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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Meta announces Llama 3.3 70B, a text-only model that Meta claims can deliver the performance of its largest Llama model at a lower cost
7.0M — 2,040 … The fine-tuning data includes publicly available … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Meta Unveils New Llama 3.3 70B AI Model with Higher Cost-Efficiency Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : ...
Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT and found Siri to be antiquated
here's the key upgrades Adam Davidson / Pocket-lint : Siri is outdated, but a better version might be coming The Economic Times : iOS 18: Your iPhone may soon have ChatGPT Griffin Eckstein / Salon : A...
Instagram now lets users edit DMs up to 15 minutes after sending, pin up to three messaging threads to the top of their inbox, and save their favorite stickers
Joining Facebook And WhatsApp Hadlee Simons / Android Authority : Instagram picks up a few much-needed features from WhatsApp BetaNews : Now you can edit Instagram DMs, pin messages and more Tsveta Er...
Microsoft says that Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Loop, and Copilot features will be available on Apple Vision Pro at launch on February 2
Teams, Word, Excel and more are going virtual, and there's even Copilot Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Microsoft shows off its day one Vision Pro apps, including Copilot AI integration Devesh Beri / MSPowe...