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1/4/24 7:00PM

Reject all cookies

Google Chrome has finally begun its years-long plan to kill off cookies for good. Yesterday morning, the Chrome browser disabled cookies for just ~1% of its users… which, by the standards of Chrome’s enormous influence, still amounted to ~30 million people seeing cookies vanish.

Since launching in 2008, Chrome has surged above competitors, dominating the browser market for over a decade. Now, following an onslaught of privacy disputes and two deadline pushbacks, Chrome is at long-last ousting behavior-tracking cookies in favor of powering its ad ecosystem with new Privacy Sandbox technologies — which some industry participants believe may simply end up favoring Google’s own enormous advertising network, at the expense of smaller publishers.

Rani Molla3h

Apple’s hardware chief is the front-runner to be the next CEO

The New York Times is the latest news organization to cite Apple sources who think the company’s hardware chief, John Ternus, will be the one to fill CEO Tim Cook’s shoes. Citing people close to Apple, the publication reports that Cook is “tired and would like to reduce his workload” and that 50-year-old Ternus is the most likely to take his place, as the company accelerates its succession planning.

The Times is in good company. Both the Financial Times and Bloomberg have previously said Ternus is the top pick to succeed Cook at the helm of the tech giant, and Ternus is currently enjoying the top spot on prediction markets. His market-implied odds of being the next CEO are currently above 60% on both Polymarket and Kalshi event contracts.

Apple’s John Ternus Could Be Tim Cook’s Successor as CEO

Rani Molla7h

Morgan Stanley: Even with Nvidia’s autonomous tech, Tesla is still “years ahead” of other automakers

Nvidia’s latest autonomous tech may help traditional automakers close the distance to manufacturing driverless cars, but not to Tesla, a research note from Morgan Stanley contends. Analyst Andrew Percoco argued that while Nvidia’s tech stack offers a “capital efficient on ramp to advanced autonomy,” that still leaves automakers stuck in a “faster follower strategy.”

According to the analyst, “Tesla is years ahead of competitors when it comes to autonomy with a clear data and scale advantage.” The comment is similar to something Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in the wake of Nvidia’s announcements:

“This is maybe a competitive pressure on Tesla in 5 or 6 years, but probably longer,” Musk posted on X.

You’re right.

The actual time from when FSD sort of works to where it is much safer than a human is several years.

The legacy car companies won’t design the cameras and AI computers into their cars at scale until several years after that.

So this is maybe a competitive…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 6, 2026