Richard Lawler

Netflix is a couple of hours away from releasing its latest quarterly earnings data. And other than strikes by Hollywood writers and actors spurred at least partially by the business model it pioneered, major questions include the impact of account-sharing restrictions and ads.

Microsoft has announced that Bing Chat now supports Visual Search (still based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 model that was announced in March with image inputs, while Google Bard added image search in May) to “understand the context of an image, interpret it, and answer questions about it.”

The Vox podcast Unexplainable has started a two-part series on AI by interviewing Sam Bowman, a researcher for Anthropic and professor at NYU, about how AI tools work and how you get from “a really fancy autocomplete tool” to something that seems more like a virtual assistant.

For years, Rocket Lab has been trying to catch falling boosters with a helicopter, and now that’s done.

A report from Bloomberg based on unnamed sources says the two companies aren’t likely to make their agreed July 18th deadline to close the deal, but rather than have Microsoft pay the game publisher a $3 billion breakup fee they’ll just extend it and try to get it down a little later.

No, not either of these lawsuits (although a decision on Elon’s $56 billion pay package is expected soon, you can relive his testimony in text form here), but in the case of The Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit v. Elon Musk.

According to recent rumors, including this Motor Trend report, Dodge will replace the Durango with a new three-row “Stealth” SUV that could have electrified powertrain options.

Elon Musk has said that Twitter is reaching all time highs in “device user seconds usage,” and that almost all the advertisers who left have “either come back or they said they will come back.”