Mon 01/30 – Every Platform Is Hustling To Unveil An AI Play

Après ChatGPT, prepare yourself for the generative AI deluge. Amazon says the free lunch for grocery delivery is over. More speculation about foldable iPads. San Francisco wants Waymo and Cruise to pump the breaks on their self-driving car experiments because the actual cars have been literally pumping the breaks too much. And my wager on whether or not 2023 will actually go down as the year that AI breaks through. Sponsors: The Business of Tech (Listener ad!) RelationshipHero.com/techmeme (Listener ad!) Links: Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot (Bloomberg) Amazon adding new fees for grocery delivery (GeekWire) Apple Supplier in India Begins Making Components for AirPods (Bloomberg) Foldable iPad could arrive as early as next year, claims noted Apple analyst (The Verge) Two companies race to deploy robotaxis in San Francisco. The city wants them to hit the brakes. (NBCNews) Scientists at Salesforce develop proteins with AI that can eat trash (NeoWin) AI has designed bacteria-killing proteins from scratch – and they work (New Scientist)