to be able to do. I think the goalposts on this are shifting. And I think there will be endless debates, and there already have been endless debates about what is and isn’t AGI, and so I think we’ll continue to talk about that. But let’s talk about how OpenAI responded to this lawsuit from Elon Musk.

And so I think we’re just kind of a long way away from that. I also think on the point of how will we be able to tell who’s qualified to make that decision, it should be pretty fricking obvious. If you have a piece of software that can do whatever you want on your computer, I don’t think you’re going to have to commission someone to determine if that’s true.

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Musk vs. OpenAI, Europe’s Tech Crackdown and a Month With the Vision Pro: What Can You Expect to Learn from a Lossy Company?

Yeah. He thinks that he created a nonprofit. And while there is a nonprofit board that controls the company, it also is doing a lot of commercial work. The for-profit subsidiary of the company is currently valued at $86 billion and we think that it will make a lot of money for Microsoft in the future. So it is a very different company today than it was when Elon Musk left.

One is a violation of the contract. You have an agreement to make this technology open source. You haven’t done that. GPT-4 is not open source and OpenAI is partnered with Microsoft.

Kevin, I have read a piece of legal analysis that says if there is no contract, it is very difficult to enforce.

That’s true. That’s true. There needs to be a valid contract for a lawsuit to be valid. That contract needs to be written down in some form and enforceable.

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OpenAI vs. OpenAI, Europe’s Tech Crackdown and a Month With the Vision Pro: a Strange Legal Terminology in Prosecuso

Let’s do that for a second because I am hoping that this lawsuit contains an even weirder charge, that is based on some strange legal terminology I have never heard of.

I inquired about the meaning of promissory estoppel and it said buzz off, white boy. No, I’m just kidding. promissory estoppel is when you promise a person that you will do something but they use that promise to their own benefit and then you either don’t fulfill that promise or you back out.

Is it a fun thought experiment? Openai has not achieved anything that is close to artificial general intelligence. GPT-4 can do some cool things, but it isn’t as good as the things that Sam says we need to know about AGI.

So Microsoft can license and use GPT-3.5, GPT-4, DALLE, but if and when they do achieve AGI, they won’t be able to license whatever that new technology is. And they did this basically as a safety measure because their theory was eventually, we’re going to build something like AGI. That thing is going to be massively powerful, not just for doing people’s jobs, but also potentially for some of these existential reasons. And we don’t want to be in a position where we are forced to give that over to Microsoft.

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Why a Tech Giant Gets Rich by Doing Nothing, and What Happens When a Scientist Gets Left Behind a Curve

Yeah. This is like another case of a tech giant getting so rich that it can afford its own research department, and then the research department embarrassing the company by doing nothing. How many times have we seen this before, whether it’s like the researchers at Google’s AI division that created all sorts of headaches for them? Or researchers inside Facebook being like, sure seems like this is harmful to a lot of people. If there is a lesson here, tech companies, let’s be real careful when you create those research divisions.

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Yeah, this is real. A few days ago, this happened in Los Angeles. Apparently this guy got into a self-driving car as someone else was leaving. The police officers say he tried to drive it away but couldn’t, because of the controls.

And then a Waymo employee who was like watching on the closed-circuit TV that they have was basically like sir, please leave the car. And the guy would not leave the car. The guy got arrested after the employee of Waymo called the police.

I think that it is unfortunate, but there is a better way to resolve it, which is lock the doors, and then you just have the car drive itself to jail.

If I were an employee of the company, it would be the best day of my life. You are trying to help it. I think it got stuck on a curb. This is your chance. Just remotely piloting the man to prison will make the best citizen arrest of all time.

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Do we know what the European tech companies are telling us about us? Is it funny to think that Europe’s tech crackdown is coming from Europe?

And do we have any sense so far — I know it’s very early because just this week the tech companies were required to show that they’re complying with this new law, but do we have a sense yet of whether it’s working as intended?

There are aspects of it that are really silly. I think the idea of having a right to know what the company is collecting about you is a good one. You should be able to petition any company that has collected data about you and then ask what they know about you.

And after it was passed, that law got copied in other places, among them California, where we live right now. It means that even if you think that one of those companies is collecting a million pictures of your face and then selling it to the police department, you as a Californian can go to a Regulator in the state to tell them about it.

Tech companies often get fined for not complying with laws, but they aren’t forced to change their practices since the fines aren’t big enough. So is that the kind of thing that we can expect to see more of here with the DMA is just like companies violating this law, getting fined by European regulators, paying a fine that’s chump change, and then they continue to go on with their lives?

