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🍎 Apple pays $250M over Siri AI delays

📱 OpenAI plans 30 million phones in two years

🍎 Apple opens iOS 27 to rival AI models

📚 Publishers sue Meta over AI book piracy

👀 Google tests Remy 24/7 AI agent

🤖 OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Instant for ChatGPT

Plus: 🎁 18 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 4 papers.

🍎 Apple pays $250M over Siri AI delays LINK

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit over its delayed rollout of the "more personalized Siri" features that were first shown at WWDC 2024, without admitting any wrongdoing.

The settlement works out to about $25 per eligible device bought in the US between June 10, 2024 and March 29, 2025, though payouts could climb as high as $95 depending on claim numbers.

The lawsuit accused Apple of promoting AI features "that did not exist at the time, do not exist now, and will not exist for two or more years," saturating airwaves to build consumer expectations around the iPhone's release.

📱 OpenAI plans 30 million phones in two years LINK

OpenAI is fast-tracking an "AI agent phone" and could begin mass production in early 2027, with analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicting 30 million units will be built between 2027 and 2028 if plans hold.

The device will run on a customized version of MediaTek's Dimensity 9600 chipset, with Kuo saying MediaTek will likely be the sole processor supplier, while Qualcomm and Luxshare are also working with OpenAI.

Kuo said the phone will use a dual-NPU architecture for heterogeneous AI compute, splitting tasks like image enhancement and object detection between two AI processors, plus an image signal processor with enhanced high dynamic range.

🍎 Apple opens iOS 27 to rival AI models LINK

Apple will let iPhone, iPad, and Mac owners pick from several outside AI models to run features built into iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, with the shift planned for this fall, according to people familiar with the matter.

The third-party AI services will handle tasks like generating and editing text and images across Apple's software, expanding the company's strategy to turn its devices into a broad AI platform rather than relying on a single provider.

The sources who described the plans asked not to be identified because the details are private, and the article does not name which outside AI models Apple intends to offer users when the new operating systems ship.

📚 Publishers sue Meta over AI book piracy LINK

Five book publishers — Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage — along with author Scott Turow, have filed a class action lawsuit accusing Meta and Mark Zuckerberg of pirating copyrighted books to train the Llama AI platform.

The complaint claims Zuckerberg personally authorized and encouraged the infringement, saying Meta reproduced and distributed millions of copyrighted works without permission or compensation, knowing the conduct violated copyright law.

Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold pointed to past rulings that training AI on copyrighted material can qualify as fair use, echoing a recent Anthropic case where a judge rejected copyright infringement but floated piracy as a separate path to damages.

👀 Google tests Remy 24/7 AI agent LINK

Google is testing an AI agent codenamed Remy that aims to turn the Gemini app into a 24/7 personal assistant for work, school, and daily life by taking actions on a user's behalf.

According to Business Insider, Remy is built deep into Google's ecosystem and can monitor things that matter to users, handle complex tasks proactively, and learn preferences over time, positioning it against OpenClaw, which OpenAI acquired.

Remy is currently in a "dogfooding" stage with employees testing it internally, and while no launch date is set, Google's I/O event on May 19-20 could serve as the debut for the new agent.

🤖 OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Instant for ChatGPT LINK

OpenAI has rolled out GPT-5.5 Instant as the new default model in ChatGPT, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant, with the company saying it cuts down hallucinations in sensitive fields like law, medicine, and finance while keeping low latency.

The model scored 81.2 on the AIME 2025 math test versus 65.4 for the older version, and hit 76 on the MMMU-Pro multimodal reasoning benchmark compared to the predecessor's 69.2.

GPT-5.5 Instant can pull from past conversations, files, and Gmail for personalized answers, starting on web for Plus and Pro users, and ChatGPT will now show memory sources that users can delete or correct across all models.

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🧰 Trending tools

Shadow 2.0: a real-time AI assistant that prompts better questions, captures key details, and generates actionable next steps during live calls.LINK

Superset 2.0: an IDE that runs multiple coding agents simultaneously in isolated sandboxes, letting you monitor, review, and ship faster without context switching.LINK

pay.sh: a Solana Foundation initiative supporting decentralization, security, and growth of the Solana blockchain ecosystem for developers and users.LINK

Custom Integrations by Databox: connect your own data sources to Databox dashboards, enabling custom metric tracking without complex BI setup or coding expertise.LINK

Alumni Founder: maps founder networks by company or university, showing connections, fundraising data, and relationships to help VCs, sales teams, and founders find warm introductions.LINK

Gyro Autopilot: automatically scans your email for flight disruptions and files compensation claims on your behalf, completely risk-free.LINK

📚 Trending papers & reports

GLM-5V-Turbo is a new AI model that treats visual understanding as a core part of reasoning and decision-making, not an add-on, delivering strong performance in multimodal coding, visual tool use, and agent tasks.LINK

AI in mathematics has reached the point where it can prove research-level theorems, and mathematicians must now actively engage with this technology to navigate the disruptions and opportunities it brings.LINK

AI hallucination rates remain alarmingly high across leading AI models, with even the best setup, Opus-4.5 using web search, still producing ungrounded claims roughly 30% of the time in multi-turn conversations.LINK

Android's security model balances privacy, usability, and protection across communication, finance, health, and sensor use cases, with this paper documenting its threat assumptions and how security measures work together in practice.LINK

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