It happened to me: I opened a Google Doc to write an article, and I was immediately confronted with a text box inviting me to “write with Gemini.” I looked for some button to swipe away the garish AI display, but I could not find it. It made me mad. Now, instead of writing the…
It’s been called RAMageddon: AI’s insatiable demand for hardware has caused a worldwide shortage of memory chips. Now outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook is warning its customers that your next Mac, iPhone, or iPad could be more expensive thanks to surging memory and storage chips costs. In a recent interview, Cook told the WSJ that…
The Trump administration’s move to impose export controls on Anthropic’s most powerful AI technology followed a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos model, according to people familiar with the matter. US officials were concerned about what they alleged were SK Telecom’s ties to China, those…
Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist. As a co-founder of Goodwater Capital, a firm focused exclusively on consumer and prosumer technology, he has built a portfolio spanning entertainment, healthcare, fintech, and live experiences — with investments in companies like MIDI Health, Fever,…
The Trump administration’s disagreement with Anthropic over its most superior AI fashions seems to be quick coming to a head. Trump officers inform Interior Loop that if Anthropic desires to rerelease Claude Fable 5, the AI mannequin that they took offline with export controls final week over considerations about jailbreaking—a technique of utilizing prompts to…
Former Sequoia Captial managing accomplice Roelof Botha is becoming a member of SpaceX’s board of administrators, lower than every week after the corporate went public within the largest IPO ever. SpaceX announced the appointment in a submitting with the Securities and Trade Fee on Wednesday. It stated Botha was appointed “to fill the present emptiness…
Vercel has released eve, an open-source framework for building, running, and scaling agents. The project is published as the npm package eve, licensed under Apache-2.0. Building an agent should mean defining what it does. It should not mean assembling all the plumbing that an agent needs to run in production. eve is the framework Vercel…
At IO-AI Tech, a startup about 45 minutes north of downtown Shenzhen, China, I glimpsed a wacky new frontier of blue-collar work. Staff carrying the corporate’s VR headsets, handheld controllers, and motion-tracking gear remotely management humanoid robots for workplaces like manufacturing unit flooring and comfort shops. The company desires the robots to do helpful work,…
Mastodon, the open, decentralized different to Huge Tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that e mail might assist clear up the open social internet’s largest drawback: viewers progress. With the software program’s newest launch, the social networking platform is introducing e mail newsletters, a function that can permit writers to ship their posts…
After years of incremental updates, Google is betting that its Gemini AI can reinvent its smart speaker. On Wednesday, the company introduced its first audio device built specifically for Gemini with the $99.99 Google Home Speaker. The new Google Home device is the first standalone smart speaker from the tech giant since the Nest Audio…
