Fri. 10/04 – AI Slop Comes To Podcasting

Google has updated Lens and is taking a page out of Perplexity’s book. OpenAI’s new canvas workspace. Why an upcoming iPhone SE might have some interesting internals. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

Links:

• Google Lens now lets you search with video (The Verge)
• Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects (TechCrunch)
• iPhone SE 4 to feature Apple’s first 5G modem, A18 chip, same cameras as iPhone 15 (9to5Mac)
• 159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates (TechCrunch)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Saving Cyberpunk 2077: How CD Projekt Red recovered from one of video games' most disastrous launches (EuroGamer)
• The Flying Car Is Finally Here. It’s Slightly Illegal. (Intelligencer)