This was very wrong, but fun to speculate 🤣
Anyways the MacBook Neo looks like a great buy for a lot of people. I’m not going to buy one, but I will bring it up every time someone in my life asks for a recommendation.
I’ve heard lots of speculation about Apple’s ✨experience✨ on March 4, including that they’ll demo AI features that will launch alongside new products. I’d be more keen to see previews of AI features coming in iOS 27 et al. I know it’s highly unlike Apple to preview future software, but an in-person demo for media-eyes-only would be an interesting avenue they could take.
This could take some pressure off of them and encourage them not to rush their Google Gemini integration.
A fun story about how a bug can save a company.
https://www.huntercmeyer.com/fortune-favors-the-buggy-how-a-bug-saved-rogue-amoeba/
Last week, Paul Kafasis wrote about how a small bug in Audio Hijack saved his company. They initially launched Audio Hijack (in 2002, shortly after I turned 4!) with a 15 day free trial. Sales were horrible. But when they released a small update a few months later, they accidentally
"Token Creators" and Online Communities, a link to "Content and Community" at Stratechery by Ben Thompson.
https://www.huntercmeyer.com/token-creators-and-online-communities/
Ben Thompson, in this week’s article at Stratechery, wrote about how publishing has been transformed via the creation of the printing press, the internet, and now AI. Each of these inventions has changed the creation-to-consumption pipeline, removing bottlenecks, increasing the availability and amount of content, and enabling new publishing
Should OpenAI be filtering the outputs of ChatGPT to avoid copyright infringement?
https://www.huntercmeyer.com/when-training-an-llm-is-transformative/
In my last post, I commented on the two recent court victories for Meta and Anthropic and summarized the judgements that were made in favor of fair use for the training of LLMs. In these two specific cases, the training of LLMs has been deemed transformative. However, the two judges
Anthropic and Meta recently won two court cases in favor of fair use to train LLMs. However, there's more to the story, and the judge presiding Meta's case certainly agrees.
A few weeks ago, Anthropic, the developer of Claude, won a fair use trial regarding the use of legally obtained copies of books that were digitized for AI training and the creation of a digital library for the purposes of training LLMs. Two days later, Meta won a similar case,
Speculation about the rumored A18 Pro MacBook
There have been several rumors lately and lots of discussion online about the possibility of Apple introducing a new MacBook powered by the A18 Pro chip. This would be the first time Apple has released a Mac powered by an iPhone chip, but they couldn't be doing it at a
Starting a blog
I'm starting a blog... in 2025... maybe?? This might be one of the strangest things I've ever done. It's definitely the most I've ever put myself "out there" online, with the exception of trying to be a minecraft youtuber for about 2 weeks when I was in middle school. Surely