Breaking news: Apple will consolidate all its AI acquisitions into a new division, to be called AGI (Apple Graveyard of Intelligences).
BIG TECH
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Copilot launches on Mac and Windows in 170+ countries
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live on Mac + Windows in 170+ countries (everywhere we have Copilot)
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US Companies Abandoning Open Weights Strategy for Chinese Models
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Open weights is no longer a strategy for US companies – they may release occasional models, but they will reserve their best work for closed models. Companies who want to run open models, and governments thinking about the future of AI, are going to need to rely on Chinese labs.
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Meta Closes Models as Chinese Open Weights Lead Frontier
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Especially notable given Zuckerberg's note that Meta will not necessarily open source future models. US companies are still doing great small open models, but, aside from whatever OpenAI releases, it appears that frontier open weights will mean Chinese models (& maybe Mistral).
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OpenAI Researcher Predicts Short AGI Development Timelines
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oh shit openai researcher has short timelines
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Palo Alto’s $25B CyberArk acquisition: Strategic investment analysis
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Giving Palo Alto the benefit of the doubt on the CyberArk deal Investors blanched at Palo Alto’s $25 billion purchase of CyberArk, its largest acquisition ever, and also a deal that’s fairly expensive. I would credit CEO Nikesh Arora with having a fairly thoughtful approach to
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DeepSeek’s Quiet Months: Latest R1-0528 Model Family
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… and I didn't even mention DeepSeek! They've had a quiet couple of months, their last model release was the DeepSeek-R1-0528 family back in May
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Europe Regulates AI While United States Dominates Innovation
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My op-ed in @Valeurs Europe celebrates its AI Act while the United States builds super AI @MistralAI has talent. But without an ecosystem and industrial vision, genius is suffocated
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OpenAI Major Release Strategy Beyond Google Tokyo Event
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Yeah but feels like a random Tokyo event isn't meant to be for big Google announcements. Hard to imagine that OpenAI would try to tie their biggest release to Google this time round. A demo of a random impressive looking feature (e.g. the voice mode) was one thing, but this, I