How Apple's AI Strategy Changes with a New CEO

Today on the AI Daily Brief, how Apple's new CEO might change or not their AI strategy. Before that in the headlines, a new feature that used to be controversial might become very commonplace soon. The The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and conversations in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, Blitsy, KPMG, ZenCoder, and Granola. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you're interested in learning more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. While you're at a I daily brief dot a I, you can see everything going on in the ecosystem. Right now, I've got an AI credential survey live. If you would do that, it'll take you about ten seconds. It would very much help us plan some next moves. But we got a loaded slate of headlines today, so let's dive in. We kick off today with an interesting new feature announcement from OpenAI. The company has shipped a new memory feature in codecs called Chronicle. This is something that we've seen a couple times from a couple different companies, although it's usually been surrounded by some amount of controversy, and in the case of Microsoft, a withdrawal of the feature entirely. Chronicle uses screen captures to build a running memory of your workflow. The feature runs as a background agent taking screenshots and deciphering them to build memory as you work. Now OpenAI frame the feature as being a quality of life improvement by improving codecs' understanding of your work. They write, with Chronicle, codecs can better understand what you mean by this or that, like an error on screen, a doc you have open, or that thing you were working on two weeks ago. Over time, it helps codecs learn how you work, the tools you use, the projects you return to, and the workflows you rely on. Now they did warn that because Chronicle runs as a background agent, it will chew through usage limits. Screenshots also carry some privacy and access concerns. All my old Bitcoin buddies are screaming at their screens right now as I talk about this. Yet it's pretty clear that OpenAI is aiming this at professionals who are working on secure systems with their company picking up the tab on usage. Apparently, the feature is impressed internally with president Greg Brockman writing that it feels, quote, surprisingly magical to use, and Sam Altman saying the internal working name for this was telepathy, and it feels like it. Codex developer, Tebow, wrote, this is early and consumes quite a bit of tokens, but it has changed how I and many folks at OpenAI use codecs. Now like I said, when these types of features were first announced, they were announced as general Windows type features as opposed to something very discreet for …