Rob Pegoraro<p>My upcoming work week only has about three and a half days’ worth of time available for my usual work. The entirety of Tuesday, meaning from 5 a.m. to about 9 p.m., has me serving as a <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/poll-worker/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poll worker</a>, the seventh time I will have worked as <a href="https://vote.arlingtonva.gov/Elections/workatpolls" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">an Arlington election officer</a>. And then I’ll have to set business aside by mid-afternoon Friday to start my journey to Lisbon for <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/web-summit/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Web Summit</a>.</p><p><a href="https://robpegoraro.com/?attachment_id=21904" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>10/30/2023: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/president-biden-issues-executive-order-on-ai-heres-what-it-does" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">President Biden Issues Executive Order on AI: Here’s What It Does</a>, PCMag</p><p>I had to write this off the White House’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-executive-order-on-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announcement early Monday</a> of this executive order instead of the actual text of the EO on AI, because that <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">nearly 20,000-word document</a> did not get posted to the White House’s site until late Monday afternoon.</p><p>10/31/2023: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/apples-input-devices-most-of-its-headphones-are-lightnings-last-stand" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lightning Lives On in Apple’s Input Devices, Most of Its Headphones</a>, PCMag</p><p>Yes, you saw this post <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2023/09/17/weekly-output-unicorn-founder-insights-lightnings-last-stand-at-apple-polestar-transparency/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">last month</a>. I offered to write a new top for it once Apple failed to update its gruesomely obsolete Lightning-required input devices after <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/first-look-apples-24-inch-imac-gets-a-mighty-m3-upgrade" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announcing a new iMac lineup</a>, then my editor and I settled on doing a more comprehensive rewrite of that Sept. 13 post.</p><p>10/31/2023: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/senators-we-need-a-new-agency-not-just-an-executive-order-to-rein-in-ai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Senators: We Need a New Agency, Not Just an Executive Order, to Rein in AI</a>, PCMag</p><p>I <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2015/10/29/bikeshare-is-my-other-metro/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bikeshared</a> over to the Brookings Institution to see this panel discussion advocating a bill that would set up a Digital Platform Commission to oversee large tech firms. That easy commute got me the added reward of some second-breakfast pastries and professional banter afterwards.</p><p>11/2/2023: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/intuit-to-scrap-mint-and-move-its-users-to-credit-karma" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Intuit to Scrap Mint and Move Its Users To Credit Karma</a>, PCMag</p><p>I had seen discussions of this impending forced migration <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/mintuit/comments/17gab2y/looks_like_mint_is_dead_warning_its_a_migration/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on Reddit</a>, and then Intuit announced it in a post on its Mint blog <a href="https://mint.intuit.com/blog/mint-app-news/intuit-credit-karma-welcomes-minters/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on the afternoon of Halloween</a>. Because I <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2023/11/03/cheating-on-amtrak/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">flew up to New York the next morning</a> to cover the <a href="https://b6gs.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brooklyn 6G Summit</a>, I had to pluck out some free time between panels at that telecom event to quiz Intuit and then write this post.</p><p>11/4/2023: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/ai-pros-were-on-the-right-track-if-you-ignore-some-companies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AI Pros: We’re on the Right Track (If You Ignore Some Companies)</a>, PCMag</p><p>My second flight of the week took me to Boston for the <a href="https://iapp.org/conference/iapp-ai-governance-global/schedule-and-program-aigg23/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">International Association of Privacy Professionals’ AI Governance event</a>. Although I had to miss the first day’s lineup of talks, thanks to the first-world problem of having a surplus of conferences to cover, the last day’s panels yielded more than enough material for this post.</p><p><a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2023/11/05/weekly-output-ai-executive-order-apples-leftover-lightning-peripherals-digital-platform-commission-intuit-to-scrap-mint-ai-policy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://robpegoraro.com/2023/11/05/weekly-output-ai-executive-order-apples-leftover-lightning-peripherals-digital-platform-commission-intuit-to-scrap-mint-ai-policy/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/ai-policy/" target="_blank">#AIPolicy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/apple-magic-mouse/" target="_blank">#AppleMagicMouse</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/apple-usb-c-mouse/" target="_blank">#AppleUSBCMouse</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/biden-executive-order/" target="_blank">#BidenExecutiveOrder</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/boston/" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/brooklyn-6g-summit/" target="_blank">#Brooklyn6GSummit</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/credit-karma/" target="_blank">#CreditKarma</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/digital-platform-commission/" target="_blank">#DigitalPlatformCommission</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/iapp/" target="_blank">#IAPP</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/iapp-ai-governance/" target="_blank">#IAPPAIGovernance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/intuit-mint/" target="_blank">#IntuitMint</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/lightning-cable/" target="_blank">#LightningCable</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/mint/" target="_blank">#Mint</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/nyc/" target="_blank">#NYC</a></p>