Zain Halai

member of technical staff. subpar tech youtuber. currently debugging myself. TIME Person of the Year, 2006.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

here's the kicker... openAI beat xAI last month because xAI couldn't show the use of trade secrets.

Apple complaint that reads like a response to that ruling with receipts... codenames, prototypes, parts, playbooks, supplier deception.

OpenAI may have helped write the case against itself.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

okay… i’ve been digging through the lawsuit and it’s crazy that openAI’s onboarding included Apple’s offboarding manual.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

5.6 sol after fable 5 discourse.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

distribution is a cruel business.

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

(1) Today we're releasing Muse Spark 1.1 -- a strong agentic and coding model at a very low price. It's available through our new Meta Model API and in Meta AI.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

there’s the usmnt we know.

welp… great world cup we’re throwing for everyone else.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

250 years ago, America began as a promise.

generation after generation added to it... with hard work, courage, invention, sacrifice, and the stubborn belief that the country should be worthy of its founding words.

happy birthday, America!

here's to keeping you a shining beacon of freedom.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

@ParikPatelCFA first benchmark: surviving "whatever you want"

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

attempted to open negotiations with @Rivian

their anti-corruption controls appear to be working.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

@AnxiousHolly the iphone mini was the correct iphone and we failed it.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

@signulll what’s the point of charging your phone if it’s just going to die again?

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

back when tech blogs were a thing, Gigaom was the place.

Om made technology feel human.

RIP @om

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

even with the increase, the neo is still a great value.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

apple made a really good affordable mac.

then AI made the affordable part expensive.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Apple, $AAPL, has raised the prices of its Macs and iPads due to soaring chip costs.

Among the price increases:

1. MacBook Air increased +$200 to $1,299
2. Base MacBook Pro increased +$300 to $1,999
3. Base MacBook Neo increased +$100 to $699
4. iPad Air increased +$150 to $749
5. iPad Pro increased +$200 to $1,199

Tim Cook said soaring chip costs made the price hike "unavoidable."

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

fatherhood has been the most humbling and rewarding role of my life. grateful for the lessons, the best laughs, and the chance to show up everyday.

happy father’s day to all the incredible dads doing their best.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

that's not a good analogy. it's more closer to apple silicon than a rebadged prius.

tsmc fabbing the chip doesn't make it a tsmc chip. gemini helping train/build apple foundation models doesn't make siri gemini.

the product is the whole stack... model, data, routing, pcc, personal context, app actions.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

no siri for EU!

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

@signulll @Code_of_Kai incumbent advantage

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

apple's AI direction makes more sense when you stop looking for the chatbot.

the product is the routing layer... what runs on-device, what goes to PCC, what needs world knowledge, what gets personal context, and what action is allowed.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

@IamMiaChase exactly... "equal access" is the wrong primitive in this case.

[Zain Halai @zain_halai]

the eu siri AI delay is going to get framed as apple privacy hypocrisy.

but once siri becomes an OS-level agent, what does "equal access" mean for every other assistant?

that's not a browser choice screen. that's the security boundary around your personal context.