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You may have a little Apple fatigue after last week's barrage of Macs, iPhones and iPads. The company wasn't done, however. Surprise! Here is an updated pair of AirPods Max. It's a predictable surprise, perhaps, but one I wasn't expecting after so many other new devices.
It's also the first true update. The AirPods Max 2 look identical to their predecessor, but now have an H2 chip. First, the AirPods Pro 2 improve noise cancellation by 50 percent and add support for Adaptive Audio and Live Translation. It's a much-needed update for headphones that, barring a USB-C option, haven't changed since 2020.
They're still priced at $549. In Apple's recent press images for its cheapest MacBook ever, a child was using AirPods Max while working on their $599 MacBook Neo. Love it.
The new headphones are up for pre-order on March 25 and will ship in early April.
- Mat Smith
The other big stories (and deals) this morning
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Samsung Galaxy S26 review: The smartphone status quo
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When OpenAI released GPT-5.4 at the start of March, the company said the new model was designed primarily for professional work like programming and data analysis. Now OpenAI is launching GPT-5.4 mini and nano, and while it is once again highlighting the usefulness of these new systems for tasks like coding, one of the new models is available to Free and Go users. What's more, that model, GPT-5.4 mini, even offers performance that approaches GPT-5.4 in a handful of areas.
As a Free or Go user, you can access 5.4 mini by selecting "Thinking" from ChatGPT's plus menu. For paid users, the model is the new fallback for when you've hit your rate limit with 5.4 proper. OpenAI says 5.4 mini offers better performance than GPT-5.0 mini in a few different key areas, including reasoning, multimodal understanding and tool use. That means 5.4 mini is better at parsing non-text inputs such as images and audio, and has a more nuanced understanding of how to do things like search the web. It does all of this while running more than twice as fast as its predecessor.
As for GPT-5.4 nano, OpenAI says it's ideal for tasks such as data classification and extraction where speed and cost-efficiency are top of mind. If you're a ChatGPT user, you won't find the new model in the chatbot. Instead, OpenAI is making it only available through its API service. The company envisions developers using more advanced models to delegate tasks to AI agents running GPT-5.4 nano, and that's reflected in the cost of the new model, which OpenAI has priced starting at $0.20 per million input tokens.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/gpt-54-mi
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 Samsung is set to discontinue the Galaxy Z TriFold globally after just three months on sale (via Bloomberg).
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With Meta fumbling the bag on privacy, Samsung's "Galaxy Glasses" might be appealing by default.
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 Smart home accessory company Aqara today announced its new HomeKit and Matter-compatible Camera Hub G350.
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With Memory Pictures Viewer you have access to a picture viewer with something new - GPS coordinate visualization that allows you to see where the photo was taken. Memory Pictures Viewer takes full advantage of the power of the EXIF metadata header. This header comes embedded with JPEG photos taken off from a digital camera or a smartphone. Smartphones' cameras have been used quite widely to take candid shots, and a great thing about them is that they come with GPS, and the GPS information gets embedded in the photos.
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The tech giant has struggled to deliver on its ambitious plans for the Avocado AI model, AI-powered smart glasses and other next-generation projects.
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We sifted through the rumors to find the upgrades most likely to make it to Apple's next smartwatch.
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