My LLM Cutoff Is 1930

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🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Apple beat Q2 estimates and forecast strong Q3 growth as the MacBook Neo and Mac Mini sell out. The Senate unanimously banned prediction market trading for senators, Intel closed its best month ever at +114%, and Musk admitted xAI "partly" distilled OpenAI models. Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates, with sales expected to rise between 14% and 17%, and says memory expenses will climb "significantly higher" in Q3 (Bloomberg) Amazon debuts "Join the chat", an AI-powered feature that lets users ask questions about products and get conversational audio responses generated in real time (TechCrunch) The US Senate unanimously passed a rule barring senators from trading on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, amid rising concern over insider trading (CNBC) Musk v. Altman: when asked whether xAI has distilled OpenAI models, Elon Musk says the claim is "partly" true (Wired) Intel's stock jumped 114% in April, hitting a record on April 24 and lifting its market cap past $470B, closing out the chipmaker's best month on record (CNBC) Longreads Talkie-LM: what happens when you train a language model exclusively on text from before 1930? Can it predict the future or independently rediscover General Relativity? (Talkie-LM) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Instagram teen accounts with automatic protections on who can contact teenagers and the content they can see.
0:07.0	Instagram teen accounts have contact limits on by default, so teenagers get messages from people they know, not strangers,
0:15.0	and default content settings.
0:17.0	Plus, teenagers under 16 can't change these default settings without parental approval.
0:22.8	So parents can help teenagers connect safely.
0:26.5	Learn more at Instagram.com slash teen accounts.
0:34.3	Welcome to the TechBrew right home for Friday, May 1st, 2026.
0:44.7	I'm Brian McCullough today. Apple beat Q2 estimates and forecast strong Q3 growth as the MacBook Neo and Mac Mini sell out.
0:54.0	The Senate unanimously banned prediction market trading for senators. Intel closed its best month ever at greater than 114% up. Elon admitted XAI partly distilled open AI models,
0:57.6	and of course, the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of
1:01.5	tech. Apple earnings, they did good, yada, yada, yada. Apple's CFO said that the iPhone 17 family
1:10.5	is now the most popular lineup in our history,
1:13.1	and we believe we gained market share during the quarter. And Tim Cook said iPhone sales,
1:18.5	which slightly missed Q2 estimates, were held back by supply chain constraints for advanced chips,
1:24.1	as, quote, demand was off the charts. But Apple is up 5% as I type this this
1:29.9	morning because Apple forecast Q3 revenue above estimates with sales expected to rise between 14 and 17%.
1:37.1	They did also say, though, that memory expenses will climb significantly higher in Q3.
1:43.2	Quoting Bloomberg, the outlook bodes well for incoming chief executive officer John Ternis,
1:48.3	who takes the reins from Tim Cook on September 1st.
1:51.3	Ternis appeared briefly on the conference call, saying he would maintain Cook's, quote,
1:55.1	thoughtfulness, deliberateness, and discipline as CEO.
1:58.3	We have an incredible roadmap ahead.
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