Apple CEO Tim Cook Already the world’s third-most valuable firm, Nvidia’s market cap gain on Thursday was roughly equivalent to the full value of Adobe. Nvidia’s surge was second only to its own $277 billion jump on the day following its previous earnings report in February. Nvidia’s market cap of $2.55 trillion is rapidly closing in on Apple, currently the second most-valuable company with a $2.87 trillion market cap. Microsoft is the world’s most valuable company with a market value of $3.17 trillion because their CEO didn’t completely miss the AI revolution. Aditya Soni, Gokul Pisharody, and Lewis Krauskopf for Reuters: ‎ Shares of Nvidia surged over 9% on Thursday, building on a stunning rally as its bumper revenue forecast…

A significant Microsoft outage has affected several key services, including Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search, and DuckDuckGo. The disruption began around 3.00 a.m. Eastern Time, primarily impacting users in Asia and Europe. User reports and MacRumors' tests indicate that attempts to access Bing.com result in either a blank page or a 429 HTTP code error. Notably, the Bing search functionality remains operational if accessed directly via a specific URL, though the homepage remains inaccessible. For users needing to perform searches on Bing, accessing the search engine directly through the alternative URL is a workaround. However, Copilot services are entirely offline across all platforms, including the website, app, and Windows integration. As noted by…

Microsoft is going all in on AI, today introducing a series of Copilot+ PCs that have AI-focused hardware. The new Surface Pro is one of the first Copilot+ PCs, equipped with Qualcomm's Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite processor. Microsoft is already pitting the Surface Pro against Apple's M3 MacBook Air, and in marketing materials, claims that the Surface Pro has superior processing power and battery life. Compared to the 15-inch ‌MacBook Air‌ with 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, the Surface Pro and other Copilot+ PCs with 12-core and 10-core processors offer 58 percent better sustained multithreaded performance (based on Cinebench benchmarks). As for battery life, Copilot+ PCs support up to 15 hours of web browsing or 22 hours of local video…

Microsoft today announced the launch of new Windows PCs that have integrated AI hardware, called Copilot+ PCs. According to Microsoft, the Copilot+ PCs are the fastest PCs "ever built" with all-day battery life, chips capable of 40 trillion operations per second, and "access to the most advanced AI models." The new machines are designed with "AI at the center," introducing experiences that can be run directly on device to cut down on latency and improve privacy. Recall - Recall gives the PC a "photographic memory" so users can access anything they've seen or done on their PC. Content can be located using timelines across any website, application, or document, with support for snapshots. Cocreator - Text prompts can be used…

Apple is preparing to make its big artificial-intelligence announcement via a canned video presentation at the opening of WWDC24 on June 10th. And Microsoft-backed ChatGPT-developer OpenAI is going to help Apple’s marketing department make a splash. Adam Clark for Barron’s: ‎ “WWDC announcements are likely to drive iPhone units with a higher ASP [average selling price] at some point soon—and likely to secure Apple’s high-margin services revenue growth for a long time,” wrote Melius Research analyst Ben Reitzes in a research note on Monday.  Reitzes wrote that on top of a new Siri, Apple’s AI integration will likely include innovations in photos and video, while demanding increased storage and prompting a switch to higher-end iPhones for better processing.  Reitzes reiterated…

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