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Gen AI won't let Tommo quote Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'apple censorship tommo chatgpt3 weeks ago
Published June 27, 2025 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Gen AI won't let Tommo quote Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'

"This isn't censorship—it's a safeguard to prevent decontextualised hate speech from being amplified." — ChatCPT

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Anthropic, destroyer of booksapple anthropic book destroyer3 weeks ago
Published June 26, 2025 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Anthropic, destroyer of books

In February 2024, the company hired Tom Turvey, the former head of partnerships for the Google Books book-scanning project, and tasked him with obtaining "all the books in the world."

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This is what 'Constitutional AI' looks likeapple amazon anthropic constitutional3 weeks ago
Published June 25, 2025 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

This is what 'Constitutional AI' looks like

The facility will consume 2.2 gigawatts of electricity — enough to power a million homes. Each year, it will use millions of gallons of water to keep the chips from overheating.

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Macalope: Welcome to Vaporgate, the lawsuitapple intelligence vaporgate macalope3 weeks ago
Published June 24, 2025 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Macalope: Welcome to Vaporgate, the lawsuit

From the Macalope's "Those Apple AI rumors aren’t all that Perplexing when you think Intelligently about it" posted Tuesday by Macworld.

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Ben Thompson: AI, for Apple, is a sustaining innovationapple ai thompson sustaining3 weeks ago
Published June 24, 2025 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Ben Thompson: AI, for Apple, is a sustaining innovation

A fresh look — using Clay Christensen's framework of sustaining versus disruptive innovation — at the impact of AI on Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.

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Shay Boloor: Apple hasn't lost the AI raceapple ai shaw boboor3 weeks ago
Published June 23, 2025 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Shay Boloor: Apple hasn't lost the AI race

If Apple really is circling names like Perplexity, Cohere, Mistral, and Databricks -- that’s not just a feature acquisition spree. That’s a declaration. A reframing.

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Mark Gurman: The case for Apple swallowing Perplexity AIapple perplexity acquisition gurman3 weeks ago
Published June 22, 2025 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Mark Gurman: The case for Apple swallowing Perplexity AI

"Buying a multibillion-dollar AI company would represent a radical shift away from Apple’s conservative M&A strategy."

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Apple & Perplexity AI: Tommo's for it (updated)apple perplexity tommo_UK3 weeks ago
Published June 22, 2025 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple & Perplexity AI: Tommo's for it (updated)

"Apple is not looking for a search engine. It’s looking for a brain."

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Will Apple buy Perplexity? — with Bloomberg updateapple buy kantrowitz perplexity4 weeks ago
Published June 20, 2025 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Will Apple buy Perplexity? — with Bloomberg update

"Not likely! But Meta-Scale is so unlikely that I feel we aren’t living in a world of likelies." — Perplexity chief business officer Dmitry Shevelenko

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Apple's AI tortoise wins a transcription race with OpenAI's hare4 weeks ago
Published June 18, 2025 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple's AI tortoise wins a transcription race with OpenAI's hare

Newly released to developers, Apple Intelligence's transcription tools are fast, accurate, and typically double the speed of OpenAI's longstanding equivalent.

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering Apple since 1983 — mostly for Time Magazine (28 years), later for Fortune (9 years), where he wrote a daily blog called Apple 2.0. [Read more.]

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