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Nobody pays for free (& open source) software?

Umm, that's neither a direct quote, nor even a paraphrase.

This is due to EU's wider tech regulation "DMA"

And, in fact, it's due to DMA's mandate leaning _against_ privacy:

> under EU regulators’ extreme interpretation of the DMA, Apple would have to give any virtual assistant direct access to users’ private data — and the ability to directly control other installed applications — as soon as Siri AI is made available in the EU, without the essential protections necessary to keep users and their data safe.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-de...

Dunno. I love these events. Polished, well executed, fun. I always walk away inspired.

But then, I'm a fan of Apple, overall, and I like most of what they do.

"The big three are trying to capture B2C mainly"

I think it's more complicated. Anthropic has been focused on enterprise for a long time, and OpenAI seems to be doubling down as well.

I can clearly see, and feel, Dario's associates' "increased productivity" in their Claude Code/Chat/Cowork desktop product...

So many updates, pretty much daily, so many tweaks to the interface. Sometimes the tweaks are a bit dumb, sometimes completely trivial, and other times they just undo what they did previously.

My favorite examples of their newfound velocity:

1. When there is a nice feature that was easily discovered, and then it was gone...

2. When the "customize" section moves around to random places in settings, or entirely out of it

Special mention to their scatterbrained keyboard shortcuts strategy

"All of [SpaceX]'s compute capacity at Colossus 1"

SpaceX/xAI also has Colossus 2, with double or more the GPUs

Seems xAI will still be around

Focused on "simplicity", they used to have only a "tableful" of products.

With more products, will Apple collapse under the weight of the complexity?

Performance wise, they often seem solid.

Usability wise (UI/UX/design), they are in the gutter.

A Snow Leopard move, at least for iOS, is what's on deck:

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/15/ios-27-will-reportedly-...

Seems like the most basic thing ever.

Can’t even use the new Gemma on device model… no model selection besides fast/normal/thinking.

Also requires Google login

Nice list.

What about for on-device RAG use cases?

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I wouldn't be surprised if this was done by one of those AI companies themselves!

Remember FaceBook x Onavo?

"Facebook used a Virtual Private Network (VPN) application it acquired, called Onavo Protect, as a surveillance tool to monitor user activity on competing apps and websites"

Biotech industrial complex

fMRI is a cool, expensive tech, like so many others in genetics and other diagnostics. These technologies create good jobs ("doing well by doing good").

But as other comments point out, and practitioners know, their usefulness for patients is more dubious.

The beautiful setting from which attention intuitively arises is a fascinating result… truly nothing in ML is ever "new

If there was one application where deep learning was supposed to succeed, it was radiology

"people should stop training radiologists now" – Hinton, 2016

Works on Siri! You can even set – get this – multiple timers ;)

Are there indicators in Cloudflare's culture or history to suggest that Replicate's strengths (docs, api, design) will remain in the long-term?

Notably: <Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth">

"To permanently turn off the feedback survey for yourself, set `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_FEEDBACK_SURVEY=1`"

Per recent comment from Anthropic at https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8036#issuec...

I’m not sure. It could be a way to save a ton of money. Look at the investments non-Apple tech companies are making on data centers & compute.

Maybe paying Google a billion a year is still a lot cheaper?

Apple famously tries to focus on only a few things.

Still, they will continue working on their own LLM and plug it in when ready.

Edit: compare to another comment about Wang-units of currency

“GitHub processed the takedown notice against the entire network of 8,270 repositories, inclusive of the parent repository“

You forgot “meetings” :)

Which is harder these days, software or hardware?

What's the difference between making a great integrated experience and making it hard to compete?

The danger with google is that they suck at user experience

A more lightweight option, though easier to bypass, is to disable apps, App Store, even Safari, with "Content & Privacy Restrictions".

See Settings – Screen Time.

You can use a passcode to lock it. It seems primarily meant for blocking things from your kids.

But it can help turn your iPhone more into a dumb phone

(Blocking safari was the key, for me)

In macOS, I use the GUI Emacs from https://emacsformacosx.com/

Perhaps if you solve shell issues there once, they will stick.

With a single toggle, you can turn off Apple Intelligence

See (System) Settings