• Google Stadia is how you shut down a service right
• Apple to Expand Smart-Home Lineup, Taking On Amazon and Google
• Shein in talks on fundraising that would slash valuation from $100bn to $64bn (FT)
• eBay New Recommendations Model with Three Billion Item Titles
• German teens went crazy for this ‘compliments’ app, and now VCs are backing its next phase
• Fintech in 2022: A story of falling funding, fewer unicorns and insurtech M&A
• Oro, an open-source B2B ecommerce platform from Magento’s cofounder, raises $13M
• Creating an SRE Culture while preventing a 12 million order loss
• Android 13 is running on 5.2% of all devices five months after launch
• Debugging Threads and Asynchronous Code
• AI Claude Passes Law and Economics Exam
• ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove
• “…NASA’s Mars Helicopter Opens the Door for Flight on Other Worlds…from a nuclear-powered copter on Saturn’s moon Titan to blimps on Venus, space engineers are planning innovative flying machines to explore faraway landscapes“
• Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, featuring new Neural Engine and more
• Business leaders must understand Vuca and Spofs
• 2022 global smartphone shipments were the lowest in nearly a decade

We just built some of the coolest stuff I’ve seen at Vowel:

Generative AI- powered meeting summaries.

TLDRs automatically created at the end of your Vowel meetings that you can share with the whole team in 1-click. Here’s a quick demo on how it works: pic.twitter.com/dUfhv2x76s

— Andy Berman • vowel.com (@berman66) January 18, 2023

• DLD 2023
• Five key findings from the 2022 UN Population Prospects
• Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.
• Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT
• How Good Documentation Can Improve Productivity
• Monte Carlo Simulations: Separating Signal from Noise in Sampled Success Metrics
• Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks
• Global Risks Report 2023
• Annual Meeting Davos 2023 – Cooperation in a Fragmented World
• MIT Technology Review  10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023
• The Wordle of real estate is here. Can you guess a home’s asking price?
• The Chinese government is buying shares in Alibaba, Tencent and other tech companies
• Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off
• UK Treasury considers plan for digital pound
• Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture
• Google TV and Android TV now on over 150 million active devices, up 40 million since last year
• “There wasn’t a single bank robbery in Denmark last year…Bank robberies are on the decline in other countries too, as the move away from cash to digital banking gives rise to cyber crime, such as hacks and phishing scams, which target bank details and other personal information.”
• The Guardian ransomware attack
• The American Farm Bureau Federation and John Deere signed a memorandum of understanding today that ensures farmers’ and ranchers’ right to repair their own farm equipment
• ChatGPT Prompts
• ChatGPT Prompts for software development
• OpenAI in rows
• OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, a premium version of its viral chatbot

1/ The Future of Payments…is Red?

What could disrupt Visa/MasterCard/Amex? How might a new payments Goliath start?

Let’s talk about the Target Red Card. Target did >$100B in revenue last year, 20% of which happened on its own cards: pic.twitter.com/AEUya1fIs1

— Alex Rampell (@arampell) January 12, 2023

Google Maps, but with speeding tickets pic.twitter.com/xMB0lWDgcK

— Soren Iverson (@soren_iverson) January 12, 2023

• ChatGPT Creator in Investor Talks at $29 Billion (WSJ)
• US approves world’s first vaccine for declining honey bees
• Mercedes-Benz will build a $1 billion EV fast-charging network in the US
• Apple’s Mixed-Reality Headset Likely to Debut at Spring Media Event or WWDC
• Connecting to WhatsApp by Proxy
• CES 2023: all the news from the year’s biggest tech conference (The Verge) (Mashable)
• 23 Predictions to Prepare You for 2023
• Warren Buffett-backed BYD soars past Tesla in China sales as the company bucks wider EV stock sell-off
• Google launches HD maps for vehicles, Volvo and Polestar first to integrate…Google’s HD map is not a consuming-facing application but an additional layer of data that’s served to the vehicle’s L2+ or L3 assisted-driving systems through Google Automotive Services.
• Qualcomm’s going toe-to-toe with Apple’s satellite messaging feature
• Slack’s private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays
• South Korean Moon Mission Delivers Devastatingly Gorgeous Earth Views
• Apple Books quietly launches AI-narrated audiobooks
• Where Is Tech Going in 2023? (HBR)
• What Will Happen In 2023 (Fred Wilson)
• ASML: engineering the future in fine detail
• They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars
• Stackoverflow Developer Survey