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Apple taps Anthropic’s Claude for AI app development – Computerworld
Apple has since changed Siri’s leadership teams, bringing in its very best engineers to rescue efforts to make Siri smart again. This important work has also seen some senior leaders shunted aside, or even quietly demoted, enabling new teams a fresh start at cleaning up the problems left behind. Within this last-ditch rescue attempt, Apple has adopted a “by any means…
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Spotify Can Now Show You More Payment Options in the iPhone App
You probably know you don’t have to pay to use Spotify, as long as you’re good with ads. For a commercial-free experience, of course, you need to subscribe to Premium. If you ever tried to sign up for Spotify Premium on your iPhone, however, you might have noticed there was no way to do so—neither a “pay now” button, nor…
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Sam Altman and Elon Musk are racing to build an ‘everything app’
Sam Altman and Elon Musk aren’t just competing in the AI race; they both have ambitions to build Silicon Valley’s holy grail: an “everything” super app encompassing finance, social media, gaming, and more. Earlier this week, I got a peek at Altman’s plan from a cavernous event space on the northern edge of San Francisco. He was not there as…
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Google’s Gemini App Is Getting AI Image Editing
Google is bringing AI image editing to Gemini, which means that you can use text-based prompts in the Gemini app or website to tweak existing images. This feature has been available in Google AI Studio for some time, and Google is now rolling it out to all Gemini users, with support for 45 languages. Google says you will be able…
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Spotify already has an app ready to test Apple’s new rules
Spotify says it has submitted an update to its iOS app that would, among other things, let US customers use payment options that aren’t Apple’s, according to a blog post. The update submission follows Wednesday’s major Epic Games v. Apple ruling that forces Apple not to take a cut of payments on non-Apple payment systems and stops Apple from dictating…
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‘Cook chose poorly’: how Apple blew up its control over the App Store
In 2021, a federal judge ruled that Apple had to loosen its grip, ever so slightly, on the App Store. On Wednesday, nearly four years later, that same judge found that Apple deliberately failed to do so and tried to hide its noncompliance in the process. In a furious opinion, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said that she wouldn’t give Apple…
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Tired of Distractions? How to Create the Perfect App Blocker Automation on iPhone
Retaining our focus in the face of countless distractions is something most of us struggle with these days. How many times have you found yourself scrolling on social media instead of working or studying? Solutions like Screen Time or app blockers can be quite ineffective. It’s just too easy to get past Screen Time, and most third-party app blockers are…
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How to exclude OneDrive and iCloud from the Photos app on Windows
In Windows 11 and Windows 10, the Photos app can display your entire collection of images and videos, including those stored locally on your computer or device, as well as those in your OneDrive or iCloud storage. If you’re a Windows and iPhone user, and you open Photos on your laptop or computer, you may see pictures and videos from…
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Meta releases AI app to compete with ChatGPT
Meta’s standalone ChatGPT competitor is mostly what you’d expect from an AI assistant. You can type or talk with it, generate images, and get real-time web results. The biggest new idea in the Meta AI app is its Discover feed, which adds an AI twist to social media. Here, you’ll see a feed of interactions with Meta AI that other…
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Russian army targeted by new Android malware hidden in mapping app
A new Android malware has been discovered hidden inside trojanized versions of the Alpine Quest mapping app, which is reportedly used by Russian soldiers as part of war zone operational planning. Attackers promote the trojanized app as a free, cracked version of the premium Alpine Quest Pro, using Telegram channels and Russian app catalogs for distribution. AlpineQuest is a legitimate GPS…
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