Perplexity Is on the Prowl to Buy Web Browsers
Aug 13, 2025, 9:06 pm By John GruberThe Information (paywalled, alas): In December, Perplexity discussed possibly buying the…★ Max Read’s ‘A Literary History of Fake Texts in Apple’s Marketing Materials’
Aug 13, 2025, 5:05 pm By John Gruber
Max Read, two years ago, “A Literary History of Fake Texts in Apple’s Marketing Materials”: I’m…Updated Design for Pebble Time 2 Watch
Aug 13, 2025, 1:11 pm By John Gruber
Eric Migicovsky: First off, for those who didn’t catch the news from a few weeks ago — we’ve been…Cassette 1.0
Aug 12, 2025, 6:52 pm By John GruberNew app from Devin Davies, developer of the ADA-winning Crouton: Cassette is an app for iPhone and…Perplexity Made an Offer to Buy TikTok — Well, Half of TikTok — Back in January
Aug 12, 2025, 5:29 pm By John GruberHaleluya Hadero and Christopher Rugaber, reporting for the AP back on January 26, six days into…Perplexity Jumps the Shark, Makes Clownish $34.5 Billion Stunt Offer to Buy Chrome From Google
Aug 12, 2025, 3:25 pm By John GruberKatherine Blunt, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (main link is a paywall-puncturing gift…‘The Quid Pro Quo Arrangement Is Unprecedented’
Aug 11, 2025, 9:13 pm By John Gruber
Demetri Sevastopulo and Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times: Nvidia and AMD have…‘Unusual Agreements’
Aug 11, 2025, 8:04 pm By John GruberAmrith Ramkumar and Robbie Whelan, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Nvidia and…Mad King Watch, Intel Edition
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The president of the United States, on his blog three days ago: The CEO of INTEL is highly…Trump Extends China Tariff Deadline by 90 Days, Again
Aug 11, 2025, 6:09 pm By John Gruber
CNBC: President Donald Trump on Monday delayed high U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods from snapping…★ OpenAI Brings Back Legacy ChatGPT 4o Model in Response to Outcry From Users Who Find GPT-5 Emotionally Unsatisfying
Aug 11, 2025, 4:52 pm By John GruberSam Altman, in a long post yesterday on X, following up on OpenAI’s decision last week to make…AOL Pulls the Plug on Dial-Up Service
Aug 11, 2025, 12:46 pm By John Gruber
Mark Tyson at Tom’s Hardware: AOL, now a Yahoo property, will end its dial-up internet service, the…WorkOS: Simplify MCP Authorization
Aug 10, 2025, 11:00 pm By John Gruber
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises…★ Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon
Aug 8, 2025, 9:16 pm By John GruberA list of various related news items and clips from this, and recent, weeks: Apple Newsroom, on…OpenAI: ‘Introducing gpt-oss’
Aug 6, 2025, 1:33 pm By John GruberOpenAI: We’re releasing gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b — two state-of-the-art open-weight language…Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.1
8:33pm By John GruberAnthropic: GitHub notes that Claude Opus 4.1 improves across most capabilities relative to Opus 4,…Google Dunks on Apple Intelligence in New Pixel 10 Ad
8:16pm By John Gruber
Tom Warren: In a new Pixel 10 ad, Google dunks on Apple’s failed promise of Siri AI improvements,…Lawsuit Alleges That Meta Pirated and Seeded Massives Amounts of Porno for Years to Train AI
8:07pm By John Gruber
Ashley Belanger, writing for Ars Technica: Porn sites may have blown up Meta’s key defense in a…Ghost 6.0
7:59pm By John Gruber
Ghost: When we announced Ghost 5.0 a few years ago, we were proud to share that Ghost’s revenue had…Cloudflare: ‘Perplexity Is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers to Evade Website No-Crawl Directives’
6:26pm By John Gruber
The Cloudflare blog: We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered…
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