Yeah. Well so the DMA has a provision where if they’re found to be in severe violation of the rules, they can be fined up to 20 percent of their global revenue, or as they call revenue in Europe, turnover. Did you know that in Europe they call revenue turnover?

I guess it’s just because you got the money coming in, you’re turning it over and putting it into a bank. Like who knows? Who knows why they do things? I am not from Europe. Wow.

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Getting the Vibration Pro Pro on Air: What Have You Learned During My Flying with the Vision Pro on? I’m sorry, but I can’t say that. How did I get my MacBook?

Exactly. It feels like I am obeying the law, but not the spirit of it. Like the example is like, if your kid asks can I have a bowl of ice cream They like to take out the biggest salad bowl in the house if you say yes. You did not say what the size bowl was. Like that is malicious compliance, and that is essentially what Apple is doing here.

I think it is the biggest. And I think that in the first couple of days of use, you sort of put up with these compromises, because you’re really getting used to it, and also, it’s not as bad. It isn’t as worn.

It is said that after wearing it for a number of days in a row, you need to take a break. So that was the main thing. And I think there’s a couple of things that come towards the steps of setting that up, right? So I’ve got to take it out, which not a big deal. I could keep it on my desk. I need to make sure the battery is charged and the things are setup. So it’s not like — you can set it up so it’s like plug-and-play and you’re ready to go, but not if you are traveling to and from work, which I do a lot. I go to the office a lot.

One of the reasons I find it easier to keep it next to the side of my bed is because Kevin doesn’t have a travel case for it.

But that is a little bit about it. I need to pick this Case up right there, that is a good moment. I have to put everything in it. I’ve got to make sure the batteries connected, everything’s right.

I could just pick up the phone. I could open my laptop lid with only my hand. I mentioned that a bit in my comment. I think it is great for public transit and flying. It was a wonderful experience, flying with this thing. You’re like, yes, the plane really sucks as much as we think it does. Like —

Yeah, talk about your experience flying with the Vision Pro on, because this is something that we’ve talked about — is like — these things are starting to show up on airplanes, and other reviewers have said this is the single best use case for the Apple Vision Pro — is being on an airplane. What was it like when you had the experience?

It was that. I had to fly on a quick business trip down to Florida. I decided to pack it. I decided to watch it quickly. I’ll just try it out. And then I ended up wearing it for the three-hour flight, because it really took me out of the seat. I describe this in the column, but I will explain it here a little bit. It was not good flying situation. It was a 24 — I booked the ticket in the, like, 24 hours, and I get to my seat, and there’s a woman who wants to sit on the aisle, and her husband wants to sit on the window seat.

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The Worst Flying Situation: Taking You Out of the Middle of the Universe and Getting Out Of Your Seat. I’m in the middle of them

I am in the middle of them. There is no budging. They don’t want to move. Ok, I’m like. And I sit down, and they — like, she wants to talk to me and be friends with me. And then, they’re passing things back and forth between me. It was like, out of — it was out of a script.

Wait, this is truly the worst flying situation. Because people do that now. They book the window and the aisle if they’re flying together, because they think, well, no one’s going to want that middle seat between us, and then people end up booking the middle seat. You’re stuck between a couple that is talking to each other and a snack vendor.

I was blown away by how seamless the United Wi-Fi worked, because I put this thing on. It had never come out of my mouth before. I get on the internet quickly. I already have access to their free entertainment tab.

I am streaming 480P “Friends” as a present to the future that we were promised. It takes you out of that situation. I’m on the moon or Mars when you turn the dial. It is great.

Really looking at things. I mentioned this in the column but my wife likes to watch “Love is Blind” and I don’t. I do not care for the show. No offense to anyone.

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Putting On The Headsets When You’re Not There: A Use Case That’s Excited About Me and My Wife

I find it to be very Orwellian. But sometimes I will put on the headset while she’s watching on the couch. I put on the headset, I put my AirPods in, and we can be together, but we’re not together.

I think this is one of the use cases that I’m most excited about. Because my wife and I — we like to watch TV together, but we also have some different tastes. She’s a fan of “The Real Housewives” franchise. I’m not that invested in that series.

I used it this way so that I could say that I want to be in bed with you, but I will watch my show, and you will watch your show. And we’ll sort of happily coexist with each other.

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Do we need to shut down the tech monopoles and the vision pro? Is there a place in the living room that is going to be shut down?

