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Anthropic's Claude Can Now Create Interactive Visuals Directly in Conversations
8+ hour, 52+ min ago (148+ words) Anthropic's Claude chatbot has been updated with support for inline visual content that will help it provide clearer answers. Claude is able to display current weather conditions and forecasts when users ask about the weather in specific locations, and it…...
MacBook Neo Teardown: Modular Ports, Glue-Less Battery, Zero Tape
17+ hour, 50+ min ago (276+ words) A teardown of the new MacBook Neo by Australian YouTube repair channel Tech Re-Nu reveals what may be the most modular and repair-friendly Mac laptop in recent times. The Neo is shown being taken apart in just six minutes, suggesting…...
Apple Holds an Edge as Laptop Prices Could Face a 40% Increase
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (237+ words) Apple's Mac lineup will soon span a wider price range than ever, from the new $599 MacBook Neo to a rumored top-of-the-line MacBook "Ultra" expected later this year. However, new research suggests the broader laptop market could be heading for a…...
Apple's Shazam Music Recognition Now Available in ChatGPT
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (221+ words) ChatGPT is now able to identify songs that are playing using Apple-owned music service Shazam. With a new Shazam integration, ChatGPT users can type in a question like "Shazam, what is this song?" to bring up a "Tap to Shazam…...
Apple Adds Three Executives to Leadership Page
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (147+ words) Apple on Friday added three new executive profiles to its leadership page for Jennifer Newstead, Molly Anderson, and Steve Lemay. Apple also updated Eddy Cue's title to Senior Vice President of Services and Health on the page, and he received…...
Apple's M5 Max Chip Achieves a New Record in First Benchmark Result
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (404+ words) The first Geekbench 6 result for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip surfaced today, and Apple has achieved record-breaking performance. In this unconfirmed result, the M5 Max with an 18-core CPU achieved a score of 29,233 for multi-core CPU performance, which…...
Mac Studio 512GB RAM Option Disappears Amid Global DRAM Shortage
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (359+ words) Apple quietly updated Mac Studio configuration options this week, removing the 512GB memory upgrade. As of yesterday, there is no option to purchase a "Mac Studio" with 512GB RAM, with the machine now maxing out at 256GB. The "Mac Studio" starts with 36GB RAM,…...
This iOS Exploit Kit Has 23 Attacks – But Lockdown Mode Stops It Cold
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (435+ words) Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has a new report out about a powerful iOS exploit kit called "Coruna," which traveled from a surveillance vendor's customer to a Russian espionage group to Chinese cybercriminals, revealing a sophisticated exploit "supply chain" in…...
NotebookLM Now Creates Cinematic Video Overviews Out of Your Notes
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (192+ words) Google's NotebookLM AI-based tool can now turn your research and notes into fully animated "cinematic" videos " an advancement over its original video overview feature that was introduced last year. Before now, video overviews were limited to generating slideshows of your…...
ChatGPT Gets GPT-5.3 Instant Update With Less 'Cringe,' Fewer Hallucinations
1+ week, 2+ day ago (234+ words) OpenAI today updated its most popular ChatGPT model, debuting GPT-5.3 Instant. GPT-5.3 Instant is supposed to provide more accurate answers and better contextualized results when searching the web. The update also cuts down on unnecessary dead ends, caveats, and overly…...