The Great AI Exodus: How Three Tech Giants Lost the Visionaries Who Built the Future

Last update: Friday 8/1/25

An exclusive article in The Information last week reported that many members of Apple's large language model unit were leaving because they perceived that Apple's leadership did not share their vision of the transcendent importance of generative AI. Given that The Information's report was behind a very high paywall, most of the readers of this blog probably could not read it. So the editor tasked ChatGPT to provide an extensive TLDR summary  

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TLDR 28Jul25 ... Welcome to our 28Jul25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) Trump Gives A.I. Developers a Free Hand, (2) Alphabet Reports 14% Increase in Second-Quarter, (3) Why Apple Is Losing Ground in the AI Talent War

Last update: Monday 7/28/25 

Welcome to our 28Jul25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Trump Gives A.I. Developers a Free Hand, (2) Alphabet Reports 14% Increase in Second-Quarter, (3) Why Apple Is Losing Ground in the AI Talent War .

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

Gemini ... The world's first genAI browsing tool

Last update: Saturday 7/26/25

In a recent note on this blog we ranked the three leading chatbots -- ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini -- with regards to 8 basic functions. None of the three was the best at everything; and Gemini only excelled at two things: searching the Internet and following links to unrestricted pages (e.g., pages not behind paywalls). However, its dominance of these two functions enables it to become the world's first genAI browsing tool, a new function that will be discussed in this note ... Click HERE to read more.

TLDR 21Jul25 ... (1) Discover tools that work with Claude, and (2) Anthropic’s Connectors Explained: The AI Revolution Mainstream Media Missed

Last update: Monday 7/21/25

Welcome to our 21Jul25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Discover tools that work with Claude, and (2) Anthropic’s Connectors Explained: The AI Revolution Mainstream Media Missed

Dario Amodei, CEO Anthropic

TL;DR ➡ HERE 

Once upon a recent time, there was a race between a tortoise named ChatGPT, a tortoise named Claude, and a very fast hare named Gemini

Last update: Wednesday 7/16/25

Once upon a recent time, there was a race between a tortoise named ChatGPT, another tortoise named Claude, and a fast moving hare named Gemini. At the start of the race, everybody knew who was supposed to win. But as quick as a wink, some unexpected things began to happen. 
 

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Note: The cartoon image for this note was composed via ChatGPT on GPT-4o.

TLDR 14Jul25 ... (1) OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic Bankroll A.I. Training for Teachers, (2) Nvidia Becames World’s First $4 Trillion Company, (3) Grok Chatbot's Antisemitic Posts

Last update: Monday 7/14/25

Welcome to our 14Jul25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic Bankroll A.I. Training for Teachers, (2) Nvidia Becomes World’s First $4 Trillion Company, (3) Grok Chatbot's Antisemitic Posts

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

The Anthropic tortoise and the Google hare

Last update: Friday 7/11/25

Once upon a recent time, the editor of this blog posed two questions to Anthropic’s Claude and to Google’s Gemini. Their responses were remarkably similar.

Q1. Why is Google playing catch up to Anthropic in generative AI, a game that Google invented? 

Q2. How come Anthropic, a small startup, has done more significant research in the last three years about how generative AI models really work than Google, whose generative AI efforts are led by Dr. Demis Hassabis, a researcher whose indisputable brilliance earned him a well deserved Nobel prize in chemistry in 2024 for his previous AI innovations.
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Note: The cartoon image for this note was composed via ChatGPT on GPT-4o.

TLDR 7Jul25 ... (1) Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri, (2) Amazon Is on Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans, (3) Defeat of Ban on State A.I. Laws

Last update: Tuesday 7/8/25

Welcome to our 7Jul25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri, (2) Amazon Is on the Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans in Its Warehouses, and (3) Defeat of a 10-Year Ban on State A.I. Laws Is a Blow to Tech Industry

TL;DR ➡ HERE

Powerful AI data centers in your home/office using Apple technology, Part 2 -- How to build a data center with no code, with no code, with no code

Friday 7/4/25

Your interactions with chatbots, agents, and other AI apps reveal how you really think, especially as these apps become more conversational. Knowing how you really think will enable advertisers to design sales pitches that emphasize features that you are most likely to find appealing in their efforts to persuade you to buy their products and services. These revelations can also enable intrusive government agencies and insurance companies to become even more intrusive. 

