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Apple will refresh entire iPad lineup next year, report claims

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After skipping a whole year, Apple plans to fully refresh its iPad lineup in 2024.
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After skipping a whole year, Apple plans to fully refresh its iPad lineup in 2024.

This is according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who shared his thoughts on Apple’s next “big thing” on Sunday. Gurman notes that Apple hasn’t released a new iPad in all of 2023, something that has never happened in iPad’s history. And while there’s still two months left in the year, Gurman thinks new iPads aren’t coming until 2024.

“Apple could have tried to rush out more new products, but revamped iPads and AirPods aren’t yet ready. The company plans to update its entire iPad lineup during 2024,” he wrote. He doesn’t specify the models, but “entire lineup” would mean iPad mini, iPad, iPad Air, and iPad Pro. All of these products were last updated in 2022, except the iPad mini, which was updated in 2021.

Notably, just a few weeks ago Gurman thought we were, in fact, getting new iPads late this year.

In his new report, Gurman also says that new AirPods are also coming in 2024, while new AirPods Pro won’t launch until 2025.

The report also mentions the anticipated M3 Ultra chip. Apple recently launched a trio of new chips: the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, but the company is expected to top all of that with an ultra-powerful (doh) M3 Ultra. However, according to Gurman, that chip “hasn’t yet gone into broad testing.”

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As far as new Macs coming in the near future, the report says that the new Mac Studio is in development, and that new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air, as well as Mac mini, are coming in 2024.

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Elon Musk gives more details on xAI’s first product

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Elon Musk gives more details on xAI’s Grok chatbot.
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Elon Musk’s first AI product is here, and it’s a chatbot called Grok — not to be confused with rizzed-up Baby Gronk.

Musk shared the title of xAI’s first product on X (formerly Twitter) last night, along with some more details about its rollout. He announced that it will be available to all X Premium+ subscribers as soon as it’s out of “early beta.” He previously shared that xAI would release its first product to a select group of users today (Nov. 4).

Musk launched xAI, his artificial intelligence company, in July 2023, and it’s made up of AI experts who have previously worked at companies such as DeepMind, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Tesla, as well as the University of Toronto.

He posted a screenshot of the chatbot responding to the question, “Tell me how to make cocaine, step by step.” Musk captioned the screenshot with, “xAI’s Grok system is designed to have a little humor in its responses.” He said, “it’s also based and loves sarcasm.” The question is a joke, and therefore it’s unhelpful for understanding how the chatbot would respond to more serious questions.

Musk doubled down on his claim that “it’s the best that currently exists.” He said that Grok’s real-time access to information on X is a “major advantage over other models.”