Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules

Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.

Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help
Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help

Suno’s new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno’s Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was “trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on.” The data includes content licensed […]

OpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia
OpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia

OpenAI’s announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics’ legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both an undeniable achievement and a striking demonstration of just how rapidly AI is transforming mathematics. But before it was even formally announced, the breakthrough had been complicated by the unusual […]

Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy
Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy

At Wednesday’s iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document laying out how it plans to balance AI “ambient listening” and users’ privacy. It says the raw audio from the new […]

Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening

Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.

Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch

The main event was the tech giant’s highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.

Apple’s new iPhone camera mode promises to prove your photo isn’t AI
Apple’s new iPhone camera mode promises to prove your photo isn’t AI

Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn’t manipulated by AI. A new feature, called “Reference Image,” will arrive with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup later this month and is supposed to use the device’s new camera sensor to “sign every pixel it sees.” The iPhone 18 Pro and […]

The hinge for Apple’s new foldable phone was built with AI

Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.

Apple’s revamped Health app will calculate your ‘health age’ and readiness score

The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.

Apple has a new way prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slop

Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.