Siri’s Not Dead Yet, Jony Ive Comes Out of Hibernation, and More of the Biggest Tech News
Image: Apple/Getty I want to love Siri. I really do. Every day, I walk around with a little robot that lives in my pocket and responds to simple commands. It…
Nvidia’s CEO Was the Man of This Year, Next Year, and the One After That
Jensen Huang was BFFs with everyone in Silicon Valley this year, becoming the only person to walk across all three conference stages of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Why? Because everyone…
The Dumbest AI Moments of 2023
Photo: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock) By now you’ve probably heard that ChatGPT has a penchant for making up lies and stating them as fact, or what experts refer to as an AI…
Jony Ive Poaches Lead iPhone Designer to Work on OpenAI Hardware Device
Tang Tan, Apple’s lead designer for the iPhone and Apple Watch, is stepping down to join Jony Ive’s hardware firm LoveFrom, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman on Wednesday. Tan is…
Apple’s iPhone design chief jumps ship to work with Jony Ive
Apple’s iPhone and Watch design chief is leaving the company to work with Jony Ive, the man who led Apple’s design decisions until 2019 and who was key in creating…
OpenAI Pissed Off Developers by Phasing Out Plugins for GPTs
Sam Altman needs developers to build useful tools with ChatGPT, but his company is pissing them off right now. Just before Christmas weekend, OpenAI emailed plugin developers, people building practical…
AI’s World-Ending Capabilities Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Advertisement Text and image generators have decidedly gone mainstream music generators haven’t gotten as much attention. Microsoft hopes to change that. This week, the company partnered with AI startup Suno…
Anthropic Could Be Headed for an OpenAI-Style Showdown
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $750 million from Menlo Ventures, which values the startup at $15 billion, according to The Information. Like OpenAI, Anthropic also has a complicated…
How to Make Artificial Intelligence More Human in 2024
In the last year, computers started acting strangely human. As OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever put it, you can think of AI as a “digital brain”, one that’s directly modeled after that…
OpenAI’s New Board Members Are Now the Boss of Sam Altman (If They Want to Be)
OpenAI has a new Board of Directors following its November skirmish, but they can still overrule CEO Sam Altman on any decisions he makes, according to a set of guidelines…