March 22 2024
- Dune 2
- DoJ sues Apple
- Apple charges 30%
- How can you install software for free on a laptop but on Apple its 30% and only from the App Store?
- Government should really regulate this? Why can’t consumers choose
- Is interoperability in Apple’s interest actually? More people will buy Apple watch, install iMessage, etc
- Why is this different from what happened with Microsoft? They could have owned the browser and search, html vs activeX, etc
- How is Apple allowed to get away with this?
- Google is also doing the same thing with Android that Microsoft did with browser on Windows (you have to have google search if you want our support?)
- Apple looking for AI
- Gemini or OpenAI?
- They spent $30B on R&D last year - what did they spend it on? Where is their AI strategy? How come something so important is being outsourced?
- NAR lawsuit settlement
- Commissions are $100B a year in the US
- Could reduce by 30%
- The 3% for Buyer’s agent can now be negotiated, to be paid by the buyer, written agreement
- There will be fragmentation and automation of this industry - costs will go down
- 1.4M members of NAR - lot of them will lose their job
- The only way the system has existed is to make the seller pay for it
- Might affect home prices also
- Lot of startups will come out of this - direct to consumer apps
- Microsoft acqui-hires Inflection AI team
- Mustafa Suleyman is new CEO of Microsoft AI
- Inflection had raised $1.5B or so
- Maybe they didn’t buy the company because it would have been hard to get through anti-competitive issues
- Maybe its an investor bailout?
- Saudis planning $40B AI fund
- Allocate to hardware (chips), foundation models, infra for running AI stuff, applications
- Robotics?
- Save some for backing winners
- Look at traditional businesses that might use AI
- Most value will go to hardware people and application people
- Reddit IPO
- Did well
- Maybe getting bump from Powell announcement that 3 rate cuts will happen by end of year
- Only a quarter of commercial real estate loans were paid off in full that were due last year
- Science corner
- Universe expansion
- Different parts of the universe are expanding at different rates
- Pig kidney transplant
- Into 64 year old man at Massachusetts General Hospital
- Neuralink
- Quadruplegic man plays chess with his mind
- Universe expansion
- AllInTok shoutout
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