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OpenAI has been announcing a lot of new features and enhancements for ChatGPT in recent days, and the company still has a few more cards up its sleeve. Now OpenAI is introducing an intriguing feature: the ability to call ChatGPT using your phone line without the need for cellular data.

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In a blog post today, Apple engineers have shared new details on a collaboration with NVIDIA to implement faster text generation performance with large language models.

Apple published and open sourced its Recurrent Drafter (ReDrafter) technique earlier this year. It represents a new method for generating text with LLMs that is significantly faster and “achieves state of the art performance.” It combines two techniques: beam search (to explore multiple possibilities) and dynamic tree attention (to efficiently handle choices).

iOS 18.2 is a huge release for users. New Apple Intelligence features are a major highlight, but so too is the Mail app, which gets its biggest redesign ever. Here’s everything that’s new.

Apple’s AirTag is a fantastic product with a lot of helpful use cases. Its greatest flaw, though, is battery life. Fortunately, there’s a new accessory that makes your AirTag battery last much, much longer.

Apple is no longer planning to create a “hardware subscription service” to make it as easy as possible to get a new iPhone every year. Bloomberg reports that the goal was “to make owning an iPhone like subscribing to an app,” but the project was “recently wound down.”

Apple has debuted the first public beta for a host of forthcoming software updates, including macOS Sequoia 15.3, iPadOS 18.3, tvOS 18.3, and more. Here’s what’s new.

Apple has released iOS 18.3 public beta 1 today. The new beta offers a preview of the iPhone’s next software update to members of Apple’s beta software program. Here’s what to expect from today’s release.

TikTok is running out of options to avert its impending US ban. But one of the only sources of hope left for TikTok has just come through. The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok’s arguments against the forthcoming ban. Here are the details.

iOS 18.2 introduced a new feature for AirTag and other items in the Find My app, and it may just save you a lot of stress and trouble the next time you lose something important.

Apple’s AirPods Max update this year wasn’t a full-blown AirPods Max 2, but rather a switch to USB-C and color swap. Unfortunately, the new USB-C model also lost a key feature that was supported by the original.

Electricity regulators are concerned that the huge growth in AI usage could lead to power blackouts in the US and Canada as early as next year. The prediction was published shortly after the public release of iOS 18.2 brought many more Apple Intelligence features online.

Artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT and Apple’s own Private Cloud Compute servers will see data center power usage double in the course of just four years, and power grids will likely struggle to keep up with this demand …

The most popular home internet router brand in the US may be banned from sale in the country over fears that it represents a threat to national security.

Three separate US agencies have opened investigations into TP-Link routers, which account for 65% of the US market, in part because badged versions are supplied to customers by more than 300 ISPs …

Two leakers, each with enough of a track record to give them some credibility, are clashing over the iPhone 17 camera layout.

The first says that the iPhone 17 Pro will adopt a horizontal layout in a module with a similar shape to the Dynamic Island, while the other says that the design of the camera module is indeed changing but the triangular arrangement remains …

Meta this week announced new features coming to its smart glasses designed in partnership with Ray-Ban. Ray-Ban Meta glasses will soon gain new AI capabilities as well as integration with Apple’s Shazam to identify songs.

Meta has been working on a lot of new features for Threads, its microblogging platform, and there’s another one coming soon. The company has now teased a long-awaited option that will let users schedule posts for a later time.

The iPhone 16’s Camera Control feature arrived to mixed reviews, including from me. But iOS 18.2 upgrades the feature in several key ways, making it what it was always meant to be.

Apple Intelligence was first announced this June to much fanfare, and now it’s finally available via iOS 18.1 and iOS 18.2. But at least one early report say it’s not really changing the world. Here’s why that’s not a surprise, and it’s also very much not the last word.

Apple has officially started beta testing iOS 18.3. The update comes with minor changes for iPhone users. Here’s everything you need to know.

One of my favorite Apple TV+ shows of the year, Bad Monkey, is officially getting a season 2 from Apple. Here’s the full announcement.