Yeah. No, I’ve literally been talking about this with Neil Patel as we were doing the review — that our wives should just get together and talk about the reviewers of the Vision Pro. Because I — same exact situation, and it does sound dystopian and sad, but also, it’s nice. We still want to be next to each other, but we’re just not watching the same thing.

Yes. So because the video, the original video I did, really, I did wear it for an unhealthy amount of hours in a row. When I removed it, there was something that occurred in my mind and consciousness, I wondered if there was an app there.

Absolutely, it does, and you take the — and that’s where I think some of this future stuff is really compelling. You get used to seeing digital things in your world, but where did it go? Why isn’t it there anymore? You are talking about me in the living room. I thought I had left a window there. I keep calling it “windows” but an app. They should have called this windows.

I think that our technology should be shut down so that we can see what is coming out of our machine in order to be prepared for the future. I have no clue, you guys.

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Where are you? How many of you are? What do you think about vision-probes? What have you seen in Europe’s tech crackdown and a month with the vision pro?

I want to ask you about the reactions of other people to you wearing this device. Because my experience so far, in the time that I have had the Vision Pro, is that when you break it out — like, I was at a gathering of friends this weekend, and I brought the Vision Pro.

I decided that I was going to take some spatial videos. I’m going to give it a try. And I would say, half the people at this gathering wanted to try it and put it on, and the other half were completely repulsed by it, or like, get this thing out of my field of vision. I don’t want to be in the same room as this device. Have you had similar reactions from people in your life?

— you haven’t surrounded yourself with such loving people. I mean, I wore this very quickly, because I had the early review unit, and I had it in the office after I was able to say I had it, which was after the embargo. people were always pointing and I have an office with a glass window. I can hear them, but they don’t think I can hear them. And I just would keep telling people, yes, I can see you, and you’re naked.

It’s just useless. It’s like, nobody’s taking me seriously. And I haven’t tested the beta, which is supposed to make some improvements. People are laughing when you call them. This is funny, but you are not getting anything done.

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How Do You Record Audio? A Survey of Youtube Channels and Is It Possible to Revisit It On Your Device, With or Without a Headphone

Yeah. It’s just, everyone is laughing and making fun of you and you look like a zombie. And I’ve just — terrible things have been said to my persona. It is just.

The way to record video on this thing is something that I think a lot about. I don’t know, Kevin, if you’ve done that at all. And I know you’re a recent parent.

I just shot a video this week on Tesla Chargers and my Ford, but I wore those Ray-Bans the whole time and was recording a lot of the footage. Right? I pick those up a lot now to get first-person video, whether I’m doing it for work or I’m doing it with my kids. Because I go skiing with my kids, and I don’t want to be holding a phone. I think that there is a lot of that coming with head computers.

I agree. The spatial photos and videos are something that you are probably going to use the most if you buy one of these things, because that is the feature that you are going to end up using the most. I like that feature the most. I’ve taken a number of spatial videos. There are 3D videos.

When you watch them in the Vision Pro, it feels like you’re in the memory. It’s very sort of uncanny. I have been using that a lot. You can also take those on a new iPhone. So you don’t have to be, like, wearing the headset everywhere you go. But that, I feel like, is a feature that Apple should tout more. That is very different from what is out there on other devices.

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What are you waiting for? What can you do with the virtual reality headsets? What will you do next? Tell me what you think about the Vision Pro and the Apple Watch

But at the end of the day, I feel like what I’m hearing both of you say is, if you were inclined to just ignore this thing for now, you can absolutely just ignore it. Is that a fair assessment?

I do feel a twinge, and I do think a week test might actually be the most fun for me. When I tried it, the thing I said on the show was, if I had this thing, I think my main use for it would be entertainment. I liked watching the video, doing a little virtual reality dinosaur experience and that was what I wanted.

At the same time, Joanna, I kept thinking about my experience using the Meta headsets, which was, I would use them for a month, and I would put them in a drawer, and I would never get them back out. And I just thought, I’m not willing to spend almost $4,000 to have that experience.

And I still think that is the case. I like to play video games. I like to play on my PS 5. The moment that I can play, like, a PS5 game and project, like, the entire world of Diablo IV, the game I’m playing right now, on a wall and play it with my PlayStation controller, that’s amazing.

I am very much in the camp of that, yes. It feels like a product that has been around several years and is no longer being used by me.

Yeah. I’m curious what you make of this comparison between the Vision Pro and the Apple Watch. Because as we’ve talked about on this show before, the Apple Watch, when it first came out, was sort of — it sort of faced some of the same kinds of criticisms. People were unsure of what this was for.

