As previewed , Google today released the NotebookLM app for Android and iOS ahead of I/O 2025.
This native experience starts on a homepage of your notebooks with filters at the top for Recent, Shared, Title, and Downloaded. The app features a light and dark mode based on your device’s system theme with no manual toggle.
Each colorful card features the notebook name, emoji, number of sources, and date, as well as a play button for Audio Overviews.
There’s background
Here’s a little bit of positivity on Apple’s race to catch up to the competition in artificial intelligence. According to a new report from , Apple is testing its own chatbot internally and has made significant progress in catching up with ChatGPT in the last six months.
The report explains that Apple’s AI chief John Giannandrea was initially reluctant to turn Siri into a ChatGPT-like chatbot, as he doubted the actual value of such tools. Despite those reservations, however, Apple executives are now “pushing to
The and are now live well ahead of the holiday weekend and with them, a host of notable price drops on Apple gear and accessories. Firstly, Amazon has brought back the all-time low pricing on all starting from , and we also now have the most affordable . Apple’s latest while open-box units with full warranties are now up to , and we also spotted the . All pf that and more await down below.
Some new images yesterday compare iPhone 17 Air dummy models to its direct predecessor, the – revealing how much thinner this new iPhone will be.
In just a few months, Apple will be discontinuing the ‘Plus’ iPhone from its lineup, and ushering in an all new, ultra-thin ‘Air’ model. This model ditches the dual camera, a second speaker, and sacrifices in battery – but will be remarkably thin and light, coming in in at just 5.5mm thin and 145
I won’t reprise the sad story of how Apple went fro m being at the forefront of AI technology with the launch of Siri in 2011 to being hopelessly left behind in 2025.
The company’s current approach appears to be to retain the Siri branding for simpler tasks, while using Apple Intelligence for the shiny new things – but there’s now an obvious problem with this …
Most of those shiny new things haven’t actually materialized. The gap between what the company promised
In the , Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman outlined some of his expectations for how Apple will remain competitive in the App Store payment processing market. Late last month, a judge ruled that Apple’s 27% commission on external payments was illegal. Many large developers have already begun implementing their own payment processing systems.
In the United States, where most of Apple’s App Store revenue is generated, developers are now freely allowed to utilize payment processors outside of Apple’s own, which subjects developers to a 3
One of my favorite product lines Nomad has made over the years is their slim power adapters. They started with their , which brought fast iPhone charging in this ultra-slim form factor. Then they released their that added a secondary port and was tailored to customers needing more juice. Now, they have finally launched their 100W slim power adapter for those who need to charge their larger machines on the go. Here is what you need to know.
It’s incredible how much power they can fit in
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman continues his iOS 19 tidbits streak by revealing two upcoming new features in the latest edition of his , which was published today.
Gurman says that iOS 19 will include a major localization focus on supporting customers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and India. Specifically, that entails a new Arabic-English software keyboard for iPhone and a new calligraphy pen for Apple Pencil users.
From , Gurman says:
I have two more notable features to share this week, and they play into Apple’s
Apple was instrumental in TSMC setting up chipmaking plants in the US – not just by offering to be the first customer, but also in lobbying for the CHIPS Act funding that persuaded the company to proceed.
The Taiwanese company takes extreme precautions to protect the secrecy of its chipmaking processes, even for the somewhat older chips made in Arizona, but BBC News was given a very rare tour of the facility …
Apple first announced its plan for ‘Made in America’ chips back in 2022, with the news hailed
A WSJ piece today suggests that big tech lawyers for Apple , Amazon, Google and other industry giants are not only failing to properly advise their clients, but are “actively encouraging” them to break the law.
The piece suggests that one reason Apple was rebuked by the judge in the Epic Games lawsuit was that its lawyers encouraged the company to abuse legal privilege …
To understand the basis of this argument, we need to quickly recap on what happened in lawsuit filed against the company by Epic Games.
Apple mostly won –