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AI Era Turns Phones into Data Engines, Threatening Apple’s Edge
technology29 days ago

AI Era Turns Phones into Data Engines, Threatening Apple’s Edge

The article argues that the AI revolution is turning smartphones into key data collection and training devices, with AI models learning from vast private interactions. Apple is portrayed as lagging in AI and potentially dependent on rivals (like Google’s Gemini) for power, while a small number of companies control training data and post-training guardrails in opaque ways. This concentration raises privacy and governance concerns and could erode Apple’s leadership as the next iPhone becomes a primary AI interface.

via UnHerd|
#ai#apple#data
Google Wins Spirit Airlines Data Auction to Train AI
business1 month ago

Google Wins Spirit Airlines Data Auction to Train AI

Google won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Spirit Airlines’ enterprise data—about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams chats plus related documents—for roughly $10 million. The data will be deidentified before transfer and used to train its AI models, with no passenger profiles or personal data included; federal judge approval is required. If the deal falls through, the next highest bidder was Mercor at $7.5 million.

via Axios|
#ai#bankruptcy#business
Summer Covid Uptick Persists in the U.S. Despite Vaccination Push
health1 month ago

Summer Covid Uptick Persists in the U.S. Despite Vaccination Push

CDC data and WastewaterSCAN show a summer uptick in Covid-19 activity across about 43 states, with rising infections and more emergency visits, especially in coastal states like California and Florida. Experts say the virus may be returning to a seasonal pattern, though it’s more variable than flu due to evolving variants and waning immunity, while vaccines continue to reduce the risk of severe illness.

via The Independent|
#cdc#covid#data
Apple’s Data-Loaded Device Concept Sparks Privacy Debate
privacy-and-security2 months ago

Apple’s Data-Loaded Device Concept Sparks Privacy Debate

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple weighed a 'white-glove' plan to ship leased devices preloaded with a user’s iCloud data, removing setup friction; the data-loaded approach raised privacy concerns and was not pursued, as public sentiment shifted from privacy nihilism to a privacy backlash and Apple tunes its messaging ahead of new products like smart glasses.

via Gizmodo|
#apple#data#icloud
Netflix’s Tiny Elite Captures Over Half the Views in H1 2026
business2 months ago

Netflix’s Tiny Elite Captures Over Half the Views in H1 2026

Netflix’s top titles dominate the service: in the first half of 2026, the top 500 series and films accounted for 47% of series views and 51% of movie views, though they represent only about 6% of the catalog. The top 20 series alone accounted for 8.5% of series views, and the top 500 titles totaled 4.94 billion views out of 10.44 billion. The four elite titles (His & Hers, Bridgerton S4, War Machine, The Rip) accounted for about 2.1% of all views, while representing just 0.02% of available titles. Netflix is currently the only major streamer releasing this level of data, though it will move to annual reporting next year.

via The Hollywood Reporter|
#business#data#netflix
NASA's New Horizons Awakens to Return Clues from the Outer Solar System
space3 months ago

NASA's New Horizons Awakens to Return Clues from the Outer Solar System

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has awakened from a 321-day hibernation about six billion miles from Earth, with all systems reporting green health status throughout. The probe will downlink its health data and begin transmitting science data from instruments like the Venetia Burney dust counter, Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer, and Solar Wind at Pluto, with the ultraviolet Alice spectrograph set to map hydrogen in the outer heliosphere in coming weeks. Launched in 2006 and famous for Pluto flybys in 2015, it is expected to continue its mission toward the Kuiper Belt through the decade.

via The Independent|
#data#nasa#new-horizons
Tasmania to Host a 52-Foot Monolith That Records Humanity’s Downfall
climate-change3 months ago

Tasmania to Host a 52-Foot Monolith That Records Humanity’s Downfall

Australian nonprofit Rouser Lab is building Earth’s Black Box, a 52-foot monolith designed to continuously log data on planetary health from space agencies, weather services, and universities and store it as Earth’s Vital Index. Planned for installation at a remote Tasmanian airfield by December, the device aims to provide an objective real-time archive of events leading to environmental collapse to spur accountability and action, though critics note the abundance of open climate data and question its practical usefulness. The project also includes the Climate S.O.S. techno-obelisk concept that would transmit a distress call into space in hopes of attracting help from alien civilizations.

via Gizmodo|
#archives#climate-change#data
Your Car Is Watching You: The Hidden Data Highway Inside Modern Vehicles
technology4 months ago

Your Car Is Watching You: The Hidden Data Highway Inside Modern Vehicles

Modern connected cars act as rolling data centers, collecting location histories, who’s in the car, what you listen to, and even biometrics like weight or facial expressions, often with little protection for consumers. Insurance companies and data brokers buy and sell this information, potentially raising rates or enabling targeted marketing. A Mozilla review found major car brands failing basic privacy standards, and GM faced FTC action over selling location data. With new U.S. rules pushing advanced impaired‑driving tech that could widen data collection—and uneven protections in the U.S. and Europe—consumers are advised to opt out of telematics, request and delete collected data, and adjust privacy settings, though comprehensive data ownership and consent safeguards are far from guaranteed.

via BBC|
#cars#data#insurance
Adaptive AI Robots Poised to Redefine Modern Industry
technology8 months ago

Adaptive AI Robots Poised to Redefine Modern Industry

Physical AI blends autonomous hardware with AI to enable learning, adaptation and collaboration in varied environments, expanding robotics from assembly lines to healthcare, logistics and beyond. Success depends on high-quality data (often synthetic), advanced simulation and models, and redesigned workflows, with pilots from Amazon, Siemens, Foxconn and others signaling a broad shift toward flexible, human–robot collaboration.

via Financial Times|
#artificial-intelligence#data#digital-twins