Apple has acquired a pretty interesting AI startup, the Chromium-based Edge browser is here, but there is trouble in Mozilla land, Fitbit is first to market with blood oxygen monitoring, the state of the app economy and ‘instant’ weather forecasts from Google.

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Links:Exclusive: Apple acquires Xnor.ai, edge AI spin-out from Paul Allen’s AI2, for price in $200M range (GeekWire)XNOR.ai frees AI from the prison of the supercomputer (TechCrunch)Microsoft launches Chromium Edge for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS (VentureBeat)Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue (TechCrunch)Fitbit quietly enables blood oxygen tracking on its wearables (Engadget)Venture capital slowly seeps outside of Silicon Valley (Axios)App stores saw record 204 billion app downloads in 2013, consumer spend of $120 billion (TechCrunch)Google says new AI models allow for ‘nearly instantaneous’ weather forecasts (The Verge)


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Thu. 01/16 - Apple Acquires Xnor.ai

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All the headlines from today’s Spring Apple event. New iPads? M4 chip? I don’t actually know cause I’m recording this bit beforehand. I can tell you Apple might make its own server chips tho. Nintendo has outlined plans to replace the Switch. And Microsoft is training its own high-end LLM, separate from OpenAI.

Tue. 05/07 – The Spring Apple Event

Jack Dorsey abandoned Twitter and now he’s abandoned Bluesky as well. YouTube rolls out Jump Ahead. Threads launches post quote controls. More than 40 thousand books on Audible are now voiced by AI. The Air Force is planning more than a thousand AI fighter jets by the end of the decade. And if you’re listening to this on Apple Podcasts, please listen to the end for an important announcement.

Mon. 05/06 – AI Generated Books, Music Videos And… Fighter Pilots?

Apple earnings are out and revenue was down almost everywhere. Boy, AI can’t come fast enough for them. Did you know you can send Bluetooth signals to satellites in space? The full Rabbit R1 reviews turned out exactly how we expected. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions.

Fri. 05/03 – Apple Earnings Underline Their Predicament

The music is back on TikTok with a new deal struck. Maybe a third of Americans were affected by that Change Healthcare hack. Why are companies suddenly cutting teams you’d think would be sacred cows? Airbnb wants you to stay in the house from the movie Up. And we finally know just how much Google pays Apple for the search default in iOS.

Thu. 05/02 – TikTok Can Jam Again

Binance founder CZ looks like he’s heading to jail too, but for way less time than SBF. Is the Rabbit R1 just a fancy device for a glorified Android app? Has OpenAI floated a secret pre-release of GPT5? And finally, so much has happened, I decided we had to do an omnibus catch up with what’s going on in the world of Elon.

Thu. 01/16 - Apple Acquires Xnor.ai

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