Last week, Paul Kafasis wrote about how a small bug in Audio Hijack saved his company. They initially launched Audio Hijack (in 2002, shortly after I turned 4!) with a 15 day free trial. Sales were horrible. But when they released a small update a few months later, they accidentally
Ben Thompson, in this week’s article at Stratechery, wrote about how publishing has been transformed via the creation of the printing press, the internet, and now AI. Each of these inventions has changed the creation-to-consumption pipeline, removing bottlenecks, increasing the availability and amount of content, and enabling new publishing
In my last post, I commented on the two recent court victories for Meta and Anthropic and summarized the judgements that were made in favor of fair use for the training of LLMs. In these two specific cases, the training of LLMs has been deemed transformative. However, the two judges
A few weeks ago, Anthropic, the developer of Claude, won a fair use trial regarding the use of legally obtained copies of books that were digitized for AI training and the creation of a digital library for the purposes of training LLMs. Two days later, Meta won a similar case,
There have been several rumors lately and lots of discussion online about the possibility of Apple introducing a new MacBook powered by the A18 Pro chip. This would be the first time Apple has released a Mac powered by an iPhone chip, but they couldn't be doing it
I'm starting a blog... in 2025... maybe?? This might be one of the strangest things I've ever done. It's definitely the most I've ever put myself "out there" online, with the exception of trying to be a Minecraft YouTuber for