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Apple's $2,000 foldable iPhone Duo wins praise for its size and screen, but weak app support and Touch ID are drawbacks, and orders are backed up into next year.
Read more: Apple's first foldable iPhone: a day of use shows big wins and real catchesGoogle says its new Gemini 4 Carbon beats rival AI models in coding and security tests, but the scores are Google's own and most people must wait.
Read more: Google's new Gemini 4 Carbon AI tops rivals in coding and security testsOpenAI is testing a way to text its Dot personal agent by iMessage or RCS, but only ChatGPT Pro users in the U.S. can try it for now.
Read more: OpenAI lets you text its AI assistant from your phoneGoogle is letting outside apps run inside Search and Gemini, so a business could serve customers without sending them elsewhere. Access starts small.
Read more: Google Lets Outside Apps Work Inside Its Search and Gemini AssistantXmind, a mind map maker, added an AI agent and says its platform now opens up to ChatGPT and Claude, which could speed up planning and brainstorming.
Read more: Xmind adds an AI helper that builds mind maps for youAnthropic says its Claude 2.0 assistant is now offered in 95 countries, which could put the writing and research helper within reach of far more people.
Read more: Anthropic launches Claude 2.0 AI assistant in 95 countriesA Tom's Guide reviewer who tested both says the Oura Ring 5 gives a deeper sleep picture than the Apple Watch, but it costs more over time.
Read more: Oura Ring 5 or Apple Watch: which one tracks sleep betterEasyjet has added a ChatGPT plug-in that shows live flight prices and status in a chat, though you still book on the airline's own website.
Read more: Easyjet now lets you search flights and holidays inside ChatGPTCoupler.io, a tool that gathers data from many apps into one report, now connects to ChatGPT Ads and StackAdapt, so ad results can sit side by side.
Read more: Coupler.io adds ChatGPT Ads and StackAdapt to its ad reporting toolAmazon's new Fire TV Stick 4K is fast, simple and often on sale, so it may be a cheap fix for a sluggish smart TV, but it has a few trade-offs.
Read more: Amazon's new $59.99 Fire TV Stick 4K can revive a slow smart TVAnthropic added a gallery of ready-made legal tools to Claude, including one that checks court citations for invented cases. No price or accuracy figures yet.
Read more: Anthropic gives lawyers ready-made Claude tools, including a fake-citation checkerCNET compared Apple's $129 AirPods 5 with the $249 AirPods Pro 3. The right pick comes down to fit, noise and whether you want health features.
Read more: Apple's $129 AirPods 5 vs. $249 AirPods Pro 3: Which to BuyCloudflare's new beta tool lets AI apps pull live web results from three search providers, with one bill and one activity log for businesses.
Read more: Cloudflare lets AI apps search the live web through one serviceMeta has released Waddle World, a free pixel pet app that listens to your day and doodles about it. For now, it is listed only for adults in the Philippines.
Read more: Meta quietly launches Waddle World, a virtual pet app that works like a journalTiger Financial says its new card payment system, built and tested with AI coding tools, is live in Southeast Asia. The speed and savings claims come only from the company.
Read more: Tiger Financial launches a card payment system built with AI coding toolsSamsung Wallet on Galaxy phones in the US can now earn cash back at thousands of brands, with Rakuten behind it and a Black Friday boost.
Read more: Samsung Wallet now pays you cash back at over 3,500 brandsA reviewer compared five book-style foldables priced near $2,000. The Motorola Razr Fold wins on value and battery, and the Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold lands last.
Read more: Five $2,000 folding phones compared, and the Pixel ranks lastAmazon's new 7-inch Kindle Paperwhite and Colorsoft are a bit lighter and look nicer, but Wired says the price hikes sting and the upgrade is small.
Read more: New Kindles are lighter and nicer, but they cost more nowNVIDIA says its RTX Spark laptops are on sale from six brands, with thin designs built to run AI tools on the machine itself instead of in the cloud.
Read more: Thin Windows laptops now run powerful AI programs on the device itselfGitHub now lets AI helpers handle chores like sorting bug reports and updating documentation, with safety limits built in. Here is what it takes to use it.
Read more: GitHub Lets AI Helpers Handle Routine Software Chores AutomaticallyT-Mobile is taking $1,000 off the Google Pixel 11 Pro XL when you add a line on a top plan, and no trade-in is needed.
Read more: T-Mobile offers $1,000 off the Google Pixel 11 Pro XL with a new lineCloudflare's new Void platform aims to put safety checks around internal apps that non-technical staff build with AI, and companies can run it themselves.
Read more: Cloudflare launches Void to make AI-built office apps saferApple has priced the 512GB Mac Studio at $22,299, a setup built for very heavy work that most people and businesses will not need.
Read more: Apple's top Mac Studio with 512GB of memory costs $22,299A New York firm launched a free tool that shows whether AI chatbots name your company or only your brands. Its L'Oréal test found most answers skipped the parent.
Read more: Free tool shows how AI chatbots link companies to their brands
