🍎 Apple’s Rumor Mill is Alive and Well

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Oh doctor, the year of robotic food delivery is upon us. Well, if you live in Phoenix metro area, that is.

From now on, if you order from UberEats, there’s a good chance you could be getting a robo taxi to drop off your food. Friendly warning though, if you don’t leave your humble robo taxi a tip, it’ll leave its doors locked and just sit outside your home until you do. Probably.

Here’s the daily quests in AI to complete today:

• 🍎 Apple’s Rumor Mill is Alive and Well

• 🔍️ Google Search - The Short Story

• 💃 Gettin’ Viggle With It

• 😎 The Apple Vision Pro Keeps Getting Cooler

Is Apple About to Unveil The Future of Home Robots?

Ever since the notorious failure of Apple's top-secret car project, the tech giant has been on the hunt for its next big thing. And according to insiders, it might just be robots. Well, maybe.

Now, before you start picturing a humanoid robot, like Figure 01, doing your laundry and cooking your meals, we should mention that Apple’s not quite there. According to Bloomberg's anonymous sources (who, let's be real, are probably just Apple employees who love the gossip), the project is still in its very early stages.

So, it's unclear whether these robots will ever see the light of day, or if they'll just become another forgotten experiment like that time Apple tried to make a gaming console (remember the Pippin? Yeah, neither do we, but more on that next Thursday 😉)

But hey, let's indulge in a little speculation, shall we?

One of the rumored robot prototypes is an iPad-moving machine that can follow you around your home—Which, we’ve never imagined we needed?? But, from what we know so far, imagine having your own personal iPad butler, always at your side, ready to show you funny cat videos at the drop of a hat. Or a place for your coat. Either or.

And that's not all. Apple is also said to be working on a tabletop robot that mimics your head movements during FaceTime calls. Because who needs to physically move their head when you can have a robot do it for you? Definitely a case of first world problems, but we’re here for it.

Now, don't go camping outside an Apple store quite yet because these robots might never make it to market. But the fact that Apple is rumored to be investing time and resources into this project shows that they're still hungry to innovate. A

Google Search - The Short Story

The long reigning search champion has been haphazardly dominating for as long as we can remember, but is it coming to an end?

AOL and dial up were synonymous just like Google and search and well, they’re nowhere to be found.

As we approach the AI horizon, maybe Google has to rethink its traditional, ad driven, free to consumer model.

How will ads work when we’re able to ask Google a question and simply receive a straight answer? How would ads fit into that equation?

Well, one way Microsoft is envisioning it, is to offer a lower tiered free version of Copilot and an exclusive pro version that’s pumped full of steroids in all of its standalone software like Excel.

Google has some amazing standalone software, too. Just to name a few… Let’s start with Gmail. Docs. Sheets. Calendar. Maps. Chrome. Drive. Photos.

Oh, and don’t forget, YouTube.

When a company reports $175 billion in revenue from search and ads, it only makes sense for them to be the industry leader to define how the future of AI search is monetized.

Who knows, this could be the beginning of the end of Google as we all know it. Or not?

F2P Friday

Where we share an up-and-coming AI freebie to keep an eye on.

Gettin’ Viggle With It

Viggle.AI has an impressively simplistic way to create AI animated characters. It’s entirely free but, you have to use it in discord.

There are a few ways to create your Viggle video.

• Avatar + Video with Motion

• Character Prompt + Motion Prompt

• Avatar + Motion Prompt

For best results - use a motion prompt listed here: https://www.viggle.ai/prompt

A couple of our favorites: $bhangra_boogie, $i_am, $hip_hop_dance, and $crazy_feet

Daily Delight

Just something fun and interesting around the web.

We’re seeing more and more cool shit coming out of the Apple Vision Pro space, and man, if it weren’t for the price tag, we’d be all aboard.

This video is very reminiscent of the good ol’ LAN parties back in the day, but without the smell of sweaty gamers and pizza floating in the air.

What’s happening inside the Realm

A list of side quests to explore and more.

• 🌋 Youtube CEO warns OpenAI over Sora training data, and it could damn well blow up in his face

• 💣️ Over at Y Combinator, InfinityAI dropped a bombshell. They rolled out a tech demo that was 100% AI-generated, and in the process, made history.

• 🧑‍💻 Princeton released a Software Engineer Agent into the world that is fully open source, and you can start using today.

• 😸 There’s a new data poisoning tool called “Nightshade” that lets researchers make AI hallucinate all images to be variations of cats.

That’s all the quests we have for today. Check back tomorrow for more!

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