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Apple Intelligence gets hit with a delay
An AI-first education startup
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NEXT IN AI
Apple delays its long-awaited AI features
Source: Apple
Apple’s hoping its upcoming AI capabilities will be enough to get users to finally upgrade their iPhones this fall. The only problem: The iPhone 16 likely won’t have those features out of the gate. Sources told Bloomberg that Apple Intelligence will roll out in phases — starting several weeks after the latest iPhone hits store shelves in September. Some features, like an AI-enabled Siri, likely won’t land on iOS until next year.
The details:
Apple’s hoping its slow and steady approach to AI will help it bounce back from a 10% slump in iPhone sales
Developers didn’t have to wait quite as long as the rest of us: Some of them already got to experiment with Apple Intelligence. For everyone else, Apple released a 47-page paper to tide us over.
One big challenge: Adapting AI capabilities to a Chinese audience, where Apple wants to regain ground from local competitors
Appearance-wise, Apple’s new hardware lineup reportedly won’t look too different from current models – another sign that the Cupertino-based company is putting most of its resources into AI
The reason for the delay? Bold moves have helped startups like OpenAI stand out from the crowd and gather billions in VC investments. But Apple’s taking a cautious approach — opting to work out any glitches and bugs before users get their hands on its new AI features.
That could be a smart move, especially given the AI-related blunders we’ve seen from its rivals this year — from Alphabet’s troubled AI Overviews feature to data scraping allegations against Anthropic and Perplexity. Also, Apple might feel it only has one chance to get this right. Initial impressions will likely shape how users think about Apple’s AI features for years to come.
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AI & EDUCATION
OpenAI alum starts AI-first education platform
Source: Eureka Labs
Imagine taking a class with the legendary, Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman, who specialized in quantum mechanics, died decades ago. But Andrej Karpathy, a former developer at both Tesla and OpenAI, thinks AI could help revive the physicist’s curiosity-led teaching philosophy.
“Unfortunately, subject matter experts who are deeply passionate, great at teaching, infinitely patient and fluent in all of the world's languages are also very scarce and cannot personally tutor all 8 billion of us on demand,” Karpathy wrote on X.
That’s where AI comes in: Karpathy announced he’s launching a new startup called Eureka Labs that will use AI teaching assistants to supplement human-led courses. Real-life instructors will still craft courses on their own, but they’ll receive help from AI-powered tutors who answer students’ questions and walk them through complicated material.
Karpathy said Eureka Labs fuses his two passions: Computer science and education. He’d worked as a deep learning instructor at Stanford but left in 2015 to co-found OpenAI. The company’s first initiative is an undergraduate course that will teach students how to build an LLM from scratch — with AI teaching agents presumably coming at a later date.
But the details are still fuzzy: It’s unclear whether Eureka Labs has received any outside funding — or if any other big-name developers have lent a hand to the San Francisco-based startup. Eagle-eyed observers, meanwhile, pointed out that the futuristic image used to promote the new startup has some unusual digital artifacts, including one student with three arms.
The ultimate goal: The cost of college tuition in the US rose by 65% between 2000 and 2021, cutting off some would-be students’ ability to break into fields that require a degree. Karpathy thinks that using AI to supplement human-led courses could make education more accessible. It’ll also foster less structured curriculums, giving students a chance to piece together knowledge from different disciplines.
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AI & TECH NEWS
Everything else you need to know today
Source: Anthropic
Big Appetite: A freelancer job board claims that, out of the startups who use its content to train their AI models without permission, Anthropic is “the most aggressive scraper by far.”
Off the Grid: AMD is launching a new version of its text-to-image generator, Amuse 2.0, which can run on the chip maker’s laptops without an internet connection.
Long Time Coming: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted that the startup’s long-awaited voice feature could start rolling out to plus subscribers sometime this week.
Data Dilemma: The EU’s Data Protection Commission warned that Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is now using X posts as training data. Users have to explicitly opt out if they wish to keep their data private.
🧠 Brain Food: In a competition hosted by the US Defense Advanced Research Agency, researchers are using AI to autonomously detect security flaws in open source code. The winners’ technique could one day be used by tech companies and non-profits to protect themselves from data breaches and other threats.
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PROMPT OF THE DAY
Everyday Javascript
Prompt: I want you to act as a javascript console. I will type commands and you will reply with what the javascript console should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. do not write explanations. do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. when I need to tell you something in english, I will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}. My first command is console.log("Hello World");Source: @omerimzali on GitHub
AI-GENERATED IMAGES
Happy Corgis
Source: @byday123 in Midjourney
Midjourney Prompt: 3d sculpted clay style A happy corgi dog father and his baby son camping in the woods, in the style of Disney, as cartoon characters in a full body portrait, in the style of Pixar art illustration with big eyes, fluffy fur, big head, and a serious face expression, in a happy atmosphere, with a campfire burning, and happy smiling faces, with a background of a forest at night with moonlight shining through the trees, in high resolution.
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