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Breaking technology news for readers in the United States, filed the day it happens. We cover Apple, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia alongside the security breaches, privacy rulings and antitrust cases that decide what your devices are allowed to do, and every story is checked against primary sources before it runs. Model releases and app news sit in AI & Software, handsets in Mobile.
Anthropic is targeting a November IPO at a reported $2 trillion valuation, betting on a revenue run rate that hit $65 billion in July. Not everyone thinks the math holds up.
Google shipped two new Gemini text-to-speech models with over 2,000 voices and a tool that builds custom ones from a description. The pricing that makes them cheap expires December 31.
Instagram’s new Pixel effect uses Meta AI to blur anyone you describe in a text prompt. Instagram pitched it at relationship soft launches, and that framing is exactly what set the backlash off.
Buried in Privacy and Security is the Apple Intelligence Report, a log of every request your iPhone sent to Private Cloud Compute. Here is how to export it, how to read it, and the two kinds of AI activity it deliberately leaves out.
Claims are open in Apple’s $250 million Apple Intelligence false advertising settlement. Seven iPhone models qualify, the payment starts at $25 per device, and the filing window closes on December 21, 2026.
The Beats 360 cost $349.99 and keep automatic switching, Siri, Find My and 32 hours of battery. Here is exactly what the $199 gap to the AirPods Max 2 still buys, and the two features Beats left out.
Files in a new Xbox PC app update reveal the Mythic Achievement, Xbox’s answer to the PlayStation Platinum trophy. It unlocks on all base-game achievements, ignores DLC, is worth zero Gamerscore, and comes with a 15 second fanfare.
Apple has confirmed that Siri AI, Image Playground and the cloud photo editing tools are capped by a daily usage limit, and that expanded access will eventually cost money. It has not published the limit, the timeout or the price.
A federal health advisory sets daily screen time limits by age, from no screens before 18 months to two hours for teenagers. National estimates say adolescents average seven to nine. Here is what the research on “digital dementia” does and does not show.
McDonald’s committed $8.5 billion to franchisees and unveiled ArchIQ, an AI operating system that puts a voice assistant called Archy in the drive-thru. Here is what the company actually claims, and what it has tried before.