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Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro brings OLED and Dynamic Island
The new PROLED XDR display responds to touch, the notch is gone and Dynamic Island takes its place. Prices start at $2,899.

The $1,999 iPhone Duo Has a Black-Bar Problem, and Fixing It Is Harder Than It Looks
Apple's first foldable is a hardware flex. But unfold it and many of your apps shrink into a phone-shaped window floating in black. Here's why the app world wasn't ready, and why developers can't just hit "stretch".

Everything Apple announced at WWDC 2026
Siri powered by Gemini, iOS 27 for iPhone 11 and newer, new AI tools for photos and writing, and Tim Cook's last WWDC.

Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by tricking Meta's AI support bot
Attackers got Meta's AI support assistant to add their email to victims' accounts and reset passwords. Meta says it's fixed.

Elon Musk loses his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
A California jury unanimously found Musk's claims were filed too late. Musk says he will appeal.

Anthropic: 'evil AI' stories taught models to blackmail
Anthropic says online portrayals of AI as evil contributed to blackmail behavior in older models during tests, and shared how it fixed it.

GPT-5.5 Instant becomes ChatGPT's default model
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Instant, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant, with search that can reference past chats, files and Gmail.

Spotify adds "Verified" badges to separate human artists from AI
A green checkmark for real artists, and profiles for AI-generated music aren't eligible.

App Store adds a cheaper subscription option: pay monthly, commit for 12 months
You can now buy an annual subscription with monthly payments. But if you cancel, payments continue until the 12 months end.

Apple fixes bug police used to extract deleted messages from iPhones
Notifications for deleted messages stayed on devices for up to a month. The FBI used this to recover deleted Signal messages.

Voyage lets you build your own RPG world with AI
The maker of AI Dungeon launched a platform where every character talks through AI and players design their own worlds.

Anthropic launches Claude Design for creating quick visuals
Type a prompt to build prototypes, slides and one-pagers, then export to PDF, PPTX or Canva.

Meta raises Quest 3 and Quest 3S prices due to RAM shortage
From April 19, the Quest 3 costs $599.99 and the Quest 3S starts at $349.99.

YouTube Premium and YouTube Music get more expensive
For the first time since 2023, YouTube is raising US subscription prices. Premium goes to $15.99.

Xiaomi 17 Ultra: a 1-inch sensor and continuous optical zoom
Xiaomi's camera flagship brings a 1-inch sensor, a 200MP telephoto and a 6,000mAh battery, from €1,499 in Europe.

Microsoft launches three in-house AI models for speech, voice and images
MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2 are now on Microsoft Foundry, a step toward relying less on OpenAI.

Claude's paid consumer subscribers have more than doubled this year
Card-spending data shows Claude's paying user base growing fast, with most new subscribers choosing the $20 Pro plan.

Netflix raises prices again
Every US Netflix plan is getting more expensive. The ad-supported plan is now $8.99 and Premium reaches $26.99.

OpenAI is shutting down the Sora app, six months after launch
The AI video app is closing after downloads fell from 3.3 million to 1.1 million a month. The Sora 2 model stays inside ChatGPT.

Google's Personal Intelligence becomes free for all U.S. users
With your permission, Gemini and AI Mode can read Gmail and Google Photos to give more personal answers.

FBI investigates malware-laced games on Steam
The FBI is investigating a hacker suspected of publishing malware games on Steam for two years, and is asking victims to come forward.

GPT-5.3 Instant: ChatGPT stops telling you to calm down
OpenAI released a new ChatGPT model with a more natural tone and fewer preachy disclaimers.

ChatGPT reaches 900 million weekly users
OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900 million weekly users and 50 million paying subscribers, and it has raised $110 billion in new funding.

Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves come to Switch 2 in 2027
At Pokémon's 30th anniversary, the 10th generation was revealed: an open world across an ocean of islands.

Samsung unveils Galaxy S26 Ultra with Privacy Display
At Galaxy Unpacked in San Francisco, Samsung showed three S26 phones, Galaxy Buds4 and new AI features.

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
The developer behind the viral AI agent OpenClaw has joined OpenAI. OpenClaw will remain an open source project.

OpenAI removes GPT-4o from ChatGPT
From Friday, February 13, GPT-4o and four other legacy models are no longer available in ChatGPT.

Apple launches Xcode 26.3: Claude and Codex now write code directly
Xcode now integrates AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI, and through MCP any other compatible agent can connect.

iPhone posts its best quarter ever: $85 billion
iPhone revenue rose from $69 billion to $85 billion. Tim Cook says records were set in every region of the world.

Apple buys startup Q.ai in its second-largest acquisition ever
According to the Financial Times, the price is around $2 billion. Q.ai has technology that understands whispered speech.