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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

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Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini get refreshed with new chipsets (4)

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OpenAI fine-tunes GPT-5 with safety, rate-limit and personality tweaks (9)

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Apple Vision Pro set for upgraded M5 chip launch (4)

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Apple rumored to launch tabletop robot companion in 2027 (7)

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Apple advances AI upgrades for Siri and smart home experiences (5)

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Study Shows AI Reliance Impairs Doctors’ Cancer Detection (4)

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Google Gemini Memory Update Expands Chat Personalization Controls (7)

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Google upgrades Gemini AI with enhanced memory and personalization (6)

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Google enables customized news source selection on search (5)

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User backlash forces OpenAI to reinstate previous model (8)

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Apple tests Douyin Pay support in Chinese App Store (4)

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Nintendo Adds Chibi-Robo to Switch 2 Classic Library (4)

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Amazon Expands Same-Day Grocery Delivery Service in US Cities (5)

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US Authorities Implant Trackers in AI Chip Shipments to China (8)

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Sam Altman launches startup to rival Neuralink technologies (7)

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iPhone 17 Pro pricing set for higher cost and upgraded storage (12) hot

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Perplexity Bids $34.5B for Chrome Amid DOJ Scrutiny (5)

In Detail Full day, Wednesday, August 13, 2025, Timezone: America/Chicago

New Apple TV 4K & HomePod mini coming soon with new chipsets

appleinsider - The Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini are expected to get minor revisions at any point, with each possibly sporting Apple's new in-house wireless chip.Apple TV 4K to finally get an updateThe Apple TV 4K was last updated in 2022, and the HomePod mini debuted in…

#hardware #apple #chips #cpus

New Apple TV Coming Later This Year With A17 Pro Chip

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

6 months / appleinsider

HomePod Mini With Updated Chip Coming Soon

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

New Apple TV Coming Later This Year With A17 Pro Chip

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

OpenAI relaxes GPT-5 rate limit, promises to improve the personality

Mayank Parmar / bleepingcomputer - OpenAI is slowly addressing all concerns around GPT-5, including rate limits and now its personality, which has been criticized for being less affirmative. [...]

#ai #openai #aiethics #genai

The new version of ChatGPT explains why it won’t generate rule-breaking outputs. WIRED’s initial analysis found that some guardrails were easy to circumvent. www.wired.com/story/openai...

6 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

If the newest version of ChatGPT can’t answer your prompt because the request violates OpenAI’s content guidelines, it’ll tell you why—a feature designed to make the chatbot less annoying to use. But WIRED’s initial analysis found that some guardrails wer

6 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

In the past, ChatGPT analyzed what you said to the bot and decided whether it’s appropriate. Now, if the model detects a prompt that could trigger an unsafe response, it explains why and can even suggest alternative topics to ask about.

6 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

But in our experiments, we were able to get GPT-5 to go off-script—even taking the conversation in an explicit direction and using slurs—without needing any kind of convoluted jailbreak. As AI progresses, the already sticky issue of user safety becomes ev

6 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Got around OpenAI’s safeguards by asking ChatGPT to be “horni.” My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/openai...

6 months / bsky / @thiccreese.bsky.social / thiccreese.bsky.social

OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs

6 months / wired / Reece Rogers

OpenAI relaxes GPT-5 rate limit, promises to improve the personality

6 months / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

ChatGPT-5 Gives You Real Choices After All. Here's a Quick Breakdown

6 months / cnet / Jon Reed

I Tried Out ChatGPT's New Personalities, and It Mocked Me

6 months / cnet / Jon Reed

Leaked code suggests Apple Vision Pro to get M5 after all

appleinsider - The expected spec bump for Apple Vision Pro has been seemingly confirmed by leaked Apple code, suggesting it will be the M5, not M4, launching soon.Apple Vision Pro to get M5 after allThere has been a lot of speculation around Apple Vision Pro and its imp…

#ar #apple #chips #cpus

Apple Code Confirms Vision Pro With M5 Chip

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Rumors are a little back and forth on whether the next Vision Pro will have an M4 or M5 chip. Whichever it is, I doubt there’d be a tangible difference for buyers. I’m more interested in this supposed new strap Apple is making so it’s more comfy to wear.

