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AirPods Pro 3 shown with an iPhone and live translation features. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Now that we're clear of WWDC and all of the new AI-powered features coming to Apple's platforms, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman has more details about rumored new hardware, like the camera-equipped AirPods he'd previously written about. He says they are currently on schedule for a late 2027 launch, and that while we're checking out beta releases for this fall's iOS 27 update, the new earbuds are internally being tested with next year's update, iOS 28. With cameras mounted in their stems and lights to indicate when data is being uploaded to the cloud, they could give the upgraded version of Siri "visual context" about your surroundings, be … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read full articleRipple has acquired an equity stake in African fintech company Flutterwave in a deal that has valued the payments firm at $3.3 billion, adding another regional payments network to Ripple’s growing global infrastructure strategy. According to Bloomberg, Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga…
Italy's probe into Apple's cloud services could set a precedent for EU-wide enforcement, impacting major tech firms' compliance strategies. The post Italy’s antitrust regulator probes Apple over cloud services under EU Digital Markets Act appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Kalshi has deployed an artificial intelligence agent to help decide which prediction markets to launch as trading activity on the platform has climbed to more than $5 billion in a single week. According to a Bloomberg report, the prediction market…
Europe’s evangelistic approach to insisting Apple open up personal data to competing AI services is hurting Apple users in the region. More than that, it also places its entire business sector at risk, and a newly-published Jamf survey suggests why. Announced at WWDC 2026, Apple Intelligence/Siri AI relies on personal, contextual data to run. Europe wants that same information to be made available to third-party services for competing apps, but has not worked with Apple to protect user confidentiality. It’s an approach that places your data at risk of exfiltration using those apps because Europe is insisting Apple share personal information with the developers of other apps. The desire to protect that data is why Apple won’t distribute Siri AI in the EU for a while. Jamf survey exposes the IT risks of AI It’s not as if Europe doesn’t understand the risk of data leaks in an era of AI. Just look at the bloc’s focus on things that do matter, such as sovereign AI or managed AI services li
French AI lab Mistral AI is in early discussions to raise approximately €3 billion at a valuation of around €20 billion, according to Bloomberg, nearly double the €11.7 billion valuation the company achieved in its Series C round last September. Founded in 2023, Mistral has differentiated itself from American rivals through an open-weights model strategy […]
Four days after Apple confirmed that Siri AI would not launch in China, Huawei took the stage in Dongguan and declared HarmonyOS 7 the beginning of the agent era. The gap Apple could not fill, Huawei has moved into with an architecture built specifically for it. What HarmonyOS 7 actually changes The headline change is […] The post HarmonyOS 7 steps into the AI gap Apple left open in China appeared first on AI News.
Onstage at the D8 conference in 2010, Steve Jobs explained his go-to interview opener: “Why are you here?” He prized answers that surfaced personal, even “selfish,” ambitions, seeing them as markers of self-motivated hires whose goals aligned with Apple’s work. At the D8 conference in 2010, Steve Jobs outlined an interview style that sliced through […]
The European Commission has unveiled its plans for digital sovereignty. Its proposals betray a disappointing lack of vision Beti Hohler is a Slovenian national who lives in the Netherlands. Like tens of millions of other Europeans, she uses Apple’s app store and has an Amazon account. When she travels for work or leisure, she may want to book a place on Airbnb or Booking, using a credit card issued by Visa or Mastercard, perhaps through PayPal. But when the Trump administration sanctioned her last year for her work as a judge at the international criminal court (ICC), her ability to use any of these services vanished overnight. Her credit cards, her accounts with US companies – all gone. The sanctions against Hohler and some of her colleagues mean they live in “constant uncertainty”, she said. Max von Thun is the director of Open Markets Institute Europe, an anti-monopoly thinktank Continue reading...
