You all know how much we here at The Verge love market consolidation. SwitchBot’s acquisition of Nanoleaf offers all that, plus a sprinkling of something extra.
ScootyScoot:
Excellent - more market consolidation and more AI. That’s definitely two things consumers need more of these days!
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Grimes County, Texas, awarded the company a property tax exemption for its planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor plant. Local residents seem to feel the same way about the project as many do about data centers, and this tax break won’t help. As local landowner Rhonda Nesloney put it in court:
“Elon was on the news bragging he’s about to be a trillionaire . . . and you want to consider giving him a tax abatement.”
The company is lagging behind Anthropic, OpenAI, and even Microsoft when it comes to AI coding tools, but 404 Media reports it’s found a novel way to expand its training base of code: offering to pay Android developers for access to the innards of their apps.
Microsoft has a vision for its future AI hardware concepts, including an AI ID badge. It doesn’t feel entirely new, but it does feel very Microsoft.
verge_user_m4cy2c5f:
congrats this is the rabbit r1 but for middle managers instead of teenage engineering gadgetheads
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Why, oh why, can’t Pikachu say ‘pika pika’?
The ‘90s are in right now, and with a new Microsoft antitrust case on the horizon, even the Federal Trade Commission is getting into the spirit.
Drinkboxgamer:
The Knicks are in the NBA finals and Microsoft are under antitrust investigation, it really is the 90s all over again.
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Tech companies want to film you doing chores as training data for the next generation of household robots. If you’re not a fan, and don’t mind living in chaos, there’s always another way to participate.
Electric Mayhem:
Poison their data: put dirty dishes in the clothes dryer, mop your ceiling, apply a translucent film of mayonnaise to your windows, dance with your vacuum, become ungovernable!
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Luxury / trashy phone brand Vertu is back with its first book-style foldable, the Alphafold, an “AI command center” for busy rich people. It sounds like it’s found its audience.
Akarain8:
Finally a phone that fits my lifestyle at the intersection of Texan ranch owner, middle-eastern oil baron, and YouTube AI ‘content creator’.
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