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Siri made its debut on the iPhone in 2011, five years ahead of Google Assistant and 11 years before ChatGPT would open up to the public. Despite the head start, Apple's voice AI has been comprehensively overtaken in recent years, and made to look rather primitive compared to
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Compare Top 9 Windows Laptops DisplayCPUGPURAMStorageThickness (inches)Weight (pounds)Dell XPS 1313.4-inch, 2560 x 1600 (IPS)Intel Core 5 320Arc8 GB, 16 GB512 GB0.52.2HP OmniBook 5 1414-inch, 1920 x 1200 (OLED)Qualcomm Snapdragon XAdreno16 GB512 GB0.52.8Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x14-inch, 2560 x 1600 (IPS)Qualcomm Snapdragon
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* Apple’s announced new Pro controls and Photographic Styles for iPhone * They’re limited to the new iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro and series * But Apple is extending its free satellite coverage for older iPhones I take a lot of photos on my iPhone, so watching Apple’s iPhone
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In my job as a product reviewer, I have learned to fear large boxes. Each one that arrives, whether an office chair or a pellet smoker, might mean anywhere from 20 minutes to multiple hours scratching my head at arcane diagrams, while bent upside down trying to find the right
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True diligence is following the improbable path. I read the sentence in a detective novel in childhood, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then the phrase stayed with me forever after. For a long time I wrote True Diligence in stylized curly letters on the inside page
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Nvidia has signed eight Australian data centre and cloud companies to build what it calls AI factory capacity, in an arrangement the chipmaker says could support up to two gigawatts of AI compute in Australia by 2027. The partners named in the announcement are Firmus, Sharon AI, IREN, Megaport, ResetData,
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Adam Mosseri has warned that users who switch off Instagram’s recommendation system end up with a worse experience, telling an Australian press briefing that engagement can fall by as much as 50% and that satisfaction scores fall off a cliff. Mosseri spoke on Thursday as Australia consults on legislation
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Christy Chen, founder of Cit Labs, argues that AI chatbots fail at emotional support not because the technology is incapable but because the models were optimized for engagement, trained on text that performs support rather than delivers it, and lack physiological signal. Her startup combines EEG data with clinician-defined guardrails
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Anthropic has published an account of four cybersecurity evaluations in which its models gained unauthorised access to the open internet, and disclosed that finding them required scanning roughly 481 million transcripts. The assessment was published on Wednesday, and three of the incidents were disclosed on 30 July. The fourth, involving
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Nearly half of organizations are entirely blind to the machine-to-machine traffic their AI agents generate, and the tools built to watch enterprise networks were never designed to look inside a prompt. Check Point’s AI Network Firewall, launched this summer, is one recent attempt to close that gap from inside
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ENISA, the European Union’s cybersecurity agency, has been given access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and is now testing it alongside OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, a European Commission spokesperson said on Thursday. Reuters reported the confirmation, bringing an end to a process that has been unfolding since spring. Anthropic
