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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Anthropic is taking advantage of Claude’s recent increase in mindshare with a new memory import tool to encourage switching from competing AI chatbot systems.
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AI chatbots currently take up the top three spots on the US App Store’s Top Downloaded charts. For Anthropic’s Claude, which takes the first-place position right now, that’s a jump from 42nd place just two months ago.
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A new report says that Apple will replace Core ML with a modernized Core AI framework at WWDC, helping developers better leverage modern AI capabilities with their apps in iOS 27.
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OpenAI is well on its way to reporting 1 billion weekly active ChatGPT users. The company today claims 900 million weekly active users, a 350% increase since just 18 months ago.
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Anthropic just released the second Claude model upgrade this month. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the first upgrade to Anthropic’s medium-sized AI model since version 4.5 arrived in September 2025.
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Despite inking a deal with Google to use Gemini AI as the brains behind upgraded Siri, Apple is reportedly facing internal challenges in getting the final product ready for prime time. The reported delays could stretch into iOS 27 this fall. Apple first announced a more capable version of Siri in 2024; that update hasn’t shipped yet.
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When Apple previewed “next-generation CarPlay” in 2022, it felt like Apple froze development of the CarPlay version actually used by drivers. Eventually, next-gen CarPlay became CarPlay Ultra, and CarPlay for non-Aston Martin drivers rapidly started to see new improvements again. Now it sounds like that trend will continue either before or as part of iOS 27.
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While AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Gemini feature conversational voice mode, the apps don’t exactly work well with Apple CarPlay. That will soon change, it appears, with an upcoming iOS software update.
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