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OpenAI just announced its GPT-5 AI model on Thursday, but you won’t be able to use it with Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration until iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac.Apple Intelligence can rely on ChatGPT for things like helping answer certain Siri queries or alongside Apple’s Google Lens-like Visual Intelligence feature, but right now, it uses OpenAI’s GPT-4o model. Apple has only publicly said its next major software updates will arrive in the “fall,” and they’ll probably launch for everyone next month. But I’ve asked Apple if GPT-5 will be included with the developer and…

As far as I’m concerned, 8BitDo’s Pro 3 is the ultimate controller. You may already know that it makes a model literally called the Ultimate controller, but it plays second fiddle to the new Pro 3 in some key ways. It’s highly customizable, allowing you to change the face buttons, joystick caps, and more.Let me explain: like most other 8BitDo controllers, it’s made to work on multiple platforms, but the Pro 3’s swappable ABXY face buttons allow it to actually transform as needed, say, if you’re going from Switch to PC, or vice versa. You can just pull off the…

No Sony Xperia has truly troubled the best smartphones lists for a while now, so you could understand if Sony was preparing to throw in the towel on its flagging mobile division. Yet according to company chief financial officer Lin Tao, the firm has no such plan. During a recent presentation of Sony’s latest financial results, she said Xperia remained “a very important business for us” and that “we would like to continue to value the smartphone business” (Cnet Japan, via Google Translate). Let’s be brutally honest, though: as things stand, Xperia’s future isn’t looking all that great. Sony hasn’t…

Having a solid set of Wi-Fi routers is essential, whether you’re working from home, playing online games , or streaming a movie. I’ve used this three-pack of TP-Link’s Deco BE26 Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Routers for months without any issues, and I’m eager to recommend them, especially since it’s currently on sale for $188.89 ($90 off) at Amazon (with an on-page promo code) or $199.99 ($80 off) at Best Buy.TP-Link claims this array of routers can create a network that covers up to 6,600 square feet, with speeds up to 5Gbps, and with support for over 150 devices at once. The…

Google’s apparent quest to bring AI features across all of its apps has just extended to one of its most mundane: Google Finance. The company announced on Friday that it’s testing a “new, AI-powered Google Finance,” chatbot included.The revamp, which will roll out in the US in the coming weeks, will let you ask finance-related questions of the web app’s built-in chatbot, which will serve up an AI-generated answer alongside relevant links. There are also new charting tools that Google says go beyond helping you visualize “simple asset performance” with options to view technical indicators or display candlestick charts.In addition…

Virgin Media is giving away a free TV. Yes, really. A decent 50in Ultra HD set can easily cost you a few hundred quid, even if you’re after something half-decent for sports or movies instead of a flagship TV model. That means any opportunity to nab one for free is worth a proper look. So this rather generous offer from Virgin Media is absolutely one to clock. Right now, if you sign up to one of Virgin Media’s selected broadband and TV bundles online, you’ll get a free 50in Toshiba Ultra HD TV worth £260. Or if you’re the sort…

CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony’s beleaguered phone brand at the company’s recent financial results presentation, calling it “a very important business for us,” according to CNET Japan.Once upon a time, Xperia mattered to Sony because it still held a healthy chunk of Japan’s phone market. That’s no longer true, so if Xperia really is still important, I’m not sure why. Read the full article here

While Microsoft was busy updating Copilot yesterday with OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model, it also quietly launched Copilot 3D. It’s a free-to-use feature that can transform a regular 2D image into a 3D model that can then be used in game creation, animation, 3D printing, VR / AR, and much more.Copilot 3D just needs a good clean 2D image, and you don’t even need to use any text prompts. Microsoft recommends using images with a clear background or a strong separation between the subject and the background. I’ve been testing Copilot 3D today and found that it works better when an…

We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken up the issue.Apple’s malicious compliance in the EU has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming to iOS, but recently published guidelines related to Japan’s Smartphone Act could change that. Not only do they set a December deadline for restrictions to be lifted, but also specify that Apple can’t enforce alternative rules that make it difficult to adopt alternatives to the company’s own WebKit browser engine.“Imposing unreasonable technical restrictions on individual app providers while allowing…

Has a gossip email newsletter just leaked details of an upcoming Dyson electric toothbrush? In between its usual banter, the notorious UK-based newsletter Popbitch this week claimed that “Dyson’s soon-to-launch new product [is] a toothbrush”. Now, Dyson products don’t often get leaked but patents do emerge from time to time – we saw patent details of the 2023 Dyson Zone back in 2020 (reported by Bloomberg) – and it was originally filed two years before that in 2018. And, hey presto, we have seen patent details of a Dyson toothbrush with a built-in flosser emerge before, reported by Gizmodo back…

The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company’s Slack.“As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been looking at comp for our technical teams given the movement in the market,” wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was shared with me. He announced that OpenAI would give a “special one-time award” to researchers and software engineers in a handful of orgs, including applied engineering, scaling, and safety.“We very much intend to keep increasing comp as we keep doing better and better as a company,” he…

Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved with haste to get engineers to test and deploy DeepSeek’s R1 model on Azure AI Foundry. It was an unusually quick turnaround for a new model on Azure that also set a new bar for success.A few months later, Nadella then pushed to onboard xAI’s Grok 3 models, in a deal that saw them arrive on Azure AI Foundry just in time for the first day of Microsoft’s Build developer conference in May. Elon Musk even appeared during Nadella’s Build keynote, in a somewhat jovial conversation about his early days as a…