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iPhone 17, iPhone Air, AirPods Pro 3, and everything else announced at Apple’s hardware event

From a new slim iPhone Air model to redesigned AirPods, here’s what to expect from this year’s Apple event.

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Apple’s new iPhone 17 devices don’t have an AI-powered Siri yet. It doesn’t matter.

Until now, Apple has only released what could be considered baseline AI features for its devices, like AI writing tools, summarization, generative AI images (which some complain are not very good), live translation, visual search, and Genmoji, among others.

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iPhone 17 Air will be eSIM only worldwide

The company opted to ditch physical SIMs for eSIMs for iPhones sold in the U.S. in 2022.

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Apple debuts the ultra-thin iPhone Air

The star of Apple’s iPhone 17 event was the iPhone Air, its thinnest and lightest model to date.

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Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon

At a weekend hackathon in San Francisco, more than 100 coders gathered to test whether they could beat AI—and win a $12,500 cash prize.

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Microsoft says employees will be expected in office three days a week

Microsoft previously had a remote work policy that allowed most employees to work from home more frequently without manager approval.

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Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference

Nvidia’s relentless development cycle has resulted in enormous profits for the company, which brought in $41.1 billion in data center sales in its most recent quarter.

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Tesla is seeking permits to offer ride-hail services at Silicon Valley airports

It’s a precursor to the company’s larger ambitions of operating a full-blown robotaxi service in the state — something it’s still yet to prove can work at scale in Texas.

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‘Catastrophic’ Stakes: OpenAI Restructure Faces Fierce Campaigns and Scrutiny

OpenAI’s for-profit shift faces probes, lawsuits, and $19B in investor stakes as regulators and rivals challenge its nonprofit roots and future in AI.

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Nvidia Unveils Rubin CPX, First in a New Class of AI GPUs

The Vera Rubin CPX is built for “massive-context” AI to perform complex coding or generate HD video.

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