Perplexity Jumps the Shark, Makes Clownish $34.5 Billion Stunt Offer to Buy Chrome From Google

Regarding Those Rumors of Apple Pursuing an Acquisition of Perplexity

‘The Quid Pro Quo Arrangement Is Unprecedented’

Trump Extends China Tariff Deadline by 90 Days, Again

‘Unusual Agreements’

[Sponsor] Dekáf Coffee Roasters

★ OpenAI Brings Back Legacy ChatGPT 4o Model in Response to Outcry From Users Who Find GPT-5 Emotionally Unsatisfying

It’s reasonable — especially for paying customers — to expect at least some advance notice of older models going away. But it’s unreasonable to think that older models are going to remain available in perpetuity — especially in the current LLM clima…

Trump Extends China Tariff Deadline by 90 Days, Again

Mad King Watch, Intel Edition

★ OpenAI Brings Back Legacy ChatGPT 4o Model in Response to Outcry From Users Who Find GPT-5 Emotionally Unsatisfying

It’s reasonable — especially for paying customers — to expect at least some advance notice of older models going away. But it’s unreasonable to think that older models are going to remain available in perpetuity — especially in the current LLM clima…

AOL Pulls the Plug on Dial-Up Service

WorkOS: Simplify MCP Authorization

AOL Pulls the Plug on Dial-Up Service

★ Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon

It is disturbing to think that the leader of a beloved, trusted, and widely believed-to-be-ethical company like Apple has succumbed to avarice. That Tim Cook feels no qualms about — or perhaps even delights in — participating in a quid-pro-quo-drive…

★ Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon

It is disturbing to think that the leader of a beloved, trusted, and widely believed-to-be-ethical company like Apple has succumbed to avarice. That Tim Cook feels no qualms about — or perhaps even delights in — participating in a quid-pro-quo-drive…

★ Substack Raised Another $100 Million, Which, I Bet, Is Already Being Flushed Down the Same Toilet as Their First $100 Million

I firmly believe one could build a very nice business taking 10 percent of subscription revenue for a blogging/newsletter platform, if you could get as nice a roster of popular writers to build on the platform as Substack has. I do not think that’s …

Regarding Those Rumors of Apple Pursuing an Acquisition of Perplexity

Lawsuit Alleges That Meta Pirated and Seeded Massive Amounts of Porno for Years to Train AI

OpenAI: ‘Introducing gpt-oss’

OpenAI: ‘Introducing gpt-oss’

Lawsuit Alleges That Meta Pirated and Seeded Massives Amounts of Porno for Years to Train AI