Sept. 4, 2025
Never Got Flying Cars, But We Do Have An Instagram iPad App, Finally
Mark Gurman lays out how Apple intends to jump into AI search as soon as this Spring. You’ll never guess who’s one of the biggest players in quantum computing. The Browser Company gets a soft landing, and after a decade and a half of waiting, we finally have the iPad app for Instagram you say you always wanted.
Links:
- Apple Plans AI-Powered Web Search Tool for Siri to Rival OpenAI, Perplexity (Bloomberg)
- Nvidia’s Venture Arm Invests in Honeywell’s Quantinuum (Bloomberg)
- Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million (CNBC)
- Roblox expands use of age-estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings (TechCrunch)
- New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats (ArsTechnica)
- Instagram is coming to iPad, 15 years later (The Verge)
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