On its quarterly earnings calls, Apple provides informal financial guidance that helps set expectations for investors and Wall Street analysts. On its latest earnings call yesterday, however, Apple mentioned something that it had not before.
This is a complicated situation, so let me break it down. ChatGPT has a share feature that lets you easily send info to another user with a link. But apparently the info in these semi-personal discussions with the "AI" chatbot was posted somewhere that Google could crawl and index. And this allowed it to be easily searchable with the very basic Google instruction, "site:chatgpt.com/share." Even though the queries searchable this way were probably only a tiny fraction of the massive volume of what ChatGPT users actually generated, it still had some, ahem, interesting things to search through.
ChatGPT's owner OpenAI was, predictably, not thrilled that such a huge volume of searches were going through, potentially including lots of semi-personal information. To be fair, users had to manually make these posts shared in the first place, and the warning "Anyone with the URL will be able to view your shared chat" appeared each time the function was used, and then also had to opt-in to it being shared with search engines. Nonetheless, they shut it down double-quick.
According to a post on Twitter/X from OpenAI's co-chief information security officer Dane Stu
The WEI was introduced in Windows Vista. It provided a numerical assessment of a computer's hardware and software performance on a scale of 1 to 10.
While the direct display feature for the WEI was removed in Windows 8.1, the tool still exists in Windows 11, and you can access it the way I'm going to show you below.
Why would you want to use it? Well, figuratively speaking, it lets you put on your system administrator's cap and analyze the performance of components like your CPU and storage drive. With the numerical performance values you get, you can more easily decide whether you need to upgrade anything.
Interpreting the WEI is easy: Scores closer to 10 indicate a faster and more responsive PC. It's very difficult to get 10/10, so you should consider anything in the 9s as exceptional.
What to do:
In Windows 11 Search type CMD, to access the command prompt.
Now type the command winsat formal. You should see a process run that indicates the PC is analyzing the system hardware. If it doesn't, retype the command.
Now navigate to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore and open the html file with today's date.
Find WinSPR in the data listed in the html file and view the WEI info below it.
Statcounter, which tracks the market share of operating systems, browsers, social media sites, and more, has begun tracking the number of sessions by users who visit artificial intelligence sites like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude AI, Microsoft Copilot, and more. The winner, not surprisingly, is ChatGPT, by an enormous margin: over 80 percent and climbing, which coincides with our own chatbot tests.
Statcounter began tracking the statistics in March, and they've roughly remained the same since then: ChatGPT absolutely dominates, with a cluster of smaller AI chatbots below. So far, the only major change seems to have been Perplexity AI, which captured 16 percent of U.S. users in March, but has dropped to about 6 percent since then. Microsoft's Copilot has risen, beginning at under 1 percent and now capturing about 10 percent of the market.
For the U.S,, the Statcounter numbers break down as follows: in July, 80.22 percent of U.S. chatbot sessions went to ChatGPT, 9.51 percent to Copilot, 5.61 percent for Perplexity, 2.67 percent to Google Gemini, and 1.56 percent to Claude, with Deepseek capturing just 0.43 percent.
On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we focus on the latest rumors about the two standard iPhone models expected to arrive this fall: the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air.
This is obviously a problem in need of fixing, and OpenAI's answer is a Study Mode that's now baked into ChatGPT. The idea is to stop students from simply asking ChatGPT to tell them the answer to a question, and to have ChatGPT teach them how to answer the question for themselves.
Will this work? Possibly. Maybe. Probably not. Either way, I gave ChatGPT's Study Mode a spin for ourselves to find out what it's capable of - and I wound up utterly loving it.
How to enable ChatGPT's Study Mode
Windows 11 SE was announced in late 2021 and launched in January of 2022, explicitly designed for the education market. While it shares most of the codebase and features of Windows 11, it's also far more locked down, with standard users unable to install third-party 32-bit apps or even apps from the Windows Store without admin assistance. Windows 11 SE lacks widgets and some Snap Layout options for the sake of being "distraction-free," it's even more insistent upon Microsoft applications like Office and Edge, and it needs to be managed via the Intune system.
