Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
…So we are now treated to the spectacle of watching AI companies scramble. OpenAI is perhaps the funniest, because it is attempting to position itself as a consumer product. Consider Sam Altman…
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Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
…While the Copilot button has been removed from Notepad, the writing tools replacement still uses AI-powered features and looks like the identical menu of options that existed before. Removing the superfluous…
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…And four, those bad outcomes are the fault of gestures broadly toward AI.” So he’s saying, not only is there no good consumer AI product, but that the consumer AI products…
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…turned-AI-trainers and the Subway Takes guy, listening to a lot of Productivity FM’s mixes while I work, finally writing my vibe-coding opus, testing the Poppy AI assistant (and…
The future of border security isn’t at the border at all
…It was, my photographer told me, “three dudes sitting around a table.” I suppose this lack of visible product was in fact the product; the best surveillance tools, after all, are those…
Apple’s new parental controls are for keeping Apple out of trouble
…Apple announced an expanded toolkit for parents through its child accounts at WWDC, including a greater ability to customize kids’ allotted screen time and the ability to block gory or violent images…
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…offers a slew of built-in AI tools, allowing you to convert handwriting to text, make your handwriting more legible, and carry out other actions. [Product: Apple 13-inch MacBook Air (M5…
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Microsoft AI chief on why it’s ‘dangerous’ to call AI ‘alive’
…I think AI has as close to product-market fit in enterprise as you can get with something changing as fast as AI. There are a bunch of databases that corporations control…
Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
…I think there’s a real product-market fit for the AI tools in a bunch of enterprise settings. Healthcare is a top example. I can see it already. There’s just…