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Fri. 05/30 – Big Meta/Anduril Deal Is A Big Deal
Why Meta’s big deal with Anduril is a big deal for the entire tech industry. Microsoft is kinda not joining, but also kind of all in on the handheld gaming race. Count Hugging Face as someone else serious about AI robots. And in the longreads, more signs that the AI job apocalypse might already be upon us.
Links:
- Meta Fired Palmer Luckey. Now, They’re Teaming Up on a Defense Contract. (WSJ)
- Mark Zuckerberg Finally Found a Use for His Metaverse — War (Bloomberg)
- EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's first-party handheld has been sidelined (for now), as Microsoft doubles down on 'Kennan' and Windows 11 PC gaming optimization (Windows Central)
- Black Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate them (TechCrunch)
- Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here (NYTimes)
- How Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd & Jethro Tull Financed the Making Monty Python and the Holy Grail (OpenCulture)
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