Siri’s AI overhaul may have been the headline announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, but Apple’s broader AI strategy is taking shape through a series of smaller features embedded across its software. Rather than asking consumers to adopt the new AI-powered version of Siri to get all the benefits that AI brings,…
ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and other tools like them are making artificial intelligence available to the masses. We can now get all sorts of responses back on almost any topic imaginable. These chatbots can compose sonnets, write code, get philosophical, and automate tasks. However, while you can just type anything you like into ChatGPT and get…
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Getting prompts right is still the hardest part of shipping reliable LLM applications. Small wording changes can swing accuracy by 20 percent. What works on a few examples often breaks at scale. When a multi-step pipeline returns a wrong answer, finding the failing step means inspecting intermediate outputs by hand. Cisco AI introduced FAPO to…
Nous Research has added a Blank Slate setup mode to its open-source Hermes Agent. It inverts the usual onboarding. Instead of a fully loaded default, you start with almost nothing. Hermes Agent is the self-improving agent framework from Nous Research. It runs on your own machine. The team announced the new mode on X. Blank…
Requested concerning the privateness implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Sign President Meredith Whittaker answered, “These are usually not your mates. These are usually not aware beings. These are usually not sentient interlocutors.” Whittaker made these feedback in a broader interview with Bloomberg about coverage, privateness, and Sign. She acknowledged that she makes use…
Anyone who’s Googled themselves recently knows that it doesn’t quite hit the way it used to. Sure, there’s everything going on with Google search itself, but there’s also an inescapable feeling that web search isn’t the canonical source of information that it used to be, with just as many people learning about you and me…
Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in El Segundo, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for a conversation that kept circling back to a question that doesn’t usually come up at a venture event: How do you know if a fish is stressed out? It’s a…
John Jumper, who shared a current Nobel Prize in chemistry, introduced Friday that he’s making the leap to Anthropic after “practically 9 years” at Google DeepMind. In a post on X, Jumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis “took an actual probability letting me lead the AlphaFold staff simply six months after ending my PhD,…
While Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence announcements dominated the WWDC spotlight earlier this month, the tech giant also packed iOS 27 with a number of upgrades across its everyday apps and services, including smarter bill splitting in Apple Wallet, new ways to share locations in Find My, and improved Apple Maps features. Apple…
