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Apple testing ‘Live Notes’ AI system to record Genius Bar sessions: report

Apple is reportedly piloting a new “Live Notes” system at some of its retail locations. This system uses AI to record and transcribe Genius Bar sessions with customers, according to a new report. In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the Live Notes system lets Apple Store employees […]

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Those rumoured Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas remasters are real, Fallout 5 is in pre-production, and Fallout 76 is getting a massive expansion

The next canon game in the RPG series, Fallout 5, didn’t get much information as part of this announcement, but Howard notes “Fallout 5 remains our long-range destination”. Given the post notes explicitly that there will be a massive celebration for Fallout Day 2027 (typically held on 23rd October), we can probably expect movement on

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Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup

In a new regulatory filing, Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by actor and director Ben Affleck. The streaming company announced the acquisition in March, with a statement from Affleck saying he wanted to “protect the power of human creativity.” According to Affleck, InterPublic’s AI tools help

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“I feel totally unbothered” – Deborah Ann Woll doesn’t care about the trolls taking shots at God Of War Laufey

"It's okay if it's not your cup of tea, but in no universe is it bad." But the star seems wonderfully unphased by the backlash. In a new interview, Woll says she’s “totally unbothered” by the anguish surrounding the upcoming new PS5 exclusive – because she knows “it’s great”. “Genuinely, I thought I was going

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Apple vs. Open AI Explained: The Battle for AI Gadgets Begins With a Juicy Lawsuit

Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI is full of astonishing accusations and details, with Apple alleging it uncovered a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets. Apple's complaint mostly points the finger at a few ex-Apple employees that now work at OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. OpenAI has faced quite a number of lawsuits lately on how

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9to5Mac Daily: July 17, 2026 – Apple’s Back to School promo, AirPods public beta

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AI music generator Suno has been hacked, detailing the data scraping of millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

According to 404 Media, a hacker has breached the company database of Suno, an online AI music generation tool. The hack is said to reveal multiple references to the training data it scraped from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, and others. Suno has previously admitted that its tool was trained on “essentially all music files of

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