Ordering with the Starbucks ChatGPT app was a true coffee nightmare
…She calls it “the fruity tea,” which is not a name, but is the kind of fuzzy search ChatGPT ought to handle well! It offered me Iced Green Tea Lemonade, which is…
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The secret to Roku’s success: not being cool
…Roughly 10 years ago, someone told me that Roku was making “cheap hardware to sell to Walmart customers in flyover states.” The remark was meant to be an insult, belittling a company…
Here’s how the new Microsoft and OpenAI deal breaks down
…Microsoft announced the updates to its long-standing OpenAI deal on Monday, with the most important change allowing OpenAI to make its products and services available across all cloud providers. A day…
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
…For adults, it’s looking up information — LLMs are in the process of supplanting Google Search. Google had been degrading its search project for some time, and the results just kept…
What’s next for Microsoft’s Surface PCs?
…Microsoft’s changes to its hardware portfolio in 2023 hit the Surface unit heavily with layoffs, and the loss of leaders like Panay and former Surface design chief Ralf Groene have meant…
I went looking for the AI weed vape that gives you Bitcoin for smoking
…What I eventually found, after weeks of searching, dozens of emails, and a reporting effort that spanned continents, was somehow even dumber than I’d imagined. [Image: The Gudtrip weed vape’s…
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
…guide and custom colors across the UI. This delighted fans that had been waiting years to disable Quick Resume on a per-game basis. The ability to ship these changes also delighted…
A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower
…Four days later, I’m driving through the Silicon Valley foothills in search of proof. At the very first house on my itinerary, my heart skips a beat. Looking down into one…
Rivian’s software chief thinks you don’t need CarPlay or buttons
…We really use that platform and that operating system mindset so that we have a car that can evolve over time and get better and better for our customers. Such changes…
CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
…And so obviously AI is at the center of that change. And so we’re really excited to be bringing the best of technology and putting that into our customers’ hands as…