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Import AI 479: Spacewar; low-latency tasks versus LLMs; Genie 4
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Apple reportedly plans to phase out non-touchscreen MacBook Pros; Google’s AI is accused of cutting off internet traffic; Seres: AITO has fully entered the European market
Apple CEO: We Won’t Build Products Just to Do AI Apple CEO John Ternus recently defended the company’s current strategy in the field of artificial intelligence during an interview. Over the past few years, many have viewed Apple as lagging behind in the AI race—particularly after the company delayed the release of a more advanced version of Siri, which only officially launched this summer. Ternus, a longtime Apple executive, officially assumed the role of CEO in early September. He acknowledged that “everyone has their own opinion,” but firmly stated: “I...”
Apple reportedly plans to phase out non-touchscreen MacBook Pros; Google’s AI is accused of cutting off internet traffic; Seres: AITO has fully entered the European market
Apple CEO: We Won’t Build Products Just for the Sake of AI Apple CEO John Ternus recently defended the company’s current strategy in the field of artificial intelligence during an interview. Over the past few years, many have viewed Apple as lagging behind in the AI race—particularly after the company delayed the release of a more advanced version of Siri, which only officially launched this summer. Ternus, a longtime Apple executive who officially took over as CEO in early September, acknowledged that “everyone has their own opinion,” but insisted, “I’m very satisfied with where we are right now.” He added that Apple will certainly incorporate AI into its new products, but emphasized, “We don’t want to launch AI just for the sake of having AI. If we do it well, users won’t even notice whether a feature was implemented using AI or traditional software. The key is whether we create products that users truly love.” (Source: Global Market Report) OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic Jointly Launch an Exit Standard for AI Data Scraping On November 1, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic announced they would adopt a new standard allowing content publishers to opt out of having their website content scraped by AI systems. With this control mechanism, publishers can uniformly communicate their preferences regarding the use of their content for training AI models to multiple AI companies at once, rather than setting separate rules for each firm. The standard was proposed by Kevin Kelley, Chief Technology Officer at Anthropic, to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and will be integrated into websites’ robots.txt files. For years, robots.txt files have been used to specify which website content web crawlers are permitted to scrape and which is prohibited, applicable to scenarios such as search indexing, web archiving, and AI model training. Currently, websites must individually declare their preferences for AI training-related content usage to each AI company separately. Against this backdrop, various AI crawlers continue scraping website content and feeding web materials into AI model training, leaving content publishers overwhelmed. (Source: Sina Finance) Apple Plans to Gradually Phase Out High-End Non-Touchscreen MacBook Pros by 2027 Apple has just introduced touchscreens to the MacBook Pro,
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DevFest is back!
DevFest 2026 runs from October 1 to December 31, bringing together nearly a million developers across more than 800 global events centered on the agentic AI era. Under the theme "Build, Secure, Scale," participants gain hands-on experience with Google’s developer stack—including Gemini, Google AI Studio, Google Antigravity, and Web MCP—through live workshops and codelabs. The conference focuses on enabling developers to prototype rapidly, ensure secure and private deployments, and leverage production-ready infrastructure.
[AINews] Anthropic ends Coding Interviews: "Hunger beats tenure"
Since coding is solved, why code for the job?
Meet Google DeepMind’s Genie 4: Real-Time World Model With Native Audio
Google DeepMind released Genie 4 as a research preview. The real-time world model adds native audio, live dialogue and text steering, with Gemini 3.8 Flash planning events inside the simulation loop. The post Meet Google DeepMind’s Genie 4: Real-Time World Model With Native Audio appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Google introduces cutting-edge Genie 4 world model
Google LLC today previewed Genie 4, an artificial intelligence model that can generate realistic three-dimensional environments. The algorithm is the latest addition to a series of world models that the company launched in 2024. Compared to its predecessor, Genie 4 is better at rendering fluid movements and other complex details. Furthermore, it can generate accompanying […] The post Google introduces cutting-edge Genie 4 world model appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering
Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers.
An agent that helps users snatch up iPhone foldable-screen models is reshaping e-commerce in the AI era.
Shopify AI saw transaction orders grow by a factor of 13. In the early morning of October 16, pre-orders began for Apple’s first foldable-screen phone, the iPhone Duo. Priced from $1,999, initial production capacity was tight, and delivery dates quickly slipped to January next year. This time, it wasn’t just people glued to their screens vying for the launch. This year, Agents have become the strictest “parents” to iPhone Duo scalpers. | Image source: Apple On the MacRumors forum, one user who missed out vented their frustration, while on Reddit others boasted about using Muse bots to snatch up multiple units in a single go—before even a human could click, the inventory had already been swept away by AI. Muse is Meta’s personal Agent, launched on September 8; shortly after its debut, it topped the free charts in the U.S. App Store, with downloads soon surpassing 2.5 million. According to Meta, shopping has become one of Muse’s primary use cases. Around the time the iPhone Duo went on sale, Muse even released a new version optimized for this device, with an update note that emphasized making in‑chat shopping more convenient. AI-driven shopping has moved from demo stages at product launches straight into real‑world stock‑picking scenarios. But not every retailer welcomes these new customers. In late September, Amazon began banning Muse. By October, users of Musk’s Grok Bot encountered the same warning when placing orders on Amazon: unauthorized AI agents continuing to access the platform violates Amazon’s terms of service. Meanwhile, another company, Shopify, took the exact opposite approach. On September 21, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke announced a deep partnership with Muse, enabling Muse to process checkout through Shop Pay across all Shopify stores. And Shopify’s financial reports already show early returns from this strategy: in the first quarter of this year, orders generated via AI search grew nearly thirteenfold year over year, while store traffic driven by AI increased eightfold. Closing doors on one hand, opening them on the other—when more and more purchasing decisions are handed over to Agents, will the question of “whether or not to let Agents in” become…
Our newest AI Quest: Mapping the human brain
Learn AI literacy via Google’s latest AI Quests lesson on neuroscience, “Polar Peaks.”
Kevin Roose is AGI-pilled. Why aren’t you?
Today, I’m talking to Kevin Roose, journalist and author of the new book The AGI Chronicles, which details the recent and explosive transformation of the AI industry. Kevin was a longtime New York Times reporter and host of the popular podcast Hard Fork, but he and friend of the show Casey Newton just left the […]
Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time, natural speech translation to Google AI Studio, Google Translate and Google Meet.
Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View
We’re expanding access to Google AI Ultra subscribers globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street View.
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can try out Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that lets you create and explore worlds.