Jobs’ Mob stops making Vision Pro
Tame Apple Press refuses to admit it made a mistake and say nevermore
The fruity cargo cult Apple has pulled the plug on producing its Vision Pro, its virtual reality (VR) headset.
Meta asks Supremes to halt investor lawsuit over data misuse
We should be allowed to do what we like
The US Supreme Court grappled with an appeal from Meta Platforms, Facebook's parent company, seeking to dismiss a 2018 federal securities fraud lawsuit brought by shareholders.
Meta Permits Its A.I. to be used by US military
Army runs on Llamas
Social notworking outfit Meta has changed its policies on government agencies and contractors working on national security to allow the military use of its products.
OpenAI forms pact with Broadcom
No longer wants custom foundaries
OpenAI has decided to shelve its plans to build custom foundries. Instead, the company will partner with semiconductor giant Broadcom to develop its first batch of custom AI chips.
Meta sets its sights on rivalling Google and Bing with new search engine
Quietly working on webcrawling
Meta is now setting its sights on building a search engine to compete with giants like Google and Bing.
OpenAI has lost ground to rivals
Still the leader for now
OpenAI's lead over other AI labs has largely eroded as Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google's Gemini 1.5, X's Grok 2, and even Meta's open-source Llama 3.1 405 B model have equalled, or narrowly surpassed on some benchmarks,
Developers spurn Apple’s Vision Pro as if it were a rabid dog
New apps have slowed further
Apple’s Vision Pro is struggling to attract significant software makers to develop apps for its overpriced, poorly designed chocolate teapot.
A.I. is dumber than a cat, claims Meta man
Cat says Meta Man is dumber than AI
Meta senior researcher Yann LeCun told the Wall Street Journal that humanity has nothing to fear from A.I. and that it is “dumber than a cat.”
EU wallops Facebook’s data retention policies
Zuckerberg can’t use your lunch pictures forever
The European Union's top court ruled on Friday that social networks like Facebook cannot indefinitely use people's information for ad targeting.
Meta pays Texas $1.4 billion
Will make privacy charge go away
Meta will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit claiming the company used personal biometric data without user consent.