Apple's iPhone camera lens covers are made of sapphire, not glass, making them highly scratch-resistant, according to John Gruber of Daring Fireball. Gruber cites YouTube durability tester Zack 'Jerry…
Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content and announced that it will embed imperceptible watermarks into text generated by its Claude …
Terry Godier's astronomy app Dark Hours was blocked from the App Store after Apple cited its astrology content, leading to a retraction from John Gruber of Daring Fireball, who had defended the app ba…
Apple Inc. filed a court filing in its lawsuit against OpenAI, stating that the unauthorized downloads of confidential documents by former employee Chang Liu were not based on iCloud activity but inst…
OpenAI published an unbylined blog post responding to Apple's lawsuit and motion for a preliminary injunction, arguing that Apple is getting the case wrong. The post highlights that Apple's outside co…
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, revealed at Y Combinator's Startup School that he set Claude, running in Slack and wired to a macOS runner on GitHub, to rewrite Anthropic's Electron…
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, argued in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that artificial intelligence should be distributed widely to empower individuals rather than concentrated among a few powerf…
A U.S. district court has dismissed Google's lawsuit against SerpApi, which scraped Google search results to train AI models, ruling that Google failed to show copyright holders authorized it to act. …
The U.S. should pass a law making data collection for training models fair use and barring terms of service that forbid distillation, argues Ben Thompson on Stratechery. He also suggests Alibaba's rel…
OpenAI's decision to merge Codex into ChatGPT and rename the combined app has drawn sharp criticism from analysts, with MG Siegler calling the rollout a 'colossal fuck-up' and John Gruber arguing the …
Software engineer Nate Meyvis argues against the view that large language models make code a mere 'materialized view' of ideas, citing Hyrum's Law, platform differences, and performance concerns. He e…
The new logo for President Donald J. Trump International Airport, formerly Palm Beach International Airport, appears to be generated by AI, featuring crooked stars and other sloppy details, as noted b…
OpenAI's new ChatGPT Mac app, a 'Super App' merging ChatGPT and Codex, has been criticized for its confusing UI, poor performance as an Electron app, and clunky 'ChatGPT Work' branding that misleads u…
John Gruber reflects on his experience with the proto-chatbot ELIZA, calling it a "selfless void" and arguing that people who considered it a useful confidant "suffered-a-permanent-head-injury wrong."…
John Gruber criticized Claude's desktop app for being 800 MB, calling it an 'inside job' and comparing its construction oversight to a hammer manufacturer overseeing a building. He also slammed Meta a…
Anthropic's Claude Mac app is built with Electron instead of native code, a decision tech commentator John Gruber attributes to engineering lead Felix Rieseberg, a co-maintainer of Electron. Gruber's …
Anthropic's Claude desktop app for macOS remains a poorly received Electron-based application, drawing criticism from UI designers and tech commentators like John Gruber for its lack of native Mac int…
Senator Bernie Sanders falsely claimed Apple spent $310 billion on stock buybacks last year, when SEC filings show the actual figure was $89 billion. John Gruber criticizes Sanders for economic ignora…
Om Malik, renowned tech journalist and investor, died two days ago after a long battle with a heart condition. Known for his keen analysis, generosity, and acerbic criticism, he was a fixture at Apple…
John Gruber of Daring Fireball joined the MacBreak Weekly panel to discuss Apple's new Siri AI following WWDC, sharing his real-life experience that the new Siri is really good. The episode also cover…