Tue. 10/03 – Time To Pay For Social Media?

Bots passed human web traffic for the first time, per Cloudflare's CEO. The S&P 500 rejected fast-entry for mega-cap IPOs like SpaceX. Anthropic embedded engineers at the NSA, Meta hid face-recognition code in its app, and Cambridge trialed the first AI-designed vaccine. Cloudfla ...  Show more

Google released Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal model that runs locally on 16GB devices. TSMC's CEO warned chip supply won't meet demand for years. Ramp raised $750M at $44B, and Anthropic says 80%+ of its merged code is now Claude-authored. Google releases Gemma 4 12B, an 11.95B-param ...  Show more

In this thought-provoking discussion, we dive into the intriguing concept of how social media platforms essentially have us working for free through our content creation and interaction. We create the value that keeps these platforms alive, but do we see any return? 

And is the blue checkmark payment plan less about bots and more about the model? This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and FTX US. On today’s episode, NLW recaps the first few days following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, including who he has fired and brought in, how th ...  Show more

The Tesla billionaire has made a $40B+ offer to buy the company. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.  The Elon Musk-Twitter saga continues! Today, Musk announced an offer to buy 100% of Twitter at $54.20 a share, saying that it was important for free speech ...  Show more

<span>As Google battles AI spam in a fight for its relevancy, will TikTok’s pushes in Search topple the King? Also: Is this the end of "being real"? YouTube adds more disclosure requirements. And LinkedIn decides what is business users really want... is to play cheap m ...