Pebble Was More Than a Smartwatch Pioneer – Exploring Core, the Original AI Gadget
With Pebble returning to the smartwatch fray, I thought it would be fun to revisit their only non-watch product: Pebble Core. While Core never ended up shipping, looking back it gave us a glimpse of something that’s been happening over the past year or two. AI-centric gadgets like the Humane AI Pin, …
Pebble Was More Than a Smartwatch Pioneer – Exploring Core, the Original AI GadgetAI Searches Just Got Way Faster
If you’ve been using Perplexity or any other AI-based search engine, you know that it takes a few seconds to get the answer to your questions typically. That’s why I was so psyched about Perplexity’s announcement today that they had shipped an updated version of their in-house Sonar model built on …
AI Searches Just Got Way FasterOperator May be The Future, But it’s Still Too Early
A little over a week ago I reluctantly paid $200 last week to try out OpenAI’s new Operator web app designed to allow you to automate complex tasks. The tool, a new website included in the ChatGPT Pro subscription offering, lets you command a virtual machine to go out and complete requests via a …
Operator May be The Future, But it’s Still Too EarlyPerplexity Pro Now Has R1, o3-mini, and Just About Everything Else
I’ve used nearly all of the premium AI subscription services, but none of them come close to offering the value that Perplexity Pro does. Despite the company’s contentious relationship with publishers, I’ve continued to believe it is one of the best-positioned startups in the space. After the …
Perplexity Pro Now Has R1, o3-mini, and Just About Everything ElsePerplexity Assistant is the Best Example of Apple Needing to Expand Extensibility on iOS
Last week Perplexity launched their latest product: Perplexity Assistant for Android. I’ve been a big fan of Perplexity for a long time. Despite its often contentious relationship with publishers, they make a spectacularly good tool. I love them, if only for the fact that they’re the …
Perplexity Assistant is the Best Example of Apple Needing to Expand Extensibility on iOSDeepSeek Arrives at an Awkward Time, But it’s Still Amazing
If you haven’t tried DeepSeek yet, go do it right now. The app, which is a Chinese-owned AI tool designed to compete with the likes of ChatGPT, Gemini, Llama and Grok, has rocketed to the top of the App Store charts recently and for good reason. DeepSeek is special, not for its user interface or …
DeepSeek Arrives at an Awkward Time, But it’s Still Amazing