"For Apple, the exodus has brought more upheaval to an AI effort that’s already struggling."
Google AI goes nuclear
12 months ago
12 months agoHermes 2 is the first deployment under an agreement that Google and Kairos signed last year to launch the startup’s nuclear technology at a commercial scale.
How Zuck blew AI
1 year ago
1 year ago"Meta was teeming with top AI talent, until it wasn’t."
"The messy rollout speaks to how the AI industry as a whole is struggling to prove themselves as producers of consumer goods."
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Perplexity said its offer to buy Chrome is “designed to satisfy an antitrust remedy in highest public interest by placing Chrome with a capable, independent operator.”
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WSJ: While Apple gives priority to privacy, Meta and OpenAI are talking about AI-powered by devices gobbling up user information.
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Saturday Apple video: Fall preview
1 year ago
1 year agoHere's a bunch of new stuff that's supposed to be coming in September (from WWDC25).
"We lay out the 3 things that Cook and Apple need to do to prove this will not be a melting ice cube AI strategy and make sure Cupertino is not watching this AI Party through the windows."
"Classic innovator’s dilemma. Too worried about protecting profit margins, while they are being disrupted by the next computing shift."
Read More Tae Kim: 'Apple is being way too timid and hesitant'
Ben Thompson: For Apple, AI is — at least in the short to medium term — not an existential threat
1 year ago
1 year ago"This... makes it extremely difficult for a mere manager to contemplate spending 10x or 20x in CapEx to pursue a model of computing that isn’t in the company’s nature."
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