ChatGPT allegedly offered "extremely dangerous medical recommendations" regarding a pulmonary embolism.

It would open up a completely new business for the Facebook and Instagram maker.

Google and Apple were sent cease-and-desist letters regarding 13 apps on their respective stores.

It's the latest in a barrage of efforts to win compensation from AI companies over training materials.

Chrome's Gemini integration has arrived in the UK.

The role will be replaced by an executive in charge of both research and safety teams.

Meta has deactivated the Muse Image capability to create AI deepfakes of any public Instagram account you @-mention.

The lawsuit also names io Products, the hardware company led by Jony Ive.

Let's be real, OpenAI isn't giving up on the browser market, it is just changing its strategy.

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Throughout this piece I haven’t mentioned Apple. While Apple did release a headset in 2024, It was never meant as a consumer product. The Apple Vision Pro was meant to test the waters, collect data, and build up their developer platform before the real AR product (probably some glasses) ships in the next few years.

I will say this about Apple; for how much I complain about their aggressiveness in shipping new features at the expense of software quality, Apple can sustain long term vision. They can plan and execute and iterate until the third one is good. Google can’t do that. Microsoft can’t do that (anymore). And Facebook can’t either.

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Big Picture: Apple kann nicht tiefstapeln; Unterstatement liegt nicht in ihrer DNA. Selbst wenn die Vision deutlich zu früh startete, behaupten sie: “It’s an early-adopter product, for people who want tomorrow’s technology today.”

Das setzte (grandios) überzogene Erwartungen (“Today marks the beginning of a new era for computing”), die nicht ansatzweise zu erfüllen waren.

So wird und wurde die Brille in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung zurecht als Flop abgeschrieben, obwohl das Interface und die Plattform auf lange Sicht höchstwahrscheinlich zentral für Apple ausfallen – AI muss irgendwo laufen; Audio-only-Computing ist ungenügend.

Das Produkt, die Brille, ist bis heute gescheitert und trotzdem gibt keiner der beteiligten Akteure seine VR-/AR-Software-Entwicklung auf – obwohl das Smartphone auf Jahrzehnte hinaus weiter dominieren wird.

Midjourney is asking the court to get Disney, Warner Bros. and Universal to submit information on their AI use.

The hosting platform wants sites to have more control over how AI companies use their content.

According to the Financial Times, Sam Altman is floating the idea of having leading AI companies give US sovereign funds a five percent equity.

A rumored SpaceX device could offer a way to access xAI's models without having to use a smartphone.

Alice Newton-Rex, WhatsApp’s head of product, said she had heard from users that they didn’t always want to share their phone numbers in order to be in contact with others, particularly in group chats.

She said she hoped the feature would „give users control over how they choose to show up“ on the app.

The secure messaging app Signal introduced an identical service in 2024.

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Subjektive (und beinahe wertungsfreie) Beobachtungen während meines Urlaubs in einer Gruppe mit 25 Personen:

• Niemand fragt nach einer Alternative für WhatsApp; niemand zieht gleichzeitig auch nur in Erwägung, für Plus zu zahlen.
• Jeder, der unter „Accounts“ nachschaut, ob er bereits darf, klickt intuitiv den von der EU erzwungenen Hinweis auf BirdyChat weg.
• Das ist komplett vergessen; für die Erstellung eines WhatsApp-Kontos ist weiterhin die Handynummer erforderlich.
• Fotos werden in Chats geteilt, und mit zwei oder drei expliziten Ausnahmen geschieht dies quasi nie in HD.
• „Staged Rollouts“ für neue Funktionen sind universell unbeliebt.
  

Und niemand stößt sich an der schrecklichen UI – außer mir. Bereits der „Meta AI“-Button disqualifiziert die App augenblicklich.

Amazon's Kindle AI features help you read beyond the lines, so long as you have the right ereader.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 comes in three variants, including its most powerful and its most affordable models yet.

Anthropic is restoring select organizations' access to Mythos after getting permission from the US government.

This won't make the already-controversial AI training endeavor any more popular.

Getty Images will allow OpenAI to use its content library in AI search and ChatGPT.