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400 million people use OpenAI/ChatGPT every week
Kate Rooney for CNBC: OpenAI Tops 400 Million Users Despite DeepSeek’s Emergence
The San Francisco-based tech company had 400 million weekly active users as of February, up 33% from 300 million in December, the company’s chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, told CNBC.
I don’t mean to keep bringing this up, but
On the new iPhone 16e
Today Apple unveiled the iPhone 16e, which they're calling a part of the iPhone 16 lineup now, rather
Politics
Trump’s latest executive order plainly states no one has authority over him
The White House: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies
Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of the Law. The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. The President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of
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The worst product Marques Brownlee ever reviewed dies after 10 months
Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin
Humane is selling “key AI capabilities” to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today.
AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally until 3PM ET on February 28th, Humane
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Another study on LLM energy use
This study was linked to by The Verge today, and as someone who keeps looking at the energy costs of AI wondering why he’s missing something, one of the opening lines in the study’s executive summary really caught my eye:
Electricity consumption from data centres, artificial intelligence (AI) and the cryptocurrency sector could
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Are these 2025’s new iPhones?
9to5Mac has links to two mock ups claiming to represent the iPhone 17 Air and iPhone 17 Pro coming this fall. If I could be so bold, I’d say the 17 Air looks potentially reasonable, but the 17 pro render looks absolutely atrocious. I think there’s a very real chance that the renders
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This menu needs to die
M.G. Siegler: The Great AI UI Unification
And depending on which model you choose to use, you get other
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Castro is back, baby
Dustin Bluck writing for the Castro blog: State of the App: Year 1
Private and popular feeds update have seen
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The mythical iOS 18.4
Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri Features
It feels like a make-or-break moment for Siri, and these three remaining iOS 18 features are key indicators of Apple’s ability to leverage AI with Siri.
These three Siri features are AI uses that
Quick Reviews 1.0.5: the quality of life update
An update to my app, Quick Reviews, is rolling out now! After a lot of feature adds in the first
My toxic tech trait
99% of the time I want my software to be as fast as humanly possible. I want UI elements that respond quickly, and I want keyboard shortcuts to do as much as possible.
But 1% of the time, for whatever reason, I just like when a computer takes a long time to do something. Do
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Netflix accidentally gave us something nice
Chris Welch writing for The Verge: Netflix Says Its Brief Apple TV App Integration Was a Mistake
Considering the trajectory of 2025 so far, perhaps we should’ve known that Netflix finally playing nice with the Apple TV app was too good to be true. And now the streaming giant has confirmed that’s exactly
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+ People Change (members post)
Too often I see people suggest that others are a static combination of beliefs. I stongly believe that people can, and do change.
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New estimates have ChatGPT using 10x less power than previously thought
Josh You publishing a study on Epoch AI: How Much Energy Does ChatGPT Use?
A commonly-cited claim is that powering an individual ChatGPT query requires around 3 watt-hours of electricity, or 10 times as much as a Google search.
However…
We find that typical ChatGPT queries using GPT-4o likely consume roughly 0.
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Matt Gemmell is back on the Mac
Matt Gemmell went iPad-only in 2016, but he's made the move Back to Mac
[The Mac is] satisfying in the conventional way, in that it meets needs without drama or acrobatics. It works in the sense that it directs its resources firmly in the direction of service, rather than theatre. It’s
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It’s time to engage
Casey Newton writing on Platformer: Google Slings More AI at the Web
To get the web we had at its peak, platforms and publishers had to align around mutually beneficial incentives. They did it before, and they can do it again. It would nice to see some progress here before the web breaks any further
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Development is going through a real change
Thomas Ricouard: Is Software Engineering Over as We Know It?
Writing code has always been a means to an end,
