Apple’s WebKit blog published a post today highlighting the results of Interop 2025, an industry-wide effort to improve interoperability between different browsers. Here are the details. “The Year of Convergence” Interop is the result of a joint effort by Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla to “improve interoperability in 15 key areas that will … Read more
CarPlay users could soon be able to use their chatbot instead of Siri. Ace Bloomberg Apple is working to add support for CarPlay voice control apps from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others. Previously, users who wanted to access third-party chatbots in the car had to go through their iPhone, but soon they will be able … Read more
Where is Trump’s phone? We will talk about it every week. We’ve reached out as usual to ask where Trump’s phone is. This time, surprisingly, we got an answer — and an interview. Trump’s phone is real – maybe, sort of, soon? — and I saw it. Not directly, but during an hour-long video call … Read more
Electric car startup Lucid Motors sought to raise a Series D funding round in 2017. It courted Ford as a potential investor, but Jia Yueting, founder of rival startup Faraday Future, quietly amassed around a 30% stake and essentially blocked new investors. David Stern, a mysterious businessman and close adviser to the former Prince Andrew, … Read more
On March 6, NASA is scheduled to launch the Artemis II mission to the moon. And according to a recent announcement by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, it’s allowing crew members to take their smartphones with them for the first time. While the iPhone wasn’t specifically addressed, Apple MacRumors clarified that “this will be the first … Read more
It’s been four months since the iPhone Air came out, and it hasn’t exactly been a huge success. Sales are reportedly so low that Apple is delaying the next-generation model. MacRumors cameraman Dan Barbera shares what it’s been like to use Apple’s thinnest and lightest iPhone on a daily basis over the past few months. … Read more
Apple has updated its app review guidelines to expand the list of user experience content that can be removed from the App Store without notice. Here are the details. Bad news for anonymous chat apps Apple’s App Review Guidelines have an entire section dedicated to security. One of its subsections deals with user-generated content apps, … Read more
Carbon removal company Terradot is acquiring competitor Eion, the two companies announced today. Sales have largely been driven by large investors, such as sovereign wealth funds, who want to work with companies that can handle large orders. Eion was simply too small, Eion CEO Anastasia Pavlovic Hans told The Wall Street Journal. Both companies spread … Read more
CarPlay could soon support more than just Siri as Apple explores a broader approach for third-party voice tools. It looks like Apple is getting ready to allow third-party chatbots on CarPlay. This would allow users to query voice chatbots directly through the CarPlay interface. Until now, Apple has omitted voice assistants outside of CarPlay, with … Read more
Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark that measures the capabilities of AI agents in professional tasks such as law and business analytics. At the time, the results were pretty dismal, with every major lab scoring under 25%, so we concluded that lawyers were safe from AI displacement, at least for now. But AI … Read more