Episode Details

Have you seen Instagram's new logo? Meta debuted it right before we started recording, so of course David and Nilay needed to talk about it. Then, the hosts turn to Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word missive on the future of AI, and the problem with his idea that giving AI to everyone will fix everything. After that, it's time for Claude watermarks, Spotify AI personas, Brendan Carr, Flock, and much more.

Further reading:

• ⁠This is Instagram’s new logo | The Verge⁠

• ⁠The Pepsi Universe PDF

• ⁠The Future is for Everyone⁠

• ⁠Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto ⁠

• ⁠Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live ⁠

• ⁠https://www.meta.com/design-at-meta/blog/⁠

• ⁠Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images ⁠

• ⁠‘If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in.’ ⁠

• ⁠Spotify says it won’t recommend music from ‘AI Personas’ ⁠

• ⁠Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes | The Verge⁠

• ⁠Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video | The Verge⁠

• ⁠Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI | The Verge⁠

• ⁠Suno Unveils Download Song Caps for Free, Paid Tiers⁠

• ⁠Brendan Carr is one firing away from an unchecked FCC⁠

• ⁠YouTube is making it harder to earn money on YouTube ⁠

• ⁠Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’ ⁠

• ⁠The first rival Android app store just arrived in the US Play Store ⁠

• ⁠ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users ⁠

• ⁠The sub-$100 phone market is disappearing. ⁠

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