Google acquired Nest in 2014 for a whopping $3.4 billion but seems increasingly uninterested in making smart home hardware. The company has just announced two of its home gadgets will be discontinued, one of which is quite popular. The Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector is a common fixture in homes, but Google says…
What if you could build a business-specific generative AI (genAI) solution that was hosted in the cloud? What if that cloud used the most energy-efficient systems in the world? And what if those services were also all running on the world’s most secure computing platform, the Mac? Wonder no more, because MacStadium and webAI just made…
Google revealed the Pixel 9a last week, but its release plans were put on hold by a mysterious “component quality issue.” Whatever that was, it’s been worked out. Google now says its new budget smartphone will arrive as soon as April 10. The date varies by market, but the wait is almost over. The first…
New generative AI (genAI) models introduced this week by Google and OpenAI have put the companies’ data centers under stress — and both companies are trying to catch up to demand. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman on Thursday tweeted that his company was temporarily restricting the use of GPUs after overwhelming demand for its image generation…
This is not Corning’s first swing at adding ceramic to the mix—the company is also responsible for Apple’s Ceramic Shield glass, which has been used on the company’s high-end phones since 2021. Apple fans have been largely impressed with the strength of Ceramic Shield, too. With the debut of Gorilla Glass Ceramic, we’ll be seeing…
CIOs should prepare for a 76.4% rise in global generative AI (genAI) spending this year, driven by improved foundational models and growing demand, according to a Gartner research report released today. Organizations are expected to spend $644 billion worldwide on genAI projects despite high failure rates among early projects, the lion’s share of which will…
The EU is set to impose minimal fines on Apple and Facebook-owner Meta next week under its Digital Markets Act, as Brussels seeks to avoid escalating tensions with US President Donald Trump. According to people familiar with the decisions, the iPhone maker is expected to be fined and ordered to revise its App Store rules,…
In the growing canon of AI security, the indirect prompt injection has emerged as the most powerful means for attackers to hack large language models such as OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 or Microsoft’s Copilot. By exploiting a model’s inability to distinguish between, on the one hand, developer-defined prompts and, on the other, text in external…
Generative AI (genAI) companies are starting to do real damage to the internet. One of the internet’s main purposes is to serve as a global network for free and open communication and information exchange between scientists, academics, and the public and to be an uncensorable place for the expression of free speech. (One of the…
QWERTY, QWERTY, QWERTY. QWERTY. Oh — hi there! Sorry for the slightly nonsensical greeting. I’ve been thinking a lot about keyboards this week, y’see, and how that trusty ol’ QWERTY surface has evolved in our lives. Also, saying “QWERTY” over and over again is surprisingly fun to do. Go ahead and try it. I’ll wait….