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  1. 5H AGO

    Anthropic says it won't bring ads to Claude

    The company said that integrating advertising would 'work against' the core principles of the chatbot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    7 min

  2. 14H AGO

    A new bill would crack down on fraudulent ads, X's 'open source' algorithm isn't a win for transparency, and Valve pushed back its Steam Machine launch

    -The backdrop to the SCAM Act is a Reuters report from last November. Meta reportedly estimated that up to 10 percent of its 2024 revenue came from scam ads. The company is said to have calculated that as much as $16 billion of its revenue that year was from scams, including "fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, illegal online casinos and the sale of banned medical products." -While it's true that X is the only major social network to make elements of its recommendation algorithm open source, researchers say that what the company has published doesn't offer the kind of transparency that would actually be useful for anyone trying to understand how X works in 2026. -As The Wall Street Journal recently reported, the AI industry has been hoovering up manufacturers’ available memory chips and hard drives for its infrastructure developments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    9 min

  3. 1D AGO

    iPhone Fold rumors: Everything we know so far

    We're tracking all of the rumors about Apple's foldable phone, including when it could launch and possible price. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    9 min

  4. 1D AGO

    An AI powered mobile app to integrate your family's health data, the next gen X-Box will arrive in 2027, and Apple just made Xcode better for vibe coding

    -he Luffu mobile app "uses AI quietly in the background" to collect and organize family health information. But the definition of family isn't limited to parents raising children. The company sees its tool as especially valuable for caregivers in their 40s and 50s who may be managing the needs of both aging parents and kids. It even tracks pets' health habits. -Microsoft could launch the next-generation Xbox console sometime in 2027. -Apple has just released Xcode 26.3, and it's a big step forward in terms of the company's support of coding agents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    9 min

  5. 2D AGO

    Apple is already thinking about its second foldable iPhone

    The latest Power On newsletter from Bloomberg hints at an Apple competitor to Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    7 min

  6. 2D AGO

    X's Paris HQ raided by French prosecutors, Firefox will soon offer a way to block all of its generative AI features, and a developer turned Wikipedia into a social media-style feed

    -The searches are part of an investigation that has been ongoing for nearly a year over the functioning of X’s algorithms that are “likely to have distorted the operation of an automated data processing system,” investigators said at the time. -On February 24, or possibly earlier, Mozilla will roll out Firefox 148, which will include an AI controls section in the desktop browser settings. From here, you’ll be able to block current and future generative AI features, or only enable select tools. -Developer Lyra Rebane created Xikipedia, a social media-style feed of Wikipedia entries. The web app algorithmically displays info from Simple Wikipedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    8 min

  7. 3D AGO

    SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of a million satellites to power AI needs

    In a recent filing, Elon Musk's aerospace company requested to build an "orbital data center" that relies on solar power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    6 min

  8. 3D AGO

    NASA used Claude to plot a route for Perseverance on Mars, Apple now lets you build a new Mac exactly the way you want, and Indonesia lifted its ban on Grok

    -In December, Perseverance successfully completed a route through a section of the Jezero crater plotted by Anthropic's Claude chatbot, marking the first time NASA has used a large language model to plot a course for  the car-sized robot. -You now select each spec of your new Mac device when purchasing through the website. As first spotted by MacWorld, Apple updated its online configuration tool for purchasing a Mac. -Grok is once again available in Indonesia, after the country lifted its ban on the AI chatbot that was seen generating millions of sexualized deepfakes, thousands of which included children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    7 min
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