The DuckDuckGo web browser can now block most YouTube video ads not just on desktop, but on phones as well. The company says the browser stops pre‑roll, mid‑roll, and other in‑player ads on YouTube when users watch videos within its browser. It also uses the same technology to block video ads on other sites. The […]

The research vessel RV Petrel earned an international reputation by locating some of the most famous shipwrecks of World War II, helping historians solve decades-old mysteries resting thousands of feet beneath the ocean’s surface — such as the USS Wasp, which it discovered resting 14,000 feet down. As of […]

In what will be a blockbuster suit, Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging that two ex-employees, one of whom was Apple’s previous Vice President of Product Design for iPhone and Apple Watch, maintained an ongoing and successful effort in stealing intellectual property to enrich OpenAI’s development efforts. In the suit, filed on Friday, Apple goes into […]

OpenAI on Thursday launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent embedded inside its flagship chatbot that aims to transform ChatGPT from a question-and-answer tool into an autonomous work platform capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks across users’ email, calendars, code repositories, and messaging apps. The product is powered by OpenAI’s latest flagship model, GPT-5.6, and […]

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its former employees have stolen trade secrets “for the benefit of OpenAI.” “This case is about Apple’s former employees stealing Apple’s trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI. Apple brings this suit to put a stop […]

Meta AI joined the image generation space this week. However, it did so with a controversial default setting that users found upsetting. Meta’s tool allowed anyone to use public Instagram posts as a starting point for creating AI-generated images. Instagram users needed to proactively turn off permission to avoid having their content easily tagged and […]

OpenAI has issued a formal statement in response to Apple’s lawsuit accusing the company of trade secret theft. Read it below. OpenAI denies Apple’s allegations Earlier today, Apple filed a lawsuit against former employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan, as well as OpenAI and io Products, alleging “trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract.” In […]

Intel in the U.S. is expected to make at least some upcoming Mac and iPhone chips for Apple. That recent development may have been the key to a major tariff exemption on semiconductors Apple received almost a year ago. Robbie Whelan, reporting for The Wall Street Journal on Friday (Apple News link): Tim Cook was […]

A couple of days ago, I covered Meta’s announcement of the Muse Image, an AI tool that lets users generate images based on someone’s Instagram profile without asking the account owner.  I also highlighted the risks associated with it in another piece, along with steps for opting out. Three days later, the feature is no […]

YouTube users in the U.S. are getting a new way to search for videos on the web. The company has started rolling out Ask YouTube, its conversational AI search experience, beyond the Premium-only test announced at Google I/O 2026. Instead of entering a few keywords and scrolling through a standard list of results, users can […]