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When forecasting a MacBook Pro release date, use order delays & software releases cautiously

New M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros are about to launch. Don't lean too heavily on upgrade order shipment delays or Apple's new Creator Studio launch to predict a release date, though.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 4

ChatGPT will soon start showing ads, but they won't affect its responses

OpenAI is refining the way ChatGPT functions to bring in more money, including a new $8 ChatGPT Go tier and the introduction of advertising at the bottom of queries for free users.

Malcolm Owen 4 months ago 8

In case you ever doubted it, Apple Car was real — reveals Airbnb

You could have studied literally thousands of Apple patents, you could have counted the permits it's had to be granted, or could just have waited for Airbnb to show us that Apple really, truly, was working on an Apple Car.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 22

From charming to consumer corporation — how Apple has branded itself over the years.

Apple began with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak marketing primarily at trade shows, and now the iPhone has made it $4 trillion firm with ubiquitous advertising. But throughout, Apple has used sometimes terrible branding to sell us all on its products.

William Gallagher and Mike Wuerthele 4 months ago 4

Setapp Mobile EU app store, CleanMyMac Business both close down for good

MacPaw's third-party iOS App Store has failed in the EU, and at the same time, the company's mobile device management service is shutting down too.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 4

Grok now bans illegal porn generation, after monetizing it

Following worldwide pressure including bans in certain countries, Elon Musk's X has announced it will no longer allow Grok to create child porn and deepfake nudes. There is a catch.

William Gallagher 4 months ago 24

Apple AI research shows how MLLMs understand, generate, search for images

Apple's researchers continue to focus on multimodal LLMs, with studies exploring their use for image generation, understanding, and multi-turn web searches with cropped images.

Marko Zivkovic 4 months ago 1

Apple Creator Studio takes one more step to an app subscription future

The Apple Creator Studio doesn't quite mean the end of perpetual software licenses, but in a new interview, it's clear that Apple expects consumers to embrace paying for bundles monthly instead of once.

Malcolm Owen 4 months ago 3

Verizon wireless outage left iPhones stuck in SOS across the U.S.

Verizon customers across the U.S. experienced a wireless network outage on Wednesday that disrupted calls, texts, and mobile data.

Andrew Orr 4 months ago 1

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