Thu. 04/24 – The AI Coding Wars Are Upon Us
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🗓️ 24 April 2025
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Summary
More fallout from those EU fines yesterday. A whole slew of self driving car news. The AI Coding Wars have officially begun. The back to the office wars continue. Is Chrome worth $50 billion? And let me tell you about the AI app that wants to help you cheat at everything.
Links:
- Apple and Meta Are First to Be Hit by E.U. Digital Competition Law (NYTimes)
- Uber, Volkswagen pair up to launch robotaxi service in US with self-driving, electric microbuses (TechCrunch)
- Windsurf slashes prices as competition with Cursor heats up (TechCrunch)
- Google Chrome Worth ‘Upwards of $50 Billion,’ Browser Rival Says (Bloomberg)
- Google forcing some remote workers to come back 3 days a week or lose their jobs (CNBC)
- Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ‘cheat on everything’ (TechCrunch)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, April 24th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. |
| 0:09.1 | More fallout from those EU fines yesterday. A whole slew of self-driving car news. |
| 0:14.3 | The AI coding wars have officially begun. The Back to the Office Wars continue. Is Chrome worth |
| 0:20.8 | $50 billion? and let me tell you |
| 0:23.3 | about the AI app that wants to help you cheat at everything. |
| 0:26.9 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:32.9 | Well, a bit of a reprieve. |
| 0:35.0 | The European Commission says that Meta's Facebook marketplace should |
| 0:38.5 | no longer be designated under the DMA, citing fewer than 10,000 business users in 2024, |
| 0:44.9 | but the fallout from the fines yesterday continues, quoting the Times. The Trump administration |
| 0:51.0 | lashed out at the ruling on Wednesday. This novel form of economic extortion will not be tolerated by the United States, said Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the National Security Council. |
| 1:00.8 | Extra-territorial regulations that specifically target and undermine American companies, stifle innovation, and enable censorship, will be recognized as barriers to trade and a direct threat to free civil society, end quote. |
| 1:13.1 | A White House memo from February said officials would consider retaliation if the European |
| 1:17.5 | Union targeted American tech companies under the Digital Markets Act or the Digital Services |
| 1:21.6 | Act, a law focused on curbing illicit online content and disinformation. |
| 1:26.2 | Meta said it was likely to appeal the ruling, |
| 1:28.0 | calling it an attack on American companies akin to imposing steep tariffs on their services. |
| 1:32.8 | The European Commission is attempting to handicap successful American businesses while |
| 1:36.4 | allowing Chinese and European companies to operate under different standards, Joel Kaplan, |
| 1:40.5 | Meta's chief global affairs officer said in a statement, |
| 1:43.2 | this isn't just about a fine. The commission forcing us to change our business model |
| 1:46.9 | effectively imposes a multi-billion dollar tariff on META while requiring us to offer an |
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