6 months / bsky / @blunderchief.blather.ing / blunderchief.blather.ing

Leaked code suggests Apple Vision Pro to get M5 after all

6 months / appleinsider

Apple Code Confirms Vision Pro With M5 Chip

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Apple's 'tabletop robot' companion rumored for 2027 launch

Anna Washenko / engadget - Apple is still hard at work on becoming a relevant player in AI. The latest missive from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg suggests that Apple is shifting its artificial intelligence goals to center on new device segments. Sources reportedly told the publication t…

#ai #robotics #apple

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6 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Apple Reportedly Planning AI Comeback, Complete With a Tabletop Robot

6 months / cnet / Gael Cooper

Apple reportedly targeting 2027 release for tabletop robot with movable display

6 months / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

Report: Apple’s smart home ambitions include “tabletop robot,” cameras, and more

6 months / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

Apple's 'tabletop robot' companion rumored for 2027 launch

6 months / engadget / Anna Washenko

Apple’s AI-Enabled iPad on a Robot Arm May Interrupt Your Conversations (In a Positive Way)

6 months / gizmodo / Kyle Barr

Apple Launching Robot Virtual Companion in 2027

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Siri's biggest upgrade yet takes shape with 'Linwood' & 'Glenwood'

appleinsider - Apple is developing two major artificial intelligence initiatives, codenamed Linwood and Glenwood, as part of a sweeping plan to make far more capable and competitive in the generative AI era.A smarter Siri is still comingThe projects represent one of the…

#ai #voice #apple #aiethics

Apple is reportedly planning an AI push with four new smart home products

6 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Apple’s plan for AI could make Siri the animated center of your smart home

6 months / theverge / Jay Peters

Apple's Siri-enabled robots are running behind, but still coming

6 months / appleinsider

Siri's biggest upgrade yet takes shape with 'Linwood' & 'Glenwood'

6 months / appleinsider

Apple's Smart Home Hub and LLM Siri Coming in 2026

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Doctors Were Worse at Spotting Cancer After Leaning on AI, Study Finds

AJ Dellinger / gizmodo - AI is not benign.

#ai #digitalhealth #aiethics #health

Doctors get dopey if they rely too much on AI, study suggests

6 months / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Doctors Were Worse at Spotting Cancer After Leaning on AI, Study Finds

6 months / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Doctors detected fewer lesions after routinely using AI during colonoscopies

6 months / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Some doctors got worse at detecting cancer after relying on AI

6 months / theverge / Hayden Field

Google Gemini will now learn from your chats—unless you tell it not to

Ryan Whitwam / arstechnica - Gemini will remember this, so it's time to check your privacy settings.

#ai #google #alphabet #chatgpt

Google’s Gemini App Can Now Remember or Forget Past Conversations

6 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

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6 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

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6 months / bsky / @iheartnoise.bsky.social / iheartnoise.bsky.social

Google Gemini now offers personalized responses based on past chats

6 months / mobilesyrup / Dean Daley

Google Gemini will now learn from your chats—unless you tell it not to

6 months / arstechnica / Ryan Whitwam

Google makes Gemini remember you—then adds an off switch

6 months / implicator / Robert Brown

Google Gives Gemini an Automatic Memory, Balancing Personalization with New Privacy Controls

6 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Google’s Gemini AI will get more personalized by remembering details automatically

Emma Roth / theverge - Google is rolling out an update for Gemini that will allow the AI chatbot to “remember” your past conversations without prompting. With the setting turned on, Gemini will automatically recall your “key details and preferences” and use them to personalize …

#ai #google #genai #alphabet

Google Gemini's Deep Research is finally coming to API

6 months / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

Google’s Gemini App Adds Temporary Chats, Now Remembers What You Say

6 months / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

Google Gemini Chats Just Got More Personal

6 months / bgr

Gemini will remember more (or less) of what you say

6 months / engadget / Will Shanklin

Gemini Is Going to Start Learning More About You. Here's How to Turn That Off

6 months / cnet / Jon Reed

Google’s Gemini AI will get more personalized by remembering details automatically

6 months / theverge / Emma Roth

Google Will Let You Pick Your Own News Sources For Searches

Omar Gallaga / cnet - As users face diminishing returns and AI summaries on news-related searches, Google offers a way to narrow sources. Here's how to put CNET as one of your top picks.

