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Apple Intelligence Now Wants 14GB Free, and 256GB iPhone Owners Pay for It
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Before you update to iOS 27 and switch on the new Siri, check your free space. Apple now asks for up to 14GB of it on its newest high-end iPhones. The old number was 8GB.
Per Apple's support document, the 14GB tier covers iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone Air. Every other Apple Intelligence phone, from the iPhone 15 Pro up through the standard iPhone 17, still needs up to 8GB, and Apple Watch needs up to 1.5GB. iPhone Air starts at 256GB and so does iPhone 18 Pro, so the bigger bill lands on the people who already paid the most.
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Clicks Wants $499 Today for a Keyboard Phone That Ships in December
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements, Smartphones,
For two years Clicks sold you a keyboard that snapped onto somebody else's phone. Now it wants to sell you the whole phone, and it wants the full $499 about three months before one lands in your hands.
The Clicks Communicator is a small Android phone with a physical keyboard under a 4.03-inch screen, the arrangement you last took seriously on a BlackBerry. Clicks locked in the final specs this week, opened order configuration, and said shipments begin in December. The $499 launch price runs through September 30. On October 1 it becomes $649.
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Apple’s Hardware Boss on the iPhone Duo Crease: ‘Hold Us Accountable to That, Please’
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones,
"Hold us accountable to that, please." That is Tom Marieb, Apple's VP of hardware engineering, talking to TechRadar about the crease down the middle of the iPhone Duo. Every folding phone shipped so far has grown one, and Apple has now invited everybody to come back and check on his.
The Duo is Apple's first foldable, it starts at $1,999, and it goes on sale October 23. Nobody outside Apple has folded one a few thousand times yet. Marieb's claim is that when you finally do, you will have a hard time seeing the line, and he would like to be judged on it.
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Twitch’s CEO Put GTA 6 Multiplayer in 2027. Nobody at Rockstar Has.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Rumors, Video Games,
The most specific thing anyone has said about Grand Theft Auto 6's multiplayer mode this year came from a man who doesn't work at Rockstar Games.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy sat down with Bloomberg to talk about what GTA 6 will do to his platform's numbers, and somewhere in the middle of it he put a date on an online mode nobody has announced. "You are going to see this big bump with GTA 6, but then an even bigger one next year when they launch multiplayer." Next year is 2027. Rockstar has never said that, and neither has Take-Two.
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This Meta Muse Invite Code Gives You 1 Billion Free Tokens (CC2P24)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Hot Deals, Internet, Artificial Intelligence,
Meta launched Muse on September 8. It's the company's personal AI agent, and the pitch is that it does the task instead of telling you how to do it. Meta has now switched on invite codes, and mine gets you 1 billion free Muse tokens. I get the same, so read this as a referral post that also tells you what you're signing up for.
The steps, in order. Sign up at muse.ai/join or in the app. You need a Meta account, not a Facebook or Instagram login, and on the web you sign in with your phone number. Once you're in, open Settings and enter CC2P24 as your invite code. Do that within 48 hours of creating the account, because the window closes after that. When it goes through, you get 1 billion tokens and so do I.
Muse lives at muse.ai and in iOS and Android apps, with a WhatsApp option and support for Meta's AI glasses promised for later. You hand it a job (send this email, book that flight, fill out this form, turn this recipe into a shopping list) and it works in a browser on your behalf, keeps going after you close the app, and comes back when it needs your sign-off. It runs on Muse Spark, which Meta calls its most capable model to date, and it's US only for now.
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Meta’s Muse AI Agent Will Book the Flight and Haggle the Bill (Invite Codes!)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
You know the part of a chatbot conversation where it hands you a tidy plan and then you go do all the work yourself? Meta's new Muse is built to skip that part. It's a personal AI agent, a separate product from the Meta AI app, and its pitch is that it goes and does the thing: sends the email, books the trip, fills out the form, negotiates the bill.
It launched September 8 in the US on iOS, Android. You can sign up at muse.ai/join or in the app. You need a Meta account, not a Facebook or Instagram login, and on the web you sign in with your phone number.
Once you're in, open Settings and enter CC2P24 as your invite code. Do that within 48 hours of creating the account, and you get 1 billion free tokens.
Safari 27 Lets an AI Agent Drive Your Browser. Apple Built the Hook Itself.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple doesn't usually hand out keys to Safari. So it's strange to open the Safari 27 release notes and find instructions for letting Claude Code or Codex open tabs, click buttons, run JavaScript and read the console in your actual browser window. Two checkboxes and one terminal command, and your coding agent is driving.
The feature is the Safari MCP server, and it shipped with Safari 27.0 on September 17. It's the most interesting thing in a release that is otherwise a very large pile of bug fixes, and most of the coverage has filed it somewhere below the new <select> styling.</select>
Apple Reportedly Wants to Sell M8 Ultra AI Servers, and Nvidia May Be Wiring Them Together
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Rumors, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple has not sold a server since the Xserve was discontinued in 2011. According to a report from The Information, it is thinking about going back, with a machine built for AI developers, businesses and governments. Apple has confirmed none of it, and the earliest anyone expects the thing to exist is 2029.
The report describes two configurations: a smaller one with two M8 Ultra chips clustered together, and a larger one with four. They would be built for inference, the running of trained models rather than the training of them. Apple has reportedly been at it for about a year, with backing from John Ternus while he was still running hardware engineering. He is CEO now. The report also says the project could be scrapped before it ships.
Lucid and Bolt Want 25,000 Robotaxis in Europe. Lucid Built 18,378 Cars All Last Year.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Transportation, Artificial Intelligence,
Bolt wants at least 25,000 driverless Lucid cars working European streets. Lucid built 18,378 cars in all of 2025: every model, every market, every customer on earth combined.
That is the deal the two companies announced Thursday morning. Lucid's stock went up on it.
Snap’s Specs Cost $2,195 and Run Four Hours. Pre-Orders Are Open.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Artificial Intelligence,
Snap thinks you are going to stop looking at your phone and start looking through a pair of glasses. It wants $2,195 for the privilege. Pre-orders for Specs opened today with a $200 refundable deposit, and the first pairs ship later this fall in the US, the UK and France.
The case for Specs is that everything happens on your face. Two Snapdragon processors sit in the arms, two cameras watch your hands, and a liquid crystal on silicon display covers a 51-degree field of view in 16 million colors, with dimming you can adjust. There is no puck in your pocket and no cable down your neck. The glasses weigh 132 grams in the smaller of two frame sizes (47mm and 52mm), and Snap rates them at up to four hours of mixed use.
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