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Apple brings its online retail store to Saudi Arabia

Apple has launched its online store in Saudi Arabia, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The move, set to be followed by physical retail locations, will let users in the country browse through and purchase Apple products on its site for the first time.  As part of its expansion into Saudi Arabia, Apple will offer […]

Source: OpenAI's $40B round announced in March is reopening on July 28; SoftBank's commitment could be cut to $10B if OpenAI does not restructure by end of 2025 (Lauren Goode/Wired)

Lauren Goode / Wired:
Source: OpenAI's $40B round announced in March is reopening on July 28; SoftBank's commitment could be cut to $10B if OpenAI does not restructure by end of 2025  —  OpenAI, which recently announced a $40 billion round of financing, is seeking funding from new and existing investors to fulfill the deal.

Apple Intelligence tries summarizing news again after botching BBC stories

Apple’s fourth iOS 26 developer beta has reintroduced Apple Intelligence-powered notification summaries for news and entertainment apps, MacRumors reports. The company temporarily switched off the feature earlier this year after botching some headlines and promised they would be available again in a future update. After installing the new beta, your iPhone will show a splash […]

Netflix and Apple are backing away from great games

For the last few years, subscription gaming services like Apple Arcade and Netflix have offered mobile game developers something of a haven for high-quality, premium mobile games: a type of game that had become vanishingly rare following the rise of the microtransaction-stuffed free-to-play model. But as these services' once enviable lineup of indie games dwindles, […]

K-Pop Demon Hunters exploded on Netflix — and now it’s a fanfic legend

It’s been a month since Netflix’s K-Pop Demon Hunters took the internet by storm, thrusting us into a world of, well, demon-hunting K-Pop music. The fever is not subsiding; at the time of writing, the film is still number one on the streaming platform’s top 10 most-streamed movies list, while the fictional bands that provide […]