Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri
… Apple has reached a settlement to resolve claims related to the availability of two additional features. …
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Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’
… That can mean lower performance. But Microsoft has now spent years getting Windows and its Prism emulator ready for Qualcomm and now Nvidia chips, and Nvidia claims its own graphics and AI chops will take the idea further than ever before. …
Windows is back on the Microsoft menu
… Physicists were skeptical of Microsoft’s first claims with Majorana 1, so some are once again questioning the company’s target of useful quantum computing by 2029. Microsoft Scout is a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw. …
Microsoft’s next-gen quantum chip cuts timeline to useful quantum computing
… While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft’s claims, the software giant is announcing Majorana 2 today, the next generation of its topological quantum chip. …
I held the next-gen handheld
… It’s just one data point, but it lines up neatly with Intel’s performance claims, removing some of my doubt. …
Canva’s AI 2.0 update goes all in on prompt-powered design tools
… Canva says the AI 2.0 update marks its “biggest shift since bringing design from complex desktop software into the browser,” and that it “marks the beginning of the next era of creation.” If that sounds familiar then you may have seen that Adobe made similar claims about its own prompt-based editin… …
Everybody wants to rule the AI world
… Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Pocket Casts | More If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started: Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back… …
Labor and worker’s rights in tech
… As Mark Gurman noted in a tweet , the lawsuit claims the management of an Apple Store in Reston, VA, “failed to accommodate an employee’s Jewish faith and subsequently fired him because of his religion and in retaliation for complaining of religion-based discrimination.” U.S. …
If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can
… The agents can run continuously in the background, and the company claims they’ll seamlessly integrate into Google’s own tools and external ones. It’s also expanding its developer tools and revamping Search with additional generative AI capabilities. …
Grok schlock panned by fed flock
… As if its dreary performance wasn’t awkward enough, Musk recently admitted that xAI has used OpenAI’s models to help train and improve Grok. …