Apple
Apple, Build Your Own Smart Home. We Already Have Enough LG Agreements.
Apple reportedly co-developed smart home devices with LG. Please build your own, Apple: the front door deserves your privacy, support, and product obsession.
AI
The Complete Guide to Personal AI Assistants—and the Price of Being Understood
A brutally complete guide to personal AI assistants: Instinct’s $2.5B frenzy, Circleback’s free tier, the giants, startups, benefits, and risks.
Big Tech
Mark Zuckerberg Says Apple Stopped Innovating. The Metaverse Has Notes.
Mark Zuckerberg says Apple stopped innovating. Meta’s $83.6 billion Reality Labs loss total and 47.5% creator cut make the critique spectacularly awkward.
Satire
SiliconSnark AI Manifesto: Superintelligence for Everyone, Because Regular Intelligence Clearly Isn’t Working
The SiliconSnark AI Manifesto answers Zuckerberg with universal superintelligence, printer tribunals, safety geese, and several necessary lasers.
Boston Tech
Boston Tech Week Was Great, Weird, Exhausting, and Very Boston
Unfiltered Friday thoughts on the first Boston Tech Week: what worked, what got messy, and why Boston needs a nap before the weekend events.