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Apple isn’t keen to let just any peasant enter its hallowed and gloried domain of iMessage. The company officially declared it had blocked the Beeper Mini app, which let Android users send blue bubble messages to their friends and family on iPhone by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol.

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Some photos of the interface of the Beeper Mini app
Screenshots of the Beeper app, which promised to give Android users the ability to send blue-bubble messages.
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Gemini, Google’s ambitious new AI for phones, will make its way to Pixel 8 Pros next week. On the Apple side, we might begin to see M3-powered iPads and MacBook Airs hitting store shelves a lot sooner than we expected. Gizmodo’s consumer tech team has all the latest news and more. Here’s a roundup of our most-read…

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There were a few AI product launches this week. Google released Gemini, it’s newest AI platform, while Grok, Elon Musk’s annoying chatbot, rolled out to X Premium users. Apple, meanwhile, tried to keep up by releasing...an open-source machine learning framework. Not quite as exciting. That said, the AI industry…

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired by the company's board last month.
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We have officially reached that stage in AI popularity, where it’s no surprise that it could change the way we interact with our phones.

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Google’s launch of Gemini yesterday was like a bellowing announcement that a new king has arrived in the AI space, but Apple had its own AI launch, or more like a quiet whimper that tried to go unnoticed. The iPhone creator released an open-source machine learning framework, MLX, that runs on Apple’s chips.

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A screenshot of Beeper Mini's Android app, which promises to bring iMessage compatibility to the platform.
A screenshot of Beeper Mini's Android app, which promises to bring iMessage compatibility to the platform.