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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Fri. 05/02 – GTA 6 Delayed To 2026

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