Greg Bensinger, reporting for Reuters:
Amazon is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing
Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two
tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to
access the superior version, accordi...
Salvador Rodriguez, Aaron Tilley, Miles Kruppa, reporting for The Wall Street Journal Sunday morning (News+):
In its hustle to catch up on AI, Apple has been talking with a
longtime rival: Meta. Facebook’s parent has held discussions with
Apple about integrating Meta Pla...
Last week I mentioned Apple’s prohibition on JITs — just-in-time compilers — in the context of their rejection of UTM SE, an open source PC emulator. Apple’s prohibition on JITs, on security grounds, is a side issue regarding UTM SE, because UTM SE is the version of UTM that...
An oft-told story is that back in 2009 — two years after Dropbox debuted, two years before Apple unveiled iCloud — Steve Jobs invited Dropbox cofounders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi to Cupertino to pitch them on selling the company to Apple. Dropbox, Jobs told them, was “...
Yesterday, quoting Anthropic’s announcement of their impressive new model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, I wrote:
Also, from the bottom of the post, this interesting nugget:
One of the core constitutional principles that guides our AI model
development is privacy. We do not tra...
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