3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (467+ words) observer.com In his first Apple keynote since stepping into the CEO role just a week ago, John Ternus unveiled the company’s most groundbreaking iPhone in years. At the “Surprise and Delight” event today (Sept. 9), Ternus announced Apple’s first foldable…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (366+ words) But a control point is not necessarily a bottleneck. A bottleneck limits activity because a scarce resource constrains the system. A control point can remain powerful even when capacity is abundant because it shapes choices, access and interactions. Nvidia already…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (804+ words) For the past decade, artificial intelligence functioned as a silent partner in the fashion industry, operating largely behind-the-scenes in inventory management, price optimization and predictive analytics. To understand where generative A.I. enters the creative process in fashion design, it is helpful…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (847+ words) Beneath attention-grabbing headlines about driverless taxis and laundry-folding robots, some of the most consequential deployments of physical A.I. are actually unfolding quietly in construction and earthmoving. One company leading this shift is Caterpillar. Redzic spoke with Observer about how Cat Digital…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (501+ words) The smartest thing Tim Cook did when he replaced Steve Jobs as Apple’s CEO was: He didn’t try to be Steve Jobs. The smartest thing John Ternus, who makes his public debut as Apple’s new CEO tomorrow (Wednesday), can do…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (436+ words) For the last few years, A.I. economics were often framed as a single bottleneck: compute. Whoever had the most GPUs could train the largest models; whoever could afford inference at scale could ship the most capable products. Compute still matters enormously....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (333+ words) Fashion has spent decades building brand equity around a unique point of view. A.I. could give brands a new way to put that point of view back into digital discovery, extending the curation that once happened in the store, through a…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (942+ words) What A24’s DeepMind Deal Says About the New Rules of Cultural Power observer.com Lionsgate holds more than 20,000 film and television titles and is worth an estimated $4.8 billion. A24 holds roughly 150 films and 50 shows and is worth an estimated $3.5 billion. That…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (275+ words) It’s September 1, and day one for Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus. His first major public test is just a week away: hosting Apple’s flagship product launch event next Wednesday. In an internal memo today, next week’s keynote was top of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (282+ words) Art plus something—that’s the growing aspiration. A movie can be incredible and still absolutely bomb at the box office (2023’s American Fiction may have been nominated for Best Picture, but it deserved far more ticket-sales love). We have a…...