Normally $1,000, Best Buy is slashing $400 off for what might be the perfect daily driver you can also have a ton of fun with. It features a 14-inch 1920×1200 OLED touchscreen, and if that doesn't grab your attention, we don't know what will! That's an incredible screen for a $600 laptop.
The specs aren't too shabby, either. It runs on an AMD Ryzen AI 5 processor with 16GB of RAM. Throw in a 512GB SSD and you've got a speedy machine that can handle a few dozen browser tabs, multiple office apps, and still stream KPop Demon Hunters for the 10th time.
While there's no dedicated graphics card, the AMD Radeon 840M can handle some light gaming. And with the touchscreen, you can enjoy a few fun games during your downtime.
For $600, this is a killer laptop. It's perfect for work, streaming, casual gaming, and whatever else your day throws at you. Don't wait too long, though. Best Buy's $400 discount won't last.
Apple has made the macOS Tahoe public beta available for testing before the new Mac operating system's official release in the fall. Keep reading to learn whether you should install it on your Mac, and if so, how to go about it.
Apple held an earnings call for the third fiscal quarter (second calendar quarter) of 2025 today, beating expectations with revenue of $94 billion. During the call, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Kevan Parekh shared insights into device sales, tariffs, and more.
Thank you to everyone who's made iPhone such an important part of their lives. I'm incredibly excited for what's ahead!
Apple customers afraid of massive price hikes because of tariffs helped Apple's device sales during the fiscal third quarter of 2025, Apple CEO Tim Cook said today.
While Apple largely won the lawsuit that Epic Games levied against it back in 2020, Google hasn't been as lucky. Google today failed to win an appeal in the ongoing ?Epic Games? v. Google case, handing another victory to Epic.
The order will take effect on August 29 at midnight, on goods that enter the country or are withdrawn from a warehouse for consumption.
The de minimis exemption allows goods valued under $800 to be imported to the United States without being tariffed. Put another way, it's a way for consumers to buy an item or two from Amazon, Shein, or another site without having to pay a tariff on top of sales tax. With the revocation of the exemption, you'll pay tax and tariffs, both — which are largely the same thing, anyway.
Trump filed the order on Wednesday. In April, Trump "declared a national emergency with respect to underlying conditions indicated by the large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits," but left the de minimis exception in place. Trump said at the time that the Department of Commerce could not adequately process the tariffs on small items.
Trump's order said that the Secretary of Commerce reports that those systems are now in place, and that tariffs will be applied.
Trump had levied tariffs on China and Hong Kong in response to what he had said was the unlawful import of opioids. In his order, Trump declared that there are still "unusual and extraordinary threats" that exist in whole or in part outside of the United States, and that those threats justified suspending the de minimis exemption.
At this price, it's the cheapest it's ever been, making it the perfect time to snag one for your trips. But the price isn't the only thing that's insane about this solar power bank! You're looking at a jaw-dropping capacity of 42,800mAh, which is enough to charge your phone about eight times over (give or take, depending on your phone's model). It has two USB-A ports, so you can charge two devices at once.
This power bank also has a built-in LED flashlight that lasts up to a continuous 100 hours on a full charge. When it's depleted, it can be recharged via solar (might take a couple of days) or via USB-C (much faster at about 10.5 hours). And you have nothing to worry about when you take it hiking or camping, as it's ruggedly waterproof, dustproof, and shockproof for peace of mind.
Frankly, it's an incredible gadget for just over $25, so you should really snag one on sale while you can. Again, it's the cheapest it's ever been, and it's even great as a backup for home power outages.
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Add Microsoft's Surface lineup to the list of gear that now costs more. XDA first spotted price hikes of around 20 percent for most existing models. The damage applies to the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro lines, as well as power bricks.
The starting prices of the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop and 13-inch Surface Pro increased from $1,000 to $1,200. Of course, the new devices Microsoft launched on Tuesday stand pat. (And their curiously high prices now make more sense.) Only the 15-inch Surface Laptop was spared, sticking to its original $1,300.
Even accessories like power supplies are part of the fun. The 65W Surface power supply shot up from $90 to $120, and the 127W variant went from $125 to $175.
PCMag notes that retail partners like Best Buy and Amazon still show the original prices. So, if you were considering a new Surface, that's a good place to start.
