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Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird

WIRED

In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk's xAI. Anthropic and Elon Musk's SpaceX said on Wednesday that the two entities have signed an agreement for Anthropic to use computing resources from xAI's data center in Memphis, Tennessee. It's the latest tie up in an industry that is scrambling to find enough computers to run complex AI software. SpaceX and xAI were previously separate companies, but the two merged earlier this year. The combined entity, also owned by Musk, is called SpaceXAI.


I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes

WIRED

Anthropic announced "dreaming" for AI agents to sort through "memories" at its developer conference. Anthropic just announced a new feature called "dreaming" at the company's developer conference in San Francisco. It's part of Anthropic's recently launched AI agent infrastructure designed to help users manage and deploy tools that automate software processes. This "dreaming" aspect sorts through the transcript of what an agent recently completed and attempts to glean insights to improve the agent's performance. Folks using AI agents often send them on multistep journeys, like visiting a few websites or reading multiple files, to complete online tasks.


OpenAI Sneezes, and Software Firms Catch a Cold

WIRED

OpenAI revealed last week the custom AI tools it uses internally. The news sent some software companies into turmoil. Allan Thygesen, the CEO of Docusign, was not particularly concerned when he saw the news last week that OpenAI had created an internal tool called DocuGPT . He might have preferred that OpenAI choose a different name for its contracting tool. But still, he thought, DocuGPT barely scratched the surface of what Docusign can do.


Jony Ive Says He Wants His OpenAI Devices to 'Make Us Happy'

WIRED

Jony Ive Says He Wants His OpenAI Devices to'Make Us Happy' "I don't think we have an easy relationship with our technology at the moment," the former Apple designer said at OpenAI's developer conference in San Francisco on Monday. At OpenAI's developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, CEO Sam Altman and ex-Apple designer Jony Ive spoke in vague terms about the "family of devices" the pair are currently working to develop . "As great as phones and computers are, there's something new to do," Altman said on stage with Ive. The duo confirmed that OpenAI is working on more than one hardware product but finer details, ranging from use cases to to specifications, remain under wraps. Figuring out new computing form factors is hard," said Altman in a media briefing earlier in the day. "I think we have a chance to do something amazing, but it will take a while." Ive said that his team has generated "15 to 20 really compelling product" ideas on the journey to find the right kind of ...


Zuckerberg hailed AI 'superintelligence'. Then his smart glasses failed on stage Matthew Cantor

The Guardian

Mark Zuckerberg wears artificial intelligence-powered glasses as he speaks at the Meta's Connect developers conference on 17 September in Menlo Park, California. Mark Zuckerberg wears artificial intelligence-powered glasses as he speaks at the Meta's Connect developers conference on 17 September in Menlo Park, California. As humanity inches closer to an AI apocalypse, a sliver of hope remains: the robots might not work. Such was the case last week, as Mark Zuckerberg attempted to demonstrate his company's new AI-enabled smart glasses. "I don't know what to tell you guys," Zuckerberg told a crowd of Meta enthusiasts as he tried, and failed, for roughly the fourth time to hold a video call with his colleague via the glasses.


How to watch LlamaCon 2025, Meta's first generative AI developer conference

Engadget

After a couple years of having its open-source Llama AI model be just a part of its Connect conferences, Meta is breaking things out and hosting an entirely generative AI-focused developer conference called LlamaCon on April 29. The event is entirely virtual, and you'll be able to watch along live on the Meta for Developers Facebook page. LlamaCon kicks off at 1PM ET / 10AM PT with a keynote address from Meta's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, Vice President of AI Manohar Paluri and research scientist Angela Fan. The keynote is supposed to cover developments in the company's open-source AI community, "the latest on the Llama collection of models and tools" and offer a glimpse at yet-to-be released AI features. The keynote address will be followed by a conversation at 1:45PM ET / 10:45PM ET between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi on "building AI-powered applications," followed by a chat at 7PM ET / 4PM PT about "the latest trends in AI" between Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. It doesn't seem like either conversation will be used to break news, but Microsoft and Meta have collaborated before, so anything is possible.


Microsoft's Build 2025 developer conference kicks off on May 19th

Engadget

Microsoft's annual Build developer conference will take place in Seattle and run from May 19 to May 22, the company announced on X. There are no details on what will be announced, but you can be fairly sure it'll match or beat Build 2024 in terms of AI-related products and services. Artificial intelligence played a large part in last year's conference, featuring in areas ranging from Windows search to Copilot to Microsoft Paint. In fact, a day before Build 2024, Microsoft unveiled its new Surface Pro PC powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips, capable of hitting 45TOPS of neural processing power. Come join us at #MSBuild, May 19 – 22, 2025.


Apple launches AI iPhone as Huawei casts shadow with tri-fold phone

Al Jazeera

Apple has unveiled its artificial intelligence-boosted iPhone 16, showing off the long-awaited phone hours after Chinese rival Huawei's tri-fold phone began racking up orders. "The next generation of iPhone has been designed for Apple Intelligence from the ground up. It marks the beginning of an exciting new era," Chief Executive Tim Cook said at a product launch on Monday. The iPhone 16 will use the new A18 chip and have an aluminium back, as well as a new customizable button that can be used for camera controls. Huawei's website showed on Monday that it had garnered more than three million preorders for its Z-shaped tri-fold phone.


Chromebooks Will Get Gemini and New Google AI Features

WIRED

Last week, Microsoft announced new Surface laptops with artificial intelligence capabilities, and several PC manufacturers like Samsung, Asus, and Acer are launching new Windows machines to take advantage of the AI bump. Early in May, Google showed off its latest AI capabilities at the company's developer conference. Many of these are coming to Android phones soon, and you can expect to hear the word "AI" thrown around for iOS and iPadOS at Apple's own developer conference next month. Naturally, all this activity means that Chromebooks are due for their AI upgrade. Google is bringing Gemini, its artificial intelligence chatbot, to Chromebook Plus laptops new and old.


Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on its new PCs

The Guardian

Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you're doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next. The software giant on Monday revealed an upgraded version of Copilot, its AI assistant, as it confronts heightened competition from big tech rivals in pitching generative AI technology that can compose documents, make images and serve as a lifelike personal assistant at work or home. The announcements ahead of Microsoft's annual Build developer conference in Seattle centered on imbuing AI features into a product where Microsoft already has the eyes of millions of consumers: the Windows operating system for personal computers. The new features will include Windows Recall, enabling the AI assistant to "access virtually what you have seen or done on your PC in a way that feels like having photographic memory". Microsoft promises to protect users' privacy by giving them the option to filter out what they don't want tracked.