TerraSign inApple is starting its China AI rollout with a limited set of features, but CEO Tim Cook told analysts a revamped Siri there will take longer. Sales in the region rose 22 per cent to US$18.8 billion, still short of Wall Street's estimate.
Ars Technica ran AI-made images through 300 rounds of simulated compression and resizing, and Google's invisible SynthID label still showed up. Trimming 20 per cent off the edges made it vanish, and Google allows only about 10 checks a day.
The shared standard that lets AI tools plug into a company's software and data got its largest update yet, dropping the rule that each conversation stay pinned to one server. Maintainers say it was the change developers asked for most.
ByteDance has broken up the team behind Lark, its workplace app, and spread the pieces across its chatbot, cloud and AI applications units. The South China Morning Post reports the company's annualised AI revenue of US$4 billion now leads China.
LinkedIn has added a report option that marks a post as "Seems like AI slop", The Verge reports. One AI detector recently flagged 41 per cent of longform LinkedIn posts as entirely machine-written.
Google Forms can now generate a full quiz from a written prompt, pulling material from Docs, Slides or PDFs in your Drive. Gemini also marks the correct answers, and you can edit everything afterwards.