Big Tech companies compile insights about you -- which they derive from your interactions with their cloud-based, large language models -- into encyclopedic profiles. They sell access to these profiles to the highest bidders. An obvious and powerful way to substantially reduce these intrusions is to redirect a substantial portion of your queries away from Big Tech's clouds ... Click HERE to read more

 

TL;DR 30Jun25 ... (1) Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race, and (2) OpenAI, Microsoft Rift Hinges on How Smart AI Can Get

Last update: Monday 6/30/25

Welcome to our 30Jun25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race, and (2) OpenAI, Microsoft Rift Hinges on How Smart AI Can Get

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

Powerful AI data centers in the home/office using Apple technology, Part 1 -- Greatly reduced carbon footprints

Last update: Saturday 6/28/25

Having a personal generative AI data center in your home or office confers two obvious benefits ➡ (1) substantial reduction of your carbon footprint, and (2) greater privacy. This note estimates the reduction in the size of your carbon footprint that can be achieved by using Apple technology to converse with powerful, open source, small language models in your local center vs. large language models in the cloud. A second note will describe how the editor of this blog built his own AI datacenter using Apple technology ... with no code.
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TLDR-23Jun25 ... 1) Amazon expects to reduce corporate jobs due to AI, (2) Microsoft Plans to Cut Thousands More Employees, and (3) Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats"

Last update: Monday 6/23/25

Welcome to our 23Jun25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Amazon expects to reduce corporate jobs due to AI, (2) Microsoft Plans to Cut Thousands More Employees, and (3) Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats"

TL;DR ➡ HERE

GenAI Diary (page) ...The absence of critical thinking in the research design of a recent MIT Media Lab study of student misuse of ChatGPT

Last update: Sunday 6/22/25

This note discusses the absence of critical thinking in the research design of a recent MIT Media Lab study of student misuse of ChatGPT.  

... (GenAI Diary home page)

Some advice for iPhone and Mac users who store their images and videos on Google Drive

Last update: Thursday 6/19/25

This note offers some advice for iPhone and Mac users who store their images and videos on Google Drive via the app they downloaded from the App Store ➡ There's a better way to install Google Drive.

Caveat: This note is written for computer savvy readers who embrace the notion that one should always have up-to-date local backup copies of important files. Readers who have not acquired this wisdom the hard way are unlikely not find any value in this note's recommendations.

TL;DR 16Jun25 ... (1) WWDC 2025, (2) Meta is paying $14 billion for Scale AI (3) Disney and Universal sue Midjourney

Last update: Tuesday 6/16/25

Welcome to our 16Jun25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) WWDC 2025, (2) Meta is paying $14 billion for Scale AI and hiring its CEO, (3) Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs

TL;DR ➡  HERE

Apple's dilemma: Pleasing its iPhone users AND its long term investors

Last update: Tuesday 7/8/25

   Apple Park, Cupertino, CA

Apple Park — corporate headquarters for Apple, Inc — is not in the real world. Its unreality emerged in WWDC 2024 and has just been confirmed by WWDC 2025. But as this note will argue, it doesn't matter. Apple merely needs to follow the pragmatic build AND buy strategy that it has followed with great success since 1979. Time is not on Apple's side; but its $3.5 trillion dollar market cap will win the day. It just has to make one more very large, high tech acquisition within the next two years. But which one? ... Click  HERE  to read more.

TL;DR 9June25 ... (1) OpenAI will retain all ChatGPT logs, (2) Reddit Sues Anthropic, and (3) Alibaba Helps China become Number 1 in Open-Source AI

Last update: Monday 6/9/25

  Alibaba: Eddie Wu (CEO), Jack Ma 

(Founder), and Zhou Jingren (CTO)

Welcome to our 9June25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) OpenAI will retain all ChatGPT logs, (2) Reddit Sues Anthropic, and (3) Alibaba Helps China become Number 1 in Open-Source AI. 

 

TL;DR ➡  HERE 

How and why we should build a national library of generative AI use cases and benchmark tests

Last update: Monday 6/9/25

Coding has rapidly become the most successful use case for Large Language Models. Models can now code so well that all Big Tech and many smaller companies are making drastic reductions in the size of their coding staffs. That's bad news ... for software engineers. 

The good news ... for experts in a wide range of other fields ... is that new employment opportunities are just over the horizon for computer savvy personnel who learn how to use generative AI to solve complex problems in their fields. So how can they learn these new skills? Click Here to read more ... 

TL;DR 2June25 ... (1) Nvidia’s Revenue Jumps 69% to $44.1 Billion, and (2) Mountainhead shows how truly deranged the billionaire mindset can be

Last update: Monday 6/2/25

Welcome to our  2June25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Nvidia’s Revenue Jumps 69% to $44.1 Billion, and (2) Mountainhead shows how truly deranged the billionaire mindset can be

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

How an extension to Apple’s iCloud could enable personal AI data centers

Last update: Wednesday 5/28/25

   Personal AI Data Center

Yogi Berra, the NY Yankees’ Hall of Fame catcher, once said,”It’s deja-vu all over again.” The following discussion can best be characterized by a slight paraphrase of Yogi’s recollection, “It’s deja-Nvidia all over again.”

Here's the longer more specific subtitle of this note: "How personal AI data centers in our homes and offices running open source small language models could use iCloud routers for authenticated remote connections."

TL;DR 25May25 ... (1) OpenAI acqui-hires Jony Ive for $6.5B, (2) Everything announced at Google I/O 2025, (3) Microsoft Build 2025: announcements

Last update: Tuesday 5/27/25

Welcome to our 25May25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) OpenAI acqui-hires Jony Ive's company for $6.5 billion, (2) Google I/O 2025: Everything announced at this year’s developer conference, (3) Microsoft Build 2025: news and announcements from the developer conference

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

GenAI Diary (page) … Keep up! It’s no longer about asking (prompt engineered) questions to get answers. Its about conversations!!!

