Apple's first touchscreen Macs are on sale, starting at $2,899
The OLED MacBook Pro adds touch for a $400 premium. A smart home hub and a new Apple TV follow on Friday.
Tech, AI and apps
Consumer technology, AI models and the software people use every day.
The Justice Department now has a task force for AI misuse
The Super Intelligence Task Force will set priorities for AI-related prosecutions and take over the department's existing AI litigation work.
Two releases move AI agents closer to where the work happens
Mistral opened a hosted platform for building agents, and Microsoft's local toolkit can now run a coding model on your own machine.
What a context window is, and why your chatbot forgets
An AI model can only read so much at once. That limit explains lost instructions, rising costs and why long chats drift.
On-device AI versus cloud AI: what runs where, and why it matters
Some AI features work with no connection and others need a data center. The split comes down to size, speed, privacy and cost.
Passkeys explained: how signing in without a password works
A passkey replaces the secret you type with a key your device keeps. Here is what happens when you tap to sign in.
RAG explained: how a chatbot answers from your documents
Retrieval-augmented generation looks things up before it answers. It is how most company chatbots work, and its weak points are predictable.
What an AI agent is, minus the hype
An agent is a language model that can take actions in a loop. That one difference from a chatbot explains both the promise and the risk.
September 2026: Apple's first foldable, the $1,999 iPhone Duo
Apple entered foldables years after its rivals with a passport-shaped phone that opens to a 7.6-inch screen. Supply has been the story since.
WWDC 2026: Siri rebuilt on Google's Gemini, and Tim Cook's goodbye
Apple's June keynote delivered the conversational Siri it had promised for two years, with a rival's models underneath, and closed with a change of chief executive.
March 2026: the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros
Apple's spring update was about speed for AI work and doubled starting storage. The same chips later went into its first touchscreen Macs.
The Cloudflare outage of November 2025: one oversized file
A routine database change doubled the size of a configuration file, and a large part of the web returned errors for hours.
GPT-5 arrived in August 2025 with a question attached
OpenAI gave its new model to every ChatGPT user at once. Early reviewers found a smaller leap than before, and investors asked what the spending would return.
When OpenAI bought Jony Ive's hardware startup for $6.5 billion
The May 2025 deal put the designer of the iPhone in charge of design at the company behind ChatGPT, and set a 2026 target for a device.
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