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 …
Apple opens pre-orders for the Vision Pro, which has an M2 chip with an 8-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, and comes with 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage options
Apple today finally shared additional tech specs for its Vision Pro headset following the start of pre-orders in the United States.
YouTube and, according to a source, Spotify are not planning to launch a native Apple Vision Pro app or to allow their iPad app to run on the platform
- Users of those services will be steered toward the web — Searches indicate apps from Meta may also be unavailable
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is testing making posts from Threads accounts “available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol”
I've been as big a Facebook critic as anybody, but this is a good thing. And reflects that we're entering a new era of the open web, with a chance for things to be more interestin...
The jury in Epic v. Google finds that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution and in-app billing services markets; Google plans to appeal
Three years after Fortnite maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win.
Discord redesigns its mobile app, offering separate messages and server tabs, new messaging features, a Midnight theme, and speed and data usage improvements
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Source: at an OpenAI all-hands meeting, Ilya Sutskever defended Sam Altman's ouster as necessary to protect OpenAI's mission of making AI beneficial to humanity
and the fallout Brian Fung / CNN : OpenAI: Why Sam Altman was fired and what's next after the shocking shakeup Patrick Cooley / The Messenger : Sam Altman's Supporters Pressure Ope...
OpenAI memo: Sam Altman's firing wasn't due to “malfeasance” or related to financial, business, safety, or security practices but a “breakdown in communication”
Team - after yesterday's announcement, which took us all by surprise, we have had multiple conversations …
Threads tests tags, which categorizes and links posts with a hashtag but without showing the # symbol, initially in Australia and “soon” in other countries
Instagram's Threads app has been duping Twitter/X in a number of ways and today it's adding one more feature that's …
Google DeepMind details weather forecasting AI model GraphCast, more accurate than the best conventional systems for three to 10 day predictions, an AI first
Google DeepMind's model beat world's leading system in 90% of metrics used and took only a fraction of the time
Elon Musk's xAI releases Grok, an AI model that the startup says surpasses rivals in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5, to a “limited number” of US users
Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!
Emails: X has begun work on an account handle marketplace for purchasing handles left unused, requesting a flat fee of $50K from potential buyers in some cases
Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers.
ChatGPT Plus users say OpenAI has added an “All Tools” feature and capabilities for analyzing docs like PDFs, potentially sidelining third-party ChatGPT plugins
OpenAI to release updated version of ChatGPT that gives users access all GPT-4 tools - including browsing and DALL