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It’s incredible that OpenAI is basically the most high-profile new tech company in perhaps a decade and their product naming scheme is so bad it makes the Google messaging apps look like a bastion of clarity. ChatGPT Voice Duo Allo Meet Hangouts Talk Messages Wave Buzz Plus

Humane, Ai Pin Startupen med en haug ave eks-Apple folk kaster inn hÄndkleet og blir solgt for $116 millioner til HP. Mindre penger enn de hentet fra investorer. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-18/hp-116-million-deal-for-humane-includes-ip-but-no-ai-pin-device

Europa arrangerer krisemÞte om tryggleiken vÄr, og Noreg meiner det er best Ä ikkje vere med. Danmark kan representere oss. Leiarane for vÄre to stÞrste parti meiner at slik skal det vere framover ogsÄ. Det er heilt utruleg.

Verdens dyreste app-oppdatering? Sonos katastrola oppdatering har kostet 1 milliard dollar og mange ansatte jobben đŸ‘Ÿ Dette er en av temaene i «Ukens noatter» som jeg nettopp publiserte đŸ‘‰đŸ» matsbs.com/ukens-notate...

Apple Maps (som er utruleg mykje betre) har framleis ikkje bukka under for Trump.

Microsoft research finds that we are outsourcing our brains to generative AI. the more we use it, the less we use our critical thinking

Ukens notater #21: Landet som ville subsidiere befolkningen

Britiske myndigheter ser ut til Ă„ beordre Apple (og dermed sannsynligvis ogsĂ„ andre plattformer) til Ă„ lage en bakdĂžr inn for myndighetene slik at de kan fĂ„ tilgang til kryptert data. Dette er mildt sagt en dĂ„rlig ide 😬 www.theverge.com/news/608145/...

DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/deepseek-ios-app-sends-data-unencrypted-to-bytedance-controlled-servers/

Who else here remembers the OG Apple Invites app: Cards...

Senator Josh Hawley has proposed 20 years jail time, a million dollar fine or both for anyone who downloads DeepSeek.

Har vi fÄtt kollektiv #DeepSeek panikk? Dette er et av temaene i 20ende utgave av «Ukens notater» matsbs.com/ukens-notate...

Apple og SpaceX tester nÄ satellittkommunikasjon rett fra din iPhone til Starlink satellittene. NÄr dette utvides til Ä ogsÄ inkludere full data blir det ekstremt interessant https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-29/apple-and-spacex-link-up-to-support-starlink-satellite-network-on-iphones

Dette er en god oversikt over sensuren i DeepSeek đŸ‘‰đŸ» 1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek www.promptfoo.dev/blog/deepsee...

Det mest interessante med DeepSeek er at den er Äpen kildekode og dermed kan kjÞres lokalt rett pÄ Macen. Jeg har satt sammen en liten guide til Ä fÄ DeepSeek R1 og andre modeller opp Ä kjÞre pÄ din Mac

500 milliarder dollar til AI datasenter i USA. 250 millioner i Norge. Det er et av mange temaer i 19ende utgave av «Ukens notater»

Hvis det skal investeres 500 milliarder dollar i AI datasentere i USA, trengs det veldig mye mer energi. Bill Gates atomkraft startup skal gjĂžre noe med akkurat https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/23/24350335/bill-gates-terrapower-data-center-sabey-nuclear-energy-ai

The OpenAI agent launch is a stark reminder of why product team diversity matters. Groceries on Instacart, ordering an Uber, booking an expensive table and finding last-minute tickets for a game ("best seats under $500, please") are such Silicon Valley "problems". www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSE7...

The Tim Cook Severance promo is wild because I always felt like the show could be about Apple - a company with such a deep, crazy culture of secrecy that they’d be the first to opt for severed employees in the workforce. also, my work there was always mysterious and important

Da Sp gikk i regjering var Norge EØS-medlem. Regjeringen bestilte en rapport som rett ut konkluderte med at Ä gÄ ut av avtalen ville vÊre elendig for Norge. Sp la saken dÞd. Hvis Sp nÄ likevel ikke vil fÞlge opp EØS-avtalen, kan de ikke ha ansvar for Ä styre landet. SÄ enkelt er det.

OpenAI Canvas er svaret pĂ„ Claudes Artifacts. Dette ser spennende ut 👌

DeepSeek released a whole family of inference-scaling / "reasoning" models today, including distilled variants based on Llama and Qwen Here are my notes on the new models, plus how I ran DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B on my Mac using Ollama and LLM simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/...

18ende utgave av «Ukens notater» er publisert. I dag skriver jeg om TikToks mulig dÞd. Fortsatt uklart hva som kommer til Ä skje, men fra og med i dag kan ikke TikTok lastes ned i USA lenger

Latest piece out in @theatlantic.com . Europe better realize soon that Russia is fighting a “war” and it involves them.

I genuinely believe we’ll look back on this era of the web and think we were all just collectively insane. The best technology of our existence for reading is ubiquitous yet there’s never been a worse reading experience.

I’m so, so tired of reading takes on AI, both from the crypto-bro level boosters who think it’s going to solve all our problems, and from the doomers who seem to think that every single ChatGPT query uses a whole ocean of water.

Meta blir politiske og gjĂžr store endringer i modereringen av innhold. Det er ett av mange temaer i denne ukes utgave av nyhetsbrevet mitt som du finner her đŸ‘‰đŸ»

Never seen Meta roll out new changes this quickly, they seem really excited about all this! www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

Meta has never invented anything great. Period. Their entire product strategy is CMD+C then CMD+V.

In December, Google made a major announcement: they're ending their ban on device fingerprinting. This could dramatically reshape the future of web tracking and could have dire consequences on user privacy and your ability to stay safe online. https://pvcy.org/YVOAFu

It's once again a fan favorite with its new M4 version, but 20 years after Steve Jobs launched the Mac mini, it has had an extraordinary life of rave reviews -- and criticism.

Jeg trenger ikke en AI assistent for Ä hjelpe meg med Ä skru lyset av, pÄ eller endre fargetone. Jeg tror vi kommer til Ä gremmes over alle steder hvor AI-assistenter legges til om et par Är www.signify.com/global/our-c...

I think it's hard to overstate the massive (negative) impact this will have.

Animasjonen Apple fÄr kunstnere til Ä lage pÄ deres spillelister er nesten verdt abonnementet pÄ Apple Music alene. Elsker slike smÄ detaljer i brukeropplevelsen.

People seemed surprised about the statement that Yi Peng 3 also tried to rip up cables connecting Danish island LĂŠsĂž to Sweden, so here is a reminder. Happened Nov 7 as YP3 was approaching Baltic Sea, before the 2nd We have an AIS-track showing it and underwater footage confirming it. Links below.

If you use Gemini and its dashboard (for lack of a better word) and compare it with the relative ease of use of ChatGPT and Claude, you can see the challenge right there. It is a messy, big company that doesn’t have a way to share a simple, easy message about the future, and how it can win it.

I was excited to tell my kids that there's a sequel to Encanto, only to scroll down and learn that Google's AI just completely made this up

Russian and Iranian missiles have become the leading cause of commercial-aviation deaths worldwide. “A lot of operators and regulators didn’t seem to learn the lessons from MH-17.” www.wsj.com/world/flight...

IfÞlge Lloyd's List var oljetankeren Eagle S installert med sende- og mottaksutstyr for Ä overvÄke NATOs marine- og luftfartsaktiviteter, som deretter ble videresendt til Russland. Mannskapet skal ha blitt truet til Ä holde saken for seg selv. www.lloydslist.com/LL1151955/Ru...