Apple’s new iPad Pro is one of the most controversial (and thinnest) devices the company has made in years. Of course, this is an undeniable feat of engineering and finer than an iPod nano. Apple has integrated a new M4 chip and a “tandem” OLED panel into its latest flagship tablet.
The new OLED offers more brightness and improved HDR performance compared to the old iPad Pro: the standard screen brightness can reach 1,000 nits, compared to 600 nits for the latest model. It’s so powerful and so beautiful. But this cutting-edge technology makes it more expensive than ever, putting it out of reach for most and pitting it against flagship laptops, price-wise.
As Nathan Ingraham explains in his review, the iPad Pro line was always intended to show how good an Apple tablet can be, but this one really is uncompromising. For the rest of us, there’s the new iPad Air.
Later today, Google’s big I/O keynote will reveal the company’s latest AI ambitions. We will report live later today.
—Mat Smith
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And it looks like a big black hole.
OpenAI on Monday announced GPT-4o, an entirely new AI model that the company says is another step toward “much more natural human-machine interaction.” The new model accepts any combination of text, audio and images as input and can generate output in all three formats. It also looks a lot more like digital assistant Samantha from the movie . During the presentation, OpenAI showed GPT-4o translating live between English and Italian, helping a researcher solve a linear equation in real time on paper, and providing guidance on deep breathing. The OpenAI demonstrator even used the smartphone camera to show how GPT-4o would describe the room they were in. This could infer that they were in a studio, filming a video or possibly a live broadcast. OpenAI will make the new model available to everyone, including free ChatGPT users, over the coming weeks.
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The feature feels like an AI-infused version of Google Lens.
Not to be outdone, ahead of Google I/O (which starts later today – stay tuned for all the news), Google revealed its own incoming AI camera features. It’s not clear exactly what the feature is East, but it has some similarities to Google Lens, the company’s camera-powered search feature. However, what is shown in the teaser video appears to work in real time and respond to voice commands.
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The Wash G1 is your upgrade from the humble mop.
It’s a new direction for Dyson: a floor cleaner without mention of suction, cyclone technology, or any other usual vacuuming vocabulary. The Wash G1 is the company’s first hard floor cleaner, and it replaces suction with high-speed rollers, water, and nylon bristles. It goes on sale later this year for $700 – we were able to test it out at Dyson headquarters, ahead of its launch.
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