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  1. OpenAI Employees Were Proud ChatGPT Could Bypass the New York Times Paywall
    Sep 20, 2026 · original
    George Hammond and Stephen Morris, reporting for the Financial Times : OpenAI copied millions of copyrighted articles in an effort to build technology potentially worth “gazillions”, despite recognising the “existential threat” it posed to publishers, according to a new filing in a lawsuit brought by The New York Times… But lawyers for the newspaper claim the “defendants repeatedly copied millions of… copyrighted articles in their entirety without permission to produce substitutive commercial AI products”. The lawyers added OpenAI did so despite knowing their AI tools could replace the underlying material. The AI lab’s head of ChatGPT wrote that publishers faced an “existential threat” from AI products that “are largely substitutive, period [and] will get more and more substitutive as they get better”, according to Thursday’s filing… The filing also claims OpenAI employed “transgressive
  2. Genius Bars Are Coming Back to Apple Stores, Big Screens Out
    Sep 20, 2026 · original
    Mark Gurman, reporting in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg : Apple prepares a retail store shake-up with a renewed focus on a dedicated Genius Bar and revamped pickup and classes areas… Here’s what Apple has planned: New and upgraded retail stores will feature three major changes: a revamped Avenue — the sections along the sides where accessories and Apple services are featured — a return to dedicated Genius Bars, and the removal of the giant video walls found in many locations. The changes begin with two new Avenue sections: one for online pickups and another for its Today at Apple hands-on sessions. Right now, many stores have a dedicated pickup table and a large seating area for the Today at Apple workshops. Those functions will move to the sides of stores within 10-foot sections known internally as bays… There are currently giant video walls at the back of many stores, which use
  3. On AI Safety and Pacing the Frontier
    Sep 15, 2026 · original
    Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, on his personal website : But over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence — not just investing in risk prevention, but pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up. We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain. Two things have convinced me. My first concern is that, since roughly this summer, AI has been advancing drastically faster, driven primarily by AI’s growing ability to build the next generation of AI. This dynamic is called recursive self-improvement, and it is starting to happen across the industry, including at Anthropic, as we and others have described. Left unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control th
  4. Thoughts on Apple’s ‘Surprise and Shine’ Event
    Sep 11, 2026 · original
    When one book ends, another folds open Image: Apple. It seems like Apple has finally hit its stride again. At its annual September event on Tuesday, the company announced major updates to its iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods lineups, including an all-new foldable iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro with upgraded camera features, and new Apple Intelligence and health features for the Apple Watch. The presentation, streamed live from Apple Park, marked the beginning of the tenure of John Ternus, Apple’s new chief executive, who seemed destined to usher in a new era of innovation and product focus after a decade and a half of stability for the company . Ternus began Tuesday’s presentation by portraying the iPhone as the hardware “hub” for personal artificial intelligence, strongly suggesting that Apple thinks the smartphone is here to stay amid Silicon Valley’s AI boom. And indeed, the company advanc
  5. The Redefining of the Term ‘AGI’
    Sep 5, 2026 · original
    OpenAI : We’re introducing GPT‑6 Astra, the world’s most intelligent and aligned model. GPT‑6 Astra brings together years of research and big bets across pre-training, reinforcement learning, and alignment. Astra is state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, science, and professional work. Astra saturates FrontierMath Tier 4 with a 98% score, having already helped solve long-standing open problems in mathematics. Astra also saturates ARC-AGI-3 with a 99.9% score and ExploitBench with a 100% score. It also sets a new frontier on computer and browser use, handling the most demanding professional work with unmatched speed, accuracy, and judgment. Anthropic, earlier in the week : We’re introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. They’re the world’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work—and their research capabilities offer an early g
  6. On Meta’s Settlement With the States
    Aug 31, 2026 · original
    Casey Newton, writing at Platformer Wednesday: On Wednesday, whatever legal cover Meta’s Potemkin well-being teams were meant to provide fell to a settlement of up to $17.1 billion with 47 US states, the District of Columbia, and US territories… For the most part, the agreement requires Meta to honor terms that you may be surprised are not yet required by US law: limiting teens to a cumulative two hours across Facebook and Instagram per day, blocking access to most app features between midnight and 6 a.m., and muting push notifications — except for direct messages and account-security or safety alerts — from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on school days. (Also, the take-a-break prompts that saw such minimal adoption are now enabled by default, triggering after every 15 minutes.) In another reversal, Meta will also now hide like counts for teens by default. The move revives as a default an experiment k
  7. Apple Refreshes the Mac mini and Mac Studio at Even Higher Prices
    Aug 26, 2026 · original
    John Voorhees, reporting for MacStories : Today, Apple announced a new M6 chip that will debut in the Mac mini and an M5 Ultra that is coming to the Mac Studio. The company also announced an M5 Pro Mac mini and an M5 Max Mac Studio. Let’s take a look at the headline specs. The headline feature of the M6 chip is that it’s Apple’s first 2-nanometer chip. The chip also includes “a larger 12-core CPU complex with the world’s fastest CPU core, a larger 12-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, a Dual 16-core Neural Engine, and up to 170GB/s of unified memory bandwidth.” As for the M5 Ultra, which debuts in the Mac Studio, it sounds like a beast. According to Apple, the chip uses a next-generation version of its UltraFusion technology, resulting in a quad-die architecture for the first time in an Apple silicon chip. In addition, the M5 Ultra features an “up-to-36-core CPU and up-to-80-core GPU wit
  8. There Really Isn’t Much to Say About the Pixel Phones This Year
    Aug 21, 2026 · original
    David Imel, reporting for The Verge : Google’s new HiLight notification LED on the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly useless. Out of the box, the only two things it can glow for are when the phone is face down and you’re interacting with Gemini, or when you get a call from a favorite contact. And even then, it can only glow one of five colors! This is a massive wasted opportunity for a feature that used to be so beloved on older Android phones, so developers have wasted no time doing what Google won’t. X user Dhananjay_Tech developed a new app called HiLight Studio, which lets you do practically anything you want with the HiLight LED array. Did you receive a new Slack notification that mentions a certain word? Make HiLight pulse in a rainbow array. Get a new text? Make HiLight spin in a wave of green. You can even control things like timing per cycle, brightness, intensity, and saturation. I’ve neg
  9. I Don’t Want AirPods With Cameras
    Aug 19, 2026 · original
    Juli Clover, reporting for MacRumors : Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. In a short demo, a man holds a book up so the camera in the AirPods can see the title. With Visual Intelligence, your world becomes savable. See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later, says the voiceover text. I have been on the record as saying I have no interest in this product. I love my AirPods Pro 3 and have them in my ears almost all the time; I find the rumors about this product also carrying the AirPods Pro name concerning. It will be unacceptable to me if I have to purchase these AirPods just to get the best sound quality and active noise cancellation performance. My hopeful guess is that the standard AirPods Pro 3 will remain for sale at $250, whereas these new ones
  10. Anthropic Plans to Watermark Claude-Generated Text
    Aug 16, 2026 · original
    Anthropic : Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing the text, and we, along with several other major AI providers, are implementing this change to comply with the EU AI Act. In this article, we share answers to some of the questions we’ve received about how our chosen watermarking method works, whether it affects Claude’s outputs, and why we’re making this change. To summarize: We use a method of watermarking that does not have any practical impact on the quality or content of Claude’s outputs; The difference between watermarked and un-watermarked text will not be distinguishable to readers; Nothing is added to the text and there are no hidden characters; Watermarking doesn’t require extra tokens, and will not be more expensive; Watermarking carries no identifying information and ca
  11. More on the Apple v. OpenAI Lawsuit
    Aug 5, 2026 · original
