Apple wants Europe to blink
…Apple insists that complying with the EU’s rules would risk its customers’ privacy to such an extent that it would rather not release the AI assistant it has been building toward…
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Someone out-Trumped the Trump phone
…They’d actually already been announced in China in March, but no one seemed to notice, not least because there was no sign of any release date, pricing, or actual specs. That…
Android 17 arrives on Pixel phones today
…Rambler transcription tool, AI-generated widgets, and expanded Task Automation. Google hasn’t confirmed when other features, like redesigned emoji and the Pause Point well-being tool, will get an official release.
Google Fitbit Air preorders come with a second band for free
…It’s the company’s first Fitbit release in four years, and you can use it on iOS or Android phones without a paid subscription if all you want to do is…
Mercedes’ first all-electric C-Class is its sportiest one yet
…s also a range of AI-powered features built into the infotainment system. A more naturally conversant virtual assistant will run on a variety of models, including ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, and Google…
Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
…Beyond your mouse pointer, Googlebooks will also feature the custom AI-created widgets that Google is also debuting today for Android phones and Wear OS smartwatches. I don’t know what kind…
What’s next for Microsoft’s Surface PCs?
…I’m expecting Nvidia’s N1 and N1X chips to be tuned for AI workloads. Microsoft has been working hard to make Windows attractive to AI developers, so a Nvidia partnership here…
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
…The key place to make money isn’t training foundation models. The real money is inference, or using AI models to output results on data that isn’t in the training set…
All the evidence revealed so far in Musk v. Altman
…As a model, he names Peter Thiel’s “part-time partner” involvement at Y Combinator. Finally, Altman mentions a “regulation letter,” seeming to imply that the AI lab was going to…
AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it?
…In a recent press release, Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier said that, “AI-generated music is now far from a marginal phenomenon and as daily deliveries keep increasing, we hope the whole music…