Apple’s spring season product launches continues. The company today followed the introduction of its new M4 iPad Air with two additional releases, a MacBook Air with an M4 chip and the latest super-powered upgrades to its most powerful Mac, the Mac Studio. The new Macs come with faster variants of Apple’s existing Apple Silicon processors, including the M4…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has claimed its V3 and R1 models achieve a theoretical daily cost-profit ratio of 545%, highlighting cost implications for enterprises adopting similar models from other cloud providers. In a GitHub post published over the weekend, DeepSeek estimated its daily inference cost for V3 and R1 models at $87,072, assuming a $2…
Mozilla last week updated the Firefox user agreement — something that normally does not provoke strong reactions. This time, however, the changes led to a wave of criticism, because some of the wording can be interpreted as giving Mozilla free rein to do whatever it wants with users’ data. In particular, the following paragraph has…
When science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published his proposed three rules of robotics (back in 1942, amazingly enough), it assumed the hard-wired instructions would be mandatory. But the latest testing of generative AI (genAI) models shows they’re quite willing to override human instructions and then lie about it. Until now, the main problem with genAI tools were…
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It sounds so good, doesn’t it? After Apple CEO Tim Cook met with US President Donald J. Trump, Cook announced: “We are bullish on the future of American innovation, and we’re proud to build on our long-standing US investments with this $500 billion commitment to our country’s future. We’ll keep working with people and companies across this…
In a blistering critique, former Intel CEO and Chairman Craig Barrett has strongly opposed breaking the company into separate design and foundry units, arguing that Intel’s recent technological resurgence positions it to challenge TSMC’s dominance in the semiconductor industry without corporate dismantling. Barrett also dismissed calls from four former Intel board members who suggested that…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin sent an internal message Wednesday to the group working on the company’s AI model Gemini. In the message, Brin wrote that Google can become a leader in AI development — provided that employees work more. “I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” Brin said in a message quoted…
A senior US official chided the UK government on Tuesday for pressuring Apple to create a backdoor in its encryption — although the US law enforcers would like a backdoor of their own. US national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard responded to an inquiry from two members of Congress, writing that she is concerned about the…
Not so long ago, the definition of an IT worker was pretty simple: they were largely confined to central roles related to hardware, network infrastructure, and software development in centralized IT departments. But what constitutes an IT worker has evolved in recent years; now, it can just as easily mean technologists embedded in virtually every…