#techpolicy #google #internet #privacy

Google just got a quiet update that pushes specific sources first

6 months / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Google launches "Preferred Sources" to prioritize trusted sites in search results

6 months / techspot

Google just made Search better, but not for Canadians

6 months / mobilesyrup / Vincent Lin

No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize El Reg, others in search results

6 months / theregister / Avram Piltch

Google Will Let You Pick Your Own News Sources For Searches

6 months / cnet / Omar Gallaga

ChatGPT users revolt over GPT-5 release — OpenAI battles claims that the new model's accuracy and abilities fall short

tomshardware - OpenAI is facing backlash over its introduction of the new GPT-5 model, while removing older options. Users claim it's significantly worse, despite it achieving greater scores on a range of benchmarks.

#ai #openai #chatgpt #ux

OpenAI restores GPT-4o access in ChatGPT after user complaints

6 months / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

OpenAI's GPT-5 looks less like AI evolution and more like cost cutting

6 months / theregister / Tobias Mann

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6 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

OpenAI Adds Auto, Fast, and Thinking Modes to GPT-5

6 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

ChatGPT Plus Users Get Access To More Legacy Models In Updated GPT-5 Experience

6 months / bgr

GPT-5 is going so well for OpenAI that there's now a 'show additional models' switch

6 months / theregister / Richard Speed

ChatGPT users revolt over GPT-5 release — OpenAI battles claims that the new model's accuracy and abilities fall short

6 months / tomshardware

OpenAI brings back GPT-4o after user revolt

6 months / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

Apple may soon let Douyin Pay users buy from the China App Store

appleinsider - Apple is currently testing Douyin Pay support, a mobile payment service owned by TikTok's parent company, for the China App Store.Apple tests China's TikTok Pay in App StoreDouyin is, to put it plainly, China's version of TikTok — ByteDance owns both plat…

#apple #apps #asia #payments

App Store to Add Support for Douyin Pay in China

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Apple may soon let Douyin Pay users buy from the China App Store

6 months / appleinsider

Douyin Pay support is coming to the Chinese App Store

6 months / idownloadblog / Christian Zibreg

App Store to Add Support for Douyin Pay in China

6 months / macrumors / Hartley Charlton

Switch 2 Is Adding This Hard-To-Find GameCube Game To Switch Online Library

Alan Wen / gamespot - Nintendo has announced that Chibi-Robo will be the latest GameCube game to come to the Nintendo Switch 2's classic library as part of the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription.The rare and expensive title will be added to Switch Online's Ga…

#gaming #entertainment #nintendo

Nintendo is putting an extremely rare GameCube game on Switch 2 next week

6 months / engadget / Matt Tate

Switch 2 Is Adding This Hard-To-Find GameCube Game To Switch Online Library

6 months / gamespot / Alan Wen

The Switch 2’s GameCube Library Is Finally Getting A New Addition

6 months / kotaku / John Walker

Chibi-Robo is the Next GameCube Classic Title to be Added to Nintendo Switch 2

6 months / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

Amazon launches same-day delivery of meat, eggs, produce in more than 1,000 cities

cnbc - The service is launching in more than 1,000 U.S. cities and towns, with plans to expand to at least 2,300 locations by the end of this year.

#ecommerce #amazon #us #food

Amazon Is Expanding Same-Day Grocery Delivery to Over 2000 Cities

6 months / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Amazon adds perishable food to same-day delivery

6 months / engadget / Andre Revilla

Amazon Begins Adding Perishable Groceries to Same-Day Delivery in US

6 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Amazon launches same-day delivery of meat, eggs, produce in more than 1,000 cities

6 months / cnbc

Amazon rolls out same-day delivery of perishable groceries in 1,000 US cities

6 months / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

U.S. authorities allegedly placed secret tracking devices in AI chip shipments to China — report claims targeted shipments from Dell and Super Micro containing Nvidia and AMD chips had trackers in packaging and servers themselves

tomshardware - Several anonymous sources claim that U.S. authorities sometimes implant trackers on AI servers that are bound for export to see where they end up.

