A look at Apple’s unusual approach to building its MR headset, which took seven years to develop and which will still be an experimental product at launch (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:A look at Apple’s unusual approach to building its MR headset, which took seven years to develop and which will still be an experimental product at launch  —  Apple’s soon-to-be-revealed mixed-reality device will likely cost $3,000, requires a separate battery pack and is still experimental

That wasn’t Google I/O — it was Google AI

Things got weird at yesterday’s Google I/O conference right from the jump, when the duck hit the stage.   The day began with a musical performance described as a “generative AI experiment featuring Dan Deacon and Google’s MusicLM, Phenaki, and Bard AI tools.” It wasn’t clear exactly how much of it […]

Germany’s Wingcopter, a drone delivery startup specializing in medical supplies, raised €40M from the European Investment Bank, taking its total raised to €100M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:Germany’s Wingcopter, a drone delivery startup specializing in medical supplies, raised €40M from the European Investment Bank, taking its total raised to €100M  —  Wingcopter, a startup out of Germany that has made a name for itself in the world of delivery drones used primarily …

Google is throwing generative AI at everything

Google is stuffing powerful new AI tools into tons of its existing products and launching a slew of new ones, including a coding assistant, it announced at its annual I/O conference today.  Billions of users will soon see Google’s latest AI language mode, PaLM 2, integrated into over 25 products […]

Google’s PaLM 2 paper is forthcoming on many of the LLM’s major limitations, but doesn’t reveal which data or hardware setup the company used to train the model (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Google’s PaLM 2 paper is forthcoming on many of the LLM’s major limitations, but doesn’t reveal which data or hardware setup the company used to train the model  —  At its annual I/O conference, Google unveiled PaLM 2, the successor to its PaLM large language model for […]