Remember in 2008 when ex-Intel chief Andy Grove tried convincing new leadership to diversify interests and produce advanced lithium-ion batteries? Here in 2024, Intel’s very survival is uncertain and Homeland Security worries that China’s domination of batteries used in EVs (80 percent) and commercial energy storage (90 percent) is a threat to the US supply chain. Duh.
The AirPods Pro 2 will soon offer more robust hearing protection and a new hearing aid feature. But it’s the hearing test that really hooked me.
Valve Steam Deck designer Lawrence Yang set some release timeline expectations in an interview with Reviews.org:
“We’re not going to do a bump every year. There’s no reason to do that. And, honestly, from our perspective, that’s kind of not really fair to your customers to come out with something so soon that’s only incrementally better. So we really do want to wait for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life before we ship the real second generation of Steam Deck.”
That checks out given we already knew a next-gen Steam Deck might not arrive before 2026.
In a lengthy, wide-ranging interview that spans growing up in Alabama to the fun he’s having as Apple CEO, Tim Cook, who turns 64 next month, says he’s not worried that Apple Intelligence isn’t available yet, with some announced features not arriving until next year.
“In the longness of time,” says Cook, “I don’t think it will be even a footnote.”
WABetaInfo spotted the feature in a recent beta for the Android version of the app, though it’s not yet accessible to normal beta testers.
The chatbot will reportedly be able to remember things when users ask and will apply that when giving things like food recommendations, say, by avoiding foods the user says they’re allergic to.
Murati is seeking venture capital funds for a new AI startup with its own proprietary models, Reuters reported Friday.
Barret Zoph, an OpenAI researcher who left the same day as Murati may join the venture, according to unnamed sources cited by the outlet.
In the wake of recent departures, Apple’s hardware head John Ternus has bumped three people to vice president positions— Richard Dinh, Dave Pakula, and Donny Nordhues — according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today.
Dinh will head up the company’s iPhone road map. Ternus reportedly called Apple’s future models the “most ambitious in the product’s history” in a memo to the engineering team, Gurman writes.
That’s according to recent benchmarks, as well as Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.
The new iPad Mini having that much RAM isn’t shocking — the company boosted RAM for the iPhone 16, and is expected to for its upcoming Macs, likely in service of Apple Intelligence AI features expected this month.
