Apple sticks the knife in AGI, but it has an agenda. Apple has a new paper that once again demonstrates LLM and reasoning models’ inability to truly reason, but it is important to remember the biases and weaknesses that are inherent in this publication. Apple’s new paper (see here) builds on its publication from October 2024 (see here) in that...
VivaTech is a chance for Europe to stake its claim. While the corporate world is rapidly adapting to AI becoming a part of daily business, many governments of the world are also getting involved, but Europe has been lagging behind. This is something that it is determined to correct beginning at the VivaTech conference in Paris next week. Sovereign AI...
Welcome rebrand and more chip questions. While the rebrand of Arm’s portfolio brings much better understanding to its offering, the real question doing the rounds is whether Arm is going to start making its own chips. While this will greatly increase revenues, it risks really upsetting the majority of its current customers which is never a good idea for any...
The technological wall continues to grow. The ban on software design tools will hurt China in the short term, and while the domestic industry will undoubtedly find a way around the ban, they will become cut off from all advanced semiconductor manufacturing, which will have a much more profound impact. A week ago, the US Department of Commerce suspended the...
Samsung is still not quite cured. Samsung’s deal with Perplexity will see Samsung’s in-house products become better, but I am not sure how much anyone will notice given that users buy Android for Google rather than Samsung. Perplexity is primarily a search engine that uses natural language and its knowledge graph from crawling the Internet rather than a large language...
The industry has a very short memory. The fact that no one has noticed that DeepSeek has updated its model is a clear sign that the only thing that was special about DeepSeek was its efficiency, which has now been copied and commoditised in just a few months. DeepSeek has updated its R1 model (which is a bit of a...
Game still on. Another great set of results confirms that the AI boom is still on and that any weakness from Chinese restrictions can easily be resold to other customers. FQ1 26 revenues / adj-EPS were $44.1bn / $0.81 comfortably ahead of estimates of $43.3bn / $0.74 which did not come as much of a surprise. This is because Nvidia...
Apple is itching to restart the fight but there is a limited window. While it is clear that Qualcomm’s modems are still far better than Apple’s, Apple finally has a credible path to remove Qualcomm and reignite its legal warfare over royalties, but it must conclude its campaign before the next wireless standard or suffer a repeat of what happened...
There will be fewer Chinese car makers. Recent price cuts from BYD are accelerating a price war against a backdrop of weak domestic demand, meaning that the inevitable consolidation of Chinese car companies is coming sooner rather than later. RFM Research estimates that there are at least 100 car makers in China, which have around 200 vehicle brands compared to...
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Apple WWDC 2026 – Mummy Moment
Apple runs home to Momma. In the absence of AI, Apple did what it does best, which was to revamp the look and feel of its user experience in the hope that users won’t care that Apple’s position in AI is weak and falling ever further behind with every day that passes. Unlike its rivals, Google, Meta, OpenAI and...