Amazon is using Alexa Plus to bring new AI capabilities to its Music streaming service. Starting today, customers in the Alexa Plus Early Access beta will be able to access the generative AI assistant within the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android, allowing users across all subscription tiers to request obscure information or complex […]
The Switch 2’s popularity has exceeded even Nintendo’s anticipations, with the company raising its sales forecast for the console by more than 25 percent. In its latest earnings release, covering April 1st to September 30th, Nintendo now predicts that it’ll sell 19 million Switch 2 units by March 2026, compared to its previous forecast of […]
OpenAI says ChatGPT’s behavior “remains unchanged” after reports across social media falsely claimed that new s updates to its usage policy prevent the chatbot from offering legal and medical advice. Karan Singhal, OpenAI’s head of health AI, writes on X that the claims are “not true.” “ChatGPT has never been a substitute for professional advice, […]
Apple has just released iOS 26.1, which includes a new transparency toggle for Liquid Glass. The toggle helps address some of the legibility issues introduced in iOS 26 by allowing iPhone users to tone down the glassy design for buttons, tabs, and other navigational elements. As teased during the iOS 26.1 beta, with the toggle, […]
Apple has launched its App Store on the web, offering a central hub where you can browse through different categories of apps across all of the company’s devices, as spotted earlier by MacRumors and 9to5Mac. Now, when you navigate to apps.apple.com, you’ll see the revamped interface instead of a webpage that just contains information about […]
Apple has shared a new intro sound and video that will accompany things you watch on the newly-renamed Apple TV streaming service. Apple rebranded Apple TV Plus to just Apple TV last month, and the previous intro prominently highlighted the plus, so it makes sense that Apple made a new version to accompany the updated […]
The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), an anti-piracy organization representing Japanese IP holders like Studio Ghibli and Bandai Namco, released a letter last week asking OpenAI to stop using its members’ content to train Sora 2, as reported by Automaton. The letter states that “CODA considers that the act of replication during the machine learning […]
Coca-Cola is once again using generative AI to reimagine its classic Coke caravan holiday commercials, and in doing so, killing some of the festive joy you have for the brand. After receiving backlash for airing three AI-generated holiday commercials last year that featured gliding wheels and uncanny-looking faces, the company has doubled down with a […]
Waymo said it plans on launching commercial robotaxi services in three new cities: San Diego, Las Vegas, and Detroit. The announcement comes after the company said it would begin rapidly scaling to bring its fully driverless technology to more people on a faster timeline. Waymo didn’t say exactly when it plans on opening up its […]
OpenAI has struck a $38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services that will give the AI giant access to “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia GPUs to power its AI models. The seven-year partnership comes as Microsoft continues to loosen its grip on OpenAI, dropping its status as its exclusive cloud provider and losing the first […]