Apple perfected the media player with the iPod, then abandoned it.
I’m not sure what prompted this post on X from the OpenAI CEO, but it’s hard not to see it as mildly concerning, especially since we’ve already seen AI is perfectly capable of building its own cult.
It’s been a dizzying few weeks of “is AI reasoning and / or alive” discourse, with the attendant pushback that these systems are just fancy autocomplete. But back in March, Margaret Mitchell, one of the authors of the famous Stochastic Parrots paper, took to Medium to clarify something: AI, as a whole, is not a stochastic parrot — LLMs are. Critics are missing a fundamental difference between the two technologies, even though they’re related. The post has been going back around, and it’s worth a read.
There is a vast array of technology called “AI” that is not reducible to LLMs, and many current AI systems that utilize LLMs also leverage a variety of other technologies, including hand-written-rules, deterministic (non-stochastic) programs, various algorithms, and non-language models. This means that “AI”, broadly, is not equivalent to a large language model; it is not “just a stochastic parrot”.
[Margaret Mitchell]
I asked Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince about his personal million-dollar donation to the Omarchy Linux project, which has dragged companies like 1Password into controversy due to creator David Heinemeier Hansson’s strident anti-immigrant views. Judge for yourself.
Musk has famously insisted that cameras are enough for his self-driving cars, when everyone else is pairing them with more advanced sensors. Now He’s explicitly said that his Robotaxis can’t run at night because it’s dark — a problem lidar and radar could easily solve.
As head of Splice, CEO Kakul Srivastava has tried to carefully thread the line on AI music tools.
Ok, let’s be honest, it’s not much of a competition. The AI songs suck, and it’s pretty easy to tell which is human and which is AI when compared side by side. But the diary-style detailing of the songwriting process for both illustrates just how low-effort AI music is.
It took decades, but the technology is finally ready.
Revisiting rumors from earlier this year, Deadline and TheWrap report the adaptation of EA’s long-running FPS series would be directed and written by frequent Tom Cruise collaborator Christopher McQuarrie. According to TheWrap, Sony is a “frontrunner,” following a bidding war that also included Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon MGM Studios, Universal, and Netflix.
Paramount, meanwhile, is already working on a film version of Call of Duty.
Buying used PC parts to dodge price hikes could come with a catch, like the hardware ban a Reddit user claims they got stuck with after trying to run Valorant with a pre-owned Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The CPU was reportedly already blacklisted in the Vanguard anti-cheat system because its previous owner was flagged for cheating.
To prevent it from happening on your phone, Apple has issued a carrier settings update and is encouraging users to install iOS 27.0.1, 9to5Mac reports. However, if your phone is affected and has lost service, you have to get the phone replaced.
