The next phase of the AI boom may not be about what it can do, but where it runs.

Apple is all-in on bringing generative AI capabilities to its devices. To do this, it’s angling to get a little help from its friends (read: a lot of help from one of its staunchest competitors).  

What happened: Apple is reportedly in talks with its best frenemy Google to have the search behemoth’s Gemini AI engine built into the iPhone to power upcoming AI features.

While some of us are still not entirely sure what a large language model is, EU lawmakers have gone ahead and passed the world’s first comprehensive AI regulation act.

Catch-up: The Artificial Intelligence Act — we love legislation with to-the-point titles — has been contentious, but it should be finalized in May, with implementation beginning next year. It stands to set the tone for global AI regulation and influence Big Tech developments.

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg talking to his glasses in a onesie could be a breakthrough moment for smart glasses.

Telegram, it’s not just for your journo friends anymore. 

Driving the news: Encrypted messaging app Telegram is mulling a U.S.-listed IPO, its owner Pavel Durov told the Financial Times, after surpassing 900 million monthly active users and projecting it will hit profitability within the next year thanks to newfound ad dollars. 

 On this week’s episode of Free Lunch by The Peak, we sat down with Chris Walker, the CEO of Canadian AI chip maker, Untether AI, to talk about the future of the industry.   

Buckle up, folks; we’re going through the ins and outs of the U.S. government vs. TikTok. 

What happened: A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted unanimously to advance a proposed bill forcing TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its ownership stake in the app within 165 days, lest the app be banned in the country entirely.

Prompt engineering might not be the path to AI riches it has been made out to be.

How can I get my idea turned into an emoji?

You’ll need to submit it to the Unicode Consortium, which begins accepting proposals again on April 2.

It turns out that a sci-fi-looking orb that scans and stores your biological data might raise some questions from privacy regulators.