Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in the iOS 18.5 and macOS 15.5 betas
without reading them Emma Roth / The Verge : Apple's complicated plan to improve its AI while protecting privacy Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Apple details how it plans to improve its AI models by privat...
A look at The Stargate Project: unanswered questions, PR wins, SoftBank only has ~$30B cash, many projects are old news, and Elon Musk trolled the announcement
$500B in CapEx for AI in the US feels like a good thing for US security and for AI's continued progress in capabilities. Google's entire capex in 2024 was $50B. This is a hard amount of money to actua...
Chinese police are using a state-backed anti-fraud app, installed on 200M+ devices, to identify and question people who have viewed overseas financial news
Police identify and question people on back of software meant to prevent online scams — Chinese police are using … Tweets: @byron_wan , @colgo , @paulmozur , @byron_wan , @jchengwsj , @elimeixler , ...
Sources: SoftBank is planning to take a writedown of at least $5B to reflect a plunge in the value of some of its biggest holdings, including WeWork and Uber
Bloomberg : Tweets: @zerohedge , @edbott , @feedkastcharles , and @tracyalloway Tweets: @zerohedge : SoftBank Vision Fund Planning Writedown of at Least $5 Billion: BBG From what? $1 quadrillion? Ed ...
Sources: the Chinese Communist Party propaganda app Xuexi Qiangguo, which became the most popular app in Apple's App Store in China, was developed by Alibaba
not wishing to brag — but @ritacyliao was the first by weeks then Chinese New Year came https://techcrunch.com/... Zheping Huang / @pingroma : Yes, I believe I'm the first to write about the Xi app....
Sources: SoftBank Group has lined up commitments for a ~$9B loan for its Vision Fund from banks, including underwriters of its Japanese wireless business's IPO
Bloomberg : Tweets: @bondhack and @biswarupget Tweets: Robert Smith / @bondhack : SoftBank is doing that totally normal thing of raising a margin loan on its Vision Fund holdings in order to provide ...