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“Apple is getting a (non-voting) board observer seat at OpenAI later this year through its Apple Intelligence partnership. Phil Schiller will take the position, who previously was Head of Marketing at Apple and also oversaw the App Store
“Microsoft just withdrew its role on OpenAI’s Board, while Apple also reportedly scrapped plans These drop-offs come right on the heels of the EU/US investigations around big co antitrust violations
“Microsoft has given up its board observer seat at OpenAI. It cited OpenAI’s new partnerships, innovation and growing customer base since Altman’s return to the startup for giving up its observer seat
Microsoft Gives Up Observer Seat in OpenAI Board, Apple Also Unlikely to Join – Bloomberg
Microsoft, Apple give up observer seats on OpenAI’s board amid regulatory scrutiny – SiliconANGLE
OpenAI board shake-up: Microsoft out, Apple backs away amid AI partnership scrutiny | Ars Technica
Google Struggles to Lessen Reliance on Apple Safari — The Information
Google considered blocking Safari users from accessing its new AI features, report says – 9to5Mac
“Per Bloomberg, Apple’s Siri upgrades are now expected to come in Spring 2025. The voice assistant not likely to be part of the Apple Intelligence rollout this Fall.
“The new version of Siri will likely launch in spring 2025 with iOS 18.4 It will not be available when Apple Intelligence launches later this year Source: @markgurman
Apple Intelligence and smarter Siri’s full iPhone rollout may arrive in the spring – The Verge
Apple M5 Chip’s Dual-Use Design Will Power Future Macs and AI Servers – MacRumors
Apple’s 2024 shipments set for 10% boost after dreary 2023
“1/7 Super excited about my Apple Internship work finally coming out: Rephrasing the Web: A Recipe for Compute and Data-Efficient Language Modeling TLDR: You can train 3x faster and with upto 10x lesser data with just synthetic rephrases of the web! 📝
Apple Watch Series 10, Ultra 3 Details: Bigger Screens, Blood Pressure Challenge – Bloomberg

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- Agents/Copilots
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- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
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- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
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- Publishing and News
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- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
- Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
- Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
- Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
- Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
- Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
- Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett
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