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A personal finance feature called Claude Money surfaced inside Anthropic’s iOS app. It would read your balances, your transactions and the name of every merchant you pay. Here is what it can see, what it cannot, and the questions nobody has answered.
iOS 27 installs on every iPhone from the 11 onward, but the feature list splits into tiers underneath that. Which models get Siri AI, why your battery is draining this week, and when an older iPhone should wait.
Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album arrives November 19 with 34 original tracks. The limited edition vinyl costs more than the game’s Ultimate Edition and sold out in under an hour, which reopened an argument Rockstar thought it had settled.
A hacker collective removed a Flock license plate reader and copied its data. Analysts found the decryption key sitting on an unencrypted partition, software that detects people, and 1.6 million images from 21 days on one road.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter found a 222-meter crater carved by an impact in spring 2024 that nobody on Earth detected. It is the largest fresh lunar crater ever recorded, and the ejecta math now feeds straight into planning for a crewed Moon base.
OpenAI’s new Sponsored Agents give ads their own chat window inside ChatGPT, complete with follow-up questions and a click-through. Here is how the opt-in flow works, and why critics are not convinced the label is enough.
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane confirmed weeks of quiet safety coordination with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, days after Dario Amodei called for the industry to slow down. Regulators are already calling it something else.
Sanders and Takano have reintroduced the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, framing AI as the reason to cut the federal standard. The trial evidence is the strongest it has ever been, and it is still not the variable that decides this.
A father says his nine-year-old spent $118,000 on YouTube ads using a company credit card. The channel’s public data shows exactly what six figures of promotion buys, and what it cannot buy at any price.
Sony has agreed to pay $7.85 million to settle the Caccuri antitrust case over PlayStation Store pricing. Eligible accounts are paid automatically in wallet credit, but the headline number and the number that reaches you are not close.