Nilay Patel

Adi’s written at length about how both sides in American politics appear to be kind of over the First Amendment, but the GOP in particular keeps talking about overturning NYT vs. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 Supreme Court case that protects the media’s ability to criticize politicians and other public figures. Leading the charge? Ron DeSantis, who recently appeared on a panel dedicated to overturning the case. I will keep saying this over and over: government speech regulations are bad!

A little insight into how Mr. and Mrs. Smith ended up in that Tubi Super Bowl commercial last night.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is an extremely smart and thoughtful guy, but think about how hard his set of choices is right now: he has to roll out chatbot AI search in order to make investors happy, but rolling that out will instantly cause legal, ethical, and regulatory chaos, all while simultaneously increasing the costs of search and reducing the profits of web advertising. Yikes!

You’ve seen the presentations, so you know what Microsoft and Google have shown when it comes to AI chatbot search.

We’re back in video form (audio feeds for your podcast app are here), and this time yes, I admit it — I was occasionally using Nvidia AI to enhance my eye contact with Nilay, Allison, and Monica.

I’m a little late to this, but this line at the end of John Gruber’s latest post on the possible use cases for Apple’s VR headset jumped out to me: