Apple might be working on a smart doorbell

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Techme101

There’s been a lot of reporting in recent months around Apple’s efforts to expand its footprint in customers’ homes with in-development products like a wall-mounted smart home hub. According to a new report in Bloomberg, that strategy could also include a smart doorbell. This doorbell would use Apple’s FaceID technology to scan people’s faces as […]
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Tetsuwan Scientific is making robotic AI scientists that can run experiments on their own

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Techme101

LLM models are already capable of diagnosing scientific outputs, but, until now, had “no physical agency to actually perform” experiments.
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House Democrats say GOP caved to Musk in funding bill, protecting his China interests

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Techme101

The funding bill that Congress passed over the weekend could have gone further if not for Elon Musk’s influence over Republicans, House Democrats say.

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 reportedly falling short of expectations

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Techme101

OpenAI’s efforts to develop its next major model, GPT-5, are running behind schedule, with results that don’t yet justify the enormous costs, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. This echoes an earlier report in The Information suggesting that OpenAI is looking to new strategies as GPT-5 might not represent as big […]
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OpenAI announces new o3 model — but you can’t use it yet

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Techme101

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at OpenAI’s last — and biggest — announcement from its “12 Days of OpenAI” event; Apple’s potential entrance into the foldable market; and why Databricks is choosing to wait to go public. Let’s get into it. P.S. We’re off for the holidays! Week in Review […]
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Google pushes back against DOJ’s ‘interventionist’ remedies in antitrust case

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Techme101

Google has offered up its own proposal in a recent antitrust case that saw the US Department of Justice argue that Google must sell its Chrome browser. US District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled in August that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search, with the DOJ then proposing a number […]
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If climate tech is dead, what comes next?

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Techme101

Climate tech is about a decade old, and people are itching for a rebrand.
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Hollywood angels: Here are the celebrities who are also star VCs

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Techme101

Becoming a venture capitalist has become the latest status symbol In Hollywood. 
Everyone from Olivia Wilde to Emma Watson is investing in startups.
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The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVs

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Techme101

Plagued by delays, tied to a rival’s electric platform, yet somehow still being clever and innovative, Ford’s European EV experiment embodies the automaker’s failure to commit to electric cars.

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Google Says It Won’t Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Techme101

Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI.

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