OpenAI is buying the AI startup that Apple's former design chief Jonathan Ive founded two years ago in a deal valued at nearly $6.5 billion.
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Google launches the NotebookLM mobile app, bringing seamless AI podcasts
Google's newly released NotebookLM app for iOS and Android brings Audio Overviews, a feature which can create an AI audio podcast from source material.
Washington is concerned that Apple’s partnership with Chinese tech giant Alibaba might benefit China’s military
Washington fears that Apple's partnership with the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on the Apple Intelligence features might benefit China's military.
Microsoft ad uses an older MacBook Air for comparison: “We’re faster than a Mac”
Microsoft's ad compares an older, previous-generation MacBook Air to the latest Windows PCs with Copilot+ branding to justify the tagline.
iOS 19 could use Apple Intelligence to conserve the iPhone’s battery
Your iPhone could last longer between charges thanks to an upcoming new feature in iOS 19 that could use Apple Intelligence to conserve battery.
Apple admits the iPhone may not stick around for much longer than another decade
Apple admits the iPhone may not stick around for much longer than another decade as AI technology could eventually replace the smartphone in your pocket.
Google Gemini gets iPad-optimized app & support for Home Screen widgets in latest update
Google has released an update for its Gemini artificial intelligence-based chat service on Wednesday, officially bringing the app up to version 1.2025.1770102 with a particularly notable change: support for a full-screen, optimized iPad app.
Google app’s new Simplify feature makes complex text easier to understand
Google's search app for iPhone and iPad has a new AI feature, called “Simplify,” to make complex text, jargon and online writing easier to understand.
Apple could tap Anthropic to bring AI code writing to Xcode after realizing Swift Assist is making up information
Apple will reportedly use large language models from Anthropic to finally bring AI code writing, testing and debugging to Xcode, its development tool.
AI-infused Siri likely arriving alongside iOS 19.4 in Spring 2026, not this fall
The revamped Siri assistant with more advanced artifical intelligence (AI) features should launch with the iOS 19.4 update, not iOS 19.0, and Apple is already testing it.
Gemini AI can now edit images, show what you’d look like with a different hair color
Gemini's mobile app for iOS and Android now lets you prompt the AI chatbot with image editing queries for both newly generated and uploaded photos.
Google hopes to integrate Gemini into iPhones with iOS 19
iOS 19, coming this fall, could bring support for AI models from Google's Gemini chatbot to boost the Apple Intelligence features on the iPhone, iPad and Mac.