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Young man me likely would have thought, “wow, cool tradition!” Old man me thinks “$390 million? How are they funding this?! That seems like a massive sum of money to throw down the…

My main takeaway from this is that Luca Maestri was a blight on Apple. He steered this company into the most malicious of compliance schemes that only has increased their regulator…

You’re only looking at one side of it. Consider how much value that excel adds, and how many use cases it enables. It’s incalculable. It’s always easy to poke at excel’s issues, bu…

Apple outsourced chips to IBM (PowerPC) for a long time and floundered all the while. They went into the game themselves w/ the PA Semi acquisition and now they have Apple Silicon …

If Apple wasn't selling privacy, I'd assume the other way around. Or if anything, OpenAI would give the service out for free. There's a reason why ChatGPT became free to the public…

I can't really dispute any of that. It took almost a decade but the PA Semi acquisition showed that Apple was able to get out of the shadow of its PowerPC era. Nvidia will remain a…

Nvidia obviously has an enormous, enormous moat but I do think this is one of the areas in which Apple may actually GAF. The rollout of Apple Intelligence is going to make them the…

Learning how to write llm function calls.

Can't wait to attempt GUI automation on my iPhone using the mac.

If we know anything about Apple, they're going after Nvidia. If anyone can pull it off, it's going to be them.

Apple Intelligence stuff is going to be very big. iOS is clearly the right platform to marry great UX AI with. Latching LLMs onto Siri have allowed the Siri team to quickly atone f…

Regarding Germany and large corporations, and somewhat of a tangent, I remember a decade ago a bunch of hedge funds had tried to sue Porsche, the parent company of VW, for cornerin…

There weren’t 200 holdouts. It was like 5 AM over there. I don’t know why you are surprised that people who work at OpenAI would want to work at OpenAI, esp over Microsoft?

Likely connected to the fact that they released voice chat for free users an hour ago. https://x.com/openai/status/1727065166188274145 Assuming these two things are related, if I m…

Don't forget Tasha McCauley's husband, Joseph Gordon Levitt, has been vocally anti-AI during the SAG-AFTRA strike, an event for which AI was a huge point of contention. It's a pois…

Seems all but confirmed that Sam is going back to OpenAI. https://twitter.com/sama/status/1726345564059832609

You have! The Apple Vision Pro is slated to be released by the March/April 2024. The device has only been made possible by the steady march of Apple Silicon.

Saying the chips haven't enabled any sort of innovative products it's like driving down the interstate wearing goggles, err, blinders. Let's check back in four months.

I do think he was the chief architect of the coup. I do think his beliefs and ideals are still valuable flora for a company of this ambition. There just needs to be a more professi…

I think that his beliefs are important to the company. A board shouldn't be a homogenous glob nor should it be like a middle school friend group. What he did was both bizarre and a…

I don’t understand why and how they didn’t consider this sort of discussion before so unceremoniously firing him. The others on the board outside Ilya need to go. I don’t consider …