Tim Cook announced yesterday that he will step down as Apple CEO on September 1. John Ternus, head of hardware engineering (and an Apple lifer since 2001), will take over. Cook will stay on as executive chairman with responsibility for global policymaker engagement. Continue Reading →
Evals are the single most important (and most misunderstood) component of any AI deployment, and they deserve a deeper look. Continue Reading →
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on Wednesday with impressive numbers: 10.9 percentage points higher on SWE-bench Pro (the gold-standard coding test), 3x more production tasks resolved on Rakuten’s benchmark, 98.5% on visual acuity up from 54.5%, and state-of-the-art scores on finance evaluations. For devs, this is a genuine step forward. For consumers, the story is a bit different. Continue Reading →
Adobe just launched Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational agent that orchestrates tasks across Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, and Illustrator using natural language commands. Instead of switching between applications and navigating menus, you can tell the assistant to resize images for social media, color-grade footage to match brand guidelines, or generate logo variations. It coordinates the work across whatever Adobe tools the task requires. Continue Reading →
Subscribe to my daily newsletter featuring current events and the top stories in AI, technology, media, and marketing.
Subscribe