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It really is time to bury the assumption that Macs are more expensive than Windows PCs. That’s because for every low-spec, barely functional Windows computer you can pick up for less than the cost of a Mac, there will be a dozen that cost much more.

IT purchasers already know this as they wade through the marketing materials around the forced Windows 11 upgrade; unless you pay Microsoft loads more to extend Windows 10 support, you will be forced to 11, adding a multitude of necessary costs, including:

Windows licenses.

Additional fees for AI features. 

Software that often requires more than basic PC specs.

Service costs, with per-device preparation costs on the rise.

Many of these expenses involve recurring subscriptions that will eat away at precious IT budgets across the usable life of a PC. Together, they mean that while the initial price of a PC might seem lower than the price of a Mac, those additional costs add up. Then there’s the price of storage, memory, and processor upgrades, and security — all of which must be weighed against the potential advantages that could be unlocked by a move to Mac.

Nickels and dimes

Apple has always offered its systems in standard, better, and best configurations. It has always also shocked most industry watchers with its high prices on memory, or additional storage, which always seem much higher than those PC purchasers pay.

That was then, this is now, with a recent NPI report noting, “PC vendors are leveraging component upgrades and market recovery to inflate pricing.” 

These price increases are extreme, with the analysis finding that in many cases, price jumps “are 30% to 50% representing a significant cost increase for enterprise customers.” It’s hard not to imagine that PC makers have figured out how to increase profitability the old-fashioned way with higher hidden fees.

 Windows fans shouldn’t shoot the messenger on this; the news comes direct from NPI and is based on industry data. What it means to enterprise purchasers is that even while Microsoft forces a move to Windows 11, vendors are raising the cost of the new PCs on which the OS runs. That many of these are subscription-based adds to the horror as buyers battle to balance their books.

Life in the Apple lane

Apple isn’t doing that. It doesn’t have to. Not only is it selling a unique platform (the Mac), but the processors its systems run on are also designed by Apple, which means it doesn’t pay the same royalty on each chip and each PC that Wintel vendors must handle. 

What makes this even better for Apple is that even entry-level Apple Silicon chips now offer power and performance Windows can’t match at the same price — even as Apple’s OS and security upgrades remain free. And the cost of added device management services remains relatively predictable, in part because of the lack of OS fragmentation across the Apple ecosystem. That makes MDM pricing predictable and resilient to change.

Sure, when you get a Mac, you’ll still pay more for extra storage and memory. But the NPI report suggests you’ll be paying similarly for Windows hardware, too. Beyond that, Apple has another trick up its sleeve, one which might yet give even relatively committed Windows users pondering a Windows 11 upgrade food for thought.

A Mac for all seasons

Cheaper Macs may be on the way. That’s right. Apple is now hotly tipped to introduce a new MacBook model equipped with A-series mobile processors to challenge the low end of the PC market. Current speculation claims the company plans to introduce these systems later this year at just $599. 

To help meet the low price target, these 12.9-in notebooks will use a lower-cost iPhone processor, making these machines perfectly capable at all the entry-level tasks you might need. (If you want something more powerful, you can’t have missed the emergence of online offers that might allow you to pick up a MacBook Air for around $799.)

For the millions who want to migrate to a Mac, it means you’ll be able to do so for about the same price as a very basic (and life-limited) Windows 10 PC. And for those hoping to argue you should stick with Windows, well, the evidence shows that price has ceased to be realistic rationale.

Up next, we’ll find out what happens when a platform once seen as too expensive becomes highly competitive — particularly while security on the fragile Windows platform is becoming an ever more expensive consideration. 

