AI 2025 trends

Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories. Friday’s announcement comes two weeks after tech columnist Jason Aten said that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agent Muse sent him an unsolicited notification referencing a thread between him and a co-worker over Apple Messages.

On “Hard Fork,” Eli Tan, a technology reporter for The New York Times described how quickly Meta’s new Muse assistant worked its way into every facet of his life.

On Friday, Amazon committed to donating more than $1 billion over the next five years to communities neighboring data centers. In a press release, Amazon Web Services’ CEO Matt Garman said that communities would decide how to prioritize funds across “education, job training, energy affordability, water, and energy preservation, and local priorities.” Laying out other

The Times’s technology reporter Kate Conger joins host Natalie Kitroeff on “The Call” to watch the launch of a SpaceX rocket carrying a Google satellite designed to test space-based A.I. data centers.

The US has arrested another suspect accused of smuggling high-end computer servers containing export-controlled Nvidia chips into China. In a press release on Thursday, the Department of Justice accused 38-year-old Greg Lui of using false paperwork to mask shipments of servers worth more than $300 million that he allegedly knew were ultimately destined for China.

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The director of national intelligence will help develop new policies, and potentially regulations, for the rapidly evolving technology.