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Visual Intelligence: Occasionally Useful, but Often Flawed

Apple Intelligence’s visual intelligence feature helps you learn more about or interact with anything you see through the iPhone’s camera or on its screen. It’s quicker to access than dedicated apps, but suffers from reliability issues and Apple restrictions.

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Atlassian Acquires The Browser Company for $610 Million

In an all-cash deal, Atlassian adds The Browser Company’s Arc and Dia to its suite of workplace tools. Hopefully, Atlassian will recognize the value in connecting Arc’s productivity features with Dia’s AI capabilities.

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Google Allowed to Keep Chrome and Continue Paying Apple $20 Billion for Search Placement

A federal court’s remedies ruling allows Google to retain its Chrome browser and continue paying Apple billions for Safari search placement while recognizing the growing influence of generative AI on the search landscape.

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Should You Let Claude Learn from Your Chats?

Anthropic is prompting Claude users to opt into having their conversations used for training future models. While the immediate privacy risks seem low, the long-term implications of AI training data remain unclear, suggesting a cautious approach.

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Are AI Subscription Models Sustainable?

The AI industry is standardizing around $20 monthly subscriptions for premium features. However, with multiple services requiring separate subscriptions and third-party apps dependent on model providers, will this approach ultimately prove practical for both consumers and developers?

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GPT-5 Reduces the Need to Choose Models in ChatGPT

With GPT-5, OpenAI moves away from requiring users to choose between many different models in ChatGPT, instead allowing the system to automatically pick the right tool for each job. In an ideal world, this general approach would enable AI companies to enhance performance and reasoning internally while maintaining consistent interaction methods and AI personalities.

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ChatGPT Study Mode Aims to Teach, Not Just Answer

With its new study mode, ChatGPT becomes less of an answerbot and more of an interactive tutor, helping users understand concepts rather than just giving them answers.

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Apple Reports Record-Breaking Q3 2025 Results

Apple posted double-digit revenue growth year-over-year for its third fiscal quarter of 2025, with Services scoring an all-time revenue high. iPhone and Mac revenues were also up year-over-year, but Wearables and iPad revenues failed to match up to last year’s Q3.

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What Happened to Dave Barry?

Dave Barry’s encounter with his AI-generated death notice highlights the gap between Google’s quick AI Overview responses and the slower but more accurate AI answer engines.

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Cloudflare’s “Pay-Per-Crawl” Points to a New Model for Paying Content Creators

As AI threatens traditional publishing business models, Cloudflare proposes a solution that could ensure content creators get paid when AI crawlers ingest their work—and potentially revolutionize how we pay for online content.

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Do You Use It? Apple Intelligence Sees Weak Adoption

Our Do You Use It? poll reveals minimal engagement with most Apple Intelligence features, suggesting these AI-powered capabilities aren’t yet meeting user needs.

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Dia Browser Debuts with Contextual AI Chat, But Arc Users Feel Left Behind

After stopping development of its innovative Arc browser, The Browser Company is back with Dia, a stripped-down browser that aims to make AI-augmented Web interactions mainstream. It won’t win over Arc users yet, but it offers some interesting capabilities.

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Upcoming NMUG Presentation on Practical Uses of AI

Join Adam Engst for a free online presentation about practical uses of AI at the Naples MacFriends User Group meeting on 18 June 2025. Everyone is invited!

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From iPhone to AI: Why Jony Ive’s OpenAI Deal Signals a Power Shift

Former Apple design chief Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have announced a partnership to create AI devices valued at $6.5 billion in stock. The collaboration highlights Apple’s ongoing struggles with AI, potentially signaling a shift in who will define our technological future.

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From Animals to AI: Neal Stephenson on Coexisting with Non-Human Intelligences

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson offers a fresh perspective on AI by pointing out that we have long figured out how to coexist with non-human intelligences: animals.