Intro

The big cultural event of maybe the decade is going to take a little while longer to get here. Earnings from Apple and Amazon. More signs of the impending death of the password. More signs of self-driving rapidly becoming reality. And in the longreads, what happens when AI completely changes your field? The AI researchers were the first to experience it.

Links:

• Grand Theft Auto VI release delayed to May 2026 (The Verge)
• Amazon Says Operating Profits May Decline Amid Economic Uncertainty (NYTimes)
• Microsoft goes passwordless by default on new accounts (The Verge)
• Temu Blocks US Shoppers From Seeing Products Shipped From China (Wired)
• Aurora’s driverless trucks are making deliveries in Texas (The Verge)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History (Quanta Magazine)
• The Life of the Most-Used Citi Bike in New York City (Bloomberg)

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