EP-171 Openai’s Outage Amid Ios Integration 🌐, Microsoft’s $800m Cruise Shift 🚗, Apple’s Ai Leap with Siri 🗣️

i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for thursday, december 12th. today's podcast covers:

• openai outage: significant outage impacting chatgpt and developer api, coinciding with ios 18.2 integration launch, creating high server demand. recovery path identified.
• microsoft's financial impact: estimated $800 million loss from gm's cruise robotaxi program exit, impacting minority investors and prompting strategic investment reassessment.
• apple's ai advancements: chatgpt integrated with siri in ios 18.2 update, marking a major step in apple's ai initiatives—bringing new capabilities to millions of iphone users.
• google's ai expansion: launch of gemini 2.0 ai models with enhanced code generation, information processing, and new multimodal features, ahead of its broader rollout in 2025.
• stock market rally: record highs for alphabet and tesla stocks, alongside gains in amazon and meta, pushing nasdaq past 20,000 amid optimism for regulatory relief and potential fed rate cuts.

that's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow.