Apple Had Relatively Good Earnings and Is up 6% After Hours with $110 Billion in Share Buybacks

There were huge fears that Apple would have bad earnings and bad guidance. Apple is buying back a lot of shares. The company is boosting its buyback program by $110 billion. For context, Apple upped its authorization by $90 billion a year ago, and analysts were expecting a similar increase this time around. Apple being …

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Tesla FSD 12.3.6 Ends Cleanup Fixes Before Next Level FSD 12.4

Crowdsourced results show that Tesla FSD 12.3.6 should have the best disengagement results for any version prior version of FSD. FSD 12.3 had slightly better city driving results but usually the reported disengagement results improve from the first days. It would be a very solid result for 12.3.6 to get over 300 miles for city …

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Sanctuary AI Humanoid Robotics Partners With Microsoft

Sanctuary AI and Microsoft will work together to bolster AI research and development and Sanctuary AI will leverage Microsoft’s Azure cloud resources for their AI workloads. SanctuaryAI is among the humandoid robotics companies that have partnered with Nvidia. Among the nine companies on stage with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had the SanctuaryAI bot at the …

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Xpeng, Huawei, Li Auto Driver Assist Systems in China

Chinese automakers and suppliers have level-two-plus driver-assistance systems with LIDAR and other sensors. There are at least 10 chinese automakers and suppliers that have unveiled driver-assistance systems over the past two years that can navigate city streets and make turns at intersections. EV makers Xpeng, Li Auto, Xiaomi , Huawei are among the carmaker with …

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Meta Free AI Models and Integrating AI Ask Meta Query Into Facebook and Instagram

Meta has put Meta AI front and center in the search bars for Facebook and Instagram that have served as key tools to find content from particular friends or creators. This is what the All-in-Podcast guys called scorched Earth for AI. This means almost no one will pay the $20 per month or other subscriptions …

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TSMC System on Wafer for Over 3.5 Times the Compute by 2027

TSMC introduced its System-on-Wafer (TSMC-SoW™) technology, an innovative solution to bring revolutionary performance to the wafer level in addressing the future AI requirements for hyperscaler datacenters. At the TSMC 2024 North America Technology Symposium, they debuted the TSMC A16™ technology, featuring leading nanosheet transistors with innovative backside power rail solution for production in 2026, bringing …

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