    Marcus Mendes, reporting for 9to5Mac : Which brings us to The Information’s report, and its account of several cases where “Apple employees who left for other companies over the past decade told The Information they, too, continued to have access to confidential documents after leaving the company, even though they made no effort to do so.” From the report: Former Apple employees say an unusual company policy that encourages them to blend professional and workplace technologies is why they unexpectedly ended up with access to confidential files after their departures. When new employees join Apple, the company often issues them an iPhone and Mac and pays for an iCloud account with a large amount of online storage capacity. Crucially, during the onboarding process, Apple encourages new hires to use their preexisting personal Apple IDs with this iCloud account, through which their co-worke
  12. The Compromises of Folding Phones
    Jul 31, 2026 · original
    Dominic Preston, reporting for The Verge earlier in July: A year after overhauling its Z Fold phone with a radically thinner design, Samsung has changed things up again, this time altering the shape entirely. The Z Fold 8 is wider than any of Samsung’s previous foldables, and shorter too, a size and shape somewhere between Samsung’s traditional Flip and Fold models. In photos, I wasn’t impressed by the squat shape. In person, to my surprise, it feels great, and almost immediately intuitive. If you want to get a feel for it yourself, grab your passport — the Z Fold 8 is about the same height and less than half an inch more narrow. This isn’t Samsung’s only new foldable this year, and in fact, its lineup just got more confusing. The Z Fold 8 may be the official follow-up to last year’s impressive Z Fold 7, but in truth the Z Fold 8 Ultra is the straightforward sequel. That phone has the sa
  13. ‘You’ll Own Nothing And You’ll Be Happy’
    Jul 28, 2026 · original
    Chance Miller, reporting for 9to5Mac : Apple has officially announced Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing program available starting today in the United States. Apple Upgrade, which is backed by Klarna, lets users lease iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad purchases, with the option to easily upgrade at the end of the lease term. Here’s how it works. Apple Upgrade is available across Apple’s product lines, including the latest iPhone 17 lineup, MacBook Air, Apple Watch Series 11, and much more. iPhone and Apple Watch are available with 12-month and 24-month leasing terms, while Mac and iPad are available with 24-month and 36-month terms. iPhone leases start at $17.99 per month for iPhone 17e Apple Watch leases start at $11.99 per month for Apple Watch Series 11 Mac leases start at $24.99 per month for MacBook Air iPad leases start at $15.99 per month for iPad mini On the surface, this loo
  14. Apple Launches the MapKit for Automotive SDK, First With Ford
    Jul 24, 2026 · original
    Apple Newsroom : Apple and Ford today announced that Apple Maps will be integrated directly into Ford’s upcoming Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) Platform through Apple’s new MapKit for Automotive SDK. Coming to Ford’s UEV Platform in 2027, this integration will deliver a beautiful and easy-to-use navigation experience powered by Apple Maps directly to the vehicle’s displays. Road-level Maps information will also enable Ford’s Latitude AI team to build a seamless hands-free driving experience. Leveraging Apple’s new MapKit for Automotive SDK, Ford’s Universal Electric Vehicle Platform will offer drivers turn-by-turn directions using natural language, real-time traffic and incident information, intuitive search featuring detailed place cards, and routing options to help users easily find the best route to their destination. Additionally, Ford UEV drivers will benefit from an intelligent E
  15. U.S. Threatens to Sanction China Over AI Distillation
    Jul 22, 2026 · original
    Ashley Capoot, reporting for CNBC: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said the Trump administration will look into whether Chinese artificial intelligence models have been distilled from American models, stating that the government does not support “IP theft.” Chinese open-weight models are gaining steam against leading offerings from American companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, sparking concerns from tech executives and government officials about the durability of the U.S. lead in the AI race. Moonshot AI, a Chinese startup, released a model called Kimi K3 earlier this month that outperforms those companies across some industry benchmarks. Open weight refers to models whose final trained parameters are publicly released for download, while the underlying code and training data remain private. “If we see, especially that overseas models are stealing from our great companie
