Apple WWDC 2025: the 13 biggest announcements
…The Apple Watch will have a new AI-powered “Workout Buddy,” as well, which will generate personalized advice and encouragement. Live Translation is coming to calls and text messages Apple is building…
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Ring camera alerts are about to get a lot smarter
…If I don’t get the alert for the person with a mop leaving my house because the AI determined it wasn’t an anomaly, but it actually was a particularly fastidious…
Microsoft Build
…letting every website run AI search for cheap NLWeb starts by offering ChatGPT-level search to any site or app, with just a few lines of code. It’s a new vision…
‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future
…And core experiences like search, discovery, social, and personalization still feel too fragmented. Developers and publishers are asking for more, too: better tools, better insights, and a platform that…
Apple’s AI promises are finally, almost, sort of, here
…Last year, it debuted a handful of small, functional updates powered by both Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT, designed to help it catch up to other AI heavyweights in live translation, search, visual…
Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web
…Everywhere you look, though, AI is threatening the web in new and interesting ways. There’s the rise of Google’s AI-powered search results, the new browser wars happening between OpenAI…
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
…made food storage and cooking easy, without AI involvement. It doesn’t seem like there’s much AI can do to improve things over the baseline that these machines have already established…
Ordering with the Starbucks ChatGPT app was a true coffee nightmare
…In person, my brain barely needs to activate to say the words aloud; in the app, it’s four taps and I’m ready to go. My first time ordering Starbucks through…
I’m relieved Siri AI isn’t trying to be a health coach
…This is an example of Oura’s Advisor, one of the more useful AI health features I’ve tested. Still, AI nutrition logging and insights can be little better than Google searches…
Gemini is in danger of going full Copilot
…It’s showing up in all kinds of places at a relentless pace, and personally, it’s starting to really cheese me off. The AI-everywhere fatigue is familiar to anyone…