There’s a reason for iPhone’s new button

Apple Intelligence is slowly getting smarter. Today the iPhone maker is rolling out a software update, 18.2, that adds a number of long-promised AI features to the latest Apple iPhone models. Those include:

ChatGPT integration, though apparently not every question you ask Siri gives the option to use ChatGPT.
You can create custom emoji, aka Genmoji, using text prompts and your wildest imagination.
Visual intelligence (only available on iPhone 16). That new Camera Control button actually has a purpose: if you point your camera at something and hold down the button, you can ask questions about it or search for it online.

Apple Intelligence now features Image Playground, Genmoji, and more

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (R) greets OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during the OpenAI DevDay event

Emails show Microsoft wasn’t impressed by OpenAI’s early work, but wanted to keep it from Amazon

OpenAI wanted further Azure computing discounts, but Microsoft didn’t think it was on the verge of a breakthrough.

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...or back to Earth?

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SpaceX Launches Tesla Roadster Into Space

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Wedbush’s Dan Ives raises Apple price target to $400 on $15 billion AI services opportunity

Apple may not have a frontier AI model or a fully functional AI assistant, but that won’t stop the company from throwing its weight around in the “AI revolution,” according to Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives. That’s enough for Ives to raise his price target for Apple shares to $400 from $350.

Underpinning that jump is what Ives sees as a $15 billion annual revenue opportunity for Apple in AI services from monetizing other companies’ models by distributing them to its 2.5 billion iOS users. Ives estimates that in the coming years, roughly 20% of the world’s population will access AI through an Apple device, calling it the “consumer hub of AI.”

That new era, Ives expects, will officially kick off at Apple’s developer conference in June, where he expects Apple to “finally unveil its AI strategy.”

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Tesla’s Model Y just cleared a new federal safety bar

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced today that Tesla Model Ys manufactured after November 12 were the first to pass the agency’s new advanced driver assistance system tests, which are now part of the New Car Assessment Program. According to NHTSA, Tesla tested the 2026 Model Y and submitted the test results to the organization for review.

“By successfully passing these new tests, the 2026 Tesla Model Y demonstrates the lifesaving potential of driver assistance technologies and sets a high bar for the industry,” NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison wrote in the press release. “We hope to see many more manufacturers develop vehicles that can meet these requirements.”

The new tests include:

Pedestrian automatic emergency braking
Lane-keeping assistance
Blind spot warning
Blind spot intervention

The milestone offers Tesla highly coveted regulatory validation, as it seeks to spur usage of its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) tech.

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We knew Claude Code was driving crazy growth at Anthropic, but it may be much more than the company is expecting.

Speaking at the company’s developer conference yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that while the company is planning for 10x growth this year, it could be as much as 80x, calling the overwhelming demand “crazy” and that he looked forward to more modest growth, saying such growth is “too hard to handle.”

The demand is so great that Anthropic partnered with Elon Musk’s xAI to buy up the bulk of computing from his Colossus data center in Tennessee.

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