The over-the-air software update will allow Lucid Gravity owners to drive hands-free on “compatible” North American highways. A manual tug of the turn signal will also initiate hands-free lane changing. The software update will also bring to the Gravity new Google Maps’ Smarter Navigation feature, Adaptive High Beams, and more detailed battery information.

The update-filled keynote showed an AI-upgraded Siri along with new features across Apple’s operating systems.


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WWDC 2026 / Catch up on the announcements from today’s keynote, from iOS 27, macOS 27, Siri, and more.



The new OS is ‘faster, smoother, and easier to use.’

The iPad’s next big update is expected to arrive later this year.

Recommended time allowances for apps and ‘Ask to Browse’ are coming to Apple’s devices.
Apple picking CEOs / Tim Cook’s final WWDC keynote as CEO is today, ushering in the Ternus era.


Cook’s relentless optimization propelled Apple’s fortunes to new heights and an era of predictable profitability.

Who is John Ternus, Apple’s new CEO?

Tim Cook, a close friend of Jobs, is stepping down in September, leaving behind a team of executives bridging the gap between two eras.

Does Tim Cook’s newly announced successor have what it takes to regain the company’s lost ground in the AI race?
Summer Game Fest 2026 / All the news and trailers from gaming’s busy week.


PlayStation and Xbox are going old-school, and GTA VI was everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

The anniversary-edition console includes an Xbox button that lights up green and a translucent green controller.


It’s called N Plus Infinity Times Two and it’s launching in 2027.
Staff picks / Our favorite stories you don’t want to miss.


Your new assistant can schedule a meeting but it can’t fix our broken world.

A new campaign to promote American-grown cotton to consumers sounds nice — but is far more complicated than the administration is making it sound.

Quilty claims to predict box office success.

Skylight’s kid-centric Buddy is an adorable — if pricey — way to keep young ones on task.


Apple expanded its toolkit for parents at WWDC, but pushed developers to step up.


One of the most highly anticipated public offerings in history has moved one step closer to reality.


Siri and AI were the stars of the show, but they aren’t the only new things coming to your Apple gadgets.


watchOS 27 won’t support the original Apple Watch Ultra.
At a tech talk during WWDC 2026, Apple revealed that the company worked with Nvidia, Google, and Intel to make Private Cloud Compute work on the industry-leading AI hardware. Apple Foundational Model runs on Nvidia hardware within Google’s cloud. For more details, see our live blog.
WWDC 2026 bonus live blog: Tech Talk with Craig Federighi


The latest updates coming to your Apple Watch.
One federal judge certainly thinks so. District Judge Leo Sorokin struck down Trump’s H-1B fee increase, ruling that the “substance and application” of the policy “reveal that it is a tax, regardless of what the payment is called.”
White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told Reuters that the administration plans on appealing the ruling.
While Apple is launching Siri AI in English later this year, it wants EU users to have someone to blame for why it won’t be available there immediately on all of its platforms (only macOS, watchOS, and visionOS at first), similar to other EU-delayed Apple Intelligence updates:
Siri AI is private by design and deeply integrated across Apple’s platforms using on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute, which extends the privacy and security of iPhone into the cloud. However, under EU regulators’ extreme interpretation of the DMA, Apple would have to give any virtual assistant direct access to users’ private data — and the ability to directly control other installed applications — as soon as Siri AI is made available in the EU, without the essential protections necessary to keep users and their data safe.
According to Apple, iOS 27 will offer “consolidated notifications for multiple tapbacks in messages.” Praise the Apple gods! Your group chats are saved!



Security cameras in Apple Home will generate text descriptions and let you search footage with natural language. HomeKit Secure Video finally gets 4K support.
Well that was a strange keynote! While Nilay, Vee, and Allison go run around Apple Park trying to learn more about the future of Siri, Hayden Field and Jake Kastrenakes are joining me in a half-hour-ish to break down this year’s WWDC. Come hang!


The latest version of Apple’s mixed reality OS can use visual intelligence to let Siri interact with whatever you see, whether it’s real or virtual.


