It’s time once again to check in on AI! Checking in on AI is a community service the Macalope provides periodically free of charge to see just how things are going in the wild, wacky,…
Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing visual AI was the frontier he wanted to stake his claim in. He pulled off a whirlwind fundraise that resulted in a more aggressive valuation-to-capital ratio than Thinking Machines,…
29 seconds ago, By Michael Simon iPhone 17e tidbits A couple of things I’ve noticed about the iPhone 17e It has a 4-core GPU compared to the iPhone 17’s 5 cores It’s got a Ceramic Shield 2…
To be sure, it’s hard to see this not ending in some market carnage. The current “winner-takes-most” mentality in the space means the bets are big and bold, but the market can’t support dozens of…
For the last several years, the iPhone line has been stuck in a rut. Incremental improvements to performance and battery life are great, but the iPhones of last year sure seem a lot like the…
Macs updates coming in 2026 The first few months of 2026 are expected to be busy as Apple focuses on updating Macs with the next generation of M5 chips. The M5 arrived with the MacBook…
Apple’s Studio Display, which came out almost three and a half years ago, may finally get a refresh early next year. That’s if the latest accidental code leak is to be believed. MacRumors contributor Aaron…
Apple’s Siri voice assistant is something of a punching bag in the tech industry, with numerous articles pointing out its inaccuracy and lack of cutting-edge features. (Even Apple itself has internally acknowledged that delays to…
This time of year can be a little dull if your job is writing about Apple (or, presumably, working for Apple). There’s WWDC at the start of June, which like as not won’t see the…
On Monday, sheet music platform Soundslice says it developed a new feature after discovering that ChatGPT was incorrectly telling users the service could import ASCII tablature—a text-based guitar notation format the company had never supported.…