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Apple Responds to Slowing China Sales With Lunar New Year Discounts

Apple is offering discounts of up to 1,000 yuan ($144) on some products in China in anticipation of a holiday shopping rush and competitive pricing from local vendors, reports the South China Morning Post. Ahead of February’s Lunar New Year, Apple’s mainland China website and official stores are offering limited-time discounts on products including the

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ChatGPT Atlas Gains Tab Groups, Auto Google/AI Search Switching

OpenAI is rolling out another noteworthy update to ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered browser for Mac. As per the release notes, the latest build introduces tab groups, allowing users to organize their browsing sessions more efficiently. The update also brings fixes for vertical tab “mini mode” and a simplified right-click context menu for tabs. On the

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Siri’s iOS 27 upgrade sounds exactly right. Apple’s AI pin sounds exactly wrong

Two big Apple AI stories today, and they couldn’t feel further apart. First is Apple reportedly embracing chat as an interface for using Siri and AI throughout iOS and macOS later this year. That sounds like an amazing change of tune for the company. Apple would argue it isn’t a pivot away from avoiding chat,

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The new Siri chatbot may run on Google servers, not Apple’s

Nestled in Bloomberg’s reporting earlier on Apple’s plans to revamp Siri as a chatbot with iOS 27, was an interesting tidbit on a possible change in the company’s cloud strategy. Specifically, Mark Gurman says Apple and Google are discussing running the next-generation Siri models directly on Google’s servers, not Apple’s. With iOS 26.4, Apple is

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