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Apple Newsroom: Apple will introduce a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users through an iPhone and Apple Watch software update comi…

AI scraping concerns are driving Reddit to restrict the Internet Archive to only its homepage, cutting off post and comment archives.

Apple has confirmed that OpenAI's newly-released GPT-5 model will be integrated into Apple Intelligence starting with the upcoming iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and...

Autoregressive language models are constrained by their inherently sequential nature, generating one token at a time. This paradigm limits…

Anthropic announced on Tuesday it will provide its Claude AI model to all three branches of the U.S. government for just $1 per agency for one year, mirroring...

Apple's iconic AirPods may gain the Live Translation feature, as iOS 26 beta code already contains a gesture related to the functionality.

Legal scholar Victoria Haneman argues that U.S. law should grant estates a time-limited right to delete a deceased person's data so they can't be recreated by AI without their consent. "Digital resurrection by or through AI requires the personal data of the deceased, and the amount of data that we a...

Elon Musk is accusing Apple company of an “unequivocal antitrust violation” for allegedly favoring OpenAI in the App Store’s AI rankings.

Critical thinking is not going to save us.

Apple is testing a version of Siri that will be able to take actions on your behalf across various apps by following voice commands. The company plans to release a new version of App Intents, its framework gives developers the ability to allow users access to parts of their app via different systems, like search and Shortcuts.

In 2020 a YouTube video used video footage of Steve Wozniak in a scam to steal bitcoin. "Some people said they lost their life savings," Wozniak tells CBS News, explaining why he sued YouTube in 2020 — and where his case stands now: Wozniak's lawsuit against YouTube has been tied up in court...

We learned back in June that Apple is working on a new entry-level MacBook, to be powered by the A18...

iOS 26 is giving us a glass-like UI, but Apple’s long-term vision for the iPhone hardware is what former design...

The operator of Wikipedia on Monday lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain's Online Safety Act, which sets tough new requirements for online platforms and has been criticized for potentially curtailing free speech. From a report: The Wikimedia Foundation took legal action at London's High Court ...

Ford announced an EV breakthrough that will produce more affordable models. The first EV will be a midsized $30,000 electric truck that will arrive in 2027.

Security researchers are now sounding the alarm on a new SMS text message fraud operation, which is surging in popularity — and its ability to steal people's credit cards — since the demise of its predecessor.

Apple’s upcoming voice-control feature for the new Siri could be an under-the-radar hit — if it works. Also: Tim Cook placates Trump with minor supply-chain changes (and a bar of gold), and Apple is finishing up work on iOS 26 and Liquid Glass 1.0. Lastly, the iPhone maker loses a fifth AI engineer to Meta.

Rumors have long pointed at a new MacBook Pro with an OLED display launching towards the end of 2026 –...

The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a “rapid take-off” to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we

A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble

: Not everyone wants to be simulated after they're gone

The results weren't even close

The finalists for the 2025 Tiny Awards are out, which I helped judge again this year. Here's a little roundup of the 11 contenders. Voting ends September 1!

After backlash from users upset over losing GPT-4o, OpenAI has reinstated it as an option for ChatGPT Plus subscribers just a day after making GPT-5 the default. "We will let Plus users choose to continue to use 4o," Altman said in a post on X. "We will watch usage as we think about how long to offe...

Independent red teams have jailbroken GPT-5 within 24 hours of release, exposing severe vulnerabilities in context handling and guardrail enforcement, warning model is not enterprise-ready.

It is disturbing to think that the leader of a beloved, trusted, and widely believed-to-be-ethical company like Apple has succumbed to avarice. That Tim Cook feels no qualms about — or perhaps even delights in — participating in a quid-pro-quo-driven corrupt administration in which flattery, fealty, gifts, and barely-concealed bribes are rewarded. That the United States devolving into kleptocracy suits Tim Cook just fine, because Apple’s pockets are deep enough to pay the vig. But the alternative is more disturbing.

Grow a Garden, a Roblox game created by a 16-year-old in just a few days, has shattered records for the most concurrent players in gaming history, surpassing Fortnite with over 21.6 million concurrent players at once. The Associated Press reports: Grow a Garden is as simple as its name suggests -- ...

Learn about why dial up internet has been discontinued.

Disney spent 18 months negotiating to create a digital version of Dwayne Johnson for the live-action Moana film. Johnson agreed. The technology was ready. Then Disney’s lawyers killed the who…

The database, which helps companies calculate their greenhouse gas emissions, will continue under a consortium that includes Stanford University.