Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?

Apple will announce a new smart home hub on Tuesday called the HomeView, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen There have been multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it see…

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Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI

When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” you’d be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful are falling in line and trying to give Trump the great AI rebrand he […]

Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?

On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.

These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet

Voice AI’s often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break

Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating
Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating

I’m embarking on a journey I’ve so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it’s increasingly possible to run powerful models locally to see what they’re capable of. Is this tech so useful […]

Cloudflare Buys Deno To Run Its Workers Platform On Your Own Servers

Cloudflare is buying Deno to merge its celld project into workerd, letting enterprises self-host Workers apps while Deno users face a runtime sunset.

Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’
Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’

In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft’s CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we can no longer accept a world where AI is treated as a “set of nested black boxes” whose advice and actions we simply accept or […]

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’

In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft’s CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.

Anthropic Believes So Heartily In AI Consciousness That They Are Banning Humans From Being Cruel Toward AI Claude

Anthropic made news by a user policy about being cruel toward AI. This raises lots of important questions. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.