Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Dear Annie: Most nights, my phone lights up with our family group chat. My husband and I have three grown kids in their 20s, and I love seeing their jokes, photos and silly updates. It makes me feel ...

iOS 26 is packed full of changes for iPhone users, including five great new group chat features in the Messages app. Here’s what’s new. Typing indicators have been a key iMessage features for years, ...

Finally, a way to prove to all your friends you're right about a topic: Invite them all into a group chat with ChatGPT, then have the AI assert dominance on your behalf. A few days ago, OpenAI started ...

Poe, Quora’s app that brings together different AI models into one platform, is launching group chat functionality. The company announced on Monday that users worldwide will be able to start group ...

New Analyze Applications feature analyzes JAR or WAR files for migrations and JFR recordings for performance optimization. Update also brings task scheduling and Kubernetes support. Oracle Java ...

The invite-only OpenAI Sora app, featuring the advanced Sora 2 model, quickly rose to No. 1 in the iOS App Store. This success validates sophisticated generative video as a mainstream, mobile-first ...

Roi's CEO and co-founder, Sujith Vishwajith, announced the acquisition on Friday. According to a source cited by TechCrunch, he is the only member of the four-person Roi team joining OpenAI. The terms ...

A new invite-only social media platform, founded and led by Black women, aims to redefine the digital landscape. A new invite-only social platform, founded and led by Black women, aims to reshape the ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

OpenAI’s new Sora AI video app is iPhone-only, for now. OpenAI’s new Sora AI video app is iPhone-only, for now. is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her ...

Microsoft 365 customers will no longer have to pay to access the Copilot Chat AI assistant inside Office apps such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Microsoft’s Copilot Chat AI assistant is now ...