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From The Keyword Google blog: Introducing Gemini 2.0: Our New AI Model for the Agentic Era Today we’re excited to launch our next era of models built for this new agentic era: introducing Gemini 2.0, our most capable model yet. With new advances in multimodality — like native
Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram’s increasingly-overbearing owner — tightly control commerce on its platform?
Slack: The Fall 2024 Workforce Index Shows AI Hype Is Cooling Executives are all in on AI, with 99% planning AI investment in the coming year. And yet, for the first time since generative AI’s introduction, adoption rates are plateauing and excitement is cooling among the global workforce. This
Magic Lasso’s blog: Is Chrome the New IE? So Chrome becomes dominant – much like IE was back in its day – and web developers start focusing on building for Chrome and not open web standards. So let me just say at the jump that corporate blogs should typically be taken
John Green on episode 401 of his Dear Hank & John podcast (Overcast link): Art doesn’t have to only bring you joy, it could also bring you curiosity or interest or intrigue. But if it brings you something, whatever it beings you, that allows you to keep coming back
The one and only Niléane on MacStories: Horse Browser Tries Its Hooves at a New Take on Tabs As you may have noticed in my screen recordings, when you start fresh with a new trail, the browser’s window is occupied by a large, 3D-animated horse that follows your mouse
Matt Rosoff writing for TechCrunch: Marissa Mayer Just Laid Out a Possible Business Model for Ad-Supported AI Chatbots In the AI era, Mayer imagines that when people ask about tickets for a specific concert, “they actually want to see exactly what seats are available, where they are in the stadium,
Ryan Christoffel writing for: Apple’s Hitting Its AI Stride Right as Competition Is Slowing It happens all the time. Tech giants ship exciting new technology while Apple’s projects stay veiled in R&D, leading to the constant narrative that the company is ‘behind’ in that area. With
Michael Levin and Josh Lowitz: Thank Goodness for iPad iPad Pro remains the most popular model, with almost half of all iPad sales in the most recent quarter (Chart 1). This is about the same share of sales compared to the year-ago quarter. Combine this with the fact that the
Dan Moren: M4 Mac Mini Review: Phenomenal Cosmic Power, Itty-Bitty Form Factor When it comes to desktop Macs, it’s quite possibly the best one Apple offers. This is an amazing metric and does seem to check out. The Mac Studio and Mac Pro specced out with M2 Ultra chips
John Gruber: How It Went But he’s an optimist at heart. You’d like him. I, of course, don’t know who you are, dear reader, but I know you’d like my dad, Bob Gruber, because everyone likes Bob Gruber. It’s exceptionally rare for me to tear
John Gruber: The Brutal Clarity of This Result I realized this year — or perhaps over the last four years — that for me, belief in the merits of democracy is quasi-religious. It’s more than a philosophy. It’s a fundamental belief. I have faith in democracy, and part of that
Jeremy Markovich: Tony Hawk Wanted to Track Down a Mysterious Skateboarder From 1979. We Found Her. Folks, we love two things around here: Tony Hawk and decades-old mysteries. On a shitty day, it’s nice to have something pleasant to link to.
Sarah Perez for TechCrunch: Substack Is Giving Out Free Subscriptions to Boost App Installs Publishing platform Substack is now pushing users to install its mobile app by offering gifted subscriptions. While Substack itself is available across platforms, including the web, those who want to take advantage of the free subscription
Pixelmator Team: A new home for Pixelmator Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to join Apple. This is huge for this company, and it’s well-deserved. Pixelmator has long-been a prime example of what a great Apple developer looks like, and I’ve used