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Update: Service appears to be coming back online for some after about half an hour. Your mileage may vary.

It’s not just you. Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, and Grok are currently experiencing what appears to be a widespread outage for many users.

Apple’s biggest event of the year is just days away. September 9 will bring the “huge launch” new CEO John Ternus recently teased, with rumors indicating new iPhones, Apple Watch models, and AirPods are coming—and possibly more. Here are the six major products expected to debut.

Siri AI on Apple Watch arrived two cycles late for watchOS 27 beta this summer. I had high hopes for how new Siri could transform Apple Watch into an AI wearable.

What actually happened in July and August is that Siri has been remarkably unusable in watchOS 27 beta. Like “hold off on updating” bad.

This week, I half-expected Apple to remove “Siri AI” from watchOS 27 beta 8 and revert to the previous version of Siri. Instead, I think Siri AI on Apple Watch actually got good?

Brydge, the Apple accessory company that came back from the dead back in 2023, has just announced a new set of colour-matched keyboards for the entry-level iPad.

While Apple offers the iPad itself in a choice of four colours, the Magic Keyboard for it is only available in white. That’s what prompted Brydge to launch its latest lineup …

While Apple has long used privacy as a selling point for both its hardware and services, I do wonder whether it now regrets introducing one privacy measure: App Tracking Transparency (ATT).

For something with rather limited scope, it sometimes feels like scarcely a month goes by without a new antitrust lawsuit or regulator challenging it. A third ATT lawsuit is being brought in the UK – this one with a twist.

This piece has been updated with a response by Apple at the end of the piece …

A Chinese leaker with some track record has posted images of claimed circuit diagrams of the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models.

These suggest that the new A20 Pro chip may have seven GPU cores – one more than its predecessor – and a faster memory interface …

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A new market intelligence report suggests that Apple will be paying four times more for iPhone 18 Pro memory than it did for last year’s model.

TrendForce says that Apple won’t be passing on the full impact to customers, and will be increasingly looking to Services revenue to offset higher hardware manufacturing costs …

Syncing your Philips Hue lights to your TV display used to be a rather expensive undertaking, at $385 for the company’s Sync Box 8K. A couple of new products now bring that cost down to as little as $120.

Additionally, you can now integrate Nanoleaf wall panels into your Philips Hue ecosystem thanks to a new $40 Wall Light Module …

Apple’s AirPods lineup is stronger than ever, but there are already rumors about what’s coming next. Here’s everything we know so far about when Apple will release new AirPods.

Apple TV kicks off its big fall lineup this week with Mayday, a new Ryan Reynolds film that’s part buddy comedy, part action spy thriller. And the first reviews say the movie’s a winner.

iOS 27 is packed with powerful features like Siri AI and upgrades to productivity apps like Apple Mail, Notes, Reminders, and Calendar. But for many users, some of iOS 27’s best changes might be bug fixes that make apps run better than ever—here are three coming to Apple Mail.

iPhone 18 Pro is launching next week, and expected to feature three upgrades that have been rumored for years. Here’s what’s coming.

GymKit has been one of Apple Watch’s smartest fitness features since it launched in 2017. Tap your watch to compatible gym equipment, and Apple Watch shares your heart rate while the machine sends back metrics like distance, incline, pace, and calories.

With iOS 27, Apple is expanding that idea beyond Apple Watch. I tested the new GymKit on iPhone and AirPods Pro 3 experience with a GymKit-compatible treadmill. It basically gives you the Apple Watch GymKit workout tracking experience, just without the watch. This could be useful in a lot of scenarios.

Apple won the ‘Best Picture’ Oscar for CODA back in 2022, and now director Siân Heder is back with another potential winner: Being Heumann. Here’s the new trailer.

Apple has a new M6 MacBook Pro launching this fall with a 14-inch screen and the current industrial design. Now that the M6 chip has officially been unveiled, here are three upgrades to expect from the new MacBook Pro.

iOS 27 introduces several improvements for Apple Pay, including a fully overhauled checkout flow that’s the service’s best upgrade in years.

Apple is rolling out support for Apple Wallet driver’s license integration to a new state. Starting today, Oklahoma residents can add their license to the Wallet app on iPhone and Apple Watch for easy mobile access.

Elon University has partnered with The Washington Post to conduct what turned out to be a worrying survey about Americans viewing AI chatbots as virtual friends or therapists.

The results very much vindicate Apple’s careful decision to ensure that Siri AI doesn’t encourage such pseudo-relationships …

Adobe is bringing its creative and productivity tools directly into Slack, letting teams create and edit images, videos, designs and PDFs without leaving the conversations where projects already take shape.

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Greenpeace says the adoption of AI poses the biggest threat to Apple’s environmental track record, and argues that how the company responds will be the “defining test” of whether it really means what it says.

Apple’s environmental achievements to date have been unrivalled, but the massive data center demands created by Siri AI and other Apple Intelligence features could change all of that …