Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for the first day of December 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today a summary of last night's Sam Bankman Freed show. Elon visits Tim Cook and maybe they buried the hatchet.

Now, Open AI has released a chatbot.

Neuralink says it's going to start implanting into humans very soon,

and Arizona is going to get the good stuff when it comes

to chips.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Hey, all of our big stories from November came roaring back today. I watched the entire

Sam Bankman-Freed interview with Andrew Ross Surkin last night so you didn't have to.

SBF gave few straight answers while also admitting to pretty big errors, denied claims

of fraud but also kept saying he didn't knowingly do things like

quote didn't knowingly commingle funds and quote

quoting Bloomberg in his first major public appearance following the

November 11th implosion of

FTX and sister trading house Alameda research.

Bankman Freed said he quote screwed up at the helm of the exchange and should

have focused more on risk management, customer protection, and links between FTX and Alameda.

I made a lot of mistakes, the 30-year-old said Wednesday by video link at the New York Times

Dealbook Summit.

There are things I would give anything to be able to do over again.

I didn't ever try to commit fraud on anyone."

Bankman Freed told the summit that he, quote, didn't knowingly commingle funds.

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