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.

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.

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.

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.

Quietly working on webcrawling

Meta is now setting its sights on building a search engine to compete with giants like Google and Bing.

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,

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.

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.”

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.

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.