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Welcome back, AI Admirers!
Breaking News: Apple has finally launched a touchscreen MacBook Pro after years of sticking to its keyboard-and-trackpad approach. The new model brings a tandem OLED display, up to 24 hours of battery life, and prices starting at $2,899.
Get ready to dive into the latest happenings in AI.
📢 Today's Headline:
Apple’s New MacBook Pro Comes at a Price
Meta built a Tamagotchi with a brain
Chrome Can Now Dig Through Your Gmail
Amazon debuts the Alexa Photo Frame
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Hand-picked News
Apple resisted a Mac touchscreen for years, then showed up with a $2,899 one.
The new MacBook Pro has a PROLED XDR touchscreen in 14 and 16 inch sizes, with M5 Pro or M5 Max chips and up to 128GB of memory.
A new hinge keeps the screen steady under your finger, and the notch is now a Dynamic Island-style cutout.
A standard M6 MacBook Pro launched a day earlier, so the lineup now splits into touch and no touch.
$900 is the entry price gap between the M6 model and the touchscreen one.
This week, check your app and site UIs for touch on the Mac, because tap targets built for a cursor will feel tiny under a finger.
Meta built an AI companion and spent the whole pitch saying it isn’t one.
Waddle World is live in the Philippines on iOS and Android. You hatch a 16-bit pixel pet that hears about your day by voice or text and writes it up as a journal entry with a doodle.
The listing promises no streaks and no scores, and it’s rated 18+. Character.AI just filed for bankruptcy and OpenAI faces lawsuits over teen harm, so the distance from “companion” is deliberate.
It could be a dry run for Meta’s Muse-powered Tamagotchi-style gadget. Meta hasn’t said if it will expand beyond the Philippines.
Would you hatch a pet that asks nothing of you?
This week, if you ship a consumer AI product, cut one engagement hook like streaks and see if usage survives.
Chrome is about to know your confirmation numbers better than you do.
Chrome’s autofill can now pull details like flight confirmations, order numbers and tracking info from Gmail to fill out forms. It extends Google’s Personal Intelligence, which already links Google apps to Gemini.
It’s a small convenience that gives people one more reason to stay inside Chrome and Google’s AI ecosystem, much like Apple’s text-code autofill does on iPhone.
It’s opt-in through Chrome settings, and Google says sensitive data is encrypted. The rollout is U.S. only, on desktop and in the iOS and Android apps for Gemini in Chrome.
Your inbox just became a form field.
This week, audit your forms for clear field labels and standard autocomplete attributes so AI autofill can actually fill them.
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Apple’s new touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899. Still want one? |
Vote today, see the results tomorrow!
Previous Poll:
Apple says the new M6 MacBook Pro runs up to 24 hours on one charge, the longest ever in a Mac. What’s your reaction?
A) Take my money already – 65% 🏆
B) Heard it, not buying - 35%
The M6 looks like a beast, and 24-hour battery life could be a game changer. But M5 and older MacBooks are still great machines, so unless you really need that extra battery life, upgrading every year makes little sense.
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