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Worst headline of 2025 contender just dropped
Victor Tangermann writing for Yahoo Finance with the very enticing headline: Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value
During an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh Patel's show this week, Nadella offered a reality check.
"Us self-claiming some [artificial general intelligence] milestone, that's just nonsensical benchmark hacking to
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When friends act like enemies
Bert Hubert writing on his blog (normally in Dutch, but this one’s in English): It Is No Longer Safe to Move Our Governments and Societies to US Clouds
Written down like this, it seems pretty bizarre, and that’s because it is. It’s also not easy to realize that our relationship with America
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Claude finally gets its “thinking” update
Anthropic released Claude 3.7 yesterday, and as a bit of a Claude stan myself, it’s fair to say I was excited to see it. The last few months have seen meaningful updates to GPT and Gemini, and in an industry moving at this rate, Anthropic felt like they were falling a bit behind.
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“Trust me”
I’m not trying to send any hate at a random MacRumors forum commentor who I don’t know, so please take this more as me explaining why there’s more skepticism about the Vision Pro than other gen-1 Apple products. From the post:
BTW, I also had the first iPhone, and it was
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Your brain doesn’t want you to work out
Dean Burnett writing for Science Focus: Your Brain Is Hard-Wired to Avoid Exercise. Here's Why
So why, even though we’ve evolved to do it, doesn't everyone enjoy exercise? The baffling complexity of the human brain is to blame. Evolving an ability doesn’t automatically mean we’ll want to
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Superhuman’s next big update looks very compelling
On the Superhuman blog: The Next Evolution of Superhuman AI 💖
Custom Auto Labels. Our built-in Auto Labels are great, but what's even better is making your own. Just write a prompt, like “job applications” or “requests for me to review work”. You can now immediately see when people apply for a job,
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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
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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
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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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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,
