This week, Myke hosts The Quizzies, Apple announces new accessibility features, Federico explains vibe coding, Google makes announcements ahead of IO, and Stephen takes on xAI.
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Google's statement on May 7 press reports about Search traffic – Google Blog
Apple opened the door to web paywalls — our test shows it might hurt conversions
Initial Data Is In: App2Web Conversion Rates After the App Store Ruling — Superwall
Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year - Apple
The Android Show: I/O Edition - YouTube
Android 16 Material Three Expressive UI coming in beta this month | The Verge
The Swift Student Challenge Interviews and watchOS and tvOS Wishes
Apple, Anthropic Team Up to Build AI-Powered ‘Vibe-Coding’ Platform - Bloomberg
Good Vibrations Between Apple & Anthropic – MG Siegler
Apple and Anthropic reportedly partner to build an AI coding platform | TechCrunch
Andrej Karpathy on Vibe Coding
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OpenAI Is in Talks to Acquire Programming Tool Windsurf for $3 Billion - The New York Times
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App Store Vibes - MacStories
VibeCode App
Google confirms it’s close to getting Gemini support on iPhones | The Verge
xAI in Memphis - Archives - 512 Pixels
Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer stirs turmoil over smog in Memphis : NPR
Protect our Aquifer
Second xAI Datacenter Could Take Enough Energy to Power 40% of Memphis; Government Agency Charged with Studying Impact Targeted by DOGE - 512 Pixels
Memphis Chamber of Commerce Claims No New Gas Turbines Will be Placed at Second xAI Location, Despite Documents to the Contrary - 512 Pixels
Musk’s xAI explores another massive methane gas turbine installation at second South Memphis data center - Southern Environmental Law Center
A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment – The Weird Turn Pro
What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT? – Sustainability by numbers
Relay 5 vs. ChatGPT
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