Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple releases iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1 and says the bug allowing some deleted photos to reappear has now been fixed — Apple today released iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1, minor updates to the iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 operating system updates that came out last September.
Dell debuts a Dell XPS 13 with Snapdragon X Elite, the first time the XPS 13 has not had Intel, alongside new Dell Latitude and Inspiron PCs with Qualcomm chips (PCWorld)
PCWorld:
Dell debuts a Dell XPS 13 with Snapdragon X Elite, the first time the XPS 13 has not had Intel, alongside new Dell Latitude and Inspiron PCs with Qualcomm chips — Today marks a historic day for the Dell XPS 13: it’s the first Dell XPS 13 notebook without an Intel chip inside. But no, it isn’t an AMD Ryzen chip.
Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo all joined Microsoft in debuting laptops featuring Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite or Plus chips, some promising multi-day battery life (Brandon Hill/Tom’s Hardware)
Brandon Hill / Tom’s Hardware:
Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo all joined Microsoft in debuting laptops featuring Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite or Plus chips, some promising multi-day battery life — Qualcomm fires an AI-infused salvo at AMD, Intel, and Apple with the help of Microsoft and its OEM partners
Jolla, maker of Android variant Sailfish OS, details plans for a privacy-focused AI device, Jolla Mind², coming this fall for €699 and a €9.99/mo. subscription (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Jolla, maker of Android variant Sailfish OS, details plans for a privacy-focused AI device, Jolla Mind², coming this fall for €699 and a €9.99/mo. subscription — Jolla has taken the official wraps off the first version of its personal server-based AI assistant in the making.
Inflection AI, which had ~70 staffers follow Mustafa Sulyman and leave for Microsoft in March, debuts a new leadership team and says it has 18 months of runway (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Inflection AI, which had ~70 staffers follow Mustafa Sulyman and leave for Microsoft in March, debuts a new leadership team and says it has 18 months of runway — When Mustafa Sulyman, a leading figure in artificial intelligence, left Inflection AI in March to head Microsoft’s AI division …
UK’s autonomous vehicle legislation becomes law, paving the way for first driverless cars by 2026 and clarifying who is liable in self-driving crashes (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
UK’s autonomous vehicle legislation becomes law, paving the way for first driverless cars by 2026 and clarifying who is liable in self-driving crashes — The U.K.’s self-proclaimed “world-leading” regulations for self-driving cars are now official, after the Automated Vehicles (AV) …
A live blog of Microsoft’s Surface and Windows AI event (The Verge)
The Verge:
A live blog of Microsoft’s Surface and Windows AI event — Are you ready for Microsoft’s latest Windows on Arm push? That’s what we’re expecting at today’s Surface and Windows AI event. — Rumors suggest Microsoft will unveil a new Arm-powered Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 devices and a host of new AI features for Windows.
A look at Satya Nadella’s approach to pushing AI at Microsoft, as the company bets big on OpenAI and in-house models, but also on G42, Mistral, Figure, others (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
A look at Satya Nadella’s approach to pushing AI at Microsoft, as the company bets big on OpenAI and in-house models, but also on G42, Mistral, Figure, others — Something has caught Satya Nadella’s attention. It’s a small thing—just a five-letter word inside a box …
Child predators are flocking to AI-generated images of children on TikTok and Instagram, raising questions about how to handle the suggestive, fake images (Alexandra S. Levine/Forbes)
Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes:
Child predators are flocking to AI-generated images of children on TikTok and Instagram, raising questions about how to handle the suggestive, fake images — Images of AI children on TikTok and Instagram are becoming magnets for many with a sexual interest in minors.
Sensor Tower: ByteDance’s Doubao AI chatbot iOS app had almost 9M downloads this year through April, vs. 8M for Baidu’s Ernie Bot; Doubao has 4M+ MAUs in China (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)
Jane Zhang / Bloomberg:
Sensor Tower: ByteDance’s Doubao AI chatbot iOS app had almost 9M downloads this year through April, vs. 8M for Baidu’s Ernie Bot; Doubao has 4M+ MAUs in China — Doubao, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot released in August, surpassed Baidu’s Ernie Bot in downloads last year …
