ChatGPT’s apps feature continues its search for a purpose. Along the way, it found a streaming partner in search of an audience. Now what?
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Journaling app Day One has reconfigured its subscription to include a more premium “Gold” plan with AI summaries and a Daily Chat feature.
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Llama is out; Muse Spark is in. Meta has unveiled its rebooted AI efforts with a new model it calls Muse Spark.
Unlike Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview announcement yesterday, Muse Spark is actually available publicly today.
Meta is also taking on the top Gemini and ChatGPT models with a new Contemplating mode that it says will roll out gradually.
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AI is now being used to make software more secure.
Anthropic announced a new initiative called Project Glasswing that includes Apple as a partner. As part of Glasswing, Anthropic is sharing a preview of its newly unveiled Claude Mythos model with select partners, including Apple.
Anthropic says Mythos has found “thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities” in “every major operating system and web browser.”
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Last month, OpenAI announced it was shutting down its Sora app after reports that leadership wanted to eliminate side quests. Now the company behind ChatGPT is buying a tech and business podcast.
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Siri may not be any better in iOS 26.5 beta, but we’re continuing to learn a lot more about iOS 27’s version. Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg that Apple is developing an upgrade to Siri that will dramatically improve its multitasking abilities.
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On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that the company is shutting down Sora, its AI-generated video app. The iPhone app only arrived in September, making its six-month existence brief and fun, much like using the app itself. It turns out Sora isn’t the only thing the makers of ChatGPT are nixing this month.
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Apple will unveil iOS 27 on June 8 at WWDC, and we’re learning new details about what to expect in the next big iPhone software release. In a new report, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has more information about changes coming to Siri, specifically.
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When Apple unveils iOS 27 on June 8, the company may reveal the first dedicated Siri app as part of the new system. Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has a new report that includes new details about Apple’s next attempt at embracing AI.
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Anthropic continues to ship in March with a new “auto mode” permissions mode in Claude Code. The company calls it a middle ground between the default configuration and skipping permissions altogether.
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Anthropic is introducing the ability for Claude to control your Mac. The feature arrives today.
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Apple has had a jam-packed March after just three weeks. The company announced eight new products, broke a Mac launch record, and highlighted 13 enhancements coming to iPhone. Next, one of the most overdue Apple releases in years could follow: Personal Intelligence for Siri and Apple Intelligence.
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Following yesterday’s Comet iOS browser release, Perplexity is back with another AI announcement: Perplexity Health. The new “suite of connectors” includes integration with Apple Health, Perplexity says.
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Sports has defeated AI for the top of the App Store. March Madness is in full swing, and that’s knocked ChatGPT out of the top downloaded apps spot for today.
In fact, it’s not just one March Madness-related app pushing around the top AI apps.
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Last summer, Perplexity launched one of the first AI-focused web browsers with Comet on the Mac. Now, the long promised iOS counterpart to Comet is available.
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Updated with Apple’s statement to 9to5Mac after the story.
AI is making app development easier than ever. However, a new report claims Apple’s App Store isn’t fully embracing these new tools. Companies behind two “vibe coding” apps that let you create tools by entering text prompts into an AI system say Apple is pushing back on the category.
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AI startup Manus has released its answer to OpenClaw and Perplexity’s Personal Computer. The similarly dubbed “My Computer” system runs on your Mac or PC, turning your machine into a personal AI agent.
Manus originally started as an independent AI firm before being acquired by Meta at the end of last year. (Meta also recently acquired another OpenClaw-adjacent project: MoltBook, the social media site for AI.)
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This week, both Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT were updated to embrace learning through interactive visualizations. Both moves show how AI is evolving from the initial chatbot phase to something more mature and helpful.
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Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer.
Now the company is taking the concept a step further with an implementation it calls Personal Computer. This version “works with a Mac mini that runs continuously, merging your local applications with Perplexity Computer.”
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Update: Anthropic now reports both issues as resolved.
Claude may have climbed up 40+ spots in the App Store this year, but the Anthropic’s AI chatbot is currently down.
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Earlier this week, OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Instant, promising to make ChatGPT less cringe and more natural when using its most popular model. Now OpenAI is back with GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro, which is an overall upgrade to its most capable frontier model.
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Vibe coding is becoming voice coding with Anthropic’s latest Claude Code feature rollout.
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OpenAI has released an update to ChatGPT that it says should make its most commonly used model less “cringe” and more natural. Users should see fewer overly dramatic, jarring responses as a result.
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