Saturday, June 15, 2024

Apple may not be bringing Apple Intelligence to iPhone 15, which has 6GB of RAM vs. iPhone 15 Pro's 8GB, due to RAM requirements for on-device AI processing (Andrew Williams/Wired)

Andrew Williams / Wired:
Apple may not be bringing Apple Intelligence to iPhone 15, which has 6GB of RAM vs. iPhone 15 Pro's 8GB, due to RAM requirements for on-device AI processing  —  Older iPhones might well be able to cope with Apple's AI, so why won't your $900 year-old model run it?  Here's why.



How the launch of AI search chatbots such as Bing Copilot is affecting advertisers, as they look for new ways to target users with relevant ads (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Paresh Dave / Wired:
How the launch of AI search chatbots such as Bing Copilot is affecting advertisers, as they look for new ways to target users with relevant ads  —  Microsoft and Google are bringing ads to their AI search experiences.  But users don't always find it helpful.



How disabled people use Apple Vision Pro for work, entertainment, and more, and interviews with some disabled Apple staff who built the accessibility features (Andrew Leland/New York Magazine)

Andrew Leland / New York Magazine:
How disabled people use Apple Vision Pro for work, entertainment, and more, and interviews with some disabled Apple staff who built the accessibility features  —  The headset is already changing disabled users' lives.  —  In her childhood bedroom, Maxine Collard had a PC connected …



Friday, June 14, 2024

Sources: Shein tries to suppress its chair's claim that the retailer is American, amid fears it could annoy China, which needs to approve Shein's London IPO (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: Shein tries to suppress its chair's claim that the retailer is American, amid fears it could annoy China, which needs to approve Shein's London IPO  —  Donald Tang's remarks are said to have annoyed Chinese officials who need to approve London IPO  —  Online fast-fashion retailer Shein …



The crypto industry has amassed a $160M war chest to bolster pro-crypto US candidates, which could be pivotal in handing the Senate majority to GOP in November (Steven T. Dennis/Bloomberg)

Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
The crypto industry has amassed a $160M war chest to bolster pro-crypto US candidates, which could be pivotal in handing the Senate majority to GOP in November  —  - Industry seeks regulatory changes to blunt SEC influence  — Democrats Sherrod Brown and Jon Tester targeted by crypto



Sources: Lightspeed wants to become a registered investment adviser, letting it use more than 20% of its funds, the cap for VC firms, to trade secondary markets (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

Tabby Kinder / Financial Times:
Sources: Lightspeed wants to become a registered investment adviser, letting it use more than 20% of its funds, the cap for VC firms, to trade secondary markets  —  Move is a sign of how traditional investment models are under threat by a challenging VC environment



Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...