It’s hard to keep track of all the Twitter alternatives that have popped up since Musk took over the company: Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, Post, Notes and Artifact, just to name a few. Arielle talks to the latest copycatters behind T2, a platform trying to reinvent Twitter by recreating its (supposed) heyday.
EXCLUSIVE MICROSOFT GOOGLE By Jon Victor and Amir Efrati Since Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, in 2019, he has been honest with colleagues about the difficulties of overseeing a sprawling conglomerate that’s under constant strain from internal power struggles, regulators and rebellious employees.
MICROSOFT STARTUPS By Kevin McLaughlin, Aaron Holmes and Anissa Gardizy Big software companies including Microsoft and Salesforce are racing to incorporate the technology behind ChatGPT, known as generative artificial intelligence, into their products to attract new users and boost profits.
EXCLUSIVE STARTUPS GOOGLE By Wayne Ma Late last year, a trio of engineers who had just helped Apple modernize its search technology began working on the type of technology underlying ChatGPT, the chatbot from OpenAI that has captivated the public since it launched last November.
EXCLUSIVE GOOGLE ENTERPRISE By Anissa Gardizy and Amir Efrati Google has moved the engineering team responsible for making artificial intelligence chips into Google Cloud, a spokesperson confirmed, in a step that could make the cloud unit more competitive with its bigger rivals, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, in selling AI-powered software to businesses.
FINANCE By Ann Gehan Fintechs, beat down by the tech meltdown last year, are struggling to make good on their pitch to consumers.
EXCLUSIVE STARTUPS By Mark Matousek A former employee of SoftBank-backed messaging app IRL alleged in a legal filing that the company has inflated its user count and retaliated against him and other employees who raised concerns about the accuracy of its user numbers.
Microsoft is now rolling out an update for Windows 11 that makes the Phone Link app compatible with iPhones. It should reach all PCs by mid-May. Once you’re updated, pairing your iPhone and Windows via Bluetooth will let you make and receive phone calls through your PC, read and reply to phone messages (including iMessages) straight from your desktop, as well as see your notifications as they come in. It seems a bit more limited than the Android version, but could grow over time. |
| Google knows exactly what you want: another app for podcasts. The company already has Google Podcasts, but it’s now also adding access to shows via YouTube Music, presumably in an effort to compete with Spotify. One cool feature is you will be able to switch between audio and the video YouTube version if there’s one available, without losing your place. The YouTube Music update has rolled out in the US, with wider availability to come. |
| Amazon has pushed out an update to its biggest and priciest Kindle, the Scribe, with a number of much-requested features. Curious timing given the recent launch of the competing Kobo Elipsa 2E! The Scribe can now receive .doc files directly from Microsoft Word for marking up on the reader and can adjust contrast on PDF pages which were often too dark. There’s also a new notebook overview and editing screen, and the ability to display two pages at a time in landscape mode. |
| | The constant U-turns have generated a lot of discussion on Twitter, but have not improved the site’s user experience. By Tim Biggs |  |
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| Every Snapchat user now has access to an AI-powered bot that, for now, has a limited memory but is improving. By Nick Bonyhady |  |
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| Siri is now 12 years old and ChatGPT has redefined what chatbots can do. Has Apple dropped the ball? By Tim Culpan and Parmy Olson |  |
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| With the next iPhone six months out, leaks and rumours are starting to build a picture of what to expect from Apple. By Tim Biggs |  |
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| After publicly opposing AI chatbot development, Elon Musk may launch his own product. By Tim Biggs
 | AI aggregates, but dyslexia innovates | The rise of AI is truly remarkable. It is transforming the way we work, live, and interact with each other, and with so many other touchpoints of our lives. However, while AI aggregates, dyslexic thinking skills innovate. If used in the right way, AI could be the perfect co-pilot for dyslexics to really move the world forward. In light of this, Virgin and Made By Dyslexia have launched a brilliant campaign to show what is possible if AI and dyslexic thinking come together. The film below says it all.  | Q1 Results Power Our Bright Future | Once again, we delivered strong earnings thanks to healthy customer demand for our vehicles, our intense focus on operational excellence, and great teamwork between General Motors, our dealers, our suppliers and our unions. I want to thank everyone for their efforts. Great examples include: - The way the GMI team has pivoted from restructuring the business to earning record profits, excluding China. It’s exciting to see early orders for the new Chevrolet Trax in Korea and the Chevrolet Montana in Brazil come in at a record pace.
- In the U.S. market, we led the industry in retail and fleet...
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We close out with the following courtesy the team at the Daily Stoic:
All of our upbringings were different. Some were given two parents. Others only one. Maybe it took a village to raise you. Either way, we didn’t get to decide who our mom was or who our dad was, if they got divorced, if they were present, if our stepparents were a blessing or a nightmare. It was all outside our control. None of us choose our circumstances and we certainly didn’t choose our parents. Yet every one of us, as Seneca said, gets to choose whose children we decide to be. In ancient Rome this was even more true than it sounds, because it was common for people to be adopted into families. Seneca’s brother, Lucius Annaeus Novatus, for instance, was adopted by a man named Gallio, whose name he eventually took (and if that name sounds familiar, it’s because Seneca’s brother is in the Bible). Marcus Aurelius didn’t choose for Hadrian to set in motion their succession plan, he didn’t select Antoninus as his stepfather, but Marcus did choose to attach himself to that kind and virtuous man, modeling his life on that goodness and greatness. (Conversely, one of the things we hear from the ancients about Commodus, Marcus’ son, was the first thing the man did after the death of his father was reject all the tutors and guidance that had been laid down for him). Whose children will we be? Whose footsteps will we follow in? What tradition will we follow? That is the question of our lives. It is the question that will determine the course of our lives. Will we go the way of Marcus or Commodus? Will biology and circumstances be our destiny? Or will we choose a brighter, fresher, better path? And for no one is this question more urgent and essential than for those of us who choose to have children ourselves. We must decide what lineage we will give our family, what legacy they will inherit. Will we simply pass along what we grew up with? Or will we choose to give what we didn’t get? To turn over a new leaf, to do better, to hold ourselves to a higher standard? Each of us has the ability to choose an Antoninus as our model, a Fred Rogers, an aunt who showed us what unconditional love and support (as well as hard work and decency) was. We can choose to make the most important choice there is: Whose children we will be…and thus who our children’s grandparents will be.
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