Apple Rumors
…This feature will have its own dedicated App Store section, effectively creating an AI App Store. It will be a marketplace of sorts for third-party AI integrations. Apple will reportedly allow…
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The cost of the smart home is going up
…One AI-powered camera warned me of a brown bear in my backyard in coastal South Carolina. (It was my dog). To really change the game for the smart home and…
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
…But doing something like this requires you to take for granted that other people are smart, that smart people have always existed, and that very little in the human experience is new…
What’s the role of a simple fitness band in the AI health era?
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your…
I have a new go-to browser
…But I’ve also been reading about Nick Fuentes and clowns, listening to old episodes of Short History Of, testing the NextSense Smartbuds while I sleep, writing in the Outerline Markdown app…
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
…Developers can currently experiment and not worry about the costs involved, as GitHub just moves them to a less capable AI model once limits are reached. The new system means GitHub Copilot…
Speech and Moderation
…million Lauren Feiner May 2 Meta threatens to pull its apps from New Mexico if forced to make ‘technologically impractical’ changes Lauren Feiner Apr 30 Former FCC staffers agree: Brendan Carr needs…
Wearable health tech might be Tim Cook’s greatest legacy
…Launching the inaugural Apple Heart Study and the Apple Research app has opened several doors for clinical researchers. The Apple Heart Study, for example, had 400,000 participants, an unprecedented number in…
Here’s how the new Microsoft and OpenAI deal breaks down
…Microsoft announced the updates to its long-standing OpenAI deal on Monday, with the most important change allowing OpenAI to make its products and services available across all cloud providers. A day…
We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings
…We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also…