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🏠 Apple to launch AI home device in 2025
🤖 AI giants are struggling to improve their models
😅 Apple AI notifications are rarely useful, often hilarious
👋 Greg Brockman returns to OpenAI
🚨 Discord leaker sentenced to 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
🏠 Apple to launch AI home device in 2025LINK
Apple plans to release its first wall-mounted smart home display, powered by Apple Intelligence, by March, serving as a home command center integrated with Apple apps and HomeKit.
The device, codenamed J490, features a 6-inch square touch screen and includes a camera, battery, speakers, and proximity sensors, adjusting its interface based on user distance.
This display will forgo an app store, instead focusing on core Apple apps such as Safari, FaceTime, and News, and will retail at a lower cost compared to higher-end smart home products.
🤖 AI giants are struggling to improve their modelsLINK
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are facing hurdles in developing more advanced AI models due to diminishing returns from their significant investment efforts.
OpenAI's new model, Orion, has not met desired outcomes, particularly in coding tasks, due to insufficient training data, and will not be released until improvements are made.
These companies are encountering challenges in sourcing diverse, high-quality data and may need to explore alternative training methods to improve their AI technologies further.
😅 Apple AI notifications are rarely useful, often hilariousLINK
Apple devices running iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 now feature a built-in AI capability that compiles summaries for piled-up notifications, aiming to provide brief overviews.
These notification summaries can be accurate for certain updates like Apple Home alerts but often misinterpret complex messages such as texts, emails, or Slack notifications, missing the essence of the original content.
Though not revolutionary in usefulness, Apple Intelligence summaries occasionally inject humor into otherwise mundane notification streams, making them a mildly entertaining addition rather than a groundbreaking tool.
👋 Greg Brockman returns to OpenAILINK
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has rejoined the company three months after stepping down as president, ending his planned sabbatical earlier than expected.
His return comes after several high-profile departures, including Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and co-founders Ilya Sutskever and John Schulman, who have since moved on to start new AI companies.
Brockman resumes his role shortly after OpenAI's latest funding round that valued the company at $157 billion, during a period of leadership changes and scrutiny over its for-profit transition.
🚨 Discord leaker sentenced to 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US historyLINK
Jack Teixeira, a former US Air National Guard member, received a 15-year prison sentence for leaking confidential military documents on Discord, considered one of the most significant leaks in US history.
Teixeira was arrested for distributing sensitive information related to national security interests involving countries like Russia, China, and Ukraine, which he accessed through his position at a Massachusetts military base.
Pleading guilty to six counts of national defense information transmission, Teixeira avoided larger espionage charges and a potential 60-year sentence, with a final ruling of 15 years, followed by supervised release.
Other news you might like
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Amazon will shut down Freevee, months after saying it wouldn’t shut down Freevee.LINK
Google is testing the ‘impact’ of removing EU news from search results.LINK
YouTube is now letting creators remix songs through AI prompting.LINK
Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark.LINK
What if AI doesn’t just keep getting better forever?.LINK
Latest research and tools
Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay: a device that connects Bluetooth keyboards and mice to computers without Bluetooth functionality by using a Raspberry Pi Zero to emulate a USB Human Interface Device.LINK
80286 ATX mainboard project: allows enthusiasts to build and experience a retro computing platform, suitable for educational purposes in understanding older technology, with strict usage guidelines and no guarantees of functionality.LINK
HyperDX: an open-source alternative to Kibana for ClickHouse, enabling engineers to easily search and visualize logs and traces, supporting schema-agnostic operations, live tailing, and performance monitoring with OpenTelemetry integration.LINK
Voice acting in Space Quest V: a feature that enables characters in the game to have spoken dialogue, enhancing player immersion and storytelling through audio performances.LINK
Large Language Models in National Security Applications: large language models can offer significant benefits to national security efforts by enhancing predictive analytics and decision-making capabilities.LINK
Gmail AI Agent: automates email management using artificial intelligence to analyze, suggest actions for, and allow Telegram-based control of emails, providing users with customizable summaries and actionable notifications.LINK
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