benjamin kessler

24. my mind lives at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

[benjamin kessler @benisaackessler]

I like to think my network is well-informed. I am currently running a little social experiment on awareness of Anthropic’s releases today.

[benjamin kessler @benisaackessler]

@japonton Mike Rockwell deserves SVP title, Vision Pro, visionOS is remarkable. And now after 24 hours of use I can confirm Siri is starting to work like it was promised!

[benjamin kessler @benisaackessler]

@markgurman I literally got access about 5 min after installing betas at 3:00 pm yesterday 😭😭😭

[Ben Gold @bengold]

People who think Apple has been doing nothing with AI are sorely mistaken. They will be the leaders in on-device AI

[Jack Fields @OrdinaryInds]

Tech Twitter before WWDC: We just want a Snow Leopard update.

Tech Twitter after WWDC: WHERE ARE ALL THE NEW FEATURES‽

[Ethan Lipnik @EthanLipnik]

Love this Siri interaction on iPad

[benjamin kessler @benisaackessler]

Ok maybe Howard lutnick sitting next to Fat Joe. Knicks in 5!

[benjamin kessler @benisaackessler]

Craig Federighi shaming the EU’s regulatory nonsense made my day.

[Atila @atiorh]

Love that @Apple shipped the version of "mixture of experts" that lets the model efficiently scale beyond RAM and into the disk space.

Craig had this intuition from the very start. It took Apple R&D 3 years to manifest that vision. Bullish on Apple.

[sam henri gold @samhenrigold]

iOS 27 framework references “foldState” and “angleDegrees” but I’m sure that’s nothing

[benjamin kessler @benisaackessler]

@iconredesign Interesting that ultra 2 is around given it still on S9 vs S10

[benjamin kessler @benisaackessler]

@LaurenGoode I love my Vision Pro and know multiple people personally who own one. Even 2 years after launch every time my girlfriend, nephews, friends etc. use Vision Pro they are wowed. It’s expensive and early adopter but it’s an incredible computer.

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

While there was nothing revolutionary, Apple just rebooted the foundation of its platforms with functional AI, a working Siri and improved performance. This is critical ahead of the next three years of blockbuster new devices that run these operating systems. The right move.

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

Wow -- Visual Intelligence on visionOS for items you are looking at in the real world. I wonder what this is preparing for!

[Max Weinbach @mweinbach]

Siri AI is basically what most consumers use ChatGPT and Gemini for

RIP consumer ambitions for AI companies

[signüll @signulll]

the next massive consumer ai opportunity is making personal agents feel as intuitive as an iphone.

this is deeply important because this is the new software layer for everyday life.

most ppl do not want to configure workflows, manage prompts, route models, or think about agents at all. they want software that just works & the winning products will hide almost all of the complexity with taste incl. context, memory, & orchestration.

e.g. there’ll be baseline personal agents that come alive out of the box which are already understanding your context, patterns, relationships, preferences, apps, devices, routines, etc. then there’ll be ephemeral agents that spawn dynamically from intent, ambient capture, conversation, location, screenshots, email, calendar, camera roll, whatever. this is the software that assembles itself around the moment just like weather updates based on your location but way more in depth.

today even the most state of the art agent products feel like giving normal people shell access to a distributed system.

apple won by turning computers from something you operated into something you experienced. personal agents require the same transition.

whoever solves this becomes the ambient operating system for human life. small category btw.

[benjamin kessler @benisaackessler]

@FilmUpdates Too many to count.

[@jason @Jason]

Stopping data centers is dumb.

… but we are a union of 50 states and each state — and cities and towns — have the right to control their destiny.

If New York wants to block data centers let them — Texas, Pennsylvania and Nevada will take the business, negotiate taxes and boom.

States are the ultimate A/B test

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Pending completion of SEC review, this gives us the option to pursue an initial public offering.

Read more: https://t.co/onGZAhRLvD

[Jessica S. Tisch @NYPDPC]

Beautiful day marching up Fifth Avenue with @MikeBloomberg for the annual Israel Day Parade.

The NYPD was not messing around with security: this was the most extensive security plan that the NYPD has ever put together for this event so that everyone could celebrate safely.

Thank you to every member of the NYPD who was out today protecting our city.