Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year
and no one saw it coming BBC : Apple wins US F1 TV rights in $750m deal Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times : F1 races to air exclusively on Apple TV next year Timi Cantisano / Android Police : YouTube TV v...
iPhone Air teardown: clever use of space by placing the logic board above the 12.26 Wh battery, the same cell used in Apple's MagSafe Battery pack, and more
I AM SHOCKED iFixit on YouTube : Apple's Thinnest iPhone Ever... Is Actually Repairable? iPhone Air Teardown Jibin Joseph / PCMag : iFixit Teardown: iPhone Air Design Choices Are a Big Win for Repaira...
Microsoft plans to raise Xbox Series X price by $50 to $649.99 and Series S by $20 to $399.99 starting Oct. 3, citing “changes in the macroeconomic environment”
second price increase of 2025 comes as shifting tariffs continue to plague tech prices Vikki Blake / Eurogamer.net : U.S. Xbox fans hit with another hardware price hike just four months after the last...
Google unveils new AI features for Chrome, including a Gemini button and AI Mode for US desktop users, and plans to add agentic features in the next few months
10 new features that reinvent your browser PYMNTS.com : Google to Add Agentic Capabilities and Other AI-Powered Features to Chrome Browser Igor Bonifacic / Engadget : Gemini in Chrome no longer requir...
Filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk talked to Mark Zuckerberg in February about backing a $97.4B OpenAI bid, but neither Zuckerberg nor Meta signed a letter of intent
for less than $100B: filings John Quintet / iPhone in Canada : Elon Musk Asked Mark Zuckerberg to Fund OpenAI Takeover: Filings Swastika Das Sharma / Livemint : Elon Musk wanted Mark Zuckerberg to joi...
Sources: Apple's AI plans include robots, like a tabletop one in 2027, a conversational Siri, a smart speaker with a display in 2026, and home security cameras
and there's a lot more devices John Quintet / iPhone in Canada : Apple Plans Home Security Devices to Take on Nest and Ring: Report Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac : Siri could get Finder-inspired new visu...
Apple's new iOS 26 beta 4 adds more “liquid” back to Liquid Glass design, after dialing it back in beta 3 following social media criticism
Pocket Casts for iOS 18 on the left, Apple Podcasts for iOS 26 on the right. Pururaj Dutta / Appleosophy : Apple rolls out the fourth beta of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26; here's what's new YTECHB : iOS 26 Be...
Trump says the US is “terminating all discussions on trade with Canada” in response to Canada's decision to impose a digital services tax on US tech firms
Talks Are Over Emma Roth / The Verge : Trump halts trade negotiations with Canada over tax on Big Tech. Tom Howell Jr / Washington Times : Trump cancels trade talks with Canada over digital tax Kris H...
Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in the iOS 18.5 and macOS 15.5 betas
without reading them Emma Roth / The Verge : Apple's complicated plan to improve its AI while protecting privacy Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Apple details how it plans to improve its AI models by privat...
Amazon announces an Alexa-focused event on February 26 in New York; sources say the company will preview its long-delayed Alexa generative AI revamp
what we expect to see Ghacks : Amazon's New AI-Powered Alexa Could Be Its Biggest Upgrade Yet Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Amazon's AI supercharged Alexa could be unveiled this month Stuart Dredge / Music ...