Best new Apple iOS 18 iPhone apps, features to protect your privacy

Best new Apple iOS 18 iPhone apps, features to protect your privacy

Apple released the latest version of its iPhone operating system, iOS 18, on Monday, including several new security and privacy features. The rollout comes a week after Apple unveiled new versions of the iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch. Preorders for the new iPhones began Friday and will be widely available on Sept. 20. Some consumer … Read more

Epic Games Challenges Apple’s Dominance With New iOS App Store

Epic Games Challenges Apple’s Dominance With New iOS App Store

Epic Games today officially launched a rival app store for iOS in the European Union, marking the first time Apple’s own App Store has had to face a serious rival. The Epic Games Store will initially offer Epic’s games, including Fortnite, for users to download onto their iPhones, with plans to start onboarding third-party developers’ … Read more

Asian shares slide, U.S. stocks flat

Asian shares slide, U.S. stocks flat

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on Jan. 22, 2024. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no … Read more

U.S. stocks little changed ahead of Big Tech earnings

Asian shares slide, U.S. stocks flat

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Oct. 30, 2023 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, … Read more

Apple’s Biggest AI Challenge? Making It Behave

Apple’s Biggest AI Challenge? Making It Behave

Giannandrea said that Apple had focused on reducing hallucinations in its models partly by using curated data. “We have put considerable energy into training these models very carefully,” he said. “So we’re pretty confident that we’re applying this technology responsibly.” That training wheels approach to AI applies across Apple’s offering. If it works as promised, … Read more

Apple Intelligence Will Infuse the iPhone With Generative AI

Apple Intelligence Will Infuse the iPhone With Generative AI

Apple is finally getting into the generative artificial intelligence game—with a little help from an unlikely partner in OpenAI. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced Apple’s long-awaited AI reboot at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference in Cupertino, California, today. What the company is calling “Apple Intelligence,” available in beta this fall, includes a handful of features … Read more

6 Practical Tips for Using Anthropic’s Claude Chatbot

6 Practical Tips for Using Anthropic’s Claude Chatbot

Joel Lewenstein, a head of product design at Anthropic, was recently crawling beneath his new house to adjust the irrigation system when he ran into a conundrum: The device’s knobs made no sense. Instead of scouring the internet for a product manual, he opened up the app for Anthropic’s Claude chatbot on his phone and … Read more

Anthropic iPhone AI app, business plan to compete with OpenAI announced

Anthropic iPhone AI app, business plan to compete with OpenAI announced

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app. The generative artificial intelligence startup is the company behind Claude, one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google‘s Gemini, has exploded in popularity in the past year. Anthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI research executives, … Read more

Apple’s iPhone Browser-Choice Option Sucks. Its Competitors Have Ideas to Improve It

Apple’s iPhone Browser-Choice Option Sucks. Its Competitors Have Ideas to Improve It

A few representatives from smaller browser companies also expressed that they wanted more information included with Apple’s choice process, like definitions of what a browser is for less tech-savvy users and descriptions of the different browsers’ specialties. “Giving people information about the choice, and also information about what they’re choosing is really, really important,” says … Read more