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Deals: Apple Watch Ultra 3, M5 iPad Pro $200 off, Nomad leather iPhone 17 Pro/Max cases, chargers, more

Deals: Apple Watch Ultra 3, M5 iPad Pro $200 off, Nomad leather iPhone 17 Pro/Max cases, chargers, more

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is now ready for you below starting off with the return of $200 price drops on the 13-inch M5 iPad Pro and a chance to land the black Apple Watch Ultra 3 at up to $117 off the list price. Those offers join ongoing Ultra 2 deals at up to $369 off as well as some accessory offers – USB-C Magic Mouse at more than 25% off , Nomad leather iPhone 17 Pro/Max cases at 20% off with a FREE screen protector , and Anker’s white model 25W Qi2 MagSafe Charging station with the onboard display at 30% off . All of the details and everything else awaits below. more…

Verizon offers $20 account credit following daylong cellular outage

Verizon offers $20 account credit following daylong cellular outage

Verizon is preparing to offer an olive branch to its customers after an outage took its cellular service offline for nearly ten hours. Here's how to get it. Verizon to issue $20 account credit after 10-hour outage On Wednesday, around 12:30 PM ET, Verizon faced an outage that impacted hundreds of thousands of customers. Customers reported no service, with iPhone owners reporting an "SOS" where their network icon should have been. While users could still make calls and send texts via Wi-Fi, those away from an access point were left without service for up to ten hours. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

OpenAI says it issued a request for proposals to US-based hardware manufacturers as it seeks to push into consumer devices, robotics, and cloud data centers (Bloomberg)

OpenAI says it issued a request for proposals to US-based hardware manufacturers as it seeks to push into consumer devices, robotics, and cloud data centers (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : OpenAI says it issued a request for proposals to US-based hardware manufacturers as it seeks to push into consumer devices, robotics, and cloud data centers —  The AI startup is requesting proposals from hardware makers as part of a product expansion  —  OpenAI is looking to bolster …

Make Microsoft’s CEO cry by installing Chrome’s ‘Microslop’ extension

Make Microsoft’s CEO cry by installing Chrome’s ‘Microslop’ extension

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says we shouldn’t think of LLM output as “slop.” You know, AI-generated content, the thing that’s making the internet worse in every measurable way , and causing consumer electronics prices to skyrocket ? So it would be a real shame if you installed an extension in your browser that changed “Microsoft” to “Microslop” all over the web. Yes, installing “ Microsoft to Microslop ” would be a naughty and entirely cynical response. Especially if you, say, used Edge’s Chromium base to install it in Microsoft’s own default web browser, Edge. That would just be twisting the AI-generated knife, wouldn’t it? “Screw you Satya Nadella. Learn about Barbara Streisand ,” writes the developer on the Chrome Web Store, who freely admits they are “managing my levels of spite.” I can relate. They add that the extension only visually manipulates the page, so it won’t break links, or collect or store any user data. Amazon/Microslop If Nadella and/or Microsoft are feeling particularly touchy about being called sloppy or any derivative thereof, they have only themselves to blame. Nadella himself claimed that 30 percent of the software company’s code is now AI-generated . That’s amidst a massive user pushback, as the don’t-call-it-a-forced-migration from Windows 10 to 11 has angered both regular consumers and businesses, the constant insertion of Copilot “AI” into every part of Microsoft’s business causes headaches and privacy concerns , and software subscription prices rise as Microsoft tries to force people to buy Copilot services . All the while…it seems that almost no one is actually using Copilot . Local “AI” applications using all the NPUs in new Windows laptops are still extremely limited, and Dell has figured out that even people who want to use “AI” will just open up a browser and go to ChatGPT. So yeah, it’s understandable why people are calling the company Microslop after its CEO blared out a tone-deaf declaration . I first heard it on the CES show floor, while I was trying to find a single new product that didn’t have “AI” features jammed into it for no discernible reason. Windows Latest spotted the browser extension, but here’s a fun bonus: a guide that will remove all Copilot features from Windows itself , among others.

Wikimedia announces AI partners including Meta and Microsoft

Wikimedia announces AI partners including Meta and Microsoft

As part of Wikipedia's 25th anniversary , parent company Wikimedia announced a slew of partnerships with AI-focused companies like Amazon, Meta, Perplexity, Microsoft and others. The deals are meant to alleviate some of the cost associated with AI chatbots accessing Wikipedia content in enormous volumes by giving the tech companies streamlined access. As noted by The Verge , the timeline on these deals is a little squirrely. The Wikipedia foundation says that several companies became enterprise partners "over the past year," while listing Amazon, Google and Meta as "existing" partners. It appears today is the first time they have been officially announced. The organization sounded the alarm on this issue last year, saying the reduction in traffic due to LLMs and AI summaries could prove existential for the nonprofit and the world's largest online encyclopedia. Wikipedia's 65 million free articles have served as rich training data for AI chatbots, but all that scraping has driven up server costs at the organization. Wikimedia had been hoping to move these large firms over to its enterprise platform to help with costs. "It took us a little while to understand the right set of features and functionality to offer if we're going to move these companies from our free platform to a commercial platform ... but all our Big Tech partners really see the need for them to commit to sustaining Wikipedia's work," Lane Becker, president of Wikimedia Enterprise told Reuters . Under the deal, these companies will have access to high-throughput APIs that can supply chatbot systems with content from Wikipedia as well as Wikimedia’s other projects, including Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiquote and more. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/wikimedia-announces-ai-partners-including-meta-and-microsoft-162834383.html?src=rss