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Are OpenAI and Jony Ive headed for an iPhone moment?

2 weeks ago | businessandamerica.com | Mark Sullivan

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple veteran Jony Ive and Sam Altman, called “io,” for nearly $6.5 billion, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. This almost certainly will put OpenAI in the consumer hardware business, and it seems like it will soon release a dedicated personal AI device.
Are OpenAI and Jony Ive headed for an iPhone moment?

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mark Sullivan

8 hours agoWearables have flopped. Can Jony Ive and OpenAI change that? For more than a decade, Silicon Valley has been trying to convince us that the next big thing would be something you wear. The pitch was always slick: computers so seamlessly integrated into our lives that we’d barely notice them, devices that would augment reality and make us all cyborgs.
Google's AI Mode Looks to Take on ChatGPT Search

2 weeks ago | fastcompany.co.za | Mark Sullivan

Mark Sullivan|Published 1 hour agoThe search giant plans to add new visual search, a search agent, and new personalisation features this summer. Image: GoogleGoogle is rapidly expanding its AI search capabilities, as reflected in the announcements it made this week at its Google I/O developer conference.
Google’s AI Mode goes prime time, a direct answer to ChatGPT Search

2 weeks ago | fastcompanyme.com | Mark Sullivan

Google is rapidly expanding its AI search capabilities, as reflected in the announcements it made Tuesday at its Google I/O developer conference. The search giant announced the general availability of AI Mode, its chatbot-format AI search product; some changes to its AI Overviews search results; and its plans to add new visual and agentic search features this summer.
Google’s AI Mode goes prime time, a direct answer to ChatGPT Search

2 weeks ago | businessandamerica.com | Mark Sullivan

Google is rapidly expanding its AI search capabilities, as reflected in the announcements it made Tuesday at its Google I/O developer conference. The search giant announced the general availability of AI Mode, its chatbot-format AI search product; some changes to its AI Overviews search results; and its plans to add new visual and agentic search features this summer.
Google’s AI Mode goes prime time, a direct answer to ChatGPT Search

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mark Sullivan

NowGoogle AI Mode is launching in the U.S., kicking off a new era of AI searchGoogle Search is dead. Long live AI Search. Google just cracked open the future of search, and it talks back. During today's Google I/O 2025 keynote event, Google announced that it is now rolling out the AI Mode search tool to everyone in the United States. Powered by Gemini, AI Mode will now include …NowAI Overviews are now available in over 200 countries and territories, and more than 40 languages.
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro could be the most important AI model so far this year

2 weeks ago | devicedaily.com | Mark Sullivan

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro could be the most important AI model so far this year April 03, 2025Google released its new Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental AI model late last month, and it’s quickly stacked up top marks on a number of coding, math, and reasoning benchmark tests—making it a contender for the world’s best model right now.
Trump just handed data brokers a gift in the form of our data

3 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Mark Sullivan

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), under acting director Russell Vought, canceled proposed new rules this week that would have protected Americans' sensitive private data-including financial data, credit history, and Social Security numbers-from being collected by data brokers without consent and sold to advertisers and other third parties.
Elon Musk's DOGE is launching a new AI retirement system. It was built mostly under Biden

3 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Mark Sullivan

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has spent its first 100 days slashing government programs and firing employees. Yet Musk views DOGE not just as a downsizing force, but also as a team of technologically elite shock troops tasked with rapidly modernizing outdated government systems. One of DOGE's primary targets on that front is the Office of Personnel Management's antiquated retirement application system, which still relies on paper forms and manual processing.
Coding emerges as generative AI’s breakout star

4 weeks ago | fastcompanyme.com | Mark Sullivan

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. The tech industry insists that AI will “transform” how companies, both large and small, operate. Tech VCs and AI founders predict that major business functions will be reshaped, one by one, to be handled by AI agents. For a while, many speculated which function would be transformed first.

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