Apple is on pace to ship a smart home hub later this year, and doubts creep in about BYD.
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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says his sources say Apple may launch a low-end smart home hub by the end of the year. A more advanced version with a robotic arm will not come for a year or two. Gurman’s sources previously told him the products was delayed because of issues with Apple Intelligence and Siri.Engadget Bloomberg
Nvidia is trying once again to create a chip that can run generative models that it can sell to China without being restricted by its home country, the US. The H20 was designed on the older Hopper architecture specifically to avoid restrictions, but the US wrote new restrictions to stop sales of it to Chinese companies. Reuters says its sources say Nvidia has a new cheaper design based on its current Blackwell chips and will go into mass production in June. Another Blackwell-based design for China is said to go into production in September.CNBC Investing.com
Some cracks are showing in the booming affordable EV market, led by China’s BYD. This weekend, BYD announced new price cuts and subsidies that bring its cheapest EV down to the equivalent of $7,765. That prompted the chairman of competitor Great Wall Motor to compare the Chinese automobile industry to the debt-ridden property market there, which has been collapsing. He did not name any manufacturer but said heavy losses and a prolonged price war has put the Chinese EV industry in an unhealthy state.Investing.com
Android Auto, Google’s software that takes data from your phone and displays it on the car screen, is getting updated Spotify support, a light mode, Passkey support, and support for Web browsers and video apps. Android Auto also gets support for Quick Share, which lets users in the car add things like stops to an in-progress Google Maps navigation.The Verge
OpenAI’s Deep Research feature can now access files from Dropbox or Box if you wish. This makes it easier to have the feature use your files to do its research for you without you having to upload them individually.Bleeping Computer
Lots of people reported that the president of the US had said he would impose a tariff on iPhones not made in the US, but at a press conference Friday, the president clarified that such a tariff would apply to other phone makers as well, naming Samsung and Google specifically. Many electronics had been exempted from previous tariffs, but the administration had said it would deal with them separately.Engadget
Disney’s joint streaming venture with Reliance, JioHotstar added 230 million subscribers in three months, to reach 280 million subscribers, close to Netflix’s 300 million. The service has been boosted by its rights to Indian Premier League cricket. About 450 million people have watched IPL matches on JioHotstar since March.Benzinga
OpenAI has set up a legal entity in the Republic of Korea with plans to open an office in Seoul. South Korea has the second largest number of paying ChatGPT subscribers behind the US. It will be the third office in Asia for OpenAI, after Japan and Singapore.Bloomberg
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