Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Transferring your data from your old Android device to a new one will soon be less daunting, thanks to “Restore Credentials,” a new developer feature for Android which can keep you logged into your apps when you make the switch. While some apps already did this, Google is making it easier for developers to include this experience by implementing a “restore key” that automatically transfers to the new phone and logs you back into the app. The change should help make going from one Android phone to another more like upgrading an iPhone. Apple users who move from one iPhone to another are used to having everything from email accounts to app credentials transfer to the new phone, but it hasn’t always been so seamless for Android users. Verge... Continue reading…

Image: Laura Normand / The Verge The auto industry is sending an urgent message to President-elect Donald Trump: spare the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit. In a November 14th letter to Trump and his transition team, the auto industry’s main lobbying group urges the new administration to preserve incentives for EV buyers and manufacturers that were enacted under President Joe Biden, arguing these policies keep the US competitive globally while also creating “good jobs.” The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents the Big Three automakers — Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis — as well as foreign car companies that sell in the US, are calling on Trump to “promote stability and predictability in auto-related emissions standards.” But at the same time,... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge In a stunning misstep, OpenAI engineers accidentally erased critical evidence gathered by The New York Times and other major newspapers in their lawsuit over AI training data, according to a court filing Wednesday. The newspapers’ legal teams had spent over 150 hours searching through OpenAI’s AI training data to find instances where their news articles were included, the filing claims. But it doesn’t explain how this mistake occurred or what precisely the data included. While the filing says OpenAI admitted to the error and tried to recover the data, what it managed to salvage was incomplete and unreliable — so what was recovered cannot help properly trace how the news organizations’ articles were used in building OpenAI’s AI models.... Continue reading…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple is planning a major AI overhaul of Siri that will make the digital assistant more like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini Live, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The assistant, reportedly called “LLM Siri,” will be powered by Apple’s AI models and will let users have more conversational, natural-sounding interactions with Siri. As part of Apple’s plan to infuse its iPhones with AI, Bloomberg says the company will make Siri better at handling more advanced tasks. The assistant will have an “expanded” ability to use App Intents to interact with third-party apps, while also using Apple Intelligence to summarize and write text, too. Though Apple could announce these plans as soon as next year, the company intends... Continue reading…

After watching its top rivals dominate the AI space over the past two years, Apple is now racing to catch up by developing a more conversational Siri, Bloomberg reports. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple's new version of Siri will employ more advanced large language models (LLMs) to allow users to have long back-and-forth conversations with the virtual assistant. Sources also claim that "LLM Siri," as Apple employees have dubbed it, will be capable of handling more sophisticated requests even faster. Apple is currently testing the upgraded Siri on iPhones, iPads, and Macs as a standalone app, but the goal is to eventually replace Siri with the new version. Apple plans to introduce LLM Siri next year as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16 (codenamed Luck and Cheer). As was the case with Apple Intelligence this fall, the new Siri reportedly won't launch alongside the new hardware in 2025. Rather, Apple will make the announcement next year and then start to roll out the upgraded Siri as early as spring 2026. "The revamped Siri will rely on new Apple AI models to interact more like a human and handle tasks in a way that’s closer to ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini," Gurman explains in his report. "It also will make expanded use of App Intents, which allow for more precise control of third-party apps. And the software will be able to tap into features from Apple Intelligence, such as the ability to write and summarize text." In the meantime, Apple fans with select devices can look forward to Siri "tapping into ChatGPT's expertise" starting next month on iOS 18. Don't Miss: These are the most popular iPhone models everyone’s buying right now The post Apple is developing a more conversational Siri to compete with ChatGPT appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $169 AirPods Pro 2, $898 Hisense 75-inch TV, $68 Furbuster, $649 Google Pixel 9, more Today’s deals: $369 Apple Watch Series 10, $449 Google Pixel 8, $200 off Narwal Freo Z Ultra, more Today’s deals: $270 Nintendo Switch OLED, $20 waterproof Bluetooth speaker, 20% off Peloton Bike+, more Today’s deals: $849 M3 MacBook Air, $498 Samsung 55-inch smart TV, $30 Blink Video Doorbell, more

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