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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…
Have you ever used the Image Playground app on your iPhone? Probably not — and you might not even know that your phone has a built-in AI image-generation tool. That’s because until now, Image Playground has kind of sucked, generating AI imagery that simply isn’t as high-quality as what Apple’s competitors can make. At WWDC 2026 on Monday, Apple announced some necessary improvements to Image Playground. While we haven’t yet gotten to use the app, Apple’s presentation makes it seem like the company’s overall AI overhaul will make Apple Intelligence-powered apps, like Image Playground, perform a lot better. Image Credits:Apple…
Apple announced at WWDC 2026 on Monday that its Photos app is getting a few new AI features that leverage Apple Intelligence. A new spatial “Reframe” feature will let users use AI to reframe images. For instance, if a user accidentally captures a sign above someone’s head, if the photo would have been more symmetrical by stepping slightly to the right, or if eye contact with a subject was missed by a fraction of a second, the new reframing tool can help fix all of these issues. Users can touch and drag photos to adjust the perspective as if they…
At WWDC 2026 on Monday, Apple unveiled the new AI-ified version of Siri — in what has been called the assistant’s biggest and most dramatic transformation in the company’s history. In addition to the launch of its new Siri AI system, the personal assistant now has its own stand-alone app. The app is designed to serve as a warehouse of the user’s previous, archived conversations with the assistant. Much like the functionality of chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude, users can scroll through all of those previous conversations and re-visit a session. When a user opens a previous conversation, the app…
There’s nothing worse than going to a dinner with a big group of friends, opting out of drinking to save money, but then still having to pay for your friends’ espresso martinis when the group decides to split the bill evenly. You don’t want to come off cheap and make everyone wait while you recalculate the bill. Now, Apple has a solution for this, which it unveiled at WWDC 2026. With the new feature, you can point your iPhone camera at a receipt. Then Siri mode in the Camera app will make each item selectable so that you can keep…
President Donald Trump’s $100,000 visa fee for H-1B applicants has hit a new legal roadblock.A federal judge at a US District Court in Massachusetts ruled Monday that the fee violates the Constitution’s Administrative Procedure Act.Judge Leo Sorokin found that the fee is “unlawful,” according to his ruling. Sorokin said the fee constitutes a tax and requires congressional approval to implement.Trump’s implementation of the $100,000 fee for new petitions using an executive order last year “exceeds the scope of the President’s discretionary authority” under US immigration law, Sorokin wrote.The fee has faced legal challenges since Trump signed the executive order in…
Two years after promising but failing to launch a smarter Siri, Apple unveiled its overhauled AI-powered assistant at its Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2026, on Monday. The idea behind the new “Siri AI,” as it’s called, is to turn Siri from a voice-controlled assistant into an AI companion that can do a lot more. The new assistant will launch alongside a dedicated Siri app. The new Siri can draw on current world knowledge to ground its answers to your questions. The updated assistant will also be able to access information on a user’s device and respond based on what’s displayed on…
Not every AI prompt needs Opus 4.8.As the fervor of tokenmaxxing dies down, some AI users are wondering how to get more bang for their buck and keep their monthly costs in check. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong shared the crypto company’s strategy: not skimping on the cheaper models.”We’re working hard on routing prompts to cheaper models where appropriate, and in some cases have been able to keep costs roughly flat, while token usage continues to grow exponentially,” Armstrong wrote on X on Sunday.While the latest models like Opus 4.8 or GPT-5.5 promise bleeding-edge benefits, they can also devour more tokens.…
On Monday, Amazon introduced a new feature that allows anyone to design merchandise using AI, posing an expanded challenge to online merch platforms like Redbubble, Bonfire, Spring, Fourthwall, and others. The company announced that people are now able to create new products using AI prompts via the Alexa feature in its Shopping app. In doing so, anyone can turn their idea into a design that can be featured on items from apparel to tumblers and more available through Amazon’s print-on-demand service, Merch on Demand. The service could be useful for printing one-off designs — like T-shirts for a family reunion,…
As Apple WWDC 2026 approaches, the excitement is building around what Apple has in store for us this year. From Siri’s overhaul to new Apple Intelligence updates, there’s a lot to look forward to. The annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off today at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET. For those eager to tune in, the event will be streamed live via the Apple Developer app, Apple’s website, and the Apple YouTube channel. Siri’s big AI makeover The most anticipated announcement is a major AI upgrade to Siri, transforming it into a more conversational assistant capable of understanding context, handling multi-step…