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In today's Techpresso:
🍎 Apple brings ChatGPT to Siri
🖥️ Apple reveals macOS Sequoia with iPhone mirroring, new Passwords app, and more
⚡ Elon Musk threatens Apple device ban after OpenAI partnership
📡 iPhones to support satellite texting soon
📜 Adobe updates terms after customer backlash
🎁 + 9 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
🍎 Apple brings ChatGPT to SiriLINK
Apple introduced AI updates for Siri at WWDC 2024, enabling it to perform actions across apps, manage notifications, automatically write and summarize text, and understand user context with 'onscreen awareness.' Siri's new capabilities include referencing one app to perform actions in another, such as playing a podcast your partner sent, changing the tone of written text with a prompt, and allowing users to interact by typing as well as speaking. Apple emphasizes privacy with on-device processing for many features, while more complex requests are handled by 'Private Cloud Compute' on Apple Silicon-powered servers, with independent experts verifying the code running on its servers.
🖥️ Apple reveals macOS Sequoia with iPhone mirroring, new Passwords app, and moreLINK
Apple announced macOS Sequoia, featuring major updates such as iPhone mirroring that allows users to control their iPhone from their Mac. Sequoia introduces a stand-alone Passwords app, syncable with other Apple devices and Windows PCs via iCloud, along with new Safari improvements like Highlights for extracting useful information. Apple also revealed Game Porting Toolkit 2 for better Windows game compatibility, and the macOS Sequoia beta will be available this month with a full release expected in the fall.
⚡ Elon Musk threatens Apple device ban after OpenAI partnershipLINK
Elon Musk has threatened to ban Apple devices at his companies because Apple plans to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT into its products.
Musk argues that allowing OpenAI access through Apple devices poses a security risk and criticizes Apple for not developing its own AI technology.
Musk's discontent also stems from his ongoing disputes with OpenAI, including past legal actions and competitive tensions with his own AI ventures like xAI and its Grok chatbot.
📡 iPhones to support satellite texting soonLINK
Apple's WWDC 2024 keynote announced that iPhones will soon support texting via satellite, similar to the existing emergency SOS feature.
The new "Messages via Satellite" service will allow iMessage and SMS when no cellular signal is available, though users must properly align their phones with the satellite.
Apple did not specify any limitations, charges, or availability details for this new feature, but emphasized that end-to-end encryption will apply to iMessage texts while using satellites.
📜 Adobe updates terms after customer backlashLINK
Adobe is updating its terms of service to assure users that their work will not be used to train artificial intelligence, following a week of customer concerns about AI training.
The revised terms, to take effect on June 18th, aim to clearly outline Adobe's permissions regarding customer content, addressing confusion over the language used in previous agreements.
Adobe's President of Digital Media, David Wadhwani, emphasized that the company has never used customer content for AI training and acknowledged the need for greater transparency and clarity in their terms of service.
Other news you might like
How does Apple send your data to its cloud AI servers? Very carefully, it claims.LINK
Apple confirms plans to work with Google’s Gemini ‘in the future’.LINK
Apple visionOS 2 adds 3D image transformations, ultrawide Mac display, and more later this year.LINK
OpenAI hires former member of Twitter as CPO, Nextdoor CEO as CFO.LINK
Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI raises $640 million.LINK
Tim Cook is ‘not 100 percent’ sure Apple can stop AI hallucinations.LINK
Supreme Court will take up Meta's bid to end lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.LINK
Nvidia shipped 3.76M data center GPUs in 2023 — dominates business with 98% revenue share.LINK
Raspberry Pi shares surge in stock market debut.LINK
Latest research and tools
NanoGPT: a streamlined repository for quickly training and fine-tuning medium-sized Generative Pre-trained Transformers, minimizing complexity to facilitate easy customization and featuring capability for character-level model training, like GPT-2, on single-node systems.LINK
The Geometry of Categorical and Hierarchical Concepts in Large Language Models: the paper explores how large language models represent and organize complex concepts and categories hierarchically.LINK
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