Sam Altman says AGI isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Superintelligence. Why is nobody using Meta’s AI profiles? Keep an eye on Zuck, is my advice. The big trend at CES so far is AI inside smart TVs. And our first day wrap up of some of the cool things we’ve seen so far at CES.

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• Oracle.com/techmeme

Links:

• Reflections (Sam Altman's Blog)
• Meta's AI Profiles Are Indistinguishable From Terrible Spam That Took Over Facebook (404 Media)
• Samsung spreads Vision AI across its 2025 TV portfolio (VentureBeat)
• LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs (The Verge)
• LG’s 2025 OLED TVs are its best yet — but they risk going overboard with AI (The Verge)
• CES 2025: We Spent Hours Watching a Robot Vacuum Pick Up Socks. It's a Dream Come True (CNET)
• Stop Scalding Your Tongue: This $25 Cat Robot 'Blows' on Your Drink to Cool It (CNET)
• Elvie unveils an app-controlled smart bouncer that transforms into a bassinet at CES 2025 (TechCrunch)
• TiVo-powered TVs are coming to the US (The Verge)

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Apple pays a fine cause Siri was listening in on what you said. Strava does a tie-in with Apple Fitness+. Net Neutrality is dead again, and it looks like for good this time. The nuclear winter in the VC space, CES is coming for us all, and a Weekend Longreads Suggestion.

Links:

• Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit (Reuters)
• Apple Fitness Plus and Strava are collaborating with a new integration (The Verge)
• US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules (Reuters)
• AI-generated phishing scams target corporate executives (Financial Times)
• Number of US venture capital firms falls as cash flows to tech’s top investors (Financial Times)
• Asus, Samsung, and MSI announce world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitors (The Verge)

Weekend Longreads Suggestion:

• AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse (Bloomberg)

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