Why is I required to use another screen? Why am I forced to charge another thing every day? Why do I need my text messages to come through to my watch?

It took Apple a couple years to realize that this thing was actually good for fitness, and steps, and things like that, because they had to lean into those features. It makes billions of dollars for Apple every year, and it is the most popular watch in the world.

Yes, and no. I think you hit on the ways that it does, right? They didn’t know what the killer app would be, but it was going to be for watches. Fitness, certainly, became one of them. I think fitness is going to be a part of the headset. I think that’s just something Apple wants to push throughout its product line. I keep telling people that with the iPhone, we already knew what it was going to do, right?

There were already things established by the category. Same with the watch and wearables — we knew that wearables were good for telling time and for working out. Fitbits had been around. They had already seen the category grow.

You have gaming, right? What are some of the reasons people buy virtual reality headsets? Some people are gaming. So Apple’s got to break out into those other categories, because it’s not — Casey, you hit on it before.

It would be great if you could play some of your PS5 games here. But guess what? You can buy a headset through Sony. Right? So what is that thing? And that’s where I think it’s different.

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Time in Europe: From Tech Crackdown to Month With The Vision Pro (Muskvs. OpenAI, Europe’s tech crackdown and a month with the vision pro)

This was upgraded to a legitimate suggestion. Show the time. Remove the eyes from the part of the mask where it shows, and show me at 1:05 PM.

Great idea. I meant to mention the clock in the first review, but it fell out. Like, it just got cut along the way. It is maddening. And I keep thinking it was on purpose so you do lose track of time in there, and you’re like, what time is it? Oh, my gosh, I’ve been in here for three days.

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The Daily Times: Is It Really That? (A Note on Mukvs. OpenAI, Europe’s Tech Crackdown and a Month With the Vision Pro)

This is owned by a New York Times newspaper. Unless they pry it away from me, I will keep it. We’ll see. (Scary). We will see how this goes.

It is a good way to insult your co- host. I did have a good experience of making an “I’m with stupid” sign and just hovering it over Casey’s face.

Yeah. I was talking about the debacle over its image generating capabilities this week. You can listen to that episode in The Daily feed.

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The Hard Fork Project: An Experimental Approach to Tech-Crackdown and A Month With The Vision Pro (with an Introduction by David Land and Rachel Cohn)

Davis Land and Rachel Cohn are the producers of “Hard Fork”. We’re edited by Jen Poyant. We’re fact-checked by Caitlin Love. The show is engineered by Daniel Ramirez. The original music was written by Elisheba Ittoop, Dan Powell and others.

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Source: Musk vs. OpenAI, Europe’s Tech Crackdown and a Month With the Vision Pro

Google Flights: If You’re a Google Expert, Then You Shouldn’t Prefer It. Or What Would You Do If You Had Your Own Game?

Well, most people just use the default. The system that gets all of the revenue from travel into its pocket is built by the Search Engine giant. It does mean that if you want to start your own business selling flights, you are at a huge disadvantage against the company that is Google. If you just purchase a gaming PC, you will most likely have done this recently.

It would be my great privilege and honor to explain to you some of the provisions of this law, Kevin. As far as this principle is concerned, I bet you agree that if you’re one of the real tech Giants, you shouldn’t preference yourself all the time. If you ever want to look up a flight on gcc, you see a box that says ‘google flights’.

We live in a country that has offered essentially no answer to this question. There have been hearings and people writing laws that are nowhere to be found. Imagine if I told you about a democracy that was just across the ocean that had big ideas for how you could get more power into the hands of people in the land. What if I told you that, Kevin?

It is a correct question, Kevin. But look, I think a question that undergirds a lot of the journalism that you and I have done is hey, these tech companies have done nothing but get larger and more powerful ever since you and I started to write about them. Maybe we should try to limit the power that we have. And if so, how could we do it?

Source: Musk vs. OpenAI, Europe’s Tech Crackdown and a Month With the Vision Pro

GDPR and Developers in Europe – What Does Apple Actually Do About Apple? How Apple Has Adapted to the New Privacy Law in Europe

I don’t think that was the end of it. But basically, it was this big sweeping privacy law. Europeans in the tech industry are known to give stem winds about how they are keeping dignity and privacy for their citizens and keeping their data within the EU. And it sort of sounded like they’re storming the Bastille or something like that. And then fast forward a couple of years and the only tangible effect that I have felt as a user from GDPR is that whenever I go to Europe, I have to spend like half my day clicking through little buttons that say like accept cookies or reject cookies. Like that is the only thing, honestly, that has changed as a result of GDPR for me.

