In mid-February, the Justice Department lost its top antitrust enforcer — just weeks before it was scheduled to go to trial in one of the biggest antitrust cases of the year. Antitrust chief Gail Slater announced her departure suddenly via a post on her personal X account. But it was far from surprising to those … Read more
Meta finally brings scheduled messages to WhatsApp and provides one of the app’s most requested features. Here’s how it will work. Yes, WhatsApp still doesn’t support it As you noticed WABetaInfonew references found in the recent TestFlight WhatsApp beta suggest that Meta is laying the groundwork for introducing scheduled messages to the app. According to … Read more
The creators of Dark Sky, who sold their popular weather app to Apple in March 2020, are back with a new take on weather forecasting. The team recently announced the launch of their new Acme Weather app, which they claim offers a better and more reliable forecast than what they had on Dark Sky. The … Read more
The last few years of Xbox have been expensive. Under the leadership of Phil Spencer, Microsoft has spent billions of dollars trying to build an ambitious future for gaming that looks a lot like Netflix. And while its Game Pass subscription service started out as a bargain for gamers (though not so much now), that … Read more
Anthropic alleges that DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI companies misused its Claude AI model to improve their own products. In Monday’s announcement, Anthropic says “industrial-scale campaigns” involved the creation of approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts and more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, as it previously reported. The Wall Street Journal. The three companies – … Read more
Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI companies of setting up more than 24,000 fake accounts with its Claude AI model to improve their own models. The labs — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax — reportedly generated more than 16 million exchanges with Claude through these accounts using a technique called “distillation.” Anthropic said the labs “focused … Read more
Uber has an offer for autonomous vehicle manufacturers: we’ve got it. The food transportation and delivery company has launched a new division called Uber Autonomous Solutions designed to take over all the tasks involved in operating a robotaxi, self-driving truck or robotic sidewalk delivery, including software and support services. The initiative, announced Monday, formalizes what … Read more
Newly released videos from Apple’s two-day event focus on three key AI-related areas: reasoning and planning, agent applications, and model development. Here are the details. Valuable material despite being seven months old Last July. Apple held an event called the Workshop on Reasoning and Planning, which included presentations and discussions by Apple engineers and researchers … Read more
After the first beta was iPhone-only, the second iOS 26.4 developer beta allows iPhones and Androids to trade fully encrypted RCS messages for the first time. You may recall that in the first developer beta of iOS 26.4, Apple introduced end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messaging. You may also remember that it was extremely limited … Read more
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld explores Apple’s Visual Intelligence technology, which launched with the iPhone 16 Pro and could become a defining feature for upcoming AI wearables like smart glasses and camera-equipped AirPods Pro. This artificial intelligence system identifies objects through cameras and provides contextual information while maintaining privacy through on-device … Read more