CNBC reports Seemour maker Prompt AI is in late-stage talks over an acquihire by Apple, “likely” joining the Apple Home division.
Seemour’s ambient intelligence (more on that topic here) promised alerts and summaries of action caught on camera feeds, which could be useful for Apple’s rumored security camera and HomeScreenPod.
Apple has updated its bug bounty program, doubling the top reward to $2 million, plus bonuses that could take payouts over $5 million, for “exploit chains that can achieve similar goals as sophisticated mercenary spyware attacks.” Apple says that’s “the largest payout offered by any bounty program” it’s aware of.
Analytics firm Appfigures told The Verge Sora was downloaded 627,000 times in its first week on Apple’s App Store. Sora is still invite-only, so it’s hard to tell how many people are actually using it, but its first week has been plagued with controversy after users generated a torrent of AI slop, deepfakes, and disturbing copyright violations.
Now, interestingly, ICEBlock users are the same users who build, support, and buy Apple’s products. And these same people rely on and trust Apple every single day. And I’ll tell you, if I was speaking directly to Tim Cook, I’d say, “Tim, you’ve broken that trust, and now it’s up to you to fix it.”
Apple removed ICEBlock from the App Store last week.