  16. Apple Is Looking Into Buying AI Chip Companies for Private Cloud Compute
    Jul 19, 2026 · original
    Marcus Mendes, reporting for 9to5Mac : According to The Information, Apple has been exploring potential acquisitions of semiconductor startups to “boost its efforts to build server chips for running AI.” From the report: In recent months, the iPhone maker has talked with bankers about possible deals. It has also approached semiconductor startups to gauge their interest in selling themselves, the people said. Apple’s hunt for chip acquisitions comes as the company struggles with the performance of its own internal AI servers, which currently run on internally designed M2 Ultra chips. The Information says Apple’s next-generation server chip, code-named Baltra, has slipped past its planned 2026 debut. In the meantime, Apple is using M2 Ultra-based systems for some of its own AI processing, while the more demanding tasks are handled by the Gemini-based model powering the new Siri, which runs
  17. A Bluetooth Smart Speaker Will Not Fix OpenAI’s Problems
    Jul 16, 2026 · original
    Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg : OpenAI’s much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type of home computer for the AI era, according to people familiar with the matter. The product — still under development — is meant to serve as a humanlike AI companion that lives in the home, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the project hasn’t been announced. It will help control smart-home appliances, play media, answer questions, respond to messages and tap into the range of capabilities offered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, they said. Though the new product resembles a speaker, OpenAI internally describes it as the first of its kind: a computer built for AI to help make busy people more productive. It includes a camera and other sensors that help it understand a user’s surroundings and context, as w
  18. Hands-on With iOS and iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, and Siri AI
    Jul 13, 2026 · original
    A return to form and function Image: Apple. In 2009, at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Bertrand Serlet walked onstage and presented an audacious claim : “Zero New Features,” the slide read. Serlet, Apple’s then-senior vice president of software engineering, was introducing OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, a release Apple claimed would emphasize small “refinements” and major updates to internal technologies. But to the public, it really was “Zero New Features” — a quote forever cemented in Apple’s modern history as one of its most notable. As Serlet later explained, OS X Snow Leopard had plenty of new features, most notably Grand Central Dispatch , which brought multithreading to OS X for the first time. OS X Snow Leopard established the architecture on which all personal computers, including the iPhone and the Apple Watch, would eventually rely. Its stability solidified Apple’s reputati
  19. Apple Is Suing OpenAI and Employees for Stealing Trade Secrets
    Jul 10, 2026 · original
    Chance Miller, reporting for 9to5Mac : Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its former employees have stolen trade secrets “for the benefit of OpenAI.” “This case is about Apple’s former employees stealing Apple’s trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI. Apple brings this suit to put a stop to it,” the lawsuit says… The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that Tan used insider knowledge of Apple’s confidential projects to grill job candidates in interviews. Additionally, Tan directed job candidates still working at Apple to bring actual Apple hardware components and samples for “show and tell” sessions. Furthermore, Apple says a candidate began “screenshotting and downloading files relating to a highly confidential Apple project” hours before in
  20. OpenAI Merges ChatGPT and Codex Apps, for Apparently No Reason
    Jul 9, 2026 · original
    OpenAI, on X : Introducing ChatGPT Work, a new agent in ChatGPT powered by Codex and GPT-5.6. It can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work. It’s a whole new way to get work done. ChatGPT Work is powered by GPT-5.6. GPT-5.6 makes ChatGPT state of the art at reasoning through complex tasks and creating materials that match your templates, reference files, and preferred style. Just describe the outcome you want, without having to spell out every step to get there. On web and mobile, ChatGPT Work is rolling out today for Pro, Enterprise, and Edu plans. It will roll out to Plus and Business plans over the next few days. In the ChatGPT desktop app, Chat, Work, and Codex are available on every plan, including Free, and is available globally to download on Windows and Mac. Codex app users can update their app as usual

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