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Three and a half years since OpenAI ushered artificial intelligence into the mainstream with the release of ChatGPT, its CEO and cofounder says the company is entering its third phase — making AI abundant, accessible, and safe.Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s chief scientist, published a blog post on Monday outlining their plan for the company. They said the first phase of OpenAI was about research toward artificial general intelligence, while the second was about offering their products to the world and learning how people actually use them.”Now we are entering the third phase,” Altman and Pachocki wrote. “The economy…
Apple wants older iPhones to run better.That’s why on Monday, Apple announced that one of its major efficiency improvements will be coming to iPhones as old as the iPhone 11 lineup.When iOS 27 arrives this fall, older iPhones will have access to an advanced CPU scheduler, a system already available on newer models that helps manage a phone’s workload.Stacey Ford, Apple’s vice president of OS program management, said the addition “will make older iPhones feel even more responsive.””Even when you’re doing a ton of things at once requiring a whole lot of compute, the CPU scheduler ensures the right work…
OpenAI has filed its confidential S-1, the first official step toward a blockbuster IPO.The ChatGPT developer announced the filing on Monday in a short, blunt blog post. The confidential S-1 draft gives the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission time to review OpenAI’s plans for an eventual public listing — though the post made it sound like that could be a ways out.”We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it,” OpenAI’s post said. “We have not decided on timing yet; it may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a…
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company announced Monday in a blog post. The filing comes a little more than a week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public, ramping up the race between the two AI firms. OpenAI, which was last valued at $852 billion post-money, submitted a draft registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed IPO. The company didn’t list the number of shares or set a price. The filing is the latest signal that 2026 will be a blockbuster year for the public markets.…
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday started off with an apology of sorts. Instead of jumping right into the headline news about a revamped AI-powered Siri, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi spent the first stretch of the keynote on a list of repairs. For the past two years, Apple has been racing to catch up in AI while frustrations with its core software quietly added up: a design overhaul users hated, a search function that barely worked, a file-sharing feature that routinely failed, and a Health app that didn’t focus enough on half its user base.…
Siri’s full-fledged AI moment is finally here.On Monday, Apple unveiled its long-awaited, much-delayed overhaul of Siri as it looks to catch up in the AI race.”Today, we are introducing an entirely new version of Siri, Siri unlocked by Apple Intelligence,” said Mike Rockwell, VP of engineering, said during the company’s 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference. “We call it Siri AI.”The new Siri AI will exist within Apple’s software ecosystem but also as a standalone app. Siri AI will launch in beta later this year, but it will not launch in the European Union or China initially. The new Siri standalone app. …
Apple is hoping to draw in newer developers with lower AI infrastructure costs, the company announced during its developer keynote at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. The tech giant said that developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads will be able to use its Foundation Models running in Private Cloud Compute, with no cloud API cost. “It’s access to frontier-tier level intelligence with unparalleled privacy protections, because getting started exploring ideas shouldn’t be held back by infrastructure costs,” the presenter noted. The “under 2 million” figure is another means of capturing the indie developer audience, similar…
Apple today announced a slate of new Apple Intelligence updates across its apps at WWDC 2026, including tab management for Safari, one-tap password updating, cross-app context awareness, and AI-powered shortcut creation via natural language. Safari is getting AI-powered tab management that groups tabs by topic automatically. It can also suggest and add related tabs to an existing group. The company is also adding a page monitor to Safari that notifies you when it detects changes — useful for tracking prices, news stories, or anything time-sensitive. Apple said Safari can also create a custom extension using text prompts to modify a…
Apple’s WWDC 2026 event kicked off this morning at 10 a.m. PT at Apple Park, starting a week full of expected announcements around Siri, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and more, along with developer events and demos. This year’s event is particularly notable for a couple things. It marks CEO Tim Cook’s last with the company, after announcing he’s handing things off to Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus September 1. And it’s expected to play host to Apple’s attempt to give Siri and its AI efforts overall a big boost after handing some work off to Google and…
Apple has leveraged AI to make its visual-scripting tool, Shortcuts, easier to use in iOS 27, in a reveal shown at its WWDC 2026 event. The Shortcuts app was largely built for power users who wanted to automate repetitive tasks, create workflows, or set up multi-app actions. The new version of Shortcuts will instead allow users to write a prompt and simply describe what they want to do. The new feature is powered by Apple Intelligence, which helps to determine what a natural language description means so it can build out the required steps. “While super powerful, the process of…