The companies are not in discussions for an AI partnership involving Meta’s Llama chatbot and only held brief talks in March, the report said. Discussions about a potential partnership did not reach a formal stage and Apple was not actively planning on integrating Llama into iPhones, because it does not consider Instagram owner Meta’s privacy practices stringent enough, according to Bloomberg News. The preliminary talks took place around the time Apple started hashing out deals to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Alphabet’s Gemini in its products, the report said.
U. S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced $100 million in new financing on Monday to increase the supply of affordable housing, as the Biden administration seeks to address high housing costs ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election. The measure is one of several moves by the Treasury to try to address a chronic housing shortage, which has been a contributor to lingering inflation and a source of voter dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy.
