Category: Tech Insights

Four years ago on August 13, 2020, Epic Games released a hotfix for their popular game Fortnite on Android and iOS. The “hotfix” enabled a new purchasing options for VBUCKS (the in-game currency) that bypassed Google Play and App Store, meaning Epic Games would pay zero revenue share to Apple and Google. Both Apple and…

Would you trust a robot to fix your dental issues? Maybe I am the minority, but I would definitely try it, especially if it could significantly reduce the time you need to sit still in that chair while someone is drilling in your mouth. Dental-robots are coming, and you can read more about it below.…

In a report released by the White House on July 30, it was declared that open source AI models will not be subject for future regulations. This is probably one of many reasons companies like Apple, Google and Meta have chosen to release models, datasets and weights as open source – as long as key…

What an AI week it has been! OpenAI announced SearchGPT, Meta released Llama 3.1 and Mistral launched Large 2! Open Source has definitely caught up with closed source, and it is interesting to see how all current models seem to perform almost identical, open source as well as closed source. Maybe it’s because they all…

If you are living in the EU and have looked forward to Meta’s upcoming multimodal LLM, they just released news that it will not be available for European companies and researchers due to “the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment”. In contrast to this, The Washington Post has obtained a document by Trump allies,…

It’s the middle of the summer but there are still lots of tech news coming! This week Samsung and Oura launched new AI health services, and Apple announced they are enabling third-party NFC payments within the EU. This means you can change what a double-click on the power button should do on your iPhone. Also,…

We are approaching vacation times here in Sweden, but the tech news keep on coming! Top news from last week include a new AI model by researchers at Radboud University to reconstruct visual stimuli from brain activity, accurately reconstructing what someone is looking at based on recordings of their brain activity. Also French startup Kyutai…

Last week Apple announced that they are delaying Apple Intelligence in the EU due to the Digital Markets Act. This week, the European Commission are threatening to fine Microsoft up to 10 percent of its annual global revenue for bundling Teams into Microsoft Office. The new European Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into effect in…