Last update: Sunday 5/25/25

Whisper, ChatGPT's super effective open source transcription app, correctly captures more than 95% of what the editor of this blog says, even when he's talking at high speed. Recently, he asked ChatGPT how he could use Whisper with another chatbot.  He was repulsed by the multi step-by-step method that ChatGPT recommended, so he digressed to explain that its cumbersome procedure would interrupt the flow of their conversation.

Indeed, the editor has engaged ChatGPT in intensive conversations that involve eight or more prompts and responses that extend over a 24 hour period ever since OpenAI made a vague announcement that it had "improved" ChatGPT's capacity to engage in conversation. This note contains two excerpts from an extended conversation whose surprising turns illustrate this improvement #SLM #LLM #OpenSource #agents"  ... (GenAI Diary home page)

TL;DR 19May25 ... (1) Apple’s A.I. Ambitions for China Provoke Washington’s Resistance, (2) Behind Microsoft Layoffs, Automation Efforts Boom, (3) Trump as outsourcer in Chief

Last update: Monday 5/19/25

Welcome to our 18May25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Apple’s A.I. Ambitions for China Provoke Washington’s Resistance, (2) Behind Microsoft Layoffs, Automation Efforts Boom, (3) Trump as outsourcer-in-chief

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE 

GenAI Diary (page) ... The failure of Apple's leadership to comprehend the impact of the generative AI revolution on Internet search

Last update: Friday 5/16/25

The Generative AI revolution has upended Internet search, replacing it with a new paradigm. This note discusses the failure of Apple's current leadership to perceive the real potential winners and losers in this upheaval, a misperception that reflects its broader failure to perceive the historic implications of the generative AI revolution. Note: The essential points of this discussion were dramatized in one of our recent podcasts ... (GenAI Diary home page)

Podcast + transcript of TL;DR 13May25 ... (1) Alphabet shares sink 7% after Apple exec says AI will replace search engines, and (2) OpenAI Backtracks on Plans to Drop Nonprofit Control.

Last update: Tuesday 5/13/25 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 13Apr25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top NN stories on our  "Useful AI News" page  ➡ (1) Alphabet shares sink 7% after Apple exec says AI will replace search engines, and (2) OpenAI Backtracks on Plans to Drop Nonprofit Control.

As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading of modified versions  ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summary and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

Display transcript ➡  HERE

Display TL;DR  ➡ HERE 

Audio podcast ... 16.5 min 

  

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TL;DR 12Apr25 ... 1) Alphabet shares sink 7% after Apple exec says AI will replace search engines, and (2) OpenAI will keep Nonprofit in Control"

Last update: Monday 5/12/25

             Eddy Cue, Apple Senior VP

Welcome to our 12Apr25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Alphabet shares sink 7% after Apple exec says AI will replace search engines, and (2) OpenAI Backtracks on Plans to Drop Nonprofit Control"

Podcast ➡ HERE
TL;DR ➡  HERE 

GenAI Diary (page) ... Savvy computer users moving from chatbots to agents to writing their own agents using natural language

Last update: Sunday 5/11/25

The editor of this blog recently read a fascinating article in VentureBeat, then watched VentureBeat’s YouTube podcast. Both claimed that genAI is entering a new phase wherein non-coders can build their own agents using natural language. We aren't there yet, but this new phase is coming fast ... (GenAI Diary home page)

So the editor asked ChatGPT on GPT-4o to provide an overview of the latest developments with regards to the development of agents using natural language prompts. 

Podcast + transcript of TLDR 5May25 ... Big Tech Quarterly Reports

Last update: Wednesday 5/7/25 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 5May25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top story on our  "Useful AI News" page  ➡  Big Tech Quarterly Reports ... Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft ... As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summary and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

Display transcript ➡ HERE

Display TL;DR  ➡ HERE  

Audio podcast ... 17 min 

  

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TL;DR 5May25 .... Big Tech Quarterly Reports

Last update: Monday 5/5/25

Welcome to our 5May25 TL;DR summaries by 

ChatGPT of the past week's top story on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ Big Tech Quarterly Reports ... Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft

 

Podcast ➡ HERE
TL;DR ➡ HERE

Podcast + transcript of TL;DR 30 Apr25 ...1) Microsoft relaunches Recall, (2) EU fines Apple, Meta millions, and (3) Anthropic's CEO wants to open the AI black box by 2027

Last update: Thursday 5/1/25 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 30Apr25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our  "Useful AI News" page  ➡ (1) Microsoft relaunches Recall, (2) EU fines Apple, Meta millions, and (3) Anthropic's CEO wants to open the AI black box by 2027... As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summary and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

Display transcript ➡ HERE

Display TL;DR  ➡ HERE

Audio podcast ... 14 min 

  

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