You know what you could do on this amazing day? Read Five Things and then become a paid subscriber! Awesome idea, right? ✌🏻 Oh, by the way, if you do not want to subscribe to Five Things, Five Things Tech and Five Things Running, you can select which one of the newsletters you want to read in your account settings. The weekend starts here! Welcome back to Five Things Tech! This week had a bit of everything - from platform chaos to quiet revolutions in tech. Wired takes a hard look at X and its Grok AI, which has been generating massive amounts of explicit images and yet somehow still sits comfortably in Apple and Google’s app stores. It’s a painful reminder that content moderation is still more aspiration than reality. Then there’s AWS, which isn’t exactly in trouble, but the halo of invincibility is slipping. As it juggles AI bets and restructuring, we’re watching a giant try to stay agile while still printing billions in revenue. I also really enjoyed the story about why TVs have become so ridiculously cheap — turns out scaling up batch sizes is sometimes the real innovation. On the mobility side, the race between Waymo, Cybercab, and Uber shows how autonomy is no longer just about cost but comfort - no chatty drivers, no awkward small talk, just silence. And while everyone seems to be rediscovering LinkedIn these days, it’s less because of the algorithm and more because people still crave the sense of a professional community that feels, well, real. Even if it sometimes reads like a motivational speaking contest. Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
This is unacceptable. Apple and Google have to kick X and Grok off the App Stores immediately. AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate
It’s interesting how AWS is providing so much infrastructure, but really has not been in the spotlight much lately. How Did TVs Get So Cheap?
Growing up in the 70s, we didn’t even have a color tv before the mid-80s. And now we have this huge screen in our living room that has an amazing resolution and it wasn’t really all that expensive. The Race between Waymo, Cybercab, and Uber
Public Transport still makes so much more sense then sending more and more self-driving cars onto the streets, but I do understand the sentiment of not having to talk to some stranger in a car. Three Reasons We Can’t Get Enough of LinkedIn
LinkedIn has certainly become the center stage of business networking, but it shows that not everyone knows how to write a compelling text without a gazillion buzzwords or hashtags. Still, it is the best way to connect to people in the business world. That’s all for now! Thanks for reading! If you missed last week’s Five Things Tech, you can find it here: 🤖 — Nico You're currently a free subscriber to Five Things. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |