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By Andrea Hak Arguably the most important thing that the rise of intelligent AI could potentially bring is access. Access to goods, services, and information not just for the few, but for everyone. Victoria Slivkoff, Head of Ecosystem at Walden Catalyst and Managing Director of Extreme Tech Challenge — a nonprofit uniting startups and VCs to accelerate progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — is excited for what lies ahead. In her view, the physical manifestation of AI could bring us closer to realising these ambitious goals. “Now we’re moving into the area of reasoning. AI is not just aggregating and…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Siôn Geschwindt “Microbial protein,” says Katelijne Bekers, waving a vial of beige-coloured powder in front of me like it’s a magic potion. It doesn’t look like your typical lunch fare, but this unassuming dust could play a crucial role in the future of food. Bekers is the co-founder of MicroHarvest, a Hamburg and Lisbon-based startup that turns agricultural waste streams into protein powder using microbes — tiny organisms that exist all around us. The vegan ingredient is already making its way into dog treats. If all goes to plan, human snacks like protein bars, shakes, and ice cream won’t be far behind.…This story continues at The Next Web

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Apple Intelligence will lean heavily into Apple’s existing work with App Intents and Shortcuts integrations. The app services App Intents provide will be combined with Apple Intelligence and supported by what your device knows about where you are, what you need and the things you usually do.

(It will all take place privately and on device, of course.)

What are App Intents?

“The App Intents framework provides functionality to deeply integrate your app’s actions and content with system experiences across platforms, including Siri, Spotlight, widgets, controls and more,” Apple has explained. That means App Intents can integrate your apps actions with Siri, Spotlight, and other apps, making it easier for users to get things done.

First announced in 2024, App Intents are already available across every app — and while not every app supports App Intents, Apple really wants developers to climb aboard. 

During a WWDC 2025 session, the company suggested App Intents as a way to make the key functionalities of your app available across the system. It calls those functionalities the “verbs” of any app. 

These can be combined with those from other third-parties and Apple apps for useful tasks, allowing users to access functionalities available in other apps from within a developer’s own app. That means offering users customized Spotlight results, custom actions for Apple Pencil Pro, contextually aware commands for the Action Button, interactive widgets and more. 

What should be interesting is that App Intents will make it possible to execute complex strings of actions/verbs on demand; for developers, App Intents is a two-way street enabling them to build far more complex app experiences than they could do alone, while also giving an app the power to reach out to users via other apps.

What about Siri?

App Intents are both Shortcuts and Siri compatible. And that’s really where I see them begin to shine, as it means App Intents can be executed via voice commands. Apple watcher Mark Gurman goes as far as to say that once complete, they will permit you to fully control your iPhone using only voice, including finding, editing, and sharing a photo.

In other words, you’ll be able to string Intents/Shortcuts from across multiple apps together on your behalf so you can get more complex tasks done just by asking your device. 

This was certainly what Apple’s 2024 announcement of a smarter Siri promised. And while that work has been seriously delayed, the company recently said it is going well, and it hopes to introduce the new tools in spring.

Unlocking the apps

The sticking point for App Intents is that they require app functionality (those “verbs”) to be unlocked and made available using Apple’s own APIs. The problem there is that some developers might be resistant to making such functionality available outside of their own app, as they fear loss of user engagement.

I think that resistance is part of the reason Apple is working with the big name developers behind some of the world’s most widely used apps. Bloomberg’s senior Apple sleuth tells us it is working with Uber, AllTrails, Threads, Amazon, Temu, YouTube, Facebook, and WhatsApp on this, so once these new features do appear, the “verbs” for the most widely used apps will be supported by the system. 

Of course, the danger here is that as the big apps become even more omnipresent across Apple’s and other systems, the opportunities for smaller third-party apps to intrude into the experience they provide will erode. After all, how do you make any task more convenient than asking Siri to make it happen? Will we end up with an iOS ecosystem that’s as commoditized as the web seems to have become, with only a few brands occupying the majority of online attention? What impact would such an outcome have on digital economies, particularly as online attention is detected and solutions provided almost automatically through AI?

Existential queries aside, working with these key developers will also give Apple better insight into any flaws in its software that might need rectifying as it moves toward the first public beta of these new Apple Intelligence features working through Siri. Given the challenges it has faced getting to this point, working with others might help its teams deliver on time. 

I’m interested to see how this unfolds.

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Nvidia has developed a generative AI (genAI) model to help robots make human-like decisions by analyzing surrounding scenes.

The Cosmos Reason model in robots can take in information from video and graphics input, analyze the data, and use its understanding to make decisions.

Cosmos Reason, announced on Monday,  helps robots “think like humans do” and make decisions with “just common sense,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technologies.

The model is lightweight at 7 billion parameters and can be used in a variety of physical devices such as installed cameras, traffic signals, and instruments in factories.

“Every smart IoT device that can see, from cameras to traffic lights, every home or industrial robot, will have reasoning,” Lebaredian said.

Companies can develop video AI agents, which will act on massive amounts of data gathered and analyzed from recorded video data and livestreams. “These video agents will soon be everywhere, automating traffic monitoring, improving safety, and enhancing video inspection in everything from industrial facilities to entire cities,” Lebaredian said.

Cosmos Reason is what Nvidia calls a “vision language model” (VLM). That’s different from typical text-based models, which can generate images, videos, or text.

Nvidia’s Cosmos Reason VLM is designed to help robots make better decisions.
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OpenAI and other companies have released VLMs, but Cosmos Reason can do deeper reasoning on a long tail of unseen scenarios, he said. The models can establish prior understanding of scenarios and take into account physical interactions and then infer complex interactions or motivations of objects and actors in the scene. It can also understand new and unseen experiences.

For example, robots will be able to connect the dots of making toast, understanding that toast requires butter and a toaster — and a plate on which to serve the food.

Today’s AI robot models have two types of technology underpinning their activity. The VLM interprets instructions and plans actions, while “vision language action” allows for fast actions and muscle memory.

Cosmos Reason is open-source and now available for download, the company said, but it will only work on Nvidia’s hardware. 

The company sells the Jetson Thor DGX computer for robots and said its new RTX Pro 6000 GPUs will be in high-end servers. The company also announced new RTX Pro 4000 and 2000 GPUs for high-end desktops. The new GPUs are based on the Blackwell architecture.

Nvidia is grouping its world-building and simulation products under the Omniverse product line. Cosmos Reason is one of many models developed by the company to improve productivity in factories, warehouses, robots, vehicles, and other physical locations.

Omniverse products involve creating a digital copy representation of physical products in the real world. Information in the virtual world is used to create synthetic data to train vision language models.

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By Wouter Moolenaar Crypto crashes, money laundering, and digital fraud — the EU’s financial watchdogs have had enough. Regulatory bodies need to keep up by rolling out tighter regulations aimed at strengthening consumer protections and stabilising the market.  As EU lawmakers scramble to protect consumers, others worry they are smothering growth. Case in point: in 2024, the FCA fined HSBC £6.2mn for not properly treating customers in financial difficulty. The regulatory bodies are defending the public, but had restrictions been lighter, would HSBC have had more creative solutions for its customers, such as embedding personalised, data-first lending? Banks have been fearful of exploring…This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Fintech

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Apple is going with the wind, allegedly confirming plans to integrate OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 model for ChatGPT within its 26 series of operating system releases for iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Apple Intelligence already integrates with ChatGPT, but only the 4o model. Apple allegedly told 9to5Mac that it intends to integrate GPT-5 when it ships its new operating systems, potentially next month.

OpenAI introduced GPT-5 in early August. “Our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet, with thinking built in,” the company said.

GPT-5 a ‘significant leap,’ says OpenAI

The ChatGPT maker claims its new AI system delivers a “significant leap” above previous models, featuring a deeper reasoning model for harder problems and the capacity to filter enquiries to the relevant parts of the engine. GPT-5 outperforms previous models on benchmarks and answers questions more swiftly than before, the company also said.

It also hallucinates less, the company said, and “minimizes sycophancy.” (How reassuring.) It seems particularly strong on coding skills, health, and assisting you in creative writing — with or without an em-dash! You can read more about how OpenAI thinks GPT-5 is great in the company press release. The model is available to Plus, Pro, Team, and Free users, with different usage models depending on what you pay.

Apple, of course, provides integration with ChatGPT via Apple Intelligence, which sends requests to OpenAI’s system when Apple can’t handle them alone. Within this integration, users are warned if they are about to use the third-party AI service. Apple has also built in privacy protection so if you use ChatGPT through Apple Intelligence, OpenAI shouldn’t store requests and your IP address should be obscured. If you pay for ChatGPT access, then the service’s own privacy promises apply.

Apple continues to develop its own AI

While Apple has extended support to the new ChatGPT model, it continues to invest in developing its own more targeted AI solutions.

The upcoming operating systems will also introduce Live Translation and Visual Intelligence improvements, and the company has consistently said the contextual intelligence features it promised in 2024 will arrive eventually. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently confirmed the the plan is to introduce these features next year, saying the team is “making good progress on a more personalized Siri.”

Cook’s company is also working to introduce AI solutions for specific tasks. It allegedly intends to introduce a generative AI-powered support assistant tool within the Apple Support app, and may also be preparing to exploit the vast amount of data gathered by the Apple bot for use in a new Answers engine. The latter is described as a “stripped-down” version of ChatGPT, capable of crawling the web to answer questions, and is likely to be used to support Siri, Spotlight, and Safari, as well as being a standalone app. 

“We’ve rarely been first…”

One thing we do know is that Apple has no intention of giving up in the AI race. During a recent meeting, Cook stressed that Apple’s approach isn’t about being first but being best, and that the battle for dominance in the AI space isn’t over yet. Apple has time and power in the race.

“We’ve rarely been first,” he said. “There was a PC before the Mac; there was a smartphone before the iPhone; there were many tablets before the iPad; there was an MP3 player before iPod. But Apple invented the modern versions of those product categories. This is how I feel about AI.”

Cook also promised to make investments to get to where the company wants to get to. We’ve heard plenty of speculation concerning potential takeover targets. While big targets such as Perplexity are frequently mentioned, smaller AI firms such as Runway AI, Eleven Labs, and Pika AI may also prove attractive.

“We’re very open to M&A that accelerates our road map,” Cook said during Apple’s July 25 earnings call. “We basically ask ourselves whether a company can help us accelerate a road map. If they do, then we’re interested.” 

The flipside is that in the event Apple does successfully acquire a company and its talent, it may also need to figure out how to keep them, given the aggressive attempts competitors are making to poach its people.

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The ambitious $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project is moving significantly slower than anticipated, with SoftBank Group CFO Yoshimitsu Goto publicly acknowledging the delays during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call.

“It’s taking a little longer than our initial timeline,” Goto said during the call, describing the project as proceeding “slower than usual.”

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More than two years after GPT-4’s release, OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5, boasting sharper reasoning, multimodal input, better math skills, and cleaner task execution, according to the company.

The large language model (LLM) — now rolling out to ChatGPT users and available in the API — is “smarter, more stable, and more versatile” and built to handle real-world tasks more like a human expert, OpenAI said.

In anticipation of OpenAI’s new AI model, Anthropic released the latest version of its own chatbot, Claude, earlier in the week.

Claude Opus 4.1 came with improvements particularly in two key areas: it significantly improved its coding capabilities, solving up to 75% of real-world programming tasks based on SWE Verified benchmarks; and the model is capable in detailed research and analysis, especially in tasks that require tracking lots of information and intelligently finding answers, according to Anthropic.

For developers, OpenAI claims GPT-5 is its most powerful coding model to date, outperforming GPT-o3 in benchmarks and real-world tasks. The model is “fine-tuned for agentic tools” like Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, and Codex CLI, and it set new records in testing, the company stated in a blog.

According to OpenAI, GPT-5 delivers sharper reasoning, handling complex problems and multi-step instructions with greater accuracy and focus. It stays on track, follows directions more precisely, and produces more useful, reliable output, the company said.

