From Mark Gurman's "Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri in Major Reversal" posted Monday by Bloomberg at 2:45 Eastern.
"If one believes even half of what Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and so on say about where the use of AI agents is going, then this could put the iPhone business at risk of becoming much less profitable."
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"This isn't censorship—it's a safeguard to prevent decontextualised hate speech from being amplified." — ChatCPT
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Anthropic, destroyer of books
1 year ago
1 year agoIn 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."
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.
From the Macalope's "Those Apple AI rumors aren’t all that Perplexing when you think Intelligently about it" posted Tuesday by Macworld.
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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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.
"Buying a multibillion-dollar AI company would represent a radical shift away from Apple’s conservative M&A strategy."
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"Apple is not looking for a search engine. It’s looking for a brain."
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