Kevin Okemwa

GROK 3 Elon Musk recently announced that his xAI company has officially begun training its LLM, Grok, using “the most powerful AI training cluster in the world,” dubbed Memphis Supercluster.

CROWDSTUCK? Dave Plummer (aka Dave's Garage), a former Microsoft software engineer, recently shared a YouTube video explaining the digital pandemic caused by CrowdStrike.

GUARANTEED PRIVACY Firefox might have found the perfect balance between aggressive advertising and maintaining the user's privacy.

MORE COOKIES Google has changed its mind about its privacy sandbox on Chrome, and will keep supporting cookies.

PROFIT MARGIN Amazon lost over $25 billion in its device business between 2017 and 2021. The losses cut across its Echo devices and other products, including Kindles, Fire TV Sticks, and video doorbells.

DIVERSITY TURMOIL While Microsoft and CrowdStrike have issued statements indicating the issue has been fixed, Elon Musk used the opportunity to attack the latter's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

THE GENESIS Microsoft veteran Dave W. Plummer, aka Dave's Garage, recently narrated how he wrote the Start menu for Windows 95.

ON THE UP AND UP According to a new report by the International Data Corporation (IDC), the market grew by 3% in the second quarter of 2024 — translating to 64.9 million units.

3-DAY WEEKEND(?) Microsoft services are experiencing a global outage. And while Microsoft and CloudStrike work on a fix, corporate employees aren't too upset about getting an early weekend.

NOT PRIVATE ENOUGH As part of Apple's plan to keep iPhone users 'glued' to Safari, it has highlighted two critical privacy issues riddling Google Chrome's user experience.

HARMONYOS NEXT Huawei might get back to developing its own operating system — HarmonyOS Next for PC to compete with Windows later this year.

ALZHEIMER'S 101 Researchers from Cambridge University have developed a new method for predicting the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which promises 80% accuracy.

DESIGNER HITS GA Microsoft shipped its Designer app to broad availability and integrated it across its products, including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint through Copilot and Microsoft Photos.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION Microsoft recently laid off its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) team. The former team lead indicated the department was disbanded due to "changing business needs."

NOT SO SMART A new study by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) indicates LLMs tend to perform better at tasks they're familiar with than new territory.

OH SNAP! Microsoft recently issued a temporary workaround for a bug, preventing users from accessing the Photos app in Windows 11.

DO IT YOURSELF Jess Hyland, a member of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain's game workers branch, admits that AI could render her jobless at any moment.

NOSTALGIC In the 1980s, Bill Gates wanted to make PCs easy to use and fun using AI, or "softer software."

ENOUGH POWER? Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries.

SAFETY? OpenAI rushed GPT-4o's launch while safety took a back seat.

DESIGNATED GATEKEEPER Opera recently requested the EU General Court to annul the European Commission’s decision not to designate Microsoft Edge as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act.

GET AN IPHONE Microsoft staffers in China will soon be forced to ditch their Android phones for iPhones in September 2024 to help "prepare for the increasing scale and high stakes of cyberattacks."

TITANIC OF AI William Saunders, a former OpenAI safety employee says he resigned after realizing the company was prioritizing 'shiny products' while safety processes took a back seat.

FUTURE SELF Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently leveraged AI capabilities to develop a chatbot that lets you chat with a future version of yourself.

THREEFOLD ChatGPT isn't the only advanced model on Apple's alley. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Google's Gemini might also make its way to Apple Intelligence.