Jay Peters
“Intelligent,” you say?
Sure seems like a big hint from Apple marketing chief Greg Joswiak.
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MKBHD weighs in on the trend of YouTubers “quitting.”
Don’t worry: he’s sticking around. But he has an interesting perspective on the trend of big names like MatPat and Tom Scott stepping back and what it means to actually be a full time YouTuber.
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MagSafe chargers and S-Pens don’t play well together.
If you try to use an S-Pen on a Galaxy Ultra phone that’s attached to a MagSafe charger, “users can expect to encounter a large ‘dead zone’ in the shape of the magnetic ring,” according to a post from Dbrand on Reddit.
Dbrand also says that you “may observe a negligible reduction in S-Pen accuracy when drawing directly over the magnetic array within a MagSafe-enabled case.” If you’ve purchased one of Dbrand’s MagSafe cases for your Galaxy Ultra, the company is offering non-MagSafe replacements.
Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge
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Elon Musk’s xAI is halfway to its $1 billion funding goal.
The AI company is also discussing an eye-watering valuation of between $15 billion and $20 billion, Bloomberg reports. (AI companies have been seeking huge valuations as of late.) xAI had raised $137.4 million toward that $1 billion goal as of early December.
However, Musk called the report “simply not accurate” in a reply to a post that linked Bloomberg’s story last night.
Update January 20th, 2024, 10:45AM ET: Added Elon Musk’s comment on the matter.
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“No, let ME investigate OpenAI!”
The DOJ and the FTC are apparently going back and forth about which agency can look into the company and its partnership with Microsoft, Politico reports.
I do hope the quote I used in the headline has actually been said as part of the discussions.
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Think you’re good at spotting AI-made photos of people?
Then put your skills to the test in the NYT’s quiz that asks you to pick if a photo is real or AI-generated.
I got 6/10, how did you fare?
Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.?
[The New York Times]
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The newest Mission: Impossible — starring a villainous AI — is coming to Paramount Plus.
You can stream Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning starting January 25th. The movie’s evil AI was ridiculous, I loved it. (Make sure to stick around to the end of the credits to hear its silly noise!)
Also, Paramount dropped the “Part One” from the film’s original title. The former part two was recently pushed back from a June 2024 to a May 23rd, 2025 release date.
Image: Paramount
