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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6038c37711&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple confirms that it is delaying the “more personalized Siri” Apple Intelligence feature and anticipates rolling it out “in the coming year”</a></span>
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<span class="excerpt">Here's a statement I got this morning from Apple spokeswoman Jacqueline Roy, verbatim:</span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3814214d1b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@markgurman Doesn't really help that their head of AI's speciality is ML and knowledge graphs, and was fundamentally opposed to the concept of General Pre-trained Transformers when he ran Google Search, and left Google/ joined Apple over it</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b63514caae&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Siri is doing actual damage to Apple's brand/credibility. It shouldn't be delayed, it should be canned next year. The company's never been flat-out dishonest on its products like this before. The Mac Studio page still showcases a use case that flat out *does not work* [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ab70c8c255&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Craig Federighi and other Apple executives voiced concerns that personalized Siri didn't work properly; some think it has to be rebuilt from scratch</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7ecd125d15&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: Microsoft has completed training a family of models, codenamed MAI, and is experimenting with swapping out OpenAI's models in Copilot for the MAI models</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Aaron Holmes / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="excerpt">Mustafa Suleyman wasn't getting the answers he wanted.</span>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=edd06585dc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@danielnewmanuv:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=eb8a61f106&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Unless you've been living under a rock for the last six months, the beginning of the end of the Microsoft open AI happy partnership has been evident. Either way Microsoft had to move towards building its own models, expanding to use more open source models and hedging its long-term ties to open AI.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=afd25eb364&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Looks like $MSFT is abandoning the OpenAI ship.... Masayoshi Son top-ticked AGAIN. When will the Saudis say “This is enough! Stop fucking around, we want our cash back!”</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5c64afaa4a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: Microsoft is testing out ways to replace OpenAI's models in Copilot with models from other AI labs including xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c4d55500f6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Filings: the US DOJ drops a bid to force Google to sell its AI investments to boost search competition but still seeks a court order requiring it to sell Chrome</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=849bbc4caf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Bam. Tip of hat to DOJ for not waiting until midnight to post its final proposed remedies for US v Google I. Plus, DOJ posted an exec summary and redline version. Bravo. All as expected including Chrome divestiture and future proofing for AI. Here is what publishers came for: [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5a6c7dc923&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">DOJ: “Google must divest the Chrome browser—an important search access point—to provide an opportunity for a new rival to operate a significant gateway to search the internet, free of Google's monopoly control.”</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7314384c9e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the White House is weighing measures to restrict DeepSeek, including banning its app from US app stores, because of national security concerns</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nikou Asgari / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5c54e33a2b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $10B valuation, up from $2.5B in January, and crossed $100M in ARR in 12 months</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kate Clark / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=16e64110f7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Analysis: the $TRUMP memecoin generated $314M from token sales and $36M in fees within three weeks of its launch, likely fueling conflict of interest concerns</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=93e7183b35&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">NewsGuard audit: the 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">NewsGuard's Reality Check</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f563fb0632&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Reflection AI, which wants to achieve superintelligence through autonomous coding agents, emerges from stealth with a $105M Series A and $25M in seed funding</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Shirin Ghaffary / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3060cf4426&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">VCs are increasingly pouring money into “AI wrappers”, startups that leverage other developers' LLMs to build tools for coders, clinicians, lawyers, and others</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kate Clark / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ee7a0f4fe7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Former OpenAI policy researcher Miles Brundage criticizes an OpenAI post on safety and alignment, saying it “rewrites the history of GPT-2 in a concerning way”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyle Wiggers / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6c9146a800&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Figma has met with banks in recent weeks to discuss an IPO that could come as soon as 2025; EU and US regulators stymied its $20B sale to Adobe in 2023</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=23cbf7e15e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Kraken seeks to go public as soon as Q1 2026; the SEC recently agreed to drop its case against Kraken amid a friendlier regulatory climate under Trump</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Olga Kharif / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8d95f6e9fa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: crypto exchange and custodian Gemini has filed confidentially for an IPO; the company is reportedly considering going public as soon as this year</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a92d0ca5d9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: virtual physical therapy service Hinge Health aims to file for a US IPO as soon as next week and could go public in April; it had $390M in 2024 revenue</a></span>
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