Recommended time allowances for apps and ‘Ask to Browse’ are coming to Apple’s devices.


The retailer’s expansion into near-instant design and printing threatens its own network of third-party sellers as well as print-on-demand competitors.
In a 135-page opinion, Judge John J. McConnell, of Rhode Island vacated four Trump administration policies severely restricting legal immigration, including a visa ban affecting nationals of 39 “high risk” countries.McConnell said that US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that handles legal immigration, implemented the policy “with pre textual concerns of ‘national security’ that mask anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making.”


The iPad’s next big update is expected to arrive later this year.


Apple’s second chance at an AI Siri should bring improved capabilities to Apple devices.
As part of its upcoming iOS 27 update, AirPods are finally getting a custom equalizer. The new feature will let you adjust how AirPods represent any audio, with a custom profile where you can adjust the lows, mids, and highs. Previously, AirPods have had a fixed sound profile provided by Apple, so this new option gives AirPods owners a lot more flexibility.




The new OS is ‘faster, smoother, and easier to use.’


They’re also demanding a crackdown on child abuse imagery in iCloud.

The convicted FTX fraudster serving a 25-year prison sentence now has a formal filing for the presidential pardon he’s been openly seeking, plus a new jailhouse phone interview with Fox Business. He presumably hopes that was seen inside the White House, despite Donald Trump’s comments in January that he had no plan to pardon SBF.


You can start your research directly in a chat with NotebookLM.


This year, Apple’s annual developer conference was all about Apple Intelligence.

If you’ve ever wondered what the hell is going on with Bending Spoons’ “buy, do layoffs, ????” strategy, perhaps the statement it filed Monday with the SEC for a public listing will explain.
Named for the scene in The Matrix, it’s pulled this move with brands including AOL, Vimeo, Meetup, Evernote, Eventbrite, Brightcove, WeTransfer, Filmic, and many others, hoovering up and leveraging their accumulated 500 million users, data, and 9 million monthly paying subscribers to raise more money for more acquisitions.


Early Prime Day deals like these are beginning to trickle out. You can also save on a sweet 31.5-inch 4K Asus QD-OLED.
Following capacity shortages at TSMC, Intel will “manufacture more than three million Tensor Processing Units in 2028,” half the estimated 6 million TPUs Google’s expected to make in the next two years, The Information reports. Nvidia and SK Hynix are also reportedly testing Intel’s tech for manufacturing their chips.
[The Information]
Xbox has just released a new Halo: Campaign Evolved trailer, and the footage was captured on Sony’s PS5 Pro console. The trailer comes a day after Microsoft brought Xbox exclusives back at its Xbox Games Showcase, with Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution both skipping PlayStation.


Meta blames a bug on an exploit that allowed hackers to ask its AI support bot to link a victim’s account with their own email.
That’s according to a “senior OpenAI employee,” speaking to the Financial Times. The FT reports that OpenAI’s frequently-rumored “superapp” overhaul of ChatGPT is rolling out in the “coming weeks,” and “will initially appear as changes to ChatGPT’s website and mobile apps, encouraging customers towards using coding, image-generation and apps from external partners.”
[Financial Times]


We’ll likely finally hear more about the Switch 2’s holiday lineup.
British prime minister Keir Starmer is set to announce a new policy next week that will ban children under 16 from accessing social media platforms, following Australia’s precedent. Starmer is also calling for online platforms to introduce device-level controls that prevent children from sending and receiving nude images.


The next Gears of War is an Xbox exclusive, but Halo isn’t. What’s going on?
Despite last year’s $167 million verdict against NSO Group for its Pegasus software hacking some 1,400 WhatsApp users, Meta says it has detected new spear phishing attacks on its platform from the spyware maker, in violation of the court’s permanent injunction:
We successfully disrupted NSO-linked social engineering attempts, after investigating user reports. They tried to trick people into clicking on malicious links to drive them to external websites outside of WhatsApp, similar to previously reported 1-click phishing campaigns linked to NSO. We also caught them creating test accounts and groups on WhatsApp, which we took down.





