OpenAI recently revealed that we will soon see ads in ChatGPT conversations, and Anthropic is having some fun with this. It will reportedly run an ad during Sunday’s Super Bowl (below) in which ChatGPT isn’t named but is very clearly the target …

Apple is rolling out another update to its Apple Sports app for iPhone. This update adds support for Men’s and Women’s golf, as well as expanded support for soccer and tennis matches.

iOS 26.2.1 was released last week, adding support for AirTag 2, alongside bug fixes. However, a small minority of users are reporting that it has introduced bugs rather than removed them.

Among the problems being reported are apps crashing, freezing, or lagging; connectivity failures; and severe battery drain …

It’s well over three years since the launch of a new Apple Home architecture to make HomeKit more reliable and to support the Matter standard.

Still, not everyone has yet updated, and if you’re among them, you now have less than a week to do so before your smart home stops working …

Last year, a federal judge ruled that Google had illegally maintained a search monopoly, but allowed the company to keep paying to be the default search engine on Apple devices (with very few caveats). Now, the Department of Justice and a group of states are appealing the overall decision. Here are the details.

As OpenAI accused xAI of systematically destroying internal communications, the court also shut down xAI’s bid to add a high-ranking former OpenAI researcher to discovery. Here’s the latest on this increasingly messy lawsuit.

It’s not just you: ChatGPT is down for many users right now. Here’s the latest on OpenAI’s outage.

Update: the problem was resolved with all elements of the service back online by February 4.

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Apple TV is hosting a major media event today, and it just unveiled the highly-anticipated series Lucky, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy in her first big show since The Queen’s Gambit.

Anyone looking to launch an online shop runs into the same questions: Do I need to code? How do I choose the right products? And what about inventory, suppliers, and customer support?

Even with traditional online shop platforms and site-building tools, you still need to do most, if not all, of the heavy lifting. That’s where Genstore.ai comes in.

Apple is hosting a special media event today called the ‘2026 Apple TV Press Day.’ Here’s everything that’s been announced at the event so far.

Apple informed developers today of an upcoming update to the minimum Software Development Kit (SDK) requirements for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS apps. Here are the details.

Apple TV’s biggest premiere in February is the return of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, a sci-fi epic featuring monsters like Godzilla and Kong. Here’s the new trailer.

Apple TV is holding a major press event today, offering a sneak peek at what’s coming next to the streamer. After unveiling a highly-anticipated series earlier today, Apple TV has just announced a new dark comedy—Outcome—that’s premiering soon with star Keanu Reeves.

Apple has announced a major upgrade for Xcode: support for agentic coding. Apple says that developers can now build apps with coding agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex directly inside Xcode.

Apple TV has announced a release date for Cape Fear, a new psychological thriller series coming from the producing powerhouse duo of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.

Apple Music Replay 2026 is now available, breaking down your top songs and artists of the year so far. Here’s how to find it and what data it includes.

Tuesday’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break awaits below starting with a chance to land AirPods Pro 3 at the lowest price we have tracked to date. We also spotted some particularly notable deals on M5 MacBook Pro configurations with 24GB and 32GB models sitting down at the lowest prices we have tracked at $300 off the list prices. Best Buy is serving up a chance to land a 512GB M5 iPad Pro at $340 off the list and you’ll find a new Amazon low waiting on Apple’s Natural Milanese Loop at 35% off. All of that and everything else awaits after the fold. 

Apple’s Passwords app has become my full-time password manager thanks to several iOS 26 changes. And there’s one welcome new feature I recently discovered that can prevent the headache of a forgotten password loop.

Apple just released a video highlighting the “Humans of Apple TV.” It features a series of behind-the-scenes stills from a variety of beloved Apple TV shows and movies.

Moltbot, a personal AI assistant being run on batches of Mac minis, got a lot of attention when creator Matt Schlicht effectively partnered with his own assistant to develop a social media platform for the bots. Known as Moltbook, it’s been colloquially referred to as Reddit for AI bots.

Schlicht says he didn’t write a single line of the code himself, and it wasn’t long before it was being suggested that Moltbot agents were using the social network to plot an AI uprising …

Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman today announced the launch of Luffu (“loo-foo”), a new health app for families that will eventually expand to hardware devices too. Here are the details.

iOS 26.2 is the latest major iPhone update, and among its many new features, AirPods Live Translation expanded to a lot more users. Here’s how to use AirPods’ powerful recent addition.

We’re expecting to see two MacBook Pro launches this year. The first, expected sometime this month, is an M5 Pro and M5 Max version of the current design. But the far more exciting prospect is an all-new MacBook Pro design later in the year.

A new supply chain report says that Samsung is gearing up for production of the OLED panels for the new machine and that it will launch in the final three months of this year …