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Apple’s about to launch its next iPhone SE, but later this year the flagship iPhone 17 lineup will arrive. A new rumor has just indicated the iPhone 17 Pro Max will come with a key display advantage: a Dynamic Island that may be substantially smaller. more…

Members of key congressional oversight committees have called on the United States’ new top intelligence director to pressure the United Kingdom to withdraw its controversial demand for Apple to create a backdoor into encrypted user data stored in iCloud, according to The Washington Post. Last week The Post revealed that a secret UK order, issued

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced plans to streamline the company’s AI offerings and provided details on the upcoming releases of its GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 large language models. GPT-4.5 will be OpenAI’s final non-chain-of-thought model, said Altman in a post on X (Twitter). “After that, a top goal for us is to unify o-series models

Apple Maps now has expanded coverage for cycling directions in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The expansion, first spotted by a Reddit user, means cyclists can plan a journey on the app from, say, Land’s End to John o’ Groats, if they’re that way inclined. Cycling directions have been available in the UK and Ireland

Apple has resumed advertising on Elon Musk’s X social network as of this week. Apple had halted all advertising on X back in November 2023 after Musk agreed with an antisemitic post on the platform. more…

Apple has officially partnered with Alibaba to bring Apple Intelligence AI features to the iPhone in China. Alibaba Group chairman Joe Tsai confirmed the deal on Thursday, sending the Chinese firm’s stock price to a three-year high. more…

Apple has been the target of an antitrust complaint in Germany for three years over its App Tracking Transparency feature. ATT allows iPhone users to request that apps not track their activity between other apps. Now the Bundeskartellamt antitrust group in Germany has issued its “preliminary legal assessment” which alleges that ATT only applying to

Apple Maps has quietly expanded its support for cycling in the United Kingdom and Ireland this week. Users are discovering they can now route cycling journeys across the length and the breadth of the country. Apple first launched cycling directions in Maps in late 2020, although at first it was U.S only in a smattering

Apple’s largest high-end model in the upcoming iPhone 17 series this year will feature a smaller Dynamic Island, according to Weibo-based leaker Digital Chat Station. The leaker claims that the iPhone 17 Pro Max will adopt a “metalens” for Face ID that integrates the transmitter and receiver components, which will reduce the size and thickness

Apple will partner with Alibaba to offer AI features in China, the Chinese company’s chairman said on Thursday, resolving months of speculation around Apple’s strategy in the region. “They talked to a number of companies in China,” said Joe Tsai at the World Government Summit in Dubai. “In the end they chose to do business