Steven Philips on OpenAI kills Disney-backed token-wasting Sora - 'Sounds like you’re a Sora loser! 🙂'
on iOS 26.4 adds a touch of AI to Apple Music, plus more emojis - 'The Sasquatch will certainly be in demand by a friend of mine – and might even convince him to make the jump from Android. His nickname is The Yeti. Because even he admits he’s often abominable…'
on Jessica Levin: Apple's AI deal with Google runs deep - 'If Apple is running Gemini on Apple silicon, then it’s not paying the NVIDIA tax! What’s that, 50% or even 75% of the price of their chips?'
on iOS 26.4 adds a touch of AI to Apple Music, plus more emojis - 'The Sasquatch emoji is rather amusing. Apparently that is something that was either requested or destined to be in high demand?'
on Jessica Levin: Apple's AI deal with Google runs deep - '“ My take: Judging by its CapEx spending, the effort Apple is putting into its foundation models seems minimal.” This may be deceptive. The large CapEx spending by others is mostly spent on those giant data centers. Apple is likely focused on models that run on Apple devices or smaller data centers therefore not needing a lot of investment. Gary Marcus has published that there was a belief in AI world that all problems could be solved by bigger data centers and more data. That argument has run out of steam and they are looking at other approaches. That dovetails nicely with Apple’s interests. Maybe this will become clear in a year or two or three.'
on Jessica Levin: Apple's AI deal with Google runs deep - 'I’m thinking TurboQuant intersects here.'
on Jessica Levin: Apple's AI deal with Google runs deep - 'I’ve always believed the integration would be this deep, so I am not surprised.'
on Raw data: Insider trading on Trump's Iran plans - 'It reminds me of how the government got the mafia- taxes.'
on Raw data: Insider trading on Trump's Iran plans - 'Actually Margaret Ryan of the SEC had started investigating exactly this type of corruption, profiteering off betting markets when Trump abruptly and inexplicably changes direction, but she was shut down by the Trump appointed Director and resigned. From Reuters “U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s top enforcement official, who left abruptly last week, had clashed with agency leaders over the direction of its enforcement program, including the handling of cases with ties to President Donald Trump and his family, according to three people familiar with the matter.”'
on OpenAI kills Disney-backed token-wasting Sora - 'Mr. Philip, Speaking of somebody wasting money and token (lawsuit) wasting … I was on travel yesterday so I read this today : “ Epic Games lays off 1,000 workers as its CEO says the cuts aren’t tied to AI “ CBS News I think the cuts are actually related to …'
on Raw data: Insider trading on Trump's Iran plans - 'The Epstine Class. They’re the ones profiting.'
on Raw data: Insider trading on Trump's Iran plans - 'Stock fraud and treason! But nobody has the balls to do anything. The GOP are in full control, Pedo owns the Supreme Court, DOJ, etc. Only a rout at the midterms has a chance to get us off this cliff. He’s gonna try to run again, ya know it. Especially if GOP still in charge. This is how Democracy dies.'
on Raw data: Insider trading on Trump's Iran plans - 'There were similar trades in SP500 futures, too.'
on Premarket: Apple is green - 'Apple held up well today, versus the rest of the Big Tech / AI types. Is it possible that the market is starting to think that Apple may actually flipped to doing pretty well, despite the last year-and-a-half’s constant assertions otherwise?'
on Premarket: Apple is green - 'Uh…maybe not. Looks like there’s talk of a month-long Iran ceasefire to be imminently announced.'
on Everything Mark Gurman knows about Siri's overhaul - 'This seems to be a very detailed description of the new SIRI. From this we shall see if Gurman is continuing to blow smoke.'
