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The macOS ChatGPT Classic app is going away.

A banner in the app says the app will “retire” on January 30th, 2027, according to 9to5Mac. The banner also points users toward the updated app, which was released earlier this year.

Apple says it's 'really hard' to predict when iPhone Duo supply will catch up to demand

Apple's chief operating officer said during Monday's earnings call that "it's really hard to predict when supply and demand will be in balance."

Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts

The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.

New CEO John Ternus delivers an Apple earnings beat

Apple's revenue for its fiscal Q4 was $114.5 billion, surpassing Wall Street's estimates of $113.46 billion. EPS came in at $2.10, topping estimates.

Apple posts stronger-than-expected Q4 revenue in first earnings report for new CEO John Ternus

Apple Inc. posted stronger-than-expected revenue in the fiscal fourth quarter, giving new CEO John Ternus an upbeat start to his tenure, which began in September. The solid results bucked a downward trend for tech giants this quarter, as companies including Alphabet , Amazon and Intel had disappointing quarterly results.

Anthropic warns that it's very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI

RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.

White House refuses to disclose how it vets AI security threats

Michigan’s high-profile Senate race has been moved from “toss-up” to “lean Democrat” by the nonpartisan election prognosticator Cook Political Report. The move comes despite Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s primary challenger, Haley Stevens, making a shocking cross-party endorsement, backing Republican candidate Mike Rogers on Sunday.

Claude's new AI report card tool gives companies a closer look at costs

The "smart reports" tool for Claude Enterprise users is designed to analyze a sample of a team's transcripts and group work into categories.

AI & Tech Brief: Why Anthropic isn’t calming AI’s troubled waters

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Anthropic's average employee costs it more than $100,000 a month

Anthropic's expenses on personnel topped $322,000 per worker last quarter, an amendment to its S-1 filing shows. The company's IPO is expected soon.

Googling "Zelda" today offers a glimpse of how search worked in 1998

The year was 1998. Britney Spears topped the charts, Bill Clinton was impeached, and a couple of little websites called Google and Ars Technica came online. It was also the year Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the Nintendo 64. Google, which has come to dominate the Internet (Ars is still working on that), is celebrating the imminent release of the Ocarina of Time remaster by temporarily transporting us back to that storied year with a search Easter egg.

Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the masses

Google's Dreambeans, its latest AI experiment, now supports 13 Indian languages.