Google’s taking a big swing at AI health with the Fitbit Air
… But, like Apple, Google is one of the only players that could make good on the data consolidation part of the equation. …
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Google Search queries hit an ‘all time high’ last quarter
…million paid subscriptions, with “YouTube and Google One being the key drivers.” Alphabet also announced consolidated revenues of $109.9 billion, up 22 percent year over year from revenues of $90.2…
44 things coming to your Apple devices that you might have missed
…iPhone 17, 17 Air, and 17 Pro, you’ll be able to use Dual Capture mode during FaceTime calls. * You’ll be able to set an alarm volume that’s independent of…
25 years later, is it time for a new iPod?
…Spotify raised its prices for the third time in as many years in January. “The more and more smartphones consolidated gadgets, the worse it got for consumers,” wrote the moderator of the…
How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
…On Monday, The New York Times reported that the White House was considering having the government review AI models before release. To the casual Verge reader, it appeared to be a total…
Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic
…model performance lifts the rest of the stack. Spud will make all of our key products significantly better. It expands the workflows we can own and gives customers another reason to consolidate…
The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
It’s been almost three years since Silicon Valley started aggressively pushing large language model-based chatbots like ChatGPT as the supposedly inevitable future of everything, and there’s no group that…
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
… Sommer predicts that many companies “won’t be able to sustain their burn rate,” and says market consolidation is virtually inevitable — in his eyes, no more than two large language model providers in any regional market will survive. …
Uber employees have a Dara AI
…For example, the Chinese players have shown the way, and you’ve seen it, the speed of foundation model development, whether it’s digital foundation models or physical foundation models. Nvidia is…
How Iran out-shitposted the White House
…Shutting down the flow of information has been the regime’s primary modus operandi for as long as anyone can remember. Spreading information, and spreading as much of it as quickly as…