Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100
…take the lead in developing AI technology, it would still benefit. “Our products are the best place people will use the existing AI tools.” I push them on this. After all, if…
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Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
…But as chatbots and AI agents have become more capable, some technologists and companies are pushing to create more constrained and privacy-focused systems. “As LLMs continue to be able to do…
Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life
…Users who were close to that pin’s coordinates would then receive a push alert containing detailed information, including photographs, about the agents’ locations and vehicles—information they could use to either…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs
…And it basically uses AI agents to do the work of human analysts that would typically be involved in venture deal making. If you put in a startup's pitch deck, out…
What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable
…play with in order to make agents slightly less bad?” Luccioni is also interested in sussing out the energy needs of different types of AI tools, such as speech-to-text translation…
Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
…Gemini, Search, Smart Glasses Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore Meet the Sad Wives of AI You can follow Brian Barrett on Bluesky at @brbarrett, Zoë Schiffer on…
Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…The arrival of autonomous AI agents (also known as agentic AI)—which go much further than chatbots by carrying out tasks unsupervised—as well as the improvement of reasoning models—which break…
Can Modular Phone Accessories Finally Evolve Beyond MagSafe?
…Then, agentic AI, on-device for lower costs and better security, made modular design even less optimal.” Repairable Modules One strong and emerging argument for true hardware modularity is repairability. Another European…
Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?
…And that makes sense, because you still need people managing the AI agents, but if AI agents can do the work of more junior employees, then perhaps you need less of them…
Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
…You think about the biggest capability jumps that we've gotten from AI recently, it's been things that came out of the safety community. Agentic models were really made possible by…