New Apple CEO, OpenAI's New Image Model, Vercel AI Hack

“Apple CEO Tim Cook is officially stepping down on September 1st, and John Tarnas is gonna become the CEO. This is really interesting. There's a lot of AI things at play for Apple, and they really haven't delivered on their AI promise.”

“The attacker actually broke into Context AI, which is an AI tool that Vercel, one of their employees was using. And from there, they got into that employee's Google workspace and from there into Vercel's environment. So there's kind of like this multi-step approach that they took in order to get in.”

“As part of the settlement, Clarify has to delete the 3 million photos and any models trained on them. I think that this is something that is absolutely insane. For years, AI companies have been operating kind of in this gray area that, you know, they're like, well, if it was on the internet, we can use it. And the FTC just said, no, you actually can't.”

“He said that AI is now generating more than 65% of new code at Snap and the company expects to cut over $500 million in annualized expenses by the back half of this year. So they are cutting in a massive way. The stock jumped almost 8% on the news, and I think that tells you exactly how Wall Street is feeling about this tradeoff.”

“Previously, they had Image 1.5. Basically, it's really good at doing something that the last model, 1.5, was pretty bad at, which is rendering text. If you ask it for a poster, you know, it would always get this kind of like elfish looking, I don't know, the letters weren't that great. Anyways, 2 in their words is a step change.”