Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro Max will cost $2,300 if we factor in the recent tariffs. (Picture: Apple)Update: After significant uproar in the markets, Trump has said he would excempt tariffs for phones, computers and chip imports from China, CNBC reports, but Apple is still paying many other tariffs.
A brand new iPhone 16 Pro Max could set you back $2,300, Rosenblatt Securities analysts say to Reuters, who are factoring in a 43% price hike to offset the new tariffs on the countries that produce them.
The cheapest iPhone, the 16e, would go from $599 to just over $850, if Apple doesn’t decide to eat up the tariffs themselves, according to MacRumors.
The United Nations are worried developing nations will miss out on AI. (Picture via www.localdigital.com.au)The UN Trade and development organization doesn’t think AI will simply go away, predicting instead that nearly half of all jobs will be affected by 2033.
They also warn that only a hundred corporations control the technology, and say the difference between developed and developing nations will grow as the technology gets unevenly rolled out.
The first ever brain to spine interface has been implanted by Fudan University. (Picture: dierk schaefer (CC BY 2.0))Four patients with spinal cord damage are up and walking again, with support, after receiving a groundbreaking brain-to-spine implant in China.
There are 50 million people worldwide that suffers from some sort of spinal cord injuries, marking the potential for this novel technique, and so far the results are very positive.
AI to translate signals
The neural implant «translates» signals from the brain to the spinal cord using Ai, and was developed by scientists from The Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence at Fudan University, they write in a release.
OpenAi is now a $300B company, and is pushing into new frontiers. (Picture: OpenAI)In a blockbuster day for OpenAI news, it also says it added 1 million users an hour last night, and is opening the famous image generator for free users.
The money raised by the ChatGPT maker values the company at $300 billion, and is the most money raised by a private tech company ever, as it was the last time they raised a mere $6.6 billion back in October 2024.
In fact, the funding is three times the previous high note in funding for tech companies.
Gemini 2.5 is topping leaderborads all over. (Picture: Google)The latest Gemini launch got overshadowed by ChatGPTs new image generation, but the model has been absolutely crushing it in the benchmarks and averages.
The Pro 2.5 is currently one of the best large language model out there, and it is now available for free – with no set qoutas or limits on prompts.
The internal thinking of an AI has been mostly opaque before this study. (Image: Anthropic.)Some people think large AI models are preprogrammed by lots of people, whereas the opposite is often true.
Training an LLM like Claude often consists of unmonitored consumption of huge amounts of data, with minimal human involvement.
— Language models like Claude aren’t programmed directly by humans, says Anthropic, — They arrive inscrutable to us, the model’s developers. This means that we don’t understand how models do most of the things they do, they add.
Tracing the thoughts of an LLM
Now they have set out to change that, with a couple of scientific studies mapping out the internal reasoning, or how the model actually thinks in response to normal prompts.
Anthropic scores an early copyright win. (Credit: Anthropic)A US court has denied a coalition of record companies’, including Universal Music, request to keep music lyrics out of the training data for their AI, finding that no immediate harm had been proved.
This is just one of manylawsuits against AI companies claiming they copied and used copyrighted materials in training their models, that hinges on the fair use provision of the copyright laws
Karl Marx goes shopping, from OpenAI.Moving from Dall-E to native GPT 4o images makes for higher quality and more lifelike detail — and they also updated their terms of service.
Rolling out to users on Free, Pro and Plus tiers, the image generation should be live pretty much by the time of this writing, letting you generate just about anything you can imagine from a text prompt – within reason.
Accessing a world of knowledge
Since it uses GPT 4o, the generator has access to a world of knowledge and context that was missing from the previous generators, writes Mashable.
The new ARC-AGI-2 tests for «fluid intelligence» and is bad news for the state of the art models. (Picture: The Arc Prize Foundation)Artificial General Intelligence denotes when AI becomes more proficient than humans in most tasks, and is the holy grail of current AI research, even though there are different definitions depending on who you ask.
A new cognitive, problem solving benchmark, the ARC-AGI-2, which is easy for humans and really tough for even the best of the reasoning AIs shows just how far away that goal is, TechCrunch reports.
In fact, most state of the art AIs score in the low single digits on this test, whereas humans score an average of 60%.
The new ECgMLP AI model is far more accurate at detecting cancer than you’re average doctors eye. (Credit: Charles Darwin University.)The gold rush for the most accurate cancer detection AI appears to have a new leader for now.
Researchers have designed a new specialized artificial intelligence to detect cancer in microscope images that achieves a success rate of 99.26 % for diagnosing Endometrial cancer, which is a new milestone.
They are now looking for other cancers to discover.
Gemini will soon be the default assistant on all Android devices. (Pitcure: Google.)Google said in a blog post today that they will waste no time phasing out the revered and often frustrating Google Assistant, and default to Gemini instead on billions of devices, in what could be a risky antitrust move from the behemoth.
That’s despite a multitude of hallucinations and other issues with the AI model, Ars Technica writes.
Assistant was first introduced in 2016, listened for the «Hey Google»-prompt, and worked well for mostly playing stuff off Youtube, but often frustrated users on other tasks.
Only supported assistant
Now the entire Android universe will be using Gemini instead, as the only supported assistant across cars, cellphones, TVs and tablets, which should be a enormous boon to the user base for the AI model.
Bare bilder med betyelig menneskelig redigering kan godkjennes med opphavsrett, sier USCO.U.S. Copyright Office, som tolker opphavsrettslovene i USA, har nylig hatt en gjennomgang av loven med tanke på nettopp AI-bruk i kunstverk.
De kom fram til nesten det samme som retten i denne saken, nemlig at AI-bruk i verk kan beskyttes av opphavsretten, såfremt «menneskelige forfattere» har utvist «tilstrekkelig ekspressive elementer.»
Det vil si at loven som den er er tilstrekkelig for å dekke ai-genererte verk, men ifølge USCO gjelder dette først og fremst at AI-generert innhold som brukes i et verk som assistanse, altså at det blir inkludert som et element av for eksempel bilder som er menneskeskapt.
Dommen setter døren på gløtt for generativ AI med menneskelig innblanding. (Bilde: Marco Verch, CC BY 2.0.)Kunsteriske verk må ha betydelig menneskelig innflytelse hvis de skal beskyttes av opphavsretten, sier en nylig dom i USA.
Saken sto mellom Stephen Thaler og U.S. Copyright Office om bildet «A Recent Entrance to Paradise,» som ble nektet opphavsrettsbeskyttelse av sistnevnte i 2018.
Dette bildet ble laget helt og holdent av en «autonom data-algoritme som kjørte på en maskin,» altså en kunstig intelligens, og ble skapt uten menneskelig innblanding, forteller Reuters.
Nye B-21 Raider kan fly både bemannet og ubemannet. (Bilde: Tech. Sgt. William OBrien, via WIkipedia)
USAs militære stabssjef sier vi står ovenfor en stor innovasjon i styrkene til industrialiserte land, der stadig flere systemer blir ubemannet.
General Mark Milley trakk fram flere aspekter rundt militærets robotiske ambisjoner, overvåking og kunstig intelligens i en nylig tale ved National Press Club i Washington, DC.
— Krigens karakter […] endrer seg fundamentalt med jevne mellomrom, og akkurat nå er vi midt i en slik endring, sier generalen.