Month: June 2024
McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now
If your local McDonald’s has been getting your order confidently wrong with an AI chatbot at the drive-thru, I have good news for you: The company is ending the program for now. The company told franchisees that it’s winding down an AI drive-thru ordering partnership with IBM “no later than…
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‘Our models are preferred by human graders’: How Apple’s foundation models are coming on top of established rivals — On-device or Server-based responses indicate Apple is already competitive
Apple Intelligence, perhaps the highlight of this year’s WWDC, is tightly integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, and includes advanced generative models specialized for everyday tasks like writing, text refinement, summarizing notifications, creating images, and automating app interactions. The system includes a 3-billion-parameter on-device language model and…
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Nvidia could team up with Taiwanese CPU firm to produce rival to Qualcomm Snapdragon X and Apple M-series — report suggests 2025 will be the year Windows on Arm growth goes in overdrive
In 2016, Microsoft granted Qualcomm the exclusive rights to develop and produce Arm chips for Windows. With that deal set to expire, and with a big push on for Arm-based laptops capable of running AI apps, other firms are developing their own chips. According to an exclusive report from Reuters,…
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The OLED iPad Pro was only the beginning for Apple’s return to thin devices
The thinness of the OLED iPad Pro is only the beginning of a renewed effort by Apple to make increasingly thin computers, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. The company plans a “significantly skinnier” iPhone 17 and is also working on shaving off some of the…
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Apple won’t wait until next year for some Siri improvements
Siri may do more than make the edges of your iPhone a glowy rainbow when iOS 18 drops this fall. Apple Intelligence features won’t be out until 2025 for anyone not testing them in beta this year, but reports suggest that Siri itself will still get natural language updates and…
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The Best Electric Bikes of 2024 That We’ve Tested and Reviewed
We tested the best electric bikes in every category—commuting, mountain biking, foldable, cruisers, and more. Source
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