Cheaper YouTube Premium Lite plan may be coming soon, but it has ads
Some people might say the YouTube experience is being ruined by YouTube Premium price hikes, Google’s tougher stance on ad blocker use, and more annoying …
Apps & Software
Apple releases iOS 18.4 beta 1 as we expect these 4 big new features
After a light iOS 18.3 launch, Apple is finally ready to start the beta cycle of what should have been the most exciting iOS 18 …
visionOS 2.4 beta 1 now available with Apple Intelligence
A few weeks after seeding a light visionOS 2.3 update, Apple is preparing the biggest visionOS update to date with visionOS 2.4 beta 1. Among …
ChatGPT Operator is expanding to more countries, but it still costs $200/month to use
OpenAI launched its first AI agent about a month ago. Called Operator, the ChatGPT model can be a brilliant tool for improving productivity. The agent …
Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection from the UK after backdoor request
A few weeks after the UK government demanded Apple to create a backdoor on users’ encrypted iCloud accounts to retrieve the content any Apple user …
iOS 18.4 beta 1 expected to be released today after delays
iOS 18.3 has been available for almost a month now. Still, iPhone users have been waiting for iOS 18.4, supposedly the biggest iOS 18 update …
AI like ChatGPT o1 and DeepSeek R1 might cheat to win a game
Palisade Research recently detailed a ChatGPT experiment in which a reasoning model was told to play chess against a more powerful opponent and win. Rather …
Claude 4 will soon compete with ChatGPT’s best new features
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out the company’s ChatGPT plans for the near future. After plenty of speculation and rumors about the next big ChatGPT …
Xbox’s new AI model generates gameplay for video games
It was a matter of time before AI invaded gaming, and Microsoft wanted to be at the forefront of the revolution. This week, Microsoft revealed …
Google Lens brings Circle to Search to iPhone… sort of
When Google unveiled Circle to Search in early 2024, I said I wanted a similar feature on the iPhone. More than a year later, Circle …
Mira Murati and former OpenAI execs announce Thinking Machines Lab to take on ChatGPT
After her sudden departure from OpenAI, word got out that Mira Murati was looking to fund an AI startup of her own. Reports said the …
Gemini AI is no longer available in the iOS Google app for an obvious reason
Google Gemini features will no longer be available in the iOS Google app. As AndroidCentral spotted, the company emailed Gemini users to highlight this change. …
Google is giving away even more personal data in exchange for profits
Google has improved its privacy practices significantly in recent years. Just look at the privacy improvements in Android or Google’s decision to store Google Maps …
This new ‘Uber with guns’ app is the most American thing I’ve ever seen
There’s a new app on the App Store called Protector, which, as its advisor describes it, is “Uber with guns.” The app lets you request …
Sam Altman says GPT-4.5 feels like AGI after telling people to stop hyping GPT-4.5 as AGI
Sam Altman has been very active on X the past few days, teasing the ChatGPT upgrades that are coming soon. He hyped the GPT-4o update …
DeepSeek AI banned in South Korea – should the US be next?
DeepSeek became a viral sensation a few weeks ago when it was revealed that a reasoning AI could be as good as ChatGPT o1 without …
Spotify Music Pro launches in 2025, but Hi-Fi songs aren’t why you’ll subscribe
Since 2021, Spotify has promised a High-Fidelity tier to compete with Apple Music and other music streaming services that offer better audio quality. Four years …
xAI launches Grok-3 with new reasoning model
In streaming on X, Elon Musk’s xAI announced its new Grok-3 AI model, which has “more than 10 times” the computer power of its predecessor. …
Apple Maps could finally get ads soon
It’s 2025, and somehow, Apple Maps still doesn’t have ads. While virtually all of the competition has implemented some form of advertisements in their mobile …
Apple’s Vision Pro mega software update won’t be enough to help sales
If you forgot about Apple’s long-anticipated Apple Vision Pro release a year ago, you’re not alone. After so much hype for the company’s latest product …
AI can now replicate itself, a ‘red line’ that researchers are terrified of
Just as the US and UK refused to sign an international statement about AI safety at the AI Action Summit earlier this week, an AI …
Gemini AI just got a new feature ChatGPT can’t match yet
The smarter AI programs like ChatGPT and Gemini become, the more we’ll want to use them as the virtual assistants they can be. For that …
iOS 18.4 might not have the big Siri upgrade we expected
Apple was reportedly planning to introduce an AI-powered upgrade for Siri in iOS 18.4, but that might no longer be in the cards for the …
This iPhone Fold leak made no sense until ChatGPT figured it out for me
I said a few days ago that I’ve decided to try the iPhone 16 Pro Max. After all, this might be the last time I …
Alibaba will censor Apple Intelligence in China
With a deal between Apple and Alibaba now official, Bloomberg brings more details about this partnership. The publication explains how Apple Intelligence will actually work …
Netflix says Apple TV app integration was an accident
UPDATE: According to The Verge, Netflix spokesperson MoMo Zhou has said that Netflix support coming to the Apple TV app was unintentional. While Netflix appeared …
TikTok returns to the Apple and Google app stores, and is now available to download again
Apple and Google have brought TikTok back to their respective app stores a little more than three weeks after removing it, following the implementation of …
Google using AI to determine the age of kids is useful but terrifying
Google announced twice in a matter of days that it’ll use machine learning (AI) to estimate a user’s age so it can restrict inappropriate content …
Here’s how often you can use Deep Research with ChatGPT Plus
OpenAI unveiled Deep Research, a ChatGPT AI agent that lets you use AI to obtain answers to more complex answers. Deep Research takes longer to …
Former Google boss warns of AI ‘Bin Laden scenario’
Artificial intelligence is a hot topic this week, and not just because of the big ChatGPT news from the past few days. World leaders and …
