📱 Buy Now!

JPMorgan analysts have revealed → how iPhone 17 prices will change. Spoiler: the outlook is surprisingly good.

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😘 Etymology for Musk

The exchange began after Grok explained the origins of the word slave. Pavel Durov stepped in with his own take, offering Musk a brief history lesson → in the process.

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🤐 Game over!

A San Francisco jury ordered Google → to pay $425.7M for violating users’ privacy, after it was found to keep collecting data even when tracking was turned off.

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⛔️ You’re under arrest

Apple is being sued by Cerence, which claims it patented the “Hey Siri” wake word and virtual keyboard tech years before Apple used them.

The company wants → a ban on further use, plus damages and future royalties.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

💘 OpenAI formed a new unit to focus on ChatGPT’s “personality” after repeated user complaints.

💘 Elon Musk presented a new prototype of Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus, now powered by xAI’s Grok chatbot.

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☕️ Payback time

Trump threatened → to launch a trade investigation against the EU after Brussels fined Google $3.45B for antitrust violations and pressed Apple with multibillion-dollar tax claims.

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🍏 Answer engine

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is preparing to debut its new generative AI search tool → World Knowledge Answers, in March.

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⛔️ Pirates of Cupertino

Apple faces a lawsuit → accusing it of training Apple Intelligence on pirated books. Authors claim Applebot scraped illegal libraries and used copyrighted texts without permission.

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😂 Gemini gets audio

Google has added audio uploads to Gemini → on Android, iOS, and the web, letting users drop in voice recordings for transcription and analysis.

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🍏 In case you missed

Yesterday Apple unveiled the iPhone 17 lineup — and a bit more. We’ve rounded up the highlights if you missed the livestream:

💘 iPhone 17 Pro & Pro Max — new design, 48MP cameras across the board, same price

💘Ultra-thin iPhone Air — 5.6mm body, one rear camera, eSIM only

💘 AirPods Pro 3 — better noise cancellation, heart-rate sensor, new fit

💘 iPhone 17 — 120Hz display, 2x zoom, Apple Intelligence

💘 Apple Watch Series 11, Ultra 3 & SE 3 — blood pressure trend tracking, 5G, and more

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👍 About time

Spotify has finally added lossless audio. The feature → is live now, but only for Premium users in select regions.

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🍏 eSIM everywhere

Apple is extending eSIM-only iPhone 17 models beyond the U.S., rolling them out in several new regions → including the UAE

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🧠 Big spend

OpenAI signed a $300B cloud deal with Oracle → one of the biggest in tech history, set to start in 2027.

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😎 Coming into focus

Amazon is working on its own AR glasses. The device → could arrive by late 2026 or early 2027, with an initial run expected to be limited to around 100,000 units.

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🤐 Can’t hear you

Apple has disabled the new Live Translation feature → in AirPods for European accounts. The company hasn’t explained why, though experts have offered their own theories.

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😄 Hollywood on sale

Paramount Skydance is reportedly preparing → to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. The news sent WBD shares up more than 30%.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

💘 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was accused after an interview with Tucker Carlson over the death of former researcher Sukhir Balaji.

💘 Researchers reported a 500GB leak tied to China’s “Great Firewall,” exposing code, documents, and internal logs.

💘 Apple published official repair costs for the new iPhone lineup.

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🤐 Ten’s last breath

Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. After that date, devices → will stop receiving updates and security patches.

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🎧 Congrats, freeloaders

Spotify just gave its free tier a serious upgrade. Features like Pick & Play, custom playlist covers, daylist, synced lyrics, and smarter recommendations are now available → to all users worldwide.

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🍏 Now with Starlink

Apple smartphones starting from the iPhone 13, once updated to iOS 26, can now connect → to the Starlink satellite network.

At launch, the feature works with six built-in applications, with broader integration expected in the future.

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🧠 Sorry, kids

OpenAI has updated ChatGPT’s policy → for under-18 users. The AI will not engage in flirtatious conversations or discuss suicide, and any related queries will trigger parental notification.

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