Category: AI

In probably unsurprising news, The Browser Company has a new owner, as reported by David Pierce at The Verge:

Mike Cannon-Brookes, the CEO of enterprise software giant Atlassian, was one of the first users of the Arc browser. Over the last several years, he has been a prolific bug reporter and feature requester. Now he’ll own the thing: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company, the New York-based startup that makes both Arc and the new AI-focused Dia browser. Atlassian is paying $610 million in cash for The Browser Company, and plans to run it as an independent entity.

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Stephen Robles recently attempted to write an iOS podcast client. By his own admission, he’s not a developer, so turned to a series of AI tools to write the app. It didn’t go well:

At first, it would hang on searching for shows. After I seemingly fixed that, adding a show to the Library didn’t work. I kept going back and forth with GPT-5 and it kept getting worse. Every new build there was an increasing number or errors and unintended changes to UI elements I hadn’t asked for.

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It’s not new news that big tech companies have been looking at nuclear for powering their datacenter, but Google is making some news in my home state. Here is Amanda Peterson Corio, the company’s Global Head of Data Center Energy:

Today we announced the first deployment of Kairos Power’s advanced nuclear reactor — the Hermes 2 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee — through a new power purchase agreement (PPA) between Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Marking the first purchase of electricity from an advanced GEN IV reactor by a U.S. utility, this agreement will enable 50 megawatts (MW) of nuclear energy on TVA’s grid that powers our data centers in Montgomery County, Tennessee and Jackson County, Alabama.

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Jess Weatherbed, reporting for The Verge:

Elon Musk says that his artificial intelligence company xAI “will take immediate legal action” against Apple for allegedly manipulating its App Store rankings to the advantage of rival AI apps. In a series of X posts on Monday night, Musk suggested that Apple was “playing politics” by not placing either X or xAI’s Grok chatbot in the App Store’s list of recommended iOS apps, and that he had no choice but to file a lawsuit.

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Athena Chapekis and Anna Lieb at the Pew Research Center, on the effect AI-generated results have had on websites showing up in Google search results:

A Pew Research Center report published this spring analyzed data from 900 U.S. adults who agreed to share their online browsing activity. About six-in-ten respondents (58%) conducted at least one Google search in March 2025 that produced an AI-generated summary. Additional analysis found that Google users were less likely to click on result links when visiting search pages with an AI summary compared with those without one. For searches that resulted in an AI-generated summary, users very rarely clicked on the sources cited.

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Back in January, Apple disabled Apple Intelligence notification summaries for news app after a string of high-profile incidents of the feature rewriting headlines to be incorrect. With iOS Beta 4, the feature is back, as Chance Miller writes:

When you update to iOS 26 beta 4, you’ll see a new setup flow that allows you to choose to enable notification summaries for the “News & Entertainment” category of apps.

If you choose to enable summaries for News & Entertainment apps, you’ll see a warning in bright red text: “Summarization may change the meaning of original headlines. Verify information.” There is also an option to report concerns with notification summaries directly to Apple.

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Wendover Productions’ video on the subject is really interesting:

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Roshan Abraham, writing at 404 Media about Meta’s AI datacenter in Louisiana:

A January report from NOLA.com said that the the state had rewritten zoning laws, promised to change a law so that it no longer had to put state property up for public bidding, and rewrote what was supposed to be a tax incentive for broadband internet meant to bridge the digital divide so that it was only an incentive for data centers, all with the goal of luring in Meta.

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It seems to me that Apple is learning its lesson about announcing things too early, even as it tries to (somewhat defensively) distance its future features from those shipping already by the likes of Google and OpenAI.

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As more AI data centers come online, companies are scrambling to figure out how to power them. Here in Memphis, xAI has turned to gas turbines, but in Illinois, Meta is going a different direction, according to Brett Chase at The Chicago Sun-Times:

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said it has an agreement to buy power from the Clinton nuclear power plant in central Illinois for 20 years to run data operations and support its development of artificial intelligence.

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Ari Weinstein and Conrad Kramer were two of the folks behind Workflow, which Apple bought in 2017 and turned into Shortcuts. The pair left Apple a couple of years ago and launched a startup named Software Applications Incorporated. Today, thanks to an exclusive story over at MacStories, we know what they’re up to. Here’s Federico:

What sets Sky apart from anything I’ve tried or seen on macOS to date is that it uses LLMs to understand which windows are open on your Mac, what’s inside them, and what actions you can perform based on those apps’ contents. It’s a lofty goal and, at a high level, it’s predicated upon two core concepts. First, Sky comes with a collection of built-in “tools” 1 for Calendar, Messages, Notes, web browsing, Finder, email, and screenshots, which allow anyone to get started and ask questions that perform actions with those apps. If you want to turn a webpage shown in Safari into an event in your calendar, or perhaps a document in Apple Notes, you can just ask in natural language out of the box.

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Ming-Chi Kuo has weighed in on OpenAI’s future hardware. The analyst wrote a long post on X about the hardware he expects to see out of the new partnership between OpenAI and Jony Ive:

My industry research indicates the following regarding the new AI hardware device from Jony Ive’s collaboration with OpenAI:

1. Mass production is expected to start in 2027.

2. Assembly and shipping will occur outside China to reduce geopolitical risks, with Vietnam currently the likely assembly location.

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