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As Apple prepares to unveil iOS 19 at WWDC 2025 on Monday, several rumors have emerged, including a potential new name for the operating system, a dedicated gaming app, and a virtual health coach. This could be a major update, including a dramatic redesign design inspired by Vision Pro. Here is a summary of the most notable features rumored to come to iOS 19. New name Sources told Bloomberg that Apple plans to change the name of the operating system to reflect the year of release, rather than using version numbers. This means that iOS 19 will be renamed iOS…

According to Bloomberg, Meta is debating billions of dollars in scale AI investments. In fact, the transaction value could be reported to be over $10 billion, making it one of the biggest external AI investments by Facebook's parent company and the largest fundraising event ever for a private company. Scale AI (Chapter Alexandr Wang depicted above) provides data labeling services to companies such as Microsoft and Openai, helping to train AI models. Much of that labeling work is carried out by contractors. In fact, the Ministry of Labor recently stopped investigating whether the company misclassifies employees. According to Bloomberg, the…

Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC 2025, starts at 10am Pt/1 PM ET. Monday. Last year's event was notable for its focus on AI, and this year it puts considerable pressure on developers to compensate as it has made promises to the company, lagging behind AI and facing legal challenges for the App Store. As in the past few years, the company is focusing on software updates and new technologies that are rumoured to have the most significant design changes since the introduction of iOS 7. Here's how to watch the live stream of the keynote speech: iOS has received the…

Starting Monday, Apple will be holding the 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference, with keynote speech scheduled for Monday at 10am (Pt/1 PM ET). The company plans to announce changes to its operating system, iOS, iPados, MacOS, Watchos, TVOS and Visionos. We are also looking forward to a dedicated gaming app and new AirPod features. This also gives Apple an opportunity to compensate with developers. You can watch keynotes and subsequent sessions via Apple's Events page, or access Apple's YouTube channel to watch. Alternatively, you can bookmark this page and view the keynote through the embed below. The company plans to overhaul…

Last year there was obvious excitement about Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). The company is about to unveil AI capabilities, and the high-tech world is hoping to unveil an AI platform that can compete with Google and Openai. The demos that Apple showed at the time were persuasive, but the follow-through was overwhelming, and both developers and consumers wanted more. Aph's broader struggle with AI has become more clear over the past year. Personalized intelligence ambitions faced delays, and new tools were unconsistent. Apple's vision for sale in 2024 – seamless blend of on-device AI, improved Siri interactions, and powerful…

As Apple prepares to unveil iOS 19 at WWDC 2025 on Monday, several rumors have emerged, including a potential new name for the operating system, a dedicated gaming app, and a virtual health coach. This could be a major update, including a dramatic redesign design inspired by Vision Pro. Here is a summary of the most notable features rumored to come to iOS 19. New name Sources told Bloomberg that Apple plans to change the name of the operating system to reflect the year of release, rather than using version numbers. This means that iOS 19 will be renamed iOS…

President Donald Trump will sign the executive order on Friday, rolling back with amendments to the cybersecurity policy set up by his democratic predecessors Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In the White House fact sheet, the administration argues that Biden's executive order 14144 was signed a few days before the presidency ended – “an attempt to sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy. Among other things, Biden's order encouraged agents to “consider accepting digital identity documents” if an ID is required for a public interest program. Trump has hit that part of the order, and the White House now…

Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC 2025, starts at 10am Pt/1 PM ET. Monday. Last year's event was notable for its focus on AI, and this year it puts considerable pressure on companies to build on promises and change the narrative after most of the negative headlines of months. As in the past few years, the company is focusing on software updates and new technologies that are rumoured to have the most significant design changes since the introduction of iOS 7. Here's how to watch the live stream of the keynote speech: iOS has received the most dramatic design changes for…

The recent data loss story of Indian grocery delivery startup Kiranapro has more holes than Swiss cheese, as the startup remains unknown whether the incident is an internal violation or an external hack. Last week, the Bengaluru-based startup discovered that it had no access to its backend servers and that all data, including its app code, was removed from GitHub. The startup on Friday condemned a former employee for violations. However, in an interview, Kiranapro co-founder and CEO Deepak Ravindran admitted that after the company left the company, it had not deactivated its employee accounts and could not rule out…

Betting on AI startups has never been more exciting than ever. Incumbents like Openai, Microsoft and Google are rapidly expanding their capabilities to engulf many of the small businesses' products. At the same time, new startups have historically reached a stage of growth much faster. However, defining “growth stages” in AI startups is not so cut out today. Capitalg partner Jill Chase said he is watching a company from just a year ago on the stage of TechCrunch AI Sessions, but has reached tens of millions of people in its recurring revenues over the year, with a valuation of over…