Do Skills for Claude represent a new sort of user paradigm for AI? Battlefield 6 seems to be doing what EA needs it to do. Nintendo seems to be killing it. Is Wikipedia in trouble because it’s losing human users? Now Uber drivers can earn new money thanks to AI. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work (The Verge)
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP (Simon Willison)
Steam just broke its concurrent user record with 41.6 million gamers (TweakTown)
Nintendo Aims to Make 25 Million Switch 2s to Set Gaming History (Bloomberg)
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (404media)
Uber Launches Data Tasks as Option for Some US Drivers to Earn Money (Bloomberg)
Apple and F1 reach 5-year media deal, bringing all races to Apple TV streaming in the U.S. (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions
AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants (WSJ)
Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream (Colossus)
How Sam Altman Played Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
TiVo Has Sold Its Last DVR. These People Refuse to Let Go. (WSJ)
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A $300 Trillion Oopsie
So, a huge, huge, like bigger than the entire world’s GDP fat finger episode in the world of stablecoins. Zuck has poached another one from Apple. Potentially huge state sponsored hack of a key infrastructure company. The most interesting new phone concept I’ve seen in a while. And are we in an AI bubble episode 72.
Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins (Decrypt)
Apple’s Head of ChatGPT-Like AI Search Effort to Leave for Meta (Bloomberg)
F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code (BleepingComputer)
Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model (TechCrunch)
Honor’s Robot Phone concept features a fold-out camera arm (The Verge)
‘Of course it’s a bubble’: AI start-up valuations soar in investor frenzy (FT)
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M5 Chips Are Here
The new Apple M5 chips are here, and I’ll tell you what devices got them and what they can do. ChatGPT wants to allow you to have sexy time. Waymo is coming to London. Netflix wants to bring podcasts to your streaming diet. And its officially the end of the road for Windows 10.
Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro gets an M5 chip bump and faster storage (The Verge)
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults (The Verge)
Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to London (The Verge)
Spotify partners with Netflix for video podcast distribution deal (TechCrunch)
YouTube has a new video player (The Verge)
OpenAI makes five-year business plan to meet $1tn spending pledges (FT)
Windows 10 support “ends” today, but it’s just the first of many deaths (ArsTechnica)
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Sam Altman’s Financial Engineering
The Dutch government has taken control of a Dutch chipmaker that had Chinese owners. Yet another big OpenAI deal, this time with Broadcom. The first AI desktop workstations are arriving. And we check in with Matt Levine to get his take on what he says is Sam Altman’s genius for financial engineering.
Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia (FT)
OpenAI, Broadcom Forge Multibillion-Dollar Chip-Development Deal (WSJ)
Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Departs for Meta (WSJ)
Nvidia to Start Selling $3,999 DGX Spark Mini PC This Week (PCMag)
NotebookLM Video Overviews add Nano Banana visual styles, Brief or Explainer formats (9to5Google)
OpenAI Keeps Doing Deals (Matt Levine)
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(BNS) Jennifer Hyman Of Rent The Runway
Jenn Hyman shares her journey from early influences of entrepreneurship to founding Rent the Runway. She discusses the impact of the internet on her career, the challenges of fundraising during a recession, and the importance of building relationships in the fashion industry. Hyman emphasizes the unique advantages of starting a business in New York City and the collaborative spirit of the startup ecosystem.
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