Delaying a revamped Siri may be embarrassing for Apple, but rushing an update with half-baked features could have created a real crisis for the company
and more M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : Apple Joins the Navy Bluesky: Kye / @kye.boats : OK. Weird article premise based entirely around a strawman. The issues are: — 1. Siri has su...
Sources: an exec overseeing Siri told staff the delays were ugly, made worse by Apple publicly promoting the new features, and it's unclear when they will ship
Apple Inc.'s top executive overseeing its Siri virtual assistant told staff that delays to key features have been ugly and embarrassing …
Sources: Craig Federighi and other Apple executives voiced concerns that personalized Siri didn't work properly; some think it has to be rebuilt from scratch
Apple Inc.'s turmoil in its AI division reached new heights on Friday, with the company delaying promised updates to the Siri digital assistant for the foreseeable future.
HP plans to acquire assets from Humane for $116M, wind down Humane's Ai Pin business, and add Humane's team, including its founders, as an AI-focused division
- Humane's Ai pin business to be wound down after rocky launch — New unit at HP will focus on implementation of AI in devices
Meta donates $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund; sources say Mark Zuckerberg gifted Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27
President-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving
Source: Microsoft signs a deal with News Corp's HarperCollins to use nonfiction titles to train an unannounced AI model; HarperCollins says authors can opt out
- Nonfiction books will be used for training AI models — AI companies and publishers have butted heads in lawsuits
Popular photo editing company Pixelmator says it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, pending regulatory approval, “to reach an even wider audience”
Apple is acquiring the popular photo editing company Pixelmator. The Pixelmator Team announced the news in a blog post …
A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that Masimo's smartwatches infringed Apple Watch design patents; Apple sought statutory minimum damages
but it won't affect Apple Watch's MIA blood oxygen feature John Quintet / iPhone in Canada Blog : Apple Wins $250 in Smartwatch Patent Case Against Masimo Akash Pandey / NewsBytes ...
A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that Masimo's smartwatches infringed Apple Watch design patents; Apple sought statutory minimum damages
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A profile of and interview with Tim Cook on being “perfectly fine with not being first”, running Apple, Vision Pro, AI, the Design Studio, group chats, and more
The CEO of the world's most valuable company led two of the biggest product launches of his tenure this year …
Analysts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, citing a lack of rideshare partnerships and Musk's history of missing FSD targets; TSLA drops 8.8%
- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.
Elon Musk unveils a Tesla Cybercab prototype, claims “you will be able to buy one” for under $30K, and expects the robotaxi to be in production “before 2027”
1,028,294 viewsStreamed live 6 hours ago — Lady: “I want two drinks” … Gabe Lerman / Pivot to AI : Elon's double nothingburger: robotaxis any year now, bro. And robots, bro. Trus...
Experts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, getting scale without rideshare partners, and cite Musk's history of missed FSD dates; TSLA down 7%+
- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.
Filing: the US DOJ lays out “behavioral and structural remedies”, including a breakup, for the federal judge to consider in the Google Search antitrust case
- Antitrust officials also mull making Google share search data — Justice Department proposes multiple options in historic case
Google says the US DOJ's “radical and sweeping proposals” in the Search antitrust case risk “hurting” consumers, businesses, developers, and US competitiveness
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today shared a broad outline of radical changes it may demand as part …
Hands-on with Meta's Orion: needs a wireless processor puck, weighs only 100g, is packed with sensors, and has good eye tracking and a wide FoV for AR glasses
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls them “The most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.” — I wore Mark Zuckerberg's contact lenses.
Meta unveils an Orion prototype, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, a wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors
they could put the iPhone on notice Peter Kafka / Business Insider : I tried out Meta's Orion computer glasses. I'd buy them in a heartbeat — if they were actually for sale. Jon Ke...
OpenAI's o1 models aren't as simple as the next step up from GPT-4o as they introduce major cost and performance trade-offs in exchange for improved “reasoning”
OpenAI released two major new preview models today: o1-preview and o1-mini (that mini one is also a preview …
OpenAI's o1 models aren't as simple as the next step up from GPT-4o as they introduce major cost and performance trade-offs in exchange for improved “reasoning”
OpenAI released two major new preview models today: o1-preview and o1-mini (that mini one is also a preview …
OpenAI releases o1, the first of its rumored reasoning-focused Strawberry models, in preview, alongside a smaller o1-mini, for ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers
Advancing cost-efficient reasoning. — Contributions Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI trained its new o1 AI models to think before they speak - how to access them Ethan Mollick / On...