#apple-hardware

#apple-hardware

According to people familiar with the matter, Apple will announce 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros known internally as K114 and K116. If these claims hold up, these MacBook Pros will finally break the long-standing Apple bias against touchscreen laptops, which goes back to Steve Jobs, who famously proclaimed that "touch surfaces don't want to be vertical".

Large language models are currently everyone's solution to everything. The technology's versatility is part of its appeal: the use cases for generative AI seem both huge and endless. But then you use the stuff, and not enough of it works very well. And you wonder what we're really accomplishing here. On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay rejoins the show full of thoughts about the current state of AI - particularly after spending a summer trying to get his smart home to work.

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