Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees. This week, San Francisco’s attorney general, David Chiu, sent cease-and-desist letters, demanding that Apple and Google remove 13 so-called nudification apps from their app stores, Wired reported. Nudification apps can make it trivially easy to transform ordinary…
OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets. Apple is gunning for OpenAI, demanding steep penalties after stumbling on a “rare” bug that temporarily allowed a poached employee that joined OpenAI to maintain access to confidential information on Apple servers for weeks after his termination.…
Supreme Court will weigh if Apple contempt finding in Epic case is “erroneous.” Apple is hoping the Supreme Court will reverse a contempt finding that threatens to block the tech giant from charging high commission fees when developers divert iPhone users to non-Apple payment methods for app purchases. The…
Some Macs are hundreds of dollars more expensive today than yesterday. Apple bumped its prices across much of its product lineup today, in some cases adding hundreds of dollars to the cost of a new Macintosh. An entry-level MacBook Neo that cost $599 is now $699. The formerly $1,299…
New features coming this fall alongside two-tiered, Google-powered AI model overhaul. Today at its pre-filmed Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple was finally prepared to fully introduce the long-delayed “Apple Intelligence” update for its Siri voice assistant. The new “Siri AI”—now being promised for OS updates rolling out “this fall”—will…
As Apple tries to shrink Gemini for the iPhone, a cloud component is probably inevitable. It’s impossible to totally avoid generative AI when interacting with technology anymore, but Apple has a bit less of it. That’s not entirely by choice, though. The iPhone maker has delayed the AI-enhanced Siri…
Judge orders Apple to give Musk internal messages discussing secretive ChatGPT deal. OpenAI is reportedly exploring legal options after Apple’s ChatGPT integration into its products didn’t live up to the AI firm’s expectations. When the deal was announced, Apple likened features linking Siri to ChatGPT to its now-infamous deal…
Xi meeting may force Trump to pivot on chip restrictions and Taiwan. Donald Trump has very little leverage heading into two days of meetings with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in Beijing this week, experts say. The thinking goes that Trump came into office with a plan that has since…
Trump’s vow to impose tariffs a “different way” already has the tech industry on edge. The day after the Supreme Court struck down a set of Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, the president quickly imposed another, using a never-before-invoked provision of a decades-old trade law to order a global 10…
Signal “very happy” Apple fixed bug storing private chats after app was deleted. Apple fixed a security bug that made it possible for cops to access content from deleted Signal messages. Vulnerable users hoping to evade law enforcement surveillance often use encrypted apps like Signal to communicate sensitive information.…