Users can also expect to see fewer hallucinations and will have better customization tools, making GPT-5 more dependable and easier to adapt to specific industries and needs, OpenAI said.

It also builds on GPT-4o’s multimodal abilities, offering smoother interactions across text, images, and audio, according to OpenAI.

GPT-5 will be OpenAI’s “most significant do or die moment yet,” according to Nathaniel Whittemore, CEO of Superintelligent, a New York-based AI education platform.

“Ever since the launch of ChatGPT, they’ve been the model state of the art. While competitors like Google and Meta can take advantage of hundreds of millions of existing users to put AI products in front of, OpenAI relies on winning new users by being far ahead of the other AI labs,” Whittemore said.

OpenAI chief operating officer Brad Lightcap said ChatGPT is now in use by more than five million business users — up from three million in June.

Biopharmaceutical company Amgen is one of the early adopters of GPT-5. Sean Bruich, senior vice president of AI & Data at Amgen, said AI only works in science if it meets the highest bar, and “GPT-5 clears it,” delivering sharper accuracy, better context, and faster results across Amgen’s workflows.

“GPT-5… is doing a better job navigating ambiguity where context matters. We are seeing promising early results from deploying GPT-5 across workflows,” he said. He also said the model was faster, more reliable, and had higher quality outputs than GPT-4 and other earlier models.

Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at The Wharton School, had early access to GPT-5. “It is a big deal,” he said in a blog post. He asked the model to do something dramatic to prove that point. The model thought for 24 seconds and then delivered a poetic manifesto of AI capability — specifically, a rhetorical, alliterative showcase of “a multifunctional intelligence system.”

“GPT-5 just does stuff, often extraordinary stuff, sometimes weird stuff, sometimes very AI stuff, on its own. And that is what makes it so interesting,” Mollick said.

After “many AI conversations,” Mollick said he has found two big issues that limit most people’s success in using AI models: First, most people don’t know which model to use — so they get fast, weak results instead of more complete answers from the powerful reasoning models.

“The longer [the models] think, the better the answer, but thinking costs money and takes time. So OpenAI previously made the default ChatGPT use fast, dumb models, hiding the good stuff from most users,” Mollick said. “A surprising number of people have never seen what AI can actually do because they’re stuck on GPT-4o, and don’t know which of the confusingly named models are better.”

Second, most people also don’t know what AI can do or how to ask — especially with newer agentic AIs. GPT-5 fixes both problems by choosing models well and suggesting actions, he said. “It is very proactive, always suggesting things to do.”

GPT-5 is beginning to roll out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Team, and Free users, with access for Enterprise and Edu customers coming next week. “Once free users reach their GPT‑5 usage limits, they will transition to GPT‑5 mini,” OpenAI said.

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Administrators with hybrid Exchange Server environments are urged by Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to quickly plug a high-severity vulnerability or risk system compromise.

Hybrid Exchange deployments offer organizations the ability to extend the user features and admin controls of the on-prem version of Exchange within Microsoft 365. Hybrid deployment can serve as an intermediate step to moving completely to an Exchange Online organization, Microsoft said.

The benefits include secure mail routing between on-premises and Exchange Online organizations, mail routing with a shared domain namespace (for example, both on-premises and Exchange Online organizations use the @contoso.com SMTP domain) and calendar sharing between on-premises and Exchange Online organizations.

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By Thomas Macaulay It’s harvest day at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. As sunshine bathes the leafy university campus, scientists inside the labs work under cool fluorescent light. Clad in green protective gear, they tend meticulously to test tubes within hermetically sealed cleanrooms. The containers hold the fruits of today’s labour: mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Each cell is barely a quarter the width of a human hair but wields remarkable power. MSCs reduce inflammation, repair damaged tissue, and modulate the immune system. They can treat chronic diseases and delay ageing. They may even prevent illness before it begins. But to become a mainstay…This story continues at The Next Web

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