Apple is sued by the United States. Do companies like Apple get a heads-up from suing parties like the Department of Justice, and how would we react if we were the targets of lawsuits like these, or the changes from the European Union’s Digital Markets Act? Daniel and Manton discuss the lawsuit. Then in the second half of the show, rumors about Apple licensing AI from a company like Google. What are the benefits to Apple of treating large-scale AI as a commodity service that they don’t need to focus on? Considering the various scales of technologies at which companies like Apple, OpenAI, and others work.
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Links:
- Apple sued by the DOJ — One of several articles from The Verge.
- Early thoughts on United States vs. Apple — Manton’s blog post.
- Dithering — Podcast from John Gruber and Ben Thompson recently covering Apple and AI.
- Apple and Google Gemini rumors — The New York Times on a potential partnership.
- Apple MM1 — Research paper from Apple on their new LLM.
- Micro.blog web page summarizing feature — Announcement of using AI in Micro.blog.
- Cray — Wikipedia page with photo of the iconic supercomputer.
- Rabbit R1 — Cute, handheld AI device.
- Humane Ai Pin — New video that better shows off capabilities.
- Knowledge Navigator — Concept video from Apple in 1987.
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