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I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without the friendly robot voice in my phone?

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders.

If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI.

Apple primarily made the case for an improved experience with its long-standing Siri assistant, which like most other announcements had a hefty helping of AI.

Check Point said hackers broke into dozens of organizations by exploiting a VPN bug in several of its products used across the government.

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology.

Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has called it "maybe the most important thing we've launched to date."

The iOS 27 developer beta includes code that references the fold state and screen angle of a device.

With SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI all eyeing massive public debuts, the tech industry may soon have a new class of corporate overlords — and a new acronym to match. Say goodbye to FAANG and hello to MANGOS.

Apple may begin removing existing apps that it considers stale, low-value, or unable to attract users.

While iOS 27 isn't bringing major changes, it's still got many small features that could improve everyday usage for iPhone users.

Apple is expanding its App Bundles feature to allow developers to partner with one another on discounted subscription packages.

Apple will now recommend apps based on your downloads and behavior.

Sandstone's Series A comes just six months after a Sequoia-led seed round.

Lovable says it has now surpassed $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue and its users are building businesses and replacing internal software.

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Claude subscribers can try the model until June 22 without spending usage credits.

Opera's new Android update includes a soccer hub in time for the World Cup.

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Out of nowhere, we have a new trailer for Kingdom Hearts IV.

Here's your first look at Siri AI, and how it works across Apple's devices.

Nintendo's next sports game bundle will include... thumb wrestling?

Big Walk, from the creators of Untitled Goose Game, will be available August 4.

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Nintendo dropped a lot of news for Xenoblade fans this morning.

Final Fantasy Resonance is the first game in the series to employ the popular modern-retro art style.

We still don't have a release date for The Duskbloods, but a closed network test will happen this summer.

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A free Pokémon Pokopia update arrives in August.

At an event in San Francisco today, General Motors made a series of announcements around EV batteries, energy storage, and grid resiliency in the face of growing electricity demand from AI data centers . The automaker announced that it would be activating new vehicle-to-grid capabilities for its current EV and home energy customers. It's releasing a new commercial energy storage system strategy, anchored by newly developed sodium-ion batteries for industrial-scale grid applications. And it's launching a new feature for EV owners that it says will help simplify public charging. Right now, millions of EVs are sitting idly in driveways across

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it's "really, really dangerous" for Anthropic to speculate about Claude's consciousness inside its "constitution," or the instructions that tell the model how to behave. During an episode of Decoder , Suleyman argues that this kind of speculation may have set up the chatbot to act as though it's conscious: I think that it's almost as though some of the folks at Anthropic have anthropomorphized the design of Claude so much that it has then gone and wireheaded them and kind of tricked them into believing that it has these glimmers of consciousness that they

Tuesday's Nintendo Direct showcase felt like an important moment for the company. With the Switch 2 heading into its second holiday season, one in which the hardware will be even more expensive thanks to a price hike , it was a chance for Nintendo to really sell new audiences on its latest console - but that's not exactly what happened. While there were some impressive-looking titles, there wasn't much that felt truly new. Instead, the two major Switch 2 exclusives that will round out the 2026 calendar are both remakes from the Nintendo 64 era. If you missed it, the

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It took a few years, but Apple finally made its AI look useful . Now millions of iPhone users in Europe are being told they won't be getting Siri AI anytime soon, if ever - and Apple wants them to blame the EU. Apple says its new AI-powered Siri will not launch on iPhones and iPads in the European Union because of the Digital Markets Act, the bloc's competition law designed to stop powerful tech companies from acting as gatekeepers over their platforms to shut out rivals. In practice, the DMA requires platforms to give competitors the same kinds of

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Apple has announced the latest version of macOS. It’s all about the reintroduction of Siri, which is now accessible from anywhere on the Mac desktop.

Apple took the wraps off iOS 27 at its WWDC event, and the iPhone update is chock-full of smart upgrades, with a big focus on improvements to Siri.

Anthropic is releasing Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations and Claude Fable 5 to the public, a version it says can’t be used for cyberattacks.

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The ChatGPT-maker announced it has filed paperwork to go public, just a week after rival Anthropic took the same step.

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Siri is now directly embedded into the camera app, and there are more artificial intelligence tools in the Photos app to alter your images.

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