Image Credits:Bryce Durbin / TechCrunchWith the iOS 18.4 update, currently in public beta, Apple is adding AI-powered summaries of App Store reviews. This feature uses Apple Intelligence, the company’s built-in AI, to generate an overview based on user reviews.According to Apple’s website, these summaries rely on large language models (LLMs) to condense key details...
Image Credits:Michel Porro / Getty ImagesIn a policy paper released Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks argue that the U.S. should avoid a Manhattan Project-style effort to develop AI systems with “superhuman” intelligence, or AGI.Titled Superintelligence Strategy, the paper warns that...
A new device called e-Taste could soon let you taste your video game foodDepositphotosVirtual reality excels at engaging sight and sound, while developers continue making progress with touch. Even smell is beginning to play a role—for better or worse. That leaves one final sense: taste. Whether or not people truly want to experience flavors...
Credit: CanvasThe Data We ShareFrom Fitbit steps to Facebook likes, we spill data daily. Every search, click, and purchase feeds into vast databases. Companies like Acxiom build detailed consumer profiles for targeted advertising, sometimes knowing more about your habits than you realize. Social media platforms, streaming services, and online retailers track user behavior...
Image Credits: FloraWith just a few words, AI models can generate stories, images, or even short films. However, Weber Wong argues that these tools are designed by non-creatives for other non-creatives to feel creative—meaning they don’t truly serve professional artists.Wong aims to change that with Flora, a startup he founded and now leads as...
Credit:CanvasThe Scalability ChallengeScalability is a critical factor in the success of tech giants. It refers to a system’s ability to handle increasing amounts of work efficiently without compromising performance or stability. Twitter provides a prime example. In its early days, the platform had to scale from handling 12,000 tweets per second to millions of...
Credit: CanvasThe Large Hadron Collider’s Data ChallengeCERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, generates approximately 30 petabytes of data annually by capturing particle collisions occurring at near-light speeds. This volume of information is equivalent to around 600 million filing cabinets filled with documents, making it impossible for a...
Credit: PixabayApple quietly launched its latest budget smartphone, the $599 iPhone 16e, with no major event—just a tweet from CEO Tim Cook days before a press release announcement. Unlike past unveilings, there were no in-person or online showcases, nor a media frenzy to capture images of the device.The iPhone 16e isn’t a groundbreaking release...
Image Credits:Akio Kon / Bloomberg / Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang remains optimistic about the company's future, reaffirming that DeepSeek won’t affect sales during Wednesday’s earnings call.DeepSeek R1 Sparks Stock Dip, But Huang Sees Growing Demand for ComputeLast month, speculation that DeepSeek’s R1 model required significantly fewer chips for training led to a record...
Image Credits:InceptionInception, a newly launched company based in Palo Alto and founded by Stanford computer science professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed an innovative AI model leveraging diffusion technology. The company refers to it as a diffusion-based large language model (DLM).Currently, generative AI models fall into two primary categories: large language models (LLMs)...
