It's amazing how (based on polls, like https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/polling-reveals-th...) the public dislikes it when it's shoved down its throat in unrelated programs and products (as opposed to them explicitly using an LLM or content generation program), but companies keep shoving it and even making a big deal out of doing so.
Perhaps the best thing about 2026 Apple is how "behind" they are in "AI Integration". And even them have shoved useless features like "Image Playground" on us.
I've been quite happy with the AnkerWork S600[1], which I bought a couple years ago through Kickstarter. I don't know if it's the same chip, but they advertise a "professional NPU", and I find the voiceprint-based ambient sound rejection works very well. I can literally have my crying child in my lap and the other side of the phone call can't hear him.
It's not entirely clear from the article but it sounds like Thus is either this chip or a series of chips that run low power neural nets with millions of parameters and they intend to use them for other applications in IoT devices.
It's a pretty central example of what we traditionally called AI before the term started being mostly used for LLMs.
It's an audio processing chip, so probably not going to show up in a charging cable. Although the engineering part of my brain says "noise" shows up in a lot of places...
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[ 0.25 ms ] story [ 23.0 ms ] threadPerhaps the best thing about 2026 Apple is how "behind" they are in "AI Integration". And even them have shoved useless features like "Image Playground" on us.
Anyway, time to find another peripherals vendor.
Who asked for AI on hubs and chargers?
[1] https://us.ankerwork.com/pages/a3319-s600-all-in-one-speaker...
It's a pretty central example of what we traditionally called AI before the term started being mostly used for LLMs.