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# Nvidia reminds us it's the only AI company making $, Tesla owners are having a bad time and RePebble's Apple problem Plus: HDMI to hose adaptor
Issue 2294 - Wednesday 19 March 2025
# The News
### Nvidia-fest reminds us it’s the only company making bank from the AI boom
Nvidia’s time at the top continues as the company releases its new gear (IT News). After the DeepSeek dip, Nvidia’s stock price has pretty much recovered on the idea that demand for their chips will stay strong even if AI models are easier to make because, well, people will just use more AI. Now, the chipmaker has dished about updates to its top of the line chips at its software developers conference. Honestly, the chip benchmark stats could be gobbledegook and they would make more sense to me but here’s a write-up if you are interested (The Verge). Other announcements of note: a lineup of “AI personal super computers” that are affordable enough to be bought by non-Big Tech people (TechCrunch) and an AI foundation model for robots (Reuters). All-in-all, nothing revolutionary this time but nothing to suggest yet that Nvidia’s good times won’t keep going.
### A recent history of Tesla owners having a really bad time
You know, I’m starting to feel bad for Tesla owners. There are constant reports of their vehicles being set on fire in the US (The Verge). All this incidents means Tesla insurance costs are up, too (Gizmodo). Someone has set up a website allegedly doxxing Tesla owners across the country (404 Media, $) which seems like a very bad idea to me. For all the criticism of Elon Musk, many owners do not share his fringe and extreme beliefs, did not know about them and perhaps even purchased their vehicles long before the world’s richest man got as radicalised as he is right now. I get the point of anti-Tesla activism but it’s probably wise to focus on protesting against the company rather than the owners. Also in Tesla-related news: a YouTuber showed how the Musk-owned carmaker’s decision to used cameras rather than lidar means that it was fooled by a Wile E. Coyote-style fake wall that’s painted to look like road. And BYD just announced a very fast charging tech (The Verge). The only silver lining for Tesla right now is that it just got approval to start testing robotaxis in California (The Verge).
Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?
### The RePebble is facing some Apple-sized roadblocks
The RePebble is here! Pebble cofounder Eric Migicovsky has released two new e-ink watches under his new company Core Wearables for pre-order (ericmigi). They’re a pretty basic offering at the moment but promises a one month battery life and a touch screen on the Core Time 2. What I found particularly interesting was Migicovsky’s warning that people shouldn’t compare the devices to an Apple Watch because “there is NO way for a 3rd party smartwatch to compete”. He wrote a full post explaining all the limitations that non-Apple developers have which I recommend reading (ericmigi). Even if you like being in Apple’s walled garden, there’s no denying that it’s making it much harder to make new, cool and different gizmos.
#### Leftovers
Defence nanosatellite launched into orbit (Defence) Meta vows to curtail false content, deepfakes ahead of Australia election (Reuters) Atlassian vows to help lift US public service output as it cosies up to Trump’s White House (The Australian, $) Amazon argues Australia’s new digital competition rules would stifle innovation (Capital Brief, $) Wait, why is the White House using Starlink to ‘improve Wi-Fi’? (The Verge) Alphabet to buy Wiz for $32 billion in its biggest deal to boost cloud security (Reuters) Instagram Experiments With AI-Generated Comments on Posts (Social Media Today) Hungary’s use of facial recognition violates EU AI Act (Euractiv) US music subscriptions cross 100 million as digital downloads drop (The Verge)
# Oh, Also
### HDMI to hose adaptor
I want (X).
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