The farce of Musk v. Altman
…is at the center of a web of deals, huge deals with places like CoreWeave and Oracle and Microsoft. Every company in the AI space is one degree of Kevin Bacon away…
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Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
…After all, just recently, Meta announced that its AI had hacked another company, following similar incidents from OpenAI and Anthropic. Not only will your own personal company have to deal with such…
The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes
…Reality Defender is effectively training AI to combat AI. The company uses an “inference-based model” to detect deepfakes, CTO Alex Lisle told me. “Our foundational model uses something called a student…
PlayStation
…s AI graphics upscaling for PS5 Pro games is getting a big update tonight Emma Roth Mar 16 Cameron Faulkner Mar 13 PlayStation’s spring sale features great digital game deals, like…
Amazon Alexa
…Amazon Alexa Plus can now create AI-generated podcasts Emma Roth May 18 Alexa is moving into Amazon․com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy May 13 Amazon’s Panos Panay addresses new Fire phone…
iPad
…Apple’s accessibility features add more AI-powered processing Apple’s adding AI-generated subtitling for any video. Richard Lawler May 19 Everyone should follow Logitech and put extra USB ports on…
Hulu
…Following Netflix’s growing “ podcast ” investment and a similar deal with TikTok, six more video podcasts are coming to Disney subscribers in the US , starting with the official Jonas Brothers podcast, Hey…
Netflix is eating Hollywood — because it has to
…Ellison thinks about AI. I think he’s a guy who deeply does love technology. If you read through the letter he sent to staff when the Paramount deal was first done…
Business
…AI agents are increasing demands for CPUs, and AMD and Intel’s x86 industry group recently announced a new instruction set, AI Compute Extensions (ACE) , to help close the performance gap with…
macOS
…RAM prices are likely to blame, not helped by AI-driven demand for the two small Macs : both computers currently have weeks-long shipping estimates from Apple’s online store. Apple Cuts…