#china #chips #us #security

Report: U.S. government placing trackers in AI server shipments to enforce chip export controls

6 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

U.S. Allegedly Super-Charged Its Efforts to Prevent China From Getting American Chips

6 months / gizmodo / Lucas Ropek

US secretly places trackers in chip shipments to monitor illegal exports to China

6 months / techspot

U.S. trackers turn AI chips into a geopolitical Rorschach test

6 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

U.S. Embeds Trackers in AI Chip Shipments to Stop Diversion to China

6 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

U.S. authorities have reportedly embedded secret GPS trackers in shipments of advanced AI chips

6 months / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

U.S. authorities allegedly placed secret tracking devices in AI chip shipments to China — report claims targeted shipments from Dell and Super Micro containing Nvidia and AMD chips had trackers in packaging and servers themselves

6 months / tomshardware

The US sneaks trackers into AI chips to thwart shipments to China

6 months / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

OpenAI and Sam Altman are reportedly creating a startup rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink

Steve Dent / engadget - Sam Altman is preparing to co-found a new company funded by OpenAI that will go up against Elon Musk's Neuralink, The Financial Post reported. The startup, called Merge Labs, will use AI for its brain-computer interface and compete directly with Neuralink…

#startups #neuroscience #altman

OpenAI, Altman to Back Brain Chip Startup Rivaling Musk’s Neuralink

6 months / techstrong / Jon Swartz

OpenAI reportedly plans to invest in Merge Labs for brain-computer interfaces

6 months / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Sam Altman Reportedly Launch Rival Brain-Chip Startup to Compete With Musk’s Neuralink

6 months / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Sam Altman’s new startup wants to merge machines and humans https://www.theverge.com/news/758577/sam-altman-merge-labs-neuralink-rival #ElonMusk #OpenAI #News #Tech #AI

6 months / bsky / @jos1264.social.skynetcloud.site.ap.brid.gy / jos1264.social.skynetcloud.site.ap.brid.gy

OpenAI, cofounder Sam Altman to take on Neuralink with new startup

6 months / arstechnica / Ivan Levingston, George Hammond, and James Fontanella-Khan, Financial Times

OpenAI and Sam Altman are reportedly creating a startup rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink

6 months / engadget / Steve Dent

Sam Altman’s new startup wants to merge machines and humans

6 months / theverge / Dominic Preston

iPhone 17 Pro to Start at $1,049 With Doubled Base Storage

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 Pro will have a starting price that is $50 more than the iPhone 16 Pro but it will come with a minimum 256GB of storage, doubling the base capacity compared to last year's model. The information comes from Chinese leaker Instant…

#apple #storage #iphone #pricing

dbrand seemingly confirms final iPhone 17 design with Tank Case

6 months / appleinsider

Apple Might Use A Familiar Tactic To Disguise The iPhone 17 Pro Price Hike

6 months / bgr

iPhone 17 Pro May Launch with 256GB Base Storage

6 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Apple's iPhone 17 Pro $50 pricing increase strategy won't matter to half of buyers

6 months / appleinsider

iPhone 17 Pro Will Reportedly Get Higher Price Tag, But Also More Storage

6 months / cnet / Alex Valdes

Will the iPhone 17 Pro Really Break Apple's 8-Year Pricing Streak?

6 months / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

The iPhone 17 Pro will reportedly have double the storage

6 months / mobilesyrup / Dean Daley

iPhone 17 Pro Just Weeks Away — Here Are the Top 4 Rumored Features

6 months / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

iPhone 17 Pro to Start at $1,049 With Doubled Base Storage

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

$50 more for iPhone 17 Pro, but more storage to mask the price hike

6 months / idownloadblog / Christian Zibreg

iPhone 17 Pro price rise to be masked by increased storage

6 months / appleinsider

iPhone 17 Pro to Start at $1,049 With Doubled Base Storage

6 months / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Perplexity Makes Audacious $34.5 Billion Bid for Google Chrome Amid Antitrust Showdown

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - AI startup Perplexity offers $34.5B for Google Chrome, a strategic move as a federal judge weighs forcing a sale in the landmark DOJ antitrust case.The post Perplexity Makes Audacious $34.5 Billion Bid for Google Chrome Amid Antitrust Showdown appeared fi…

#antitrust #alphabet #doj #acquisitions

Perplexity is trying to position itself alongside major tech brands with high-profile stunts

6 months / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

The Great Gateway Grab

6 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

AI firm Perplexity makes ridiculous bid to buy Chrome from Google

6 months / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Can Perplexity actually buy Google Chrome for $34.5bn?

6 months / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Perplexity Makes Audacious $34.5 Billion Bid for Google Chrome Amid Antitrust Showdown

6 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

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