Jony Ive’s stealth AI company known as io is being acquired by OpenAI for $6.5 billion in a deal that is expected to close this summer subject to regulatory approvals. According to reporting by Mark Gurman and Shirin Ghaffary of Bloomberg: The purch…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John interview Airbnb Vice President of Product Marketing, Jud Coplan, and Vice President of Design, Teo Connor. On AppStories+, Federico explores runn…
Lees meerI received a top-of-the-line Mac Studio (M3 Ultra, 512 GB of RAM, 8 TB of storage) on loan from Apple last week, and I thought I’d use this opportunity to revive something I’ve been mulling over for some time: more short-form blogging on MacStories …
Lees meerOn Sunday, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman published a comprehensive recap of Apple’s AI troubles. There wasn’t much new in Gurman’s story, except quotes from unnamed sources that added to the sense of conflict playing out inside the company. That said, it’…
Lees meerI’ve always been envious of people who can listen to music while they work. For whatever reason, music-listening activates a part of my brain that pulls me away from the task at hand. My mind really wants to focus on the lyrics, the style, the mix –…
Lees meerGoogle’s AI research tool NotebookLM dropped on the App Store for iOS and iPadOS a day earlier than expected. If you haven’t used NotebookLM before, it’s Google’s AI research tool. You feed it source materials like PDFs, text files, MP3s, and more. …
Lees meerLast week, I was in LA for Airbnb’s 2025 Summer Release. As part of the day’s events, Federico and I interviewed Jud Coplan, Airbnb’s Vice President of Product Marketing, and Teo Connor, Airbnb’s Vice President of Design, for AppStories to talk abou…
Lees meerInoreader, a powerful platform for content discovery and consumption, is becoming smarter with the launch of Inoreader Intelligence – a suite of AI-powered features designed to help users save time, gain meaningful insights, analyze, and act on valu…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Matt’s phone is folding more than usual, Niléane has blown up her window management system again, and the whole gang learns about themselves in the challenge. MacStories Unw…
Lees meerImage: Apple. Almost three years ago, Apple offered a sneak peek at an elaborate new version of CarPlay that spread beyond the rectangle of most car infotainment systems to occupy the instrument cluster space in front of front seat passengers. As I …
Lees meerImage: Apple. Yesterday, Apple announced a couple of new features that are now available in the Maps app. The first is a new label that’s been added to restaurants and hotels in the U.S., which have been awarded MICHELIN distinctions. According to A…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John interview Apple’s VP of Developer Relations, Education, and Enterprise, Susan Prescott, along with Amy Key and Omar Firdaus, Distinguished Swift S…
Lees meerImage: Airbnb. I’m in Los Angeles for Airbnb’s 2025 Summer Release, where the company just announced a major expansion to its offerings, paired with an entirely redesigned app. It’s an ambitious update that I’ll be trying and covering more soon, but…
Lees meerSource: Apple. With Global Accessibility Awareness Day coming up this Thursday, May 15, Apple is back with its annual preview of accessibility features coming to its platforms later in the year. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the creation o…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone The gang gets to work defending their Mac login items. Who has the most minimal startup? Who has the craziest apps? This episode has more new apps mentioned in any episode o…
Lees meerA webpage saved with Universal Clipper. I share Federico’s frustration over saving links. Every link may be a URL, but their endpoints can be wildly different. If like us, you save links to articles, videos, product information, and more, it’s hard …
Lees meerImage: Apple. Earlier this year, Apple selected 350 students from around the world as winners of its annual Swift Student Challenge. From that talented pool, Apple picks 50 Distinguished Winners whose projects stand out from the others. Today, Apple…
Lees meer2025 is shaping up to be the year of litigation for big tech. Apple’s been held in contempt and has an antitrust case on the horizon, Meta is in the midst of an antitrust trial, and Google is defending two antitrust lawsuits at once. Every one of th…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and I begin our annual look at what we’d like to see Apple announce at WWDC 2025, starting with iOS and iPadOS 19. On AppStories+, which was released as a …
Lees meerAs reported by Andrew Liszewski at The Verge, Amazon has updated the Kindle app to add a “Get Book” button, a direct result of last week’s contempt order entered by Judge Gonzalez Rodgers. When tapped, it takes users to the Amazon page for the book …
Lees meerFascinating analysis by Allen Pike on how, beyond traditional chatbot interactions, the technology behind LLMs can be used in other types of user interfaces and interactions: While chat is powerful, for most products chatting with the underlying LLM…
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