Thanks for the mention! Yeah I first wanted Claude Code to be more hands free when doing things around the house so added voice.. then I thought it would be great if we could go out and get messages read out by Siri on the AirPods when there is an update, and reply that way, so I added WhatsApp support specifically for this purpose. I'd be down for adding a phone option or Signal alternative but I'd be curious to know if the WhatsApp feature solves your problem? https://github.com/robdmac/talkito
It appears that this impacted gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 somehow? grounding with google search no longer works.
I had a workflow running that would pull news articles from the past 24 hours. It now refuses to believe the current date is 2025-04-17. Even with search turned on and I ask it what the date is it and it always replies sometime in July 2024.
Leaving aside the legality, I find it tacky to use the names of dead people in advertisements. Grace Hopper did not endorse this product. We have no idea what she would have thought of Nvidia. Yet the lawyers are now fighting over the right to use her name and legacy to "create shareholder value".
The worst offender is Tesla, because I'm pretty sure he would have hated that company.
It's tacky but I don't think they are in any way implying an endorsement. Tesla, Ampere, Pascal, Volta, Kelvin, Turing (and quite a few more I can't remember) are all Nvidia architecture names, and are all named after historically important scientists (well, I have my reservations about Kelvin, but that's more personal opinion)
I think they only started using the scientist codenames publicly starting from Tesla, but yeah they've used them internally almost since the founding of the company. Early on there was Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin, Rankine and Curie, then the well-known Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, etc.
Oh wow; I did not realize their architecture naming scheme even went back that far. That was their first one. The earliest I remembered hearing them call out the name was Tesla.
For other's reference, nvidia arch's listed on wikipedia as follows in order:
it's just flattery, same as naming a road, Martin Luther King drive, Washington boulevard, etc.
They may or may not have approved all this, but this just signifies that you want them to be remembered in your own way.
If it's an internal name, maybe, but external names are generally intended to manipulate the public via psychology to make unconscious connections to the product that will make them want the product, in other words "marketing 101".
Trademark are always about use in a particular context. Apple has a a trademark on computers using the name "Apple" even though that's been a word for a food for centuries. And if you want produce a line of bulldozers and brand them "Apple Bulldozers" you can do that and get your own trademark on the use of the word "Apple" in that context.
I really would like to see someone try this, but I do not think it will end well. Apple would find a way to squash the mark. They have sued many businesses that dared to use "Apple" in their clearly unrelated businesses, and I have no reason to believe that this case would be any different.
Practically speaking, trademarks cover whatever can be litigated successfully.
Trademarks are context specific and you can trademark "common terms" IF (and at lest theoretically only if) it's used in a very narrow use-case which by itself isn't confusable with the generic term.
The best example here is Apple which is a generic term but trademarked in context of phones/computer/music manufacturing (and by now a bunch of other things).
Through there had been an Apple music label with a bit of back and force of legal cases (and some IMHO very questionable court rulings) which in the end Ended by Apple buying that Label.
So theoretically it's not too bad.
Practically big companies like Apple, Nvidia and similar can just swamp smaller companies with absurd legal fees to force their win (AFIK this is Metas strategie because I honestly have no idea how they think the term Meta for data processing is trademarkable), to make it worse local curt have often shown to not properly apply the law in such conflicts if the other party is from an other country (one or two US states are infamous for very biased legal decision in this kind of cases).
So yeah at the core this aspect of the trademark system is not a terrible idea, but the execution is sadly often fairly lacking. And even high profile cases of trademark abuse often have no consequences if it's a "favorite big company". (For balance negative EU example do include Lego and it's 3d trademark and absurdly biased curt rulings, or Ferrero and it's Kinder (german. Children) trademark on Chocolate).
EDIT: also not the two TM: Grace™ Hopper™ both Grace and Hopper are generic terms you can under some circumstances trademark and then use together, but while probably legal you would likely want to avoid trademarking (Grace Hopper)™
There's one funny exception to the rule of Nvidia naming their GPU architectures after just the surname of a famous scientist - they always refer to the "Ada Lovelace" architecture using her full name, presumably to avoid association with the other famous Lovelace.
Affixing (TM) does not make something an enforceable trademark. Trademark rights are established by use of the mark in commerce. A (TM) is used to put others on notice that a word or design is being used as a trademark, which could potentially be evidence of the intent of an alleged infringer in a subsequent lawsuit. Intent is relevant because it affects damages and other remedies.
The proposed remedy in the complaint is the divestiture of Instagram and / or WhatsApp (extremely unlikely) and increased oversight on Facebook in the future that would make similar acquisitions much more difficult (more likely).
As Scott Galloway has been saying for years, it would be great for stockholders. Facebook is an old-n-busted service for old-n-busted people. (You might think I'm one of those, using such an old-n-busted idiom, but even I'm young enough not to be on Facebook.) IG and Whatsapp both would thrive if they weren't chained to all that dead weight.
Divestiture wouldn't be so good for Facebook execs, but does anyone care about them?
2021 is a great time to own a small regional / community bank. All the mature FinTech companies are trying to buy a bank to expedite the cumbersome bank chartering process (+ mortgage origination and servicing companies are too)
Indeed. And a good time to have a banking as a service business. Have a look at Cross River Bank. They have grown their balance sheet 3x in the last two years.
It’s not just US though. In Southeast Asia same trend; big tech platforms like Grab and Shopee are buying small bank license holders on the cheap to start taking deposits and build their ecosystem on top.
sure, they are, but the bank holding company act (BHCA) restrictions on ownership/source of strength requirements are a kick in the head. You can go the Greendot route (just up and convert yourself to a bank holding company), Varo route (same but get a fresh OCC charter), or take your chances with an ILC application.
Yes soon we will add templates (e.g. Gym tracker, Food tracker) etc so you can see real examples. For now you can add charts (line, pie, bar, scatter & polar). Very soon we will release table & forms (to edit/add data). Then most likely cards (to build micro stores, employers directory and things like that)
Start an agent, receive a call when a response from the user is needed, provide instruction, repeat.
Use case would be to continue the work hands-free while biking or driving.