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.

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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.

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Display TL;DR  ➡ HERE

Audio podcast ... 14 min 

  

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