The active smartphone installed base grew 2% YoY globally in 2025; eight OEMs had 200M+ active devices each, and nearly 25% of active smartphones were iPhones
Tarun is a Research Director with Counterpoint Research, based out of Gurgaon (near New Delhi).
Global installed base of active smartphones grew 2% in 2025; eight OEMs had 200M+ active devices each, and nearly one in four active smartphones is an iPhone
Tarun is a Research Director with Counterpoint Research, based out of Gurgaon (near New Delhi).
Apple partners with Brigham and Women's Hospital to launch a voluntary, virtual five-year Apple Health Study in its Research app, open to iPhone users in the US
I got the inside scoop on Apple Health's new five-year research study. All Apple users can participate starting today.
OpenAI Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew and a research VP, Barret Zoph, are leaving the company; OpenAI promotes Mark Chen to its new SVP of Research
OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, have left the company hours after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she would be departing.
Stanford's AI Index report: training top AI models is way more expensive, AI still trails humans on complex tasks, people are more nervous about AI, and more
customer support, customer acquisition, and personalization all between 22-26%. [image] @stanfordhai : The #AIIndex2024 tracks the rise of multimodal models, major cash investments into generative AI,...
Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in lower traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles
The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in low traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles
The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
In a letter to lawmakers, Facebook says it obtained data on ~187,000 users via its now-defunct Research app, including ~31,000 US users and ~4,300 US teenagers
Facebook obtained personal and sensitive device data on about 187,000 users of its now-defunct Research app …
In letter to Sen. Warner, Facebook says teens were ~18% of users of its Research app over its lifetime; Facebook had said publicly that teens were less than 5%
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
A breakdown of Facebook's internal memo detailing distribution and onboarding for its Research app, and defending its data collection methods and disclosures
Early this morning, we received agreement from Apple to issue a new enterprise certificate; this has allowed us to produce new builds …