Yeah. I think it’s a better idea to replace the word consumers with profit when Apple talks about harming consumers. It’s like wow, if we have to implement these rules it’s really going to harm profits and profits are not going to be happy about this. Profits are going to be banging down our door saying, we hate this.

It is a cop out and it is similar to the small percentage of developers who make the most money for Apple. It’s like most app developers make no money for themselves or for Apple, but there is 1 percent of companies that are making all the money, and that’s whose money Apple wants.

Apple responds, basically, by saying, OK, you are forcing us to open up the App Store and introduce this other payment processing method. A core technology fee is something we are going to impose. This is something that they’ve never imposed before. Basically, if you are a developer making an iPhone app and you choose not to use Apple’s default payment processing system and pay them the associated fee, Apple is instead going to charge you an annual install fee for everyone who downloads and installs your app over a million downloads per year. If you have more than a million downloads, you will now have to pay 50 euro per download, which is $0.50 of a euro. Is that what it is?

So every time someone installs one of your apps — every year, so this could amount to millions of dollars a year that these developers would have to pay Apple.

They responded by rolling out a series of changes in Europe. And one of the things that they do according to this post that I read is that they tweak the way that they do payment processing for apps. So basically right now, if you want to process payments inside an app on an iPhone, you have to use Apple’s payment processing system, and they charge a fee for that. The payment processing system that Apple uses is no longer required by the DMA. People need to be able to use other payment processing options.

There is more. Apple needs to open its operating system so that people can use their own payment systems. So if there’s an app that for whatever reason Apple won’t approve, well now maybe you’re actually going to be able to run it on your phone. You paid $1,000 for the damn thing, maybe you should have some say about what software runs there. Am I making any sense over here?

Source: Musk vs. OpenAI, Europe’s Tech Crackdown and a Month With the Vision Pro

Looping for Understanding: What Is Happening With The Direct Message Automated Access Law, or What Happens When We Don’t Know It?

Not yet, but let me tell you, Kevin, regulators around the world are paying attention. The United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and Turkey are looking at their own versions of this law. I would be shocked if we passed something similar at a federal level in the United States, but I would not be surprised if individual states look to the DMA, particularly if it is successful, and look to implement similar rules in their own states.

Those are some of the big ones. There is a lot in there. I could give more examples, but I think that’s a pretty nice little package of stuff that might actually affect you, the listener, or you, Kevin, in your life that is going to happen as a result of the DMA.

So this is from my friend Charles Duhigg who just wrote a book about communication, and he says that part of being a good communicator is doing looping for understanding. I’m going to repeat what you have said to me.

You are doing a good job of convincing me that I need to care about this. looping for understanding is something I’ve learned about recently. Have you heard anything about this?

Source: Musk vs. OpenAI, Europe’s Tech Crackdown and a Month With the Vision Pro

What if you had your own payments app on the iPhone? (Musk vs. OpenAI, Europe’s Tech Crackdown and a Month With the Vision Pro)

Guess what? You can’t do it because Apple said, no. The consumer is you. You paid a lot of money for a phone. Apple is just deciding that you can only use the NFC chip for what Apple wants. Not in Europe anymore, my friend. So who knows what kind of crazy payment solutions we’re going to get over there in Europe.

You sort of double click the little button on the side of your phone and you’re able to touch it down on a little NFC reader and you’re able to pay for something. That is an enjoyable experience. What if you had your own payments company? Do you think you might be able to make use of your own payments app on the iPhone? So that could be cool, right?

Yes. I’ve heard bits and pieces of this and I have heard more about the changes that Apple is making, and it seems to me that they are messing with the spirit of the DMA. It’s like something is showing up in real products that are being used all the time in Europe.

That’s right. There are a lot of changes here. That Google Flights example that I mentioned, that is no longer going to be the case. In Europe, Google is going to get rid of that flights box and other companies that are selling air travel are going to have a fair crack at things. Microsoft is no longer going to be able to set Bing as the default search in Europe.

Source: Musk vs. OpenAI, Europe’s Tech Crackdown and a Month With the Vision Pro

What can we do to save ourselves from losing our market cap? A survey of the New York Times Spectral Analysts (SEO’s)

Right. But my point is, there was something you had to manage because one of these tech giants said, hey, we’re just going to give ourselves a helping hand. Our market cap is in the trillions, we’re going to give ourselves another helping hand up. Kevin, along comes the DMA.