Apple’s alleged smart home display may look a lot like an old friend – the iMac G4 from the early 2000s. In this weekend’s Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman explained that the countertop tablet will have a square screen that will be “positioned at an angle on a small base, making it reminiscent of the rounded bottom of the iMac G4.”
Speakers may also be housed here. The device is expected to arrive sometime next year, followed by a higher-end version that will have a robotic limb that can change the position of the display.
According to Gurman, the more affordable model to be released first will have a relatively small screen, which will be “about the size of two iPhones side by side.” It will be used for smart home control, but it will also run apps like FaceTime and Calendar and display photos and videos.
According to Gurman, the more expensive model will boast a larger screen in addition to its robotic capabilities. As he previously predicted, we likely won’t see that product until at least 2026, and it could cost you around $1,000. Both models are expected to come with Apple Intelligence.
It looks like the ultra-thin iPhone we’ve been hearing about for the past few months will get Apple’s “Air” branding. In the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says the iPhone 17 lineup will feature a new model that could be called the iPhone 17 Air, and it will be about 2 millimeters thinner than any other model we’ve seen so far.
It will have a base-level A19 chip and a single-lens camera system, Gurman says, and it will “serve as a testbed for future technologies, including technologies that allow for foldable devices.” That and the upcoming new iPhone SE will use Apple’s first in-house modem, according to Gurman.
We’re also likely to see an upgrade to the entry-level iPad that will make it compatible with Apple intelligence. Gurman revealed that the next-generation iPad will get an A17 Pro chip and 8 GB of memory. According to Gurman, this news should arrive in the spring alongside the iPhone SE and new iPad Air models.
While the use of generative AI in games seems almost inevitable, as this medium has always toyed with new ways to make enemies and NPCs smarter and more realistic, seeing several NVIDIA ACE demos one after another really made me feel sick to my stomach.
It wasn’t just slightly smarter enemy AI – ACE can create entire conversations out of thin air, simulate voices and try to give NPCs a sense of personality. It’s also doing this locally on your PC, powered by NVIDIA’s RTX GPUs. But while all of this might sound good on paper, I didn’t like seeing AI NPCs in action almost every second.