Apple Seeking Deal to License Billions of Images to Train AI Models

Apple is believed to be among the companies seeking an agreement with Photobucket to train its artificial intelligence models, Reuters reports. Photobucket’s vast image library of over 13 billion photos and videos has attracted renewed interest as tech companies, including Apple, seek to license content for AI training purposes. The rise of generative AI has […]

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Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman Seeking Funding for Personal AI Device

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple design chief Jony Ive have officially teamed up to design an AI-powered personal device and are seeking funding, reports The Information. Little is known about the AI device at this time, but it won’t look like a smartphone. Altman is a major investor in the Humane AI pin, […]

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Samsung plans 3D DRAM launch next year for AI chip dominance

Samsung is gearing up to take full advantage of the intense demand for high quality memory solutions due to the AI gold rush. It’s already won a lot of praise for its new high-bandwidth memory products from the likes of NVIDIA, a market leader in AI semiconductors. The company is now looking to expand its […]

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Apple Researchers Reveal New AI System That Can Beat GPT-4

Apple researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system named ReALM (Reference Resolution as Language Modeling) that aims to radically enhance how voice assistants understand and respond to commands. In a research paper (via VentureBeat), Apple outlines a new system for how large language models tackle reference resolution, which involves deciphering ambiguous references to on-screen entities, […]

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Apple Publishes Details About New ‘MM1’ AI Model

Apple researchers have developed a new method for training large language models (LLMs) that seamlessly integrates both text and visual information. The company’s findings, detailed in a research paper titled “MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training,” showcase a new approach to creating more intelligent and flexible AI systems. By utilizing a diverse […]

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Apple Reportedly Testing AI-Powered Ad Technology

Apple has begun testing a new AI-powered tool with a small group of advertisers that automatically decides where to place ads on the App Store, Business Insider reports. Citing two individuals familiar with the matter, Business Insider claims that the AI-powered tool mirrors the functionalities of Google’s Performance Max and Meta’s Advantage+, which allow advertisers […]

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AI is helping Samsung sell a lot more washing machines

Other than mobile devices, Samsung makes a laundry list of products, including home appliances like washing machines, air conditioners, vacuum cleaners, and a lot more. Since artificial intelligence is something that everyone seems to be talking about these days, it was only a matter of time before the AI label was slapped on all sorts […]

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iOS 18: AI Server Industry Aiming to Win Business From Apple

AI server makers are hoping to obtain orders from Apple ahead of its highly anticipated unveiling of new AI features later this year, according to Taiwanese research firm TrendForce. Server manufacturer Supermicro is reportedly “aggressively expanding” its efforts to secure AI-related orders from Apple. The company has the potential to double its shipments of AI […]

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Android Auto is getting new AI feature to summarize messages

During the launch of the Galaxy S24 series, Google announced an AI-powered feature for Android Auto that can summarize messages that you receive while driving and provide you with various options depending on the context of messages to perform various actions. This feature keeps you from taking your eyes off the road to read those […]

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Major Shareholders Planning to Force Apple to Reveal Use of AI

Some of Apple’s biggest investors are set to pressure the company tomorrow to reveal its use of artificial intelligence tools (via the Financial Times). Apple’s annual shareholder meeting takes place tomorrow, allowing those with a major stake in the company to put forward proposals. One resolution proposed by the American Federation of Labor and Congress […]

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Spark Mail Gets ‘My Writing Style’ AI Email Assistant

Readdle today announced the launch of a new “My Writing Style” artificial intelligence feature created for the Spark email app. Spark already had an option for using AI to write emails in different styles like formal, neutral, and friendly, but the updated AI option is designed to write emails in each user’s own voice. According […]

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Apple Developing AI Tool to Help Developers Write Code for Apps

Apple is working on an updated version of Xcode that will include an AI tool for generating code, reports Bloomberg. The AI tool will be similar to GitHub Copilot from Microsoft, which can generate code based on natural language requests and convert code from one programming language to another. The Xcode AI tool will be […]

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iPhone 16’s processor is getting a more powerful AI neural engine

2024 is all about generative AI features on smartphones and you can bet your bottom dollar that Apple will be jumping on the bandwagon as well when it finally unveils the iPhone 16 series later this year. Samsung has already taken the spotlight with the Galaxy S24’s Galaxy AI so Apple has no choice but […]

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NVIDIA is now the third most valuable company in the US

NVIDIA, best known for its graphics chips, has been on a tear recently. It’s one of the leading suppliers of AI chips and given the incredible demand for these products, the company’s valuation has soared as investors are bullish on its future prospects. This has enabled the company’s valuation to skyrocket over the past year […]

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Apple Spending a ‘Tremendous Amount of Time and Effort’ on AI, Details Coming ‘Later This Year’

During today’s earnings call covering the first fiscal quarter of 2024, Apple CEO Tim Cook commented on Apple’s work on artificial intelligence. He said that Apple is investing a “tremendous” amount of time and effort in AI, with details to come later this year. “As we look ahead, we will continue to invest in these […]

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Apple’s Big AI Push Implied By Startup Acquisitions and Job Postings

Apple has been quietly making a series of artificial intelligence related acquisitions and staff hires in a bid to bring on-device AI to its next-generation iPhones, claims a new report by the Financial Times. According to the report, indications suggest Apple has been focusing on “tackling the technological problem of running AI through mobile devices.” […]

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Sony hints at launching more PlayStation games on PC and cloud

In an interview with the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, Nicolai Tangem, the CEO of Sony, Kenichiro Yoshida, discussed a wide range of topics related to the businesses that the Japanese company operates. As a technology-focused publication, what drew our attention were the plans that Yoshida revealed for Sony’s gaming department, which includes PlayStation, […]

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Samsung and Naver’s new AI chip is 8x power efficient than NVIDIA’s

Samsung is making considerable advancements in AI chip design on its own and also in collaboration with others in the industry. Samsung and Naver, another major Korean tech company, have been jointly working on a new artificial intelligence chip over the past year. The focus has been on power efficiency with this chip. It’s said […]

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AI-Infused iOS 18 Lauded as ‘Ambitious and Compelling’ by Apple Execs

Apple internally believes its iOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11, and tvOS 18 updates next year will be “ambitious and compelling,” thanks to major new software features and designs in the works for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Mac. That’s according to the latest information relayed by Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. While little […]

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