Apple notified in Brazil over allegedly misleading Apple Intelligence ads

After agreeing to a $250 million settlement in the U.S. over claims that it misled customers about delayed Apple Intelligence and Siri features, Apple is now facing similar scrutiny in Brazil. Here are the details.

As reported by , Rio de Janeiro’s consumer protection agency, Procon Carioca, has given Apple 20 days to respond to an inquiry into whether it misled consumers with advertising for iPhone 16 AI features that still haven’t been delivered.

From the report:

Last Friday, May


Apple will soon start using AI-generated presenters on its Sales Coach app

As spotted by Aaron Perris, Apple will soon start using AI-generated presenters in its Apple Sales Coach app. Here are the details.

A few months ago, Apple updated its SEED app into the new Sales Coach app, adding a Liquid Glass design.

According to the company, the Apple Sales Coach app “delivers sales and technical resources to Apple sales partners around the world,” offering ”the resources (they) need to be ready for a variety of customer conversations.”

When Apple revamped the app,


iOS 27’s ‘completely rebuilt’ Siri will include a new system-wide search gesture: report

With just a few weeks left until WWDC, has shared multiple details on what Apple has in store for the revamped, Google Gemini-powered Siri on iOS 27. Here are the details.

Over the past few months, Bloomberg has been reporting on several aspects and changes coming to the Gemini-powered, always-on, agentic Siri on iOS 27.

That includes reports saying this year’s WWDC artwork is based on Siri’s new animation, that Siri would also appear in the Dynamic Island with


iOS 27 to make key design changes to ‘streamline’ Liquid Glass: report

We’re less than a month away from Apple announcing iOS 27 at WWDC. A new report today offers a closer look at what to expect from design changes and new features for key apps, including Camera, Safari, Weather, and more.

The report comes from and says that Apple is planning “noticeable design changes across several areas” with iOS 27. “The interface changes are meant to streamline the Liquid Glass design language,” the report explains.

One of the biggest changes will reportedly be for


iOS 27’s upgraded Camera app will be ‘fully customizable,’ per report

iOS 27 has big changes coming for Apple’s Camera app, with a saying it will be “fully customizable.” Here are the details.

Last month, Bloomberg reported that iOS 27’s Camera app will gain a new ‘Siri’ mode offering visual intelligence features.

But according to a new report, it sounds like that’s just a small part of what’s coming to the Camera app.

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Apple Inc. is planning to upgrade its Camera app, making the software fully customizable


Xcode 26.5 adds two features that make agentic coding more useful

Alongside macOS 26.5 and its counterparts, Apple yesterday released Xcode 26.5, with several bug fixes and improvements. Two of these improvements make agentic coding workflows even smarter. Here are the details.

Apple released Xcode 26.5 yesterday, with two features that build on the agentic coding capabilities introduced with Xcode 26.3 .

Since then, developers have been able to plug AI tools such as OpenAI’s Codex or Anthropic’s Claude Agent directly into Xcode to help with tasks ranging


iRacing arrives on Vision Pro with ‘immersion and fidelity never before seen in sim racing’

iRacing on Apple Vision Pro brings a “level of immersion and fidelity never before seen in sim racing,” says iRacing president Tony Gardner. The new app landed on the App Store this week after first being announced in March.

Race simulation support through iRacing comes to Apple Vision Pro as part of the visionOS 26.4 software update.

visionOS adds a “foveated streaming” feature, starting with support for Nvidia’s CloudXR technology. This helps power the new experience.

The team behind iRacing detailed Apple Vision Pro


Meta AI app enhanced with new features using Muse Spark, here’s what’s new

Last month, Meta relaunched its AI efforts with Muse Spark, replacing its Llama models. As of today, Muse Spark is powering new experiences inside the Meta AI app.

Meta first unveiled the work of its rebuilt AI team with the launch of Muse Spark on April 8.

Since then, the Meta AI app has stayed near the top of the iPhone App Store, competing with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini apps.

As of today, Meta has detailed several new features being added to the Meta AI app.

First


Severance season 3 is coming ‘much sooner’ than last season did, per star

Apple TV’s hit sci-fi show Severance had a three-year gap between seasons 1 and 2, but star Adam Scott now says season 3 will arrive “much sooner” than that. Here’s what he said, and what it means for release timing.

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MacBook Neo shipping estimates just saw a positive turn for customers

MacBook Neo shipping estimates are starting to improve for the first time since Apple’s $599 laptop launched. The shorter wait times line up with a recent report claiming Apple ordered more A18 Pro chips due to higher-than-expected demand.

MacBook Neo inventory from Apple has been constrained ever since the more affordable laptop launched. In that regard, the MacBook Neo debut has looked more like an iPhone launch than a laptop release.

For example, Apple ran out of MacBook Neo inventory in April after

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