Ideas and News for the Weekend of May The Fourth

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Weekend of May the Fourth 2024 | Episode 13? |? ?May the Schwartz Be With You

Newscast

From Apple Insider It’s May the Fourth, everyone’s favorite Dad joke (other than the one where the guy goes to the doctor and his doctor says, “Don’t eat anything fatty” and the guy says, “What like burgers?” And the doctor says, “No Fatty, don’t eat anything”). Apple is celebrating by using micro-location to create a game for you to find Mandalorians near you

From The Verge

Taylor is headed back to TikTok, and bringing with her all of your favorite UMG artists. The new deal may protect artists and their rights a bit more than before, but will absolutely create some next viral trend that will make people dance wildly on the streets in front of your favorite urban coffee shop

From Axios

Did ChatGPT create a child? Is AI self-propagating? Did an LLM train itself on an existing LLM? What’s that mean for sentience?

From New York Times (some assembly required)

CZ thinks he can get his billions back.

Netcast

From The Current (.com)

The world keeps changing, and advertisers are chasing that change. With the NewFronts this past week - an opportunity for new media/non-traditional advertising groups to showcase their value to advertisers - a focus on Women’s Sports and where their stories are published shows how much the change is for the better

From BeeBom

With all the world to scour and learn, OpenAI is thinking that they may be able to create a better monetized platform for information than Google.

From Lunduke

The Internet Archive is an important keystone for understanding the last 30 years of human communication. Take a read, help if you can, save our digital history

From Vogue Business (some assembly required)

The good folks at Estée Lauder have launched an AI Innovation Lab, looking at how we can bring a human touch to AI. Congrats to the whole team and to friend of the Newscast, Liz Bacelar

Noisecast

From Pitchfork

The Beef between Kendrick and Drake is beginning to look like a Brazilian Steakhouse. On the latest salvo, Kendrick built a curb-stomp track that hits at every insecurity Drake owns over an Al Green sample that Drake’s uncle played on years ago. There’s no coming back from this one

From Kamasi Washington

Kamasi Washington is blazing a new path in Jazz, HipHop and R&B. But more than that, he creates the kind of vibe that you want to live inside. His new album released this week and it will make your life better

From? Washed Out

Washed Out has created the first music video using OpenAI’s Sora as the key creation tool. It’s the future, in your phone.

From The Current (.org)

Give a good listen to Bob Mould’s first solo release Workbook and realize just how much of the last 35 years could be tracked back to that album. Then go and listen to Hüsker Dü and realize how much of everything else you listen to could be tracked back to those albums. It’s a good day for great music

Smartcast

From Apple Insider

Expect more intelligence from Siri in the future. It’s a steady progression. A feature in a stand-alone product is consumed by a platform product and then everyone is happy, mostly

From Axios

Training LLMs takes content. Content isn’t free. And if you’re using content without permission, your lawyers are going to be able to buy a very nice carribean island

From Read Max

Not yet, but that video above is pretty good. And it took Frank Zappa’s “Jazz From Hell” to make the Synclavier something cool

From Ars Technica

It’s got cute packaging and quick information recall, but is the Rabbit R1 just a speaker phone connected to Open AI via Android? Could be rabbit, could be

Randomcast

From Axios

The in-car DVD player was a game changer for family road trips. But imagine if you could play Fortnite with the car you’re passing? Or throw giant marshmallows behind you in AR so that only the passengers can be entertained. As AT&T used to say, “You Will”

From Pitchfork

FKA Twigs is taking AI into her own hands. She’s creating a fully autonomous AI that can manage her socials for her and allow her to focus on other projects.

From Fast Company

AI is making everything more less

From The Generalist

The hypecycle is about to move from digital experiences you can only enjoy through a screen to smart experiences that you can enjoy with an AI to physical experiences that are created through the use of Robots.

Merchcast

From elastic ideas newscast

Wear a logo no one knows

For playing thank you, happy may the fourth.? To go back to doom scrolling feel free.? Hmmmmmm.