How Google uses AI to protect you in Chrome
The second Tuesday of February marks Safer Internet Day, a global event that promotes safe internet practices, especially for children and young adults. We need …
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Apple reportedly chooses Alibaba over DeepSeek to bring iPhone AI to China
With the recent DeepSeek hype, it looked almost natural that Apple could choose this LLM to power its Apple Intelligence platform in China. However, iPhone …
We just started using AI like ChatGPT, and it may already be making us dumber
Before the arrival of ChatGPT, I’ve had this running joke with friends that we actually don’t know how to do many trivial things, and we’re …
Goodbye to the Gulf of Mexico: Both Google and Apple have now updated their Maps apps
(This post has been updated, below, to reflect that the name change is now live in both Google Maps and Apple Maps.) Among the flurry …
Sam Altman on how life will change once AGI steals your job – and what ChatGPT thinks about it
Reading a blog post from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on this particular Monday in February makes perfect sense, considering what’s happening in the world right …
TikTok is available to download on Android again, but there’s a catch
It’s unclear what the future holds for TikTok, as President Trump’s executive order only delayed the US ban rather than overturning it altogether. That said, …
Google AI chief says DeepSeek’s $6 million claim is ‘exaggerated’
It’s hard to keep up with all the AI breakthroughs, but one story that continues to resonate days later is the arrival of DeepSeek. Not …
Meta allegedly used 82TB of stolen books to train its AI
If you follow AI products such as ChatGPT and Gemini, you also have to realize one of the sad realities about them. We can’t have …
Here’s why WhatsApp might be the best way to use ChatGPT
When OpenAI launched the 1-800-ChatGPT (1-800-242-8478) number in mid-December, announcing support for voice calls from any type of phone, I called it a gimmicky feature …
New AI upscales blurry video to make the ‘enhance’ cop movie trope a reality
There’s an age-old movie trope that we’ve all seen a hundred times. A cop gets their hands on blurry, grainy video footage and takes it …
This AI gives you a body double to sit on Zoom calls, so you don’t have to
Generative AI products like ChatGPT aren’t just for asking AI questions, browsing the web in novel ways, or helping out with school and work. Some …
iOS 18.4 beta 1 with upgraded Siri should be here soon
iPhone owners shouldn’t have to wait much longer to test out Apple’s smarter version of Siri, as Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that iOS 18.4 beta …
DeepSeek is ‘TikTok on steroids,’ lawmaker says as US ban on government devices looms
As soon as DeepSeek AI became a viral sensation, challenging America’s dominance in AI with breakthrough software innovations, I wondered whether a DeepSeek ban was …
Google Search is getting an AI Mode soon – here’s what it does
ChatGPT Search isn’t my main search engine, but it’s an increasingly important online search tool in my arsenal. I don’t specifically press the ChatGPT Search …
DeepSeek mobile apps send your sensitive data to China with no encryption
DeepSeek R1 is the open-source AI from China that shocked the world last week. We learned that a startup with restricted access to high-tech AI …
How to add end-to-end encryption to your iCloud backups
Apple’s Advanced Data Protection security features have been available for over two years now. It adds end-to-end encryption to various Apple apps on iCloud backup. …
UK demands Apple open access to encrypted user accounts worldwide
The UK government demanded Apple create a back door on users’ encrypted iCloud accounts to retrieve the content any Apple user has uploaded to the …
Brits want to ban ‘smarter-than-human’ AI – good luck with that
Following the rapid advancements in AI tech like ChatGPT, it’s only a matter of time before the leading AI firms come up with AGI, or …
This AI is as good as ChatGPT o1, and it was built for under $50
DeepSeek R1 stunned the world last week as its developers explained they could train an open-source reasoning AI as good as ChatGPT o1 at a …
Google fumbled its big Gemini AI ad for the Big Game
Google is one of the top AI firms in the world, developing bleeding-edge AI under the Gemini umbrella. But Google isn’t seen as the leading …
ChatGPT no longer requires you to have an account to search
Google’s dominance in online search has been virtually undisputed for over 20 years, but a real challenger might have finally arrived. As of Wednesday, OpenAI …
When will Apple start beta testing iOS 18.4?
Now that iOS 18.3 has been available for almost two weeks now, we’re all wondering what the release date of iOS 18.4 beta 1 will …
watchOS 11: Features, download, release date, beta, Apple Watch compatibility, and more
watchOS 11 is Apple’s current operating system for Apple Watch models, including the all-new Apple Watch Series 10. After rebuilding the OS from the ground …
Apple Invites and Sports apps could hint at major iOS 19 redesign
This past year, Apple released two new apps: Apple Invites and Apple Sports. Besides that, with iOS 18, the company unveiled two unique UIs for …
Masa Son says AGI will be here even sooner than expected, but don’t get your hopes up
It’s only Tuesday but OpenAI has had a great week so far, seemingly making forgotten all the talk about DeepSeek. That’s the viral AI from …
Anthropic is telling candidates not to use AI in job applications
If you want a job at Anthropic, the company behind the powerful AI assistant Claude, you won’t be able to depend on Claude to get …
ChatGPT’s AI agents are here, and this is how I want to use them
It’s morning. I’m making coffee, and I’m about to head to the bakery around the corner before I sit down for work. Before I leave, I …
Apple Invites app is now available to iPhone and iCloud users
After a few weeks of rumors and leaks, Apple has finally revealed its new Invites feature. Apple Invites is a standalone iPhone app that also …
Grubhub user data compromised in major security breach
Popular food delivery company Grubhub announced it suffered a security breach involving a “third-party actor,” which gave “unauthorized access to certain user contact information.” The …
Anthropic dares you to try to jailbreak Claude AI
Commercial AI chatbot products like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others have safety precautions built in to prevent abuse. Because of the safeguards, the chatbots …
