Tim Cook’s Legacy Is Turning Apple Into a Subscription
…The company has a multiyear deal with Google to embed Google Gemini into Apple products. If this latest tie-up is as lucrative as Apple’s Safari search deal with Google has…
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Shop Smart: How to Avoid Scams and Mid Products on Amazon
…I'll use the Google Pixel 10a as an example of a product you might search for. It is our pick for the best affordable phone after all. Step 1: Search for…
OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Is Taking Medical Leave Amid an Executive Shake-Up
…OpenAI will begin searching for a new CMO, Simo said. The company is also looking for a chief communications officer to replace Hannah Wong, who left her position in January. Chris Lehane…
Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
Since November, Walmart has let some ChatGPT users order a limited selection of products without ever leaving OpenAI’s chatbot interface. Sales have been disappointing, a Walmart executive vice president exclusively tells…
Google Maps Gets Chatty With a New Gemini-Powered Interface
This is part of Google's overall strategy of adding Gemini to all its products. (Like that Portlandia sketch where the duo visits a boutique and puts bird decals on everything in…
OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
…On Thursday, OpenAI sent an email to users laying out major changes to the AI company’s privacy policy in the US. “We’ll now use cookies to promote OpenAI products and…
Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself
…Google launched Flow last year under its experimental Labs division. “Google has never had a product line for creative work before,” Roman says. “Productivity, definitely. Developers, absolutely. Video consumption, yes. Not for…
Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
…online, your entire search history, and just say, "Hey, go do this. Remind me of this, do that." Leah Feiger: I couldn't be less interested in a product. Zoë Schiffer: We…
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
…Its algorithm is also bundled inside products from DataWorks Plus, a South Carolina firm, and inside LexisNexis's Lumen platform, which lets police officers run face searches against state and regional image…
Ikea’s New Designer Collection Is Home-Office Heaven
…support.” For those in search of roomier berths, Ola Wihlborg has designed a sofa-bed with pocket springs and mattress foam that can sleep two. The two products from the collection that…