It took only 17 seconds for Google to say "AI" in its Google I/O keynote conference for the first time on Wednesday, and we stopped counting at over 100. Here are all the AI tools that it announced at the event, spanning nearly every product category it has.Get the memories you want with Google 'AI' photo editingGenerative pre-trained transformer (GPT) or large language model (LLM) are terms being thrown around as buzzwords, but the most popular one of all is Artificial Intelligence (AI). It's such an important term for investors and stock market pundits that Google said the phrase "AI" over 100 times during its 2-hour Google I/O keynote. Read more...

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak (aka Woz) has said that the march of AI cannot be stopped – even though he has called for a pause in development – and that we must prepare ourselves for people abusing it to create harder-to-spot scams … more… The post AI cannot be stopped, says Steve Wozniak; we must prepare for more convincing scams appeared first on 9to5Mac.

Apple plans to transition Macs and iPads to OLED displays over the next few years, but a new report out of Korea claims panel suppliers are holding back key investment in next-gen OLED production lines over rising concerns about slumping Mac sales. Apple will launch its first OLED iPads next year and South Korean panel makers intend to use their existing Gen 6 OLED lines to cover Apple's 2024 supply needs. But for iPads and MacBooks after that, Samsung Display and LG Display plan to build Gen 8 production lines, which yield more OLED panels per substrate than Gen 6 lines and are more cost effective. However, according to The Elec, the two panel makers have yet to place orders…

Severance. | Image: Apple The Writers Guild of America’s current strike is shaping up to be a shining example of just how much power workers have when working collectively. Take, for example, the way production has been halted on Apple’s Severance and HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight due to picketing WGA members and allies refusing to cross the line. Deadline reports that, in direct response to the organized demonstrations of striking writers, production on Severance’s second season in New York City and on The Hedge Knight — which is still being written — has stopped, with no clear date as to when things might ramp back up. In addition to…

Warren Buffett’s investment in Apple stock has in recent years become far and away the most prominent holding in Berkshire Hathaway’s $360 billion equity portfolio. Warren Buffett addresses shareholders at the annual meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. during webcast in Omaha, Nebraska May 2, 2020 (video still via Yahoo Finance) Josh Schafer for Yahoo Finance: Berkshire first bought the stock in 2016, and since then Apple has grown to a $110 billion position comprising roughly 40% of Berkshire’s stock holdings. Berkshire owns just under 6% of Apple. The rapid growth has positioned the largest US public company as a fixture in Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder letters and Buffett’s comments during annual meetings. At Berkshire’s annual shareholders meeting on Saturday,…

Apple CEO Tim Cook today said he still views mass layoffs as a "last resort," and ensured this is not something the company is considering right now. "I view that as a last resort and, so, mass layoffs is not something that we're talking about at this moment," said Cook, in an interview with CNBC. Major tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta have laid off tens of thousands of employees in recent months amid economic uncertainty, after aggressively hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic. Apple has not made any mass layoffs of full-time employees, but the company has reportedly laid off some corporate employees within its retail teams, let go of some recruiter contractors, and stopped hiring for some…