📰 Daring Fireball

My thanks to Paper for sponsoring last week at DF. Paper is a new professional design tool where every layer is real HTML and CSS. Your design is already code,

Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times from San Francisco: About 40 former employees now working at OpenAI have been sent letters directing them to pr

Joanna Stern at New Things, last month : Last month, just days after my book went on sale, AI knockoffs of the ebook version flooded Apple Books. There was Joan

Linus Torvalds: I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I’m willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

Quiche Industries (Greg de J.): Starting today, Quiche Browser disables AI overviews in search results by default, out of the box. Compare how much space and ti

OpenAI, in a statement to Bloomberg this week: “While we take these allegations seriously, we’re not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit. We bel

Louie Mantia, with a thoughtful essay on app icon design and the squircle-jail controversy on the Parakeet blog: It’s worth noting that some of the platform’s b

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: OpenAI believes the product’s defining feature will be its personality and ability to connect on a humanlike level with us

Eric Seufert, Mobile Dev Memo: The new language could simply accommodate the availability of Apple-owned services on the web and through third-party devices and

Ben Jiang, reporting from Beijing for the South China Morning Post: Chinese regulators have granted Apple a long-awaited licence to roll out its artificial inte

My thanks, once again, to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Users expect apps and agents to reach the tools they already work in. Every integration that gets

Paulo Andrade: My last post on using SwiftUI to build a Mac-assed app got a bit more traction than I expected. It was mentioned on Mastodon several times , incl

OpenAI Help Center, “Where Work and Codex are available”: Work is available on ChatGPT web and mobile for eligible paid plans. Work is also available in the Cha

Drew Pusateri, director of communications at OpenAI, on Twitter/X (or XCancel ): Our statement in response to this suit: We have no interest in other companies’

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: The lawsuit names Chang Liu and Tang Tan as two of the defendants. Tang Tan served as VP of product design at Apple, leading iPhone and

Zac Hall, writing at 9to5Mac about OpenAI’s sprawling product announcements today: To summarize today’s desktop app changes: The existing ChatGPT app is now Cha

Eli Tan, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The company’s new A.I. image generator has a surprising twist: It allows people to use images from public

Back in the primordial days of AI, PARRY was an ELIZA-style chatbot created by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby to simulate the words of a paranoid schizophrenic. Som

Tyler Hall: We all know about macOS Tahoe’s terrible app icons and how 3rd party developers have been confined to squircle jail . If you’re lucky enough to dist

I vaguely recall first trying some version of ELIZA back in the 1990s. I never found it all that impressive nor understood its stature in the AI literature. It’

Shape was often the most iconic thing about an icon. Now it’s no part at all.

There’s a been a lot of (justified) concern and consternation over the last year regarding Backblaze — an online backup service whose simple pitch is that it ba

Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread ): Still, I wouldn’t count out the possibility of a change in course here. While mobile is ki

Maestral developer Sam Schott, on the Maestral website: As of June 2026, Maestral is no longer actively maintained. The current version will continue to work un