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Will's Weekly Roundup is a weekly newsletter of curated tech, business, and startup news (and what I'm thinking about).
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Headlines
The tech and business headlines you missed (or need to see again)...
An estimated $16+ billion worth of bets were placed on the Super Bowl. LINK
SpaceX admits to blocking Ukrainian troops from using their satellite technology. LINK
The Pentagon used ChatGPT to write an article on Feb 8 about the launch of a new counter-drone task force, emphasizing the U.S. Army Central's commitment to using emerging technologies and innovation in a challenging and ever-changing operational environment. LINK
Google’s ChatGPT rival Bard flopped this week after glitching during a live demo in which it not only answered a question incorrectly but also got its own name wrong. The stock crashed and Alphabet’s market value dropped over $100 billion on the day. LINK
TikTok has a new plan to create an arms-length US entity that handles the two main areas of concern: access to user data and control of what content people see. LINK
The IRS tells millions of Americans in 22 states to hold off on filing their taxes, as the IRS seeks to clarify whether those tax rebates and special refunds are considered taxable income. LINK
Users' ability to post on Twitter broke temporarily after Twitter deployed 4,000-character Tweets. LINK
Notre Dame added a fleet of autonomous GrubHub delivery robots by Starship Technologies to their campus. LINK
Ideas
Some ideas I'm thinking about...
Super Bowl commercials this year were objectively pretty bad. The Jeep 4xe “Electric Boogie” commercial was one of the better ones but still wasn't that good. LINK
The military pays the NFL millions of dollars every year to do flyovers and other military events before games since they serve as unofficial recruiting events. LINK
The Gatorade dump at the end of the game is the best 'bang for your buck' Super Bowl ad. LINK
A new sports advertising campaign could be having NFL players get paid to do sponsored touchdown celebrations like chugging a Monster Energy drink. (The company sponsoring would also have to cover the cost of the 'excessive celebration fine' by the NFL). LINK
There’s a new app called Artifact that’s like Tiktok but for personalized news articles. LINK
Why are there still close-call collisions on airport runways even with modern air traffic control technology? The most recent incident was on Feb 4 when a FedEx cargo plane had to abort its landing after a departing Southwest Airlines flight was cleared to use the same runway. LINK
Galileo AI lets you create mobile app designs by simply entering text prompts. LINK
Zelle fundamentally differs from PayPal, Venmo, and CashApp because it is not designed as a revenue-generating enterprise and does not require users to use the same money-transfer service to send and receive money. LINK
Visuals
A visual breakdown of U.S. federal spending (FY22).
Alphabet's Q4 FY22 Income statement.
How many days it took the following companies to reach 1 million users.
Quotes
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." ― Neils Bohr
"The trick to viewing feedback as a gift is to be more worried about having blind spots than hearing about them." ― James Clear
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