🧠 Altman on Superintelligence, Android 16 Drops Early, HP’s Beam Machine

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🧠 Altman on Superintelligence, Android 16 Drops Early, HP’s Beam Machine

Plus: Apple Defends Siri Revamp; Meta Pushes AI Frontiers.

Jose Montes de Oca

Jun 11, 2025

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Good morning. It’s Wednesday, June 11. Today we are covering:

The Gentle Singularity
Google Releases the Android 16 OS Months Earlier Than Expected
HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam
Apple Executives Defend Apple Intelligence, Siri and AI Strategy
Meta launches AI 'world model' to advance robotics, self-driving cars

Let’s dive in

The Gentle Singularity

Sam Altman

AI progress has reached a new phase, with systems like GPT-4 exceeding human capability in key areas, enabling profound scientific acceleration, economic transformation, and a coming era of recursive self-improvement—where AI helps build better AI.
By the 2030s, intelligence and energy will be abundantly available, potentially eliminating longstanding constraints on human progress; life may still feel familiar, but will be underpinned by vastly more powerful tools and possibilities.
To maximize upside and minimize risk, society must solve the alignment problem and ensure superintelligence is accessible, cheap, and widely distributed, avoiding concentration in the hands of a few, and opening the door to unprecedented creativity and collective advancement.

𝕏: wrote a new post, the gentle singularity. realized it may be the last one like this i write with no AI help at all. (proud to have written "From a relativistic perspective, the singularity happens bit by bit, and the merge happens slowly" the old-fashioned way) - Sam Altman (@sama)

Google Releases the Android 16 OS Months Earlier Than Expected

By Nelson Aguilar via CNET

Google officially launched Android 16 months ahead of schedule, debuting first on Pixel devices with features like Live Updates on the lock screen, grouped notifications, desktop-style windowing, and a revamped Material 3 Expressive design.
The update includes Advanced Protection for all users, native hearing aid controls, and a plug-and-play desktop mode for Pixel 8/9, while also laying groundwork for desktop multitasking on tablets and offering a new QPR beta for developers.
Alongside Android 16, Google dropped six wider ecosystem updates via Play Services, including custom RCS group chat tools, AI-powered Google Photos edits, room-specific Google Home shortcuts, extended Safety Check timers, new Emoji Kitchen mashups, and faster transit payments on Wear OS.

𝕏: Android 16 is rolling out to Pixel devices today! It’s packed with updates that make your device more accessible, secure and easier to use. Can’t wait to hear everyone’s feedback as you explore what’s new - Sameer Samat (@ssamat)

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HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam

By Emma Roth via The Verge

HP unveils the $24,999 HP Dimension, the first device built for Google Beam, Google's newly rebranded 3D video conferencing technology (formerly Project Starline), featuring a 65-inch light field display, six high-speed cameras, adaptive lighting, and spatial audio for immersive virtual meetings.
Designed for enterprise environments, the HP Dimension requires a separate Google Beam license for video call functionality via Zoom or Google Meet; pricing for the license has yet to be disclosed.
The system supports standard video conferencing platforms, but 3D functionality is exclusive to Beam-enabled devices; companies like Salesforce, Deloitte, and NEC are already planning Beam rollouts, with availability set for the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Japan later this year.

Apple Executives Defend Apple Intelligence, Siri and AI Strategy

By Joanna Stern via WSJ

Apple executives Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak defended the company’s AI and Siri strategy, acknowledging delays and missing features, but emphasized Apple is rebuilding Siri from the ground up with a long-term focus on quality and deep OS integration rather than rushing to compete.
Despite showcasing ambitious Siri capabilities at WWDC 2024, many features—like contextual awareness and personal reminders—never launched; Federighi admitted the software existed but didn’t meet Apple’s quality standards, prompting a quiet retreat and internal architectural overhaul.
Apple is leveraging OpenAI integrations in iOS 26, including ChatGPT tools, while committing to grow its own AI models; Federighi likened Apple’s role in the AI ecosystem to its role during the internet boom—as an enabler of user-friendly experiences, not necessarily a creator of every platform.

𝕏: Sat down this morning with Apple executives and asked them about the Siri delays, the future of AI and more. Here's the first part of the interview. More to come later in the week. - Joanna Stern (@JoannaStern)

Meta launches AI 'world model' to advance robotics, self-driving cars

By Ryan Browne via CNBC

Meta unveiled V-JEPA 2, a new open-source AI "world model" designed to understand and predict the behavior of physical objects, enabling machines like delivery robots and self-driving cars to plan and navigate more intelligently.
Unlike traditional models reliant on labeled data, V-JEPA 2 uses a simplified latent space to infer how objects interact in 3D environments—like knowing a ball will fall off a table or an occluded object still exists.
The launch underscores Meta's $14 billion AI push, including plans to acquire Scale AI and hire its CEO, amid growing AI competition from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google, whose DeepMind unit is also developing a competing world model named Genie.

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