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.…
Cook will be executive chairman but will no longer run the company day to day. Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down from the job effective September 1, 2026. As has long been rumored, Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus will become Apple’s new CEO. While Cook…
Amazon announces $11.6B merger with Globalstar and satellite deal with Apple. Amazon today announced two satellite deals that it hopes will make its Amazon Leo network a more formidable competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink. Amazon signed a merger agreement to buy satellite operator Globalstar and said it entered into an…
Apple Silicon Macs get a performance boost thanks to better unified memory usage. Ollama, a runtime system for operating large language models on a local computer, has introduced support for Apple’s open source MLX framework for machine learning. Additionally, Ollama says it has improved caching performance and now supports…
Judge tosses Musi case against Apple, sanctions lawyers for “mak up facts.” Musi, a free music-streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy over its method of acquiring music, has lost an attempt to get back on Apple’s App Store. A federal…
Apple is still working to get favorable tariff treatment from the Trump administration. Apple plans to start manufacturing the Mac mini in the United States later this year, the company announced today, as part of its $600 billion commitment to expand its domestic manufacturing operation. The Macs will be…
