On Monday, chip giant Intel's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan -- who took over from outgoing CEO Pat Gelsinger only 15 days earlier -- laid out in broad terms his strategy to return the company to greatness. Speaking at Intel Vision, the company's annual event for customers and partners in Las Vegas, Tan emphasized changing Intel's culture, promising to run the company "as a startup, on day one." Tan said the culture needs changing because Intel has lost much of its engineering focus over the years. "Intel has lost some of this talent over the years," he said. "I want to re-group the talent and attract some of the new talent. Also: Intel touts new Xeon chip's AI power in bid to fend off AMD, ARM advances Recalling his affection for basketball and California's Golden State Warriors, Tan remarked, "I love the game, how they pass the ball to the teammate to receive it -- this is the kind of team I would like to build." All of the culture remake, he said, is necessary to "Pull together strong teams to correct the past mistakes and start to earn your trust." Tan put Intel's problems front and center. Without enumerating the mistakes in detail, it's well-known to investors and to the industry at large that Intel has lost an enormous amount of market share to AMD over the years and has ceded the artificial intelligence battle to Nvidia. "It has been a tough period for quite a long time for Intel," observed Tan. "It was very hard for me to watch its struggle; I simply cannot stay on the sideline knowing that I could help turn things around." Addressing the customers in the room, Tan remarked, "You deserve better, and we need to improve -- and we will." He asked the audience to "please be brutally honest with us.

In a collaboration with WPP, Canon, and NVIDIA, Boston Dynamics' Atlas has been tested as a robotic camera operator, demonstrating how humanoid robots could assist in filmmaking.

MacOS does not lack AI apps and services. My go-to when using my MacBook Pro is a one-two combination of Ollama and Msty because the LLM is locally installed, so I do not have to worry that my queries are being used by a third party for any reason. So, when I discovered that Microsoft had released a MacOS client for Copilot, I was hesitant to install it, but curiosity got the best of me, and I had to try it. I was confident Copilot would not be able to pull me from Ollama, but there is no harm in trying, right? I have used Copilot here and there, but not enough to draw any real conclusions.

OpenAI may have kicked off the text-to-image generation craze with its DALL-E model, but since those earlier glory days, the AI company's offering has been lapped by much more capable image models. As a result, when OpenAI released its latest and greatest GPT-4o image generation model, I was skeptical. After testing it, I have changed my mind entirely. When DALL-E first launched, it lived on its standalone website; since then, it has moved to ChatGPT. The move came with many benefits, including the ability to ask the AI chatbot for an image you want in the same interface where you are already chatting about something else, thereby eliminating the need for constant context switching.

OpenAI has continually expanded its ChatGPT offerings, adding an AI voice assistant, file and image understanding, advanced research capabilities, AI agents, and more. However, there was one glaring omission: A really capable image generator. Last week, OpenAI launched 4o image generation. This image model is significantly better -- albeit slower -- than the DALL-E models previously offered by OpenAI. It tackles very difficult prompts, such as realistic images and, most impressively, accurate text.

When we reviewed the iPhone 16 Pro last year, Apple Intelligence was barely available. Since then, the iPhone 16 series has benefitted from several new features, apps and improvements. Some (or most) of them were Apple Intelligence features that were teased back at WWDC 2024, months before the iPhone 16 Pro launched. AI features weren't the only changes this time around, with the iPhone 16 getting an entirely new button. The so-called Camera Control wasn't just a simple app shortcut, but an elaborate multifunction button that offered a haptic half-press and the ability to swipe across to adjust camera settings and options.

Apple's iOS 18.4 update offers a variety of new and improved features, but the star of the show may be priority notifications and expanded Apple Intelligence. Although the company's AI-powered technology has received some criticism, Apple remains focused on improving its reach and capabilities. Here are the biggest changes coming to your iPhone and iPad, plus what's new in other software updates rolling out to Apple devices. First up: Apple Intelligence will now display urgent or important notifications in a separate section on the Lock screen, so that you can more easily see what you may have missed. To view all your notifications, simply swipe up on the screen.

Apple's software design strives to be intuitive, but each iteration of iOS contains so many additions and tweaks that it's easy to miss some useful iPhone settings. Apple focused on artificial intelligence when it unveiled iOS 18 in 2024, but there's a lot under the hood that adds to the steady stream of intriguing customizations and lesser-known features from the last few years. Several helpful settings are turned off by default, and it's not immediately obvious how to switch off some annoying features. We're here to help you get the most out of your Apple phone. Once you have things set up the way you want, it's a breeze to copy everything, including settings, when you switch to a new iPhone.

Over the weekend, protesters gathered at Tesla showrooms in hundreds of cities across the world to demonstrate against Elon Musk laying waste to the US government in alliance with Donald Trump. One sign in Manhattan read: "Burn a Tesla, save democracy." Protesters are using the commercial democracy of consumer products to influence US political democracy. In New York City, several hundred anti-Tesla protesters gathered outside the EV company's Manhattan showroom on Saturday. Sophie Shepherd, 23, an organizer with Planet Over Profit, explained that the rally was not about protesting electric cars.

Want to talk with Copilot? If you do, Microsoft is testing an intuitive little tweak to allow you to do so. On March 10, Microsoft launched a new shortcut that is rolling out as part of the Copilot app on Windows: a "long press" combination of Alt SPACE as a press-to-talk shortcut to open the Copilot app. But who would remember that? Now, Microsoft is testing a smarter alternative as part of the Windows Insider Beta Channel, launching a "press-to-talk" voice chat by holding down the Copilot key for two seconds instead.