By news@appleinsider.com (Charles Martin) Apple is said to have dropped out of a new funding round for OpenAI at the last minute, but this will have no impact on its plans to integrate optional ChatGPT queries into Apple Intelligence.Apple has decided not to invest money into OpenAI at present.OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is closing a funding round that is expected to raise a $6.5 billion, that was previously expected to be funded in part by Apple. Other tech giants Microsoft and Nvidia are among those expected to participate in the new funding drive. Microsoft is expected to add another $1 billion to the $13 billion it has already invested.The report isn’t clear as to why Apple isn’t investing into the funding round. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Sponsored Content) Take control of your vehicle’s infotainment system and go beyond simple stock Apple CarPlay with products from Ottocast, which add wireless CarPlay and new features like HDMI input.Enjoy wireless CarPlay with Ottocast productsOttocast is a company that specializes in enhancing vehicle infotainment systems. All three accessories featured here bring new functionality to your factory CarPlay unit, while enabling wireless CarPlay.There’s the CarPlayClip, Car TV Mate Pro, and Play2Video Pro. Whichever model you choose, you’ll find they are compatible with most CarPlay-enabled cars on the market. Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple TV+ is continuing to step back from high-profile theatrical releases of its movies, with the forthcoming “F1” racing drama seen as one more test after a series of flops.Brad Pitt in “F1″Apple was the first streaming service to earn a Best Picture Oscar, with “CODA” in 2022, but otherwise its movies have not been hits on the big screen. Following low box office returns for films including “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Apple curtailed plans for theatrical releases.That decision began with “Wolfs,” which instead got a foreshortened and limited distribution of a week in theaters, before streaming on Apple TV+ from September 27. Now according to Bloomberg, Apple plans to repeat this greatly reduced theatrical window for each of its next films — except one. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) Apple resellers are clamoring for your business, with month-end MacBook Air deals knocking up to $300 off 2024 M3 and blowout M2 models.Flash price drops are in effect on Apple’s MacBook Air.The MacBook Air is a popular laptop choice thanks to its 2024 update to the M3 chip, thin-and-light design and budget-friendly price. And with Apple resellers running month-end sales on the notebooks, you can save a large amount of money on new and closeout models.Discounted prices start at just $799 for the M2 line and $899 for the M3 line, with every configuration marked down in our Mac Price Guide. Many of the markdowns at B&H end at 3:30 pm Pacific Time today (September 27). Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (Andrew O’Hara) Apple’s highest-end wearable is the Hermes version of the Apple Watch Series 10 in silver titanium. Here’s what sets it apart.The Hermes Apple Watch Series 10You’d be forgiven for thinking that the Ultra 2 is the most expensive Apple Watch. Not a lot of time gets devoted to Apple’s high fashion partnership with the French fashion brand, Hermes.This partnership has lasted for years. In 2024 a custom Hermes version of the latest Apple Watch was again made available, paired with various Hermes bands. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Across Facebook and Instagram, Meta has been storing more than half a billion users’ passwords in plain text, with some easily readable for more than a decade.One of Facebook/Meta’s headquartersThe issue was first uncovered in 2019 when Facebook admitted to “hundreds of millions” of passwords being stored unencrypted. Facebook, now Meta, said that the passwords were not available outside of the company — but also admitted that around 2,000 engineers had made about 9 million queries on that user database.Now Meta’s operation in Ireland has finally been fined $101.5 million after a five-year investigation by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The fine is levied under Europe’s stringent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) A teardown of the iPhone 16 Pro has given a closer look at its internals, resulting in the highest repairability score since the iPhone 7.iPhone 16 Pro teardown [YouTube/iFixit]As is customary for an iPhone release, companies start to tear down the devices to check out the internals. While one initial teardown has shown off the new metal battery in the iPhone 16 Pro, another has looked at how easy it is to repair.Published to YouTube on Friday, the iFixit teardown again covers the inclusion of a fully-encased battery. According to the firm, the new battery offers a benefit to repairers, in that “you can accidentally poke it to your heart’s content and it won’t pose a fire risk.” Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) While we enjoy our new iPhone 16, Apple is working to make a lower cost Apple Vision Pro, Meta Orion is pretending to be regular glasses, and Jony Ive’s firm has a cute new logo, on the AppleInsider podcast.Apple’s new iPhone 16 ProAppleInsider is not into style over substance, it’s always about going deeper. Still, the Desert Titanium color on the new iPhone 16 Pro range is glorious — and Jony Ive’s new LoveFrom logo is the cutest thing you’ll see this week.Not that it has competition for that title from, say, Meta Orion. Billed as the future of mixed reality headsets, it’s currently making a spectacle of itself — or rather spectacles, looking like 1950s-style glasses. Yet it is a step forward, at least for Meta, and Apple is reportedly also making some strides in its move to produce a lower cost Apple Vision Pro. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Talking at a climate conference, Apple’s environment executive Lisa Jackson said the company believes in regulation, and also in how sustainable design requires working directly with communities.Lisa Jackson, Apple’s VP of Environment, Policy, and Social InitiativesAs vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, Jackson is one of several Apple executives who have been tipped to succeed Tim Cook. At Climate Week NYC, she’s been talking to entrepreneur leaders across all industries, and according to Inc. magazine, advised them all to work with communities.”If you design an answer in a vacuum away from the community that’s impacted and away from the people who have to live with it and use it, it’s not going to be a solution,” she said. Specifically regarding Silicon Valley, she added that “we’re so smart [there], but communities know what they need, as well.” Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that Apple Intelligence will be the chief selling point of an M5-based Apple Vision Pro, and also that little else will change from the current model.Apple Vision ProWhile most recent rumors regarding the future of Apple’s headset have concentrated on plans for a lower-cost Apple Vision version, it has also been obvious that there would be future versions of the Apple Vision Pro. It’s also been obvious that such a future version would use a newer processor than the M2 in the current generation, but Ming-Chi Kuo now specifies that it will be the M5.AI spatial computing to be the main selling point for new M5-powered Vision Pro; new Apple suppliers like Zhaowei in focushttps://t.co/FPX2dYgmX1— (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) September 27, 2024 Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
