All these smart glasses and nothing to do
…Even Realities recently built in a Conversate feature, which uses AI to define phrases or present useful factoids related to your conversation. I tried using it in a product briefing. The feature…
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The things we’re building
…I really respect the way Valve just understands what its users want. In this case, users want a super comfortable, outrageously customizable $99 controller that can be used in basically whatever bonkers…
Musk v. Altman accomplished nothing but airing dirty laundry
…So let’s discuss the gossip, which is the real point of this trial. How good was it? Here are my favorite nuggets. * Musk used OpenAI to improve xAI. I’m afraid…
That UL logo is more complicated than it looks
…How much politicking do you do? We really don’t do politicking. The standards development process is a consensus process. As I said, our customers frequently come to us with the need…
OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question
…So the lawyer skipped a word — is it really worth taking up the jury’s time to tell us all that? Save being the world’s cleverest boy for your parents. This…
The app you need to clean up your computer
…More on that next week. I also have for you a couple of really useful Mac utilities, a new book in the Installerverse’s favorite series, a new tool for managing…
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
…The real money is inference, or using AI models to output results on data that isn’t in the training set. So the company has looked at some startups’ businesses and decided…
The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
…At the same time, 79 percent of those surveyed by Gallup “expressed concern that AI makes people lazier,” and 65 percent said that using chatbots “promotes instant gratification, not real understanding” and…
How to win — and lose — Decoder
…You can’t deny that AI has found uses here, and some of them will fall flat, some of them will succeed, and that will be really interesting to cover. So that…
All the evidence revealed so far in Musk v. Altman
…by the foundation and used ‘for the good of the world’, and in cases where it’s not obvious how that should be applied the 5 of us would decide,” Altman writes…