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Apple announced Monday that it will release an update to better indicate that notification summaries are generated by artificial intelligence. “A software update in the coming weeks will make it even clearer when the text you see is a summary provided by Apple Intelligence. If you see a summary of an unexpected notification, please report a concern. “We encourage our users to do so,” an Apple spokesperson said in a statement. Apple's notification summaries are helpful, but they can also be quite inaccurate. Summaries can be interesting, but they are also often mildly confusing. Last month, the BBC complained that…
Apple announced Monday that it will release an update to better indicate that notification summaries are generated by artificial intelligence. “A software update in the coming weeks will make it even clearer when the text you see is a summary provided by Apple Intelligence. If you see a summary of an unexpected notification, please report a concern. “We encourage our users to do so,” an Apple spokesperson said in a statement. Apple's notification summaries are helpful, but they can also be quite inaccurate. Summaries can be interesting, but they are also often mildly confusing. Last month, the BBC complained that…
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia announced Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” that provides access to the company's Grace Blackwell hardware platform in a compact form factor. “[Project Digits] The entire Nvidia AI stack is running, and all Nvidia software runs on top of this,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on stage during a press conference Monday. “It's a cloud computing platform that sits on your desk, or even your workstation if you want to.” Designed for AI researchers, data scientists, and students, Project Digits is powered by Nvidia's new GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip, delivering up to petaflops…
Robotics has been a fundamental part of Nvidia's stratospheric growth in recent years. When the chipmaker announced the GR00T last March, it was hailed as a turning point in humanoid robotics. Most of the big players in this category have been available since launch, including 1X Technologies, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Fourier Intelligence, Sanctuary AI, and Unitree Robotics. At CES on Monday, CEO Jensen Huang announced another important aspect of the GR00T: the Blueprint. The new modality is based on imitative learning, a fundamental aspect of teaching robots new skills. This is doubly important in the humanoid…
Nvidia is getting into world models, AI models inspired by the mental models of the world that humans naturally develop. At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, the company announced that it is rolling out a family of world models that can predict and generate “physics-aware” videos. Nvidia calls this family the Cosmos World Foundation Model (Cosmos WFM for short). Models that can be fine-tuned for specific applications are available through Nvidia's API and NGC catalogs, GitHub, and AI development platform Hugging Face. “NVIDIA is making available the first wave of Cosmos WFM for physically-based simulation and synthetic data generation,” the…
Toyota Motor Corporation Chairman Akio Toyoda on Monday unveiled his vision for a living laboratory packed with startups and technology at CES 2025. His message is: Woven City — a prototype city on 175 acres at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji — is up for business and looking for an inventor. “Today I say this to anyone anywhere in the world who is inspired or excited to make a change: Make a change or make it matter. Please consider this your formal invitation to the Woven City,” Toyoda said on stage. Toyoda said Monday that Woven City is preparing…
The US state of Washington has sued T-Mobile over the mobile phone giant's alleged failure to secure the personal data of millions of state residents ahead of a data breach in August 2021, and the US state has since sued T-Mobile for allegedly failing to secure the personal data of millions of state residents ahead of an August 2021 data breach. influenced. Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement announcing the lawsuit that T-Mobile “knew about certain cybersecurity vulnerabilities for years and took sufficient steps to address them.” There wasn't.” Ferguson said the lawsuit seeks economic damages…
The US cybersecurity agency CISA said in a brief statement on Monday that there is “no indication” that other US federal agencies were hacked during the recent cyberattack on the US Treasury Department in December. The Treasury Department acknowledged on December 30 that the intrusion was the work of Chinese government-backed hackers, telling senior U.S. lawmakers in a letter that the hackers had remote access to Treasury staff workstations and were able to access unclassified documents. . The hackers obtained the private key from BeyondTrust, one of the company's technology vendors, and the department said it is using it for…
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, AMD announced a number of new chips for devices ranging from desktops to gaming handhelds. AMD is in great shape heading into this year's CES. The company captured a 28.7% share in the desktop CPU segment in the third quarter of 2024, an increase of 9.6 percentage points compared to the same period last year. In the mobile space, AMD held 22.3% of the chip market in the third quarter of last year, up 2.8 percentage points from the previous fiscal year. But the company isn't resting on its laurels. AMD's 2025 strategy is…
Social network and X competitor Bluesky's strong growth slowed in December after surging from more than 9 million users in the U.S. in September to more than 20 million in November. This slowdown is based on an analysis of web traffic and mobile app daily active user numbers by analytics firm Similarweb, which found that Bluesky's growth rate was 189% in December 2024 compared to the previous month in November. It was found that the ratio was less than 10%. Daily active users of the Bluesky mobile app in the U.S. also increased by 12% in December, compared to a…