Wed. 06/28 – Who Needs A Mac Pro?

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🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Even in bankruptcy, even FTX is like, maybe we’ll hold on to these AI investments. Could Windows itself become a fully cloud product? Has Google canceled its AR project? How AI is making even Billy Bean look like old school baseball. And who needs a Mac Pro when you’ve got a perfectly good Mac Studio or even Mac Book? Links: FTX Halts Sale of Its $500 Million Stake in AI Startup Anthropic (Bloomberg) AI Frenzy Draws Hordes to Private Markets in Industry Gold Rush (Bloomberg) Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (The Verge) Google killed its Iris augmented-reality smart glasses as it shifts attention to building AR software (Insider) DoorDash launches hourly rates and location sharing for couriers (The Verge) Baseball Scouts Call In Artificial Intelligence Help From the Bullpen (WSJ) The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook (The Verge) Eat Your Heart Out, Tesla. Mercedes-Benz May Have the Fastest EV Yet. (Barron's) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, June 28th,
0:07.8	2023. I'm Brian McCullough today, even in bankruptcy. Even FTX is like maybe we'll hold on to these AI
0:15.0	investments for a bit longer. Could Windows itself become a fully cloud
0:19.5	product? Has Google cancelled its AR project?
0:23.0	How AI is making even Billy Bean look like old school baseball?
0:27.5	And who needs a Mac Pro when you've got a perfectly good Mac studio or even a Macbook?
0:32.4	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:34.0	Interesting new little nugget from the FTX bankruptcy.
0:40.0	sources say FTX has abruptly halted the sale of its 500 million
0:46.1	dollar stake in AI startup, Anthropic.
0:48.7	FTX's bankers had reportedly been shopping its Anthropic steak around in early June, but I guess the pool of the AI moment
0:56.2	makes them think, hey, do we need to fire sale this thing?
1:00.3	We've got real value here quoting Bloomberg.
1:03.0	Semaphore reported earlier in June that FDX had been shopping its
1:07.2	anthropic holding with an expectation of fetching nine figures, privately held
1:11.7	anthropic founded in 2021 by former Open AI employees,
1:15.4	has become one of the hottest companies of the current AI Boom.
1:18.5	Anthropic said in May that it had raised 450 million dollars to support the development of
1:22.4	its AI bot dubbed
1:23.5	Claude. Buyers in the secondary market for shares and private companies
1:27.4	have been actively seeking opportunities to acquire stakes in
1:30.3	Anthropic, including at a premium, according to Rainmaker securities co-founder
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