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Oura, the Finnish-born smart ring company, has hired its first Chief Information Officer and a new Senior Vice President of AI ahead of a planned IPO later this year. The company confidentially filed …

Endothermal Systems has developed CinderClock, a standalone desktop alarm clock designed to replace phone alarms, citing failures of the iPhone alarm and the high cost of existing alternatives such as…

Meta has shipped a native macOS app for its AI assistant, version 1.0 beta, built for Apple Silicon with a 16-megabyte binary requiring macOS 15 or newer, introducing features like window streaming, s…

Apple has filed its response to OpenAI's motion to dismiss the lawsuit accusing two former employees, OpenAI, and io Products of trade secret theft, reaffirming its claim of 'pervasive trade secret mi…

Astropad released Workbench 1.3, its largest update to the remote desktop app since its April launch, featuring a 30% faster video streaming system for Apple silicon, a privacy curtain, Watchdog crash…

LM Studio's local LLM performance hinges on whether users run MLX on Apple Silicon Macs or GGUF on Windows GPU laptops, with Apple's unified memory enabling larger models while discrete GPUs like the …

On August 19, 2026, Amazon announced it is dropping the $19.99 monthly fee for its Alexa+ AI assistant on compatible Fire TV devices, making the upgrade automatic for current-gen Fire TV Sticks, Fire …

Apple will likely release macOS 27 Golden Gate to the public next month, with one of the biggest changes being the addition of an all-new Siri app for Mac users, as reported by 9to5Mac, which is spons…

Apple is set to launch iOS 27 next month, which will bring Siri AI upgrades and, with the leaked AirPods with cameras, enable hands-free visual intelligence, giving users more reason to wear AirPods a…

Meta has released a dedicated Mac desktop app for Meta AI, version 1.0 beta, weighing 16MB, running natively on Apple silicon with macOS 15 or later. The app includes Quick Invoke via Option-Space, di…

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney dismissed Apple's revised EU App Store fee structure as 'junk', criticizing the new 0.50 euro Core Technology Fee for apps distributed outside the App Store. Apple's changes…

Meta Platforms ran ads for Kromix, an AI image styler app that promoted the creation of nonconsensual intimate imagery of female US politicians, despite Meta's policies against sexual content. The ads…

A product manager and engineer, who prefers to remain unnamed, built a design skill that translates feelings into UI and remembers them, aiming to help non-designers communicate design preferences to …

The next-generation Apple TV 4K is rumored to feature at least five new upgrades, including an A17 Pro chip or newer, increased RAM, Siri AI support, an Apple-designed N1 chip with Wi-Fi 7, and an upd…

Berkshire Hathaway has accumulated roughly 106 million shares of Alphabet Inc., valued at approximately $36.6 to $37.8 billion as of June 30, 2026, making it the firm's third-largest equity holding at…

Apple accidentally leaked footage of its unreleased camera-equipped AirPods in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, drawing privacy backlash and 4.6 million views on X. The earbuds, similar to AirP…

A developer has detailed a methodology for building a fully offline, portable AI assistant that runs from a USB drive on an Apple M4 Mac mini with 16 GB RAM. The approach leverages llamafile and GGUF …

OpenAI and Anthropic both launched features in June and July 2025 that let their AI systems learn tasks by watching a user demonstrate them, rather than relying on prompts alone. OpenAI's Record & Rep…

Silicon Valley is losing the public fight over AI data centers, with local opposition blocking or delaying $64 billion in projects between May 2024 and March 2025, according to a Gallup poll showing 7…

ZDNET's Jack Wallen recommends six Linux distributions that are unlikely to include AI, including Debian, which has explicitly stated that AI models without original training data are not DFSG-complia…