Category: Tech Insights

Thanks to Google Audio Overviews, you can now listen to this weekly newsletter as a podcast! If you have not yet experienced Audio Overviews, prepare to have your mind blown! 🤯 In fact, if you have limited time, skip reading this altogether and spend just 1 minute listening to the beginning of this podcast. It’s…

On December 11, 2020, Pfizer announced their first vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. The vaccine had been developed in less than a year, setting a new standard for vaccine development where vaccines under “normal” circumstances can take up to 10-15 years to make. Last week Google DeepMind announced AlphaProteo, a groundbreaking AI system that can design custom…

It has finally happened! We are now at the point where a large language model can generate code that is of such high quality that it is no longer beneficial to write the code yourself, no matter how good your skills are. I have written several apps in Node and Python the past week with…

Wow, what a crazy AI week it has been! Among the top news are OpenAI who just announced free (!) fine-tuning of GPT-4o until September 23, Ideogram 2.0 image generator with amazing text rendering, Meshy-4 the amazing image-to-3D model generator, and Lumalabs Dream Machine 1.5. On top of that we have an AI powered mosquito…

Four years ago on August 13, 2020, Epic Games released a hotfix for their popular game Fortnite on Android and iOS. The “hotfix” enabled a new purchasing options for VBUCKS (the in-game currency) that bypassed Google Play and App Store, meaning Epic Games would pay zero revenue share to Apple and Google. Both Apple and…

Would you trust a robot to fix your dental issues? Maybe I am the minority, but I would definitely try it, especially if it could significantly reduce the time you need to sit still in that chair while someone is drilling in your mouth. Dental-robots are coming, and you can read more about it below.…

In a report released by the White House on July 30, it was declared that open source AI models will not be subject for future regulations. This is probably one of many reasons companies like Apple, Google and Meta have chosen to release models, datasets and weights as open source – as long as key…

What an AI week it has been! OpenAI announced SearchGPT, Meta released Llama 3.1 and Mistral launched Large 2! Open Source has definitely caught up with closed source, and it is interesting to see how all current models seem to perform almost identical, open source as well as closed source. Maybe it’s because they all…

If you are living in the EU and have looked forward to Meta’s upcoming multimodal LLM, they just released news that it will not be available for European companies and researchers due to “the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment”. In contrast to this, The Washington Post has obtained a document by Trump allies,…

It’s the middle of the summer but there are still lots of tech news coming! This week Samsung and Oura launched new AI health services, and Apple announced they are enabling third-party NFC payments within the EU. This means you can change what a double-click on the power button should do on your iPhone. Also,…