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Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.

The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.

Apple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air.

Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.

The Siri Recap feature is similar to other note-taking apps like Granola.

The legal AI startup and VC darling has nearly doubled its valuation in nine months.

The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.

Most notably, Apple is taking aim at the growing wave of AI wearables with new "Audio Intelligence" features that let you rewind moments and remember details from daily conversations.

Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.

The AirPods 5 support better noise cancellation, Siri AI, and offer volume controls on the stem.

Unlike early iterations of foldables, which looked like vertical slabs, Apple adopted a wider form factor that could aid in a better aspect ratio while watching videos when the device is unfolded.

The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.

Apple's new iPhone 18 Pro lineup upgrades the camera and comes in burgundy.

The investigation also comes as the DOJ has faced criticism over how it handles major mergers, including questions about political influence.

AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these systems do? On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan is joined by Connor Leahy, an AI researcher, entrepreneur, and now the U.S. Executive Director of […]

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Apple announced the company's first device with a folding screen today, the iPhone Duo , but that's where the firsts end. The Duo is not only far from the first foldable on the market thanks to the efforts of Samsung and Google , but it's also not the first product to be called the Duo. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs popularized the saying "good artists copy, great artists steal," but will the iPhone Duo's folding screen, which features a custom nano-texture display material to help minimize the visibility of its crease, be enough to make us forget these other Duos

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Paying more for a new phone seems almost unavoidable after Apple's event today. The new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max start at $1,199 and $1,299, respectively - a $100 price hike over their predecessors. You can't dodge the price hike by opting for an older iPhone, either, because Apple raised prices on those by $100, too . And it's not just Apple. This year, the $100 price hike has been a trend across the industry. Google and Samsung followed the same formula as Apple when they each launched new phones over the past few months. The Pixel 11 starts

Suno's new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on." The data includes content licensed from partners Warner Music Group , BMG , and Believe , as well as " user data ." It's unclear whether that means v6 training data is completely free of dubiously obtained content . One of the big changes in v6 is that there are

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial. | (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images) OpenAI's announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics' legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both an undeniable achievement and a striking demonstration of just how rapidly AI is transforming mathematics . But before it was even formally announced, the breakthrough had been complicated by the unusual circumstances that prompted OpenAI to pursue the problem: After hearing other researchers were making progress, it seems to have thrown its considerable resources

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The company’s September event introduced Apple’s first ever foldable iPhone, along with new iPhone 18 Pro models, updates to the Apple Watch, some AirPods, and more advances to Siri AI.

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The iPhone with a folding screen is the first radical redesign of Apple’s flagship handset in years. The iPhone Duo will cost $1,999 when it arrives in October.

Apple’s latest smartwatches—the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4—get a faster chip, expanded health tracking, and new Siri capabilities. Plus, the ceramic finish is back.

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