https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral Mistral has unveiled Voxtral, an exciting new AI audio model that positions itself as a strong open-source competitor to Whisper, the reigning champion of speech recognition. With claims of…
OpenAI’s Crown Is Under Siege — And the AI Race Is Just Getting Started
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-talent-poaching-spree-leaked-messages/ It’s still too early to declare a winner in the AI arms race, but one thing is clear: the competition is accelerating, and OpenAI may struggle to maintain its…
My #WWDC25 Wishlist
Starting to write my WWDC25 wishlist #WWDC25 Wishlist: Can Apple fix m4b import into Books app? ePub works fine and can sync across to all devices with iCloud, but not…
Profit Over Service: The Subscription Model’s Dilemma
https://www.creativebloq.com/photography/photo-editing-software/after-25-loyal-years-adobes-price-hike-has-forced-me-to-say-goodbye We have become accustomed to the reality of rising costs. However, we often fail to consider the broader implications of these price increases, especially when it comes to subscription…
Forget ‘Seeing is Believing’: Check out these AI-Generated Video Clips
https://bgr.com/tech/17-insane-veo-3-ai-videos-thatll-stop-you-from-trusting-anything-you-see-online/
Been 6 years since Jony Ive left Apple, is io his second coming?
https://openai.com/sam-and-jony Jony Ive made a lot of money since leaving Apple, more than what he could have made at Apple. $6.5B is a great deal for him, the new entity…
Money is our greatest invention. It will continue to evolve; Crypto and AI will play a big part.
In Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, as well as in several of his recent interviews, he repeatedly emphasizes that money is one of the greatest stories humanity has ever invented. While it…
C1 is a milestone for Apple, might hurt Qualcomm, but that’s not the real fight
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-06/apple-s-three-year-modem-road-map-company-plans-to-beat-qualcomm-by-2027https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/apples-c1-modem-in-the-iphone-16e-is-proof-that-we-dont-need-qualcomm-for-5ghttps://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-reveals-first-custom-modem-chip-shifting-away-qualcomm-2025-02-19/ Apple isn’t the first one to make their own 5G modems, in fact they are late to the game. Samsung and Huawei both have their own modem chips. Other…
Don’t take #AI too seriously, certainly not yet. It doesn’t need to be perfect to be useful or fun
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27zwp7jpxo Not saying that BBC shouldn’t care about the AI summary showing false “information”. In the ideal world, we want all automated summaries to be accurate too, to take it…
Is it hard to imagine #Chrome spin off? Will it truly change search engine market against #Google?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly It’s funny how US Gov keeps trying to make it difficult for their own companies to win, all in the name of fairness. Ignoring that users actually had the…