Apple details two Apple Intelligence language models: ~3B parameter on-device and a larger model on Apple silicon servers available with Private Cloud Compute
At the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, we introduced Apple Intelligence, a personal intelligence system integrated deeply into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia.
Apple unveils a new Siri powered by Apple Intelligence: more personal, on-screen awareness, a new third-party app API, and more, coming “over the next year”
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :
Ilya Sutskever and over 700 out of ~770 OpenAI staffers sign a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman unless the board resigns and reinstates Altman
- Majority of OpenAI employees sign letter seeking new board — Board member Ilya Sutskever is among the signatories
Clubhouse completely redesigns its iOS and Android apps around a new asynchronous voice-only group chat feature, in an attempt to be “more like a messaging app”
Hey all. We're evolving Clubhouse to be more like a messaging app … Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch : Clubhouse is trying to make a comeback Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today ...
Some tech insiders say that generative AI won't fix San Francisco's economic and commercial real estate woes as the startups bring fewer jobs and automate work
Anna Tong / Reuters : LinkedIn: Anna Tong . Twitter: @jowyang , @kevinbtruong , @grabbou , and @mattprd LinkedIn: Anna Tong : Can AI save San Francisco? The city is battling exis...
Apple Vision Pro specs: 12 cameras, five sensors, and six mics, an M2 and a new R1 chip, a digital crown, 23M pixels, and Zeiss lenses for vision correction
as needed. Top right: For those that wear glasses, Apple is partnering with Zeiss to create inserted lens, that will correct your vision, so you... https://twitter.com/... [image] ...
Tim Cook unveils Apple Vision Pro, a “spatial computing” headset controlled with the user's eyes, hands, and voice, coming to the US for $3,499+ in early 2024
Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that “seamlessly” blends the real and digital world.
Twitter's automated copyright strike system appears to be broken, as users upload full movies; some accounts with viral tweets were later suspended
While Twitter, the website, remains online and has not simply collapsed after the vast majority of workers were fired or resigned under Elon Musk …
Elon Musk's changes at Twitter threaten to set up a showdown with Apple and Google over in-app purchases for subscriptions and content moderation issues
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg :
Open letter: Altimeter Capital founder and CEO Brad Gerstner encourages Meta to cut capex by $5B+, cut headcount by 20%+, and limit metaverse R&D to $5B/year
[Thread] Via iRobot, Amazon, one of the most powerful data collection companies on earth, will get another vast and intrusive set of data about people's homes
1. Hello. Amazon today announced it would pay $1.7 billion to acquire iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robotic vacuum. It may be the most dangerous, threatening acquisition in...
Amazon plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot in a $1.7B all-cash deal; Colin Angle will remain as iRobot's CEO
Everyone's Favorite Robot Cleaning Company Financial Times : Amazon acquires Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7bn Jon Fingas / Engadget : Amazon is buying iRobot, the creator of the Room...
Investigation reveals the identities of two main founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection: Greg Solano, aka “Gargamel”, and Wylie Aronow
The buzzy NFT collection has raked in millions and the eager support of dozens of celebrities.
Sources: Meta plans to let users create and sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram, display NFTs on user profiles, and is considering an NFT marketplace
A record $14B flowed to criminal crypto addresses in 2021, up from $7.8B in 2020, driven by DeFi scams; total crypto transaction volume hit $15.8T, up 567% YoY
it leaves many exposed; see damage scammers did in #web3 https://www.cnbc.com/... @chainalysis : THREAD: Here are a few key insights from today's preview of our 2022 Crypto Crime R...
Uber plans to pilot driverless food-delivery in Santa Monica next year with partner Motional, a Hyundai and Aptiv joint venture that also has a Lyft deal
Nike acquires RTFKT, an NFT studio founded in 2020, for an undisclosed sum; RTFKT raised an $8M seed in May led by a16z at a $33.3M valuation
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch :
Nike acquires RTFKT, an NFT studio founded in 2020, for an undisclosed sum; RTFKT raised an $8M seed in May led by a16z at a $33.3M valuation
Nike is taking a plunge deeper into the world of crypto collectibles, announcing that they're acquiring the NFT studio RTFKT (pronounced “artifact").
A look at ConstitutionDAO, which has taken $4M+ in crypto donations to bid at an auction on one of the original copies of the US Constitution, printed in 1787
and it's all organic and across the www https://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Are you buying a copy of the constitution by donating to @ConstitutionDAO? Nope. You...
Gather, which builds metaverse-like environments for offices, events, and conferences, raises a $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures
Today, we are excited to announce that Gather has raised a $50M Series B led by Sequoia and Index!