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Hayden Field

Hayden Field

Senior AI Reporter

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    Apple’s ChatGPT integration makes it easier to search for more context on images and shop for things they see.

    Apple is pushing visual intelligence features that build on Apple Intelligence, allowing users to go beyond searching for context using their device’s camera and now also “search and take action on anything they’re viewing across their apps.” The feature can also recognize when a user is looking at something they may like to attend and pre-populate a calendar event with time and place.

    “Users can ask ChatGPT questions about what they’re looking at on their screen to learn more, as well as search Google, Etsy, or other supported apps to find similar images and products,” according to Apple. To access the feature, a user can act like they’re taking a screenshot — they will then be prompted to either save the screenshot or search using Apple Intelligence.

    Image: Apple
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    Apple’s Image Playground now integrates with ChatGPT.

    Apple is updating Genmoji and Image Playground with new styles, powered in part by ChatGPT. With Image Playground, users can now tap into ChatGPT to change a friend’s photo into the style of an oil painting, for instance.

    Image Playground sends the description you write out, or your image, to ChatGPT to create the results, but “nothing is shared with ChatGPT without your permission,” according to Apple.

    A simulated screenshot of Image Playground on a MacBook restyling a woman’s selfie to look like a drawing.
    New styles in Image Playground
    Image: Apple
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    Hayden Field
    Apple Intelligence takes on language barriers in messages and phone calls.

    Apple announced at WWDC 2025 that it’s debuting live translation Apple Intelligence features that allow you to translate between languages in Messages, FaceTime, and phone calls.

    For a phone call, that’ll mean live translation aloud as you talk, and with FaceTime, it means live captions displayed on the screen. It’s all powered via Apple-built models that run on-device.

    Simulated iPhone screenshots showing Live Translation for text messages, FaceTime chars, and voice calls.
    Live Translation
    Image: Apple
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    Apple gives developers access to its on-device Apple Intelligence model.

    This year at WWDC, Apple announced it’s opening up access for any app to tap into the on-device large language model at the core of Apple Intelligence, giving developers direct access. It will “ignite a whole new wave of intelligence experiences” in the apps users frequent, per Apple, and it cuts out cloud API costs due to on-device access.

    Simulated iPhone animation showing AllTrails AI chatbot features powered by Apple Intelligence.
    AllTrails using Apple Intelligence
    Image: Apple
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    Hayden Field
    Apple’s new research paper says AI reasoning isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

    Right before WWDC 2025, Apple researchers published a paper called The Illusion of Thinking (PDF) that made waves. The researchers wrote that popular and buzzy AI models “face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities,” especially with things they’ve never seen before.

    They presented models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek with new and complex puzzle games and found their reasoning ability “increases with problem complexity up to a point, then declines.”

    Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes before providing answers. While these models demonstrate improved performance on reasoning benchmarks, their fundamental capabilities, scaling properties, and limitations remain insufficiently understood. Current evaluations primarily focus on established mathematical and coding benchmarks, emphasizing final answer accuracy. However, this evaluation paradigm often suffers from data contamination and does not provide insights into the reasoning traces’ structure and quality. In this work, we systematically investigate these gaps with the help of controllable puzzle environments that allow precise manipulation of compositional complexity while maintaining consistent logical structures.
    Image: Apple
    Anthropic launches new Claude service for military and intelligence useAnthropic launches new Claude service for military and intelligence use
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    Anthropic’s CEO wrote an op-ed against the proposed 10-year moratorium on AI regulation.

    Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s co-founder and CEO, writes in The New York Times that though he understands the motivations behind the proposal, “a 10-year moratorium is far too blunt an instrument. A.I. is advancing too head-spinningly fast.”

    He’s advocating for a federal transparency standard instead: “Without a clear plan for a federal response, a moratorium would give us the worst of both worlds — no ability for states to act, and no national policy as a backstop.”

    Opinion | Anthropic C.E.O.: Don’t Let A.I. Companies off the Hook

    [nytimes.com]

    Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last JulyReddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July
    ChatGPT can now read your Google Drive and DropboxChatGPT can now read your Google Drive and Dropbox
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    There’s going to be a movie about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s ouster (and subsequent rehire).

    Amazon MGM Studios is reportedly making a movie that will depict the rollercoaster couple of days in November 2023 when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted by the board, then pulled an “Uno Reverse” and was re-hired, after which nearly all of the board members in question subsequently departed.

    Luca Guadagnino is in talks to direct, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with Andrew Garfield in talks to play Sam Altman. Production could begin as soon as this summer, per the report, with filming locations in San Francisco and Italy.

    Luca Guadagnino to Direct True-Life OpenAI Movie ‘Artificial’ for Amazon MGM

    [hollywoodreporter.com]

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