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 Google today added new agentic capabilities to the Gemini-powered "Ask Maps" assistant in the Google Maps app.
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 OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets, calling the allegations "meritless."
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 It is now August, and that means the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are just a month away. The devices are expected to look similar to the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, but there will still be many year-over-year changes, with rumored features including a smaller Dynamic Island, 5G via satellite, and more.
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 Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.6.1, an update to the ?macOS Tahoe? operating system that came out last year. ?macOS Tahoe? 26.6.1 comes a little over a week after Apple released macOS Tahoe 26.6.
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The AI hacking disclosure is the third by a tech company in recent weeks, following similar security incidents with Anthropic and OpenAI models.
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 You can get up to $190 off multiple models of the M5 MacBook Air on Amazon this week, with deals focused mainly on 13-inch models this time around. These are the lowest prices we've seen on the notebooks in the wake of Apple's price hikes in June.
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 BMW has enraged customers by sending ads for Spider-Man: Brand New Day directly to in-car infotainment systems. An ad appears as a notification when starting the car, and when tapped, it plays a full-screen 19-second animation with music and a light show.
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German authorities have launched a counterterrorism investigation following the discovery of the drone amid mounting security concerns.
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Hark says its Handoff browser agent beats GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.8 at a lower token cost, but its benchmark claims carry caveats.
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AI agents are performing roughly 1 in 3 actions in enterprise IT workflows (but that share is rising quickly), while human analysts are rejecting about one-quarter of AI-proposed actions (but that rate is falling), according to a new study of tens of thousands of human-AI interactions. Operational data, rather than underlying AI infrastructures, is often the culprit when things go wrong.
Human analysts are approving the most consequential actions, managing exceptions, and supervising and shaping agentic systems, while AI agents are carrying out routine tasks and executions, automation platform provider Fixify found in the study.
"That may sound less dramatic than replacing the help desk," Matt Peters, Fixify's co-founder and CEO, wrote in a blog post. "It's also a much more credible path to changing how IT work gets done."
Building scaffolding
Fixify identified four steps of agentic work: Planning, proposing, approving or declining, then acting on approved steps.
It analyzed nearly 18,000 plans and over 147,000 actions executed by agents across 40 companies over a three-month period, finding that agents are taking over one-third of IT actions, m
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 Apple didn't want to raise its prices but was forced to do so because of exponential increases in memory costs, Apple CEO Tim Cook said today during the company's Q3 2026 earnings call. Apple increased prices for Macs and iPads in June because memory prices have surged.
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