How Apple Intelligence could avoid Microsoft and Google’s AI mistakes

Apple’s spin on AI is finally here, and it already seems smarter than Microsoft Copilot and Google Bard. Apple Intelligence focuses on privacy and “personal intelligence,” with a bit of an assist from ChatGPT. While we haven’t tested it ourselves yet, Apple appears to be […]

Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple’s ChatGPT integrations

Elon Musk is threatening to ban iPhones from all his companies over the newly announced OpenAI integrations Apple announced at WWDC 2024 on Monday. In a series of posts on X, the Telsa, SpaceX and xAI exec wrote that “if Apple integrates OpenAI at the […]

iOS 18 will let you record calls — and tells everyone for their privacy

Image: Apple Apple will let you record and transcribe phone calls in iOS 18. The company announced the feature during its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday and says it will automatically tell call participants that they’re being recorded. The image shared by Apple shows a […]

How does Apple send your data to its cloud AI servers? Very carefully, it claims.

For years, Apple has touted privacy as its major advantage over rivals like Google and Microsoft. Instead of relying on cloud processing to improve or organize your images, which requires sending your photos to Google’s servers, Apple handles those tasks directly on your device. But […]

Empire of the Ants will let you explore a photorealistic bug’s life this November

Empire of the Ants, a real-time strategy game with dazzlingly photorealistic insects and other critters, arrives on November 7. Although the game doesn’t sound like it’s exactly a remake, it comes from the same publisher (and draws from the same source material) as the 2000 […]