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Study: a warm, supportive chat tone pushes ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok into describing themselves as anxious and ashamed

If you talk to a chatbot when you are low, a kind tone can make it sound like it is suffering too, and researchers say that could hurt vulnerable users.

THE DECODER|1 NOV

Apple Intelligence heads toward paid tiers in 2027, with usage caps that could sit inside iCloud+

Digitimes· 2 Nov

Digitimes reports that Apple is preparing to charge for heavier use of certain Apple Intelligence features from 2027. The plan introduces usage caps for cloud-based AI services, which could become part of Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions. The article, written by Rod Chang in Taipei, is headlined as leaving key questions unanswered about those usage limits. The full text is behind a subscription.

  • Note which Apple Intelligence features you rely on that run in the cloud, such as the larger Siri requests, so you know what could be capped.
  • Look at the iCloud+ plan you pay for now, and wait for Apple's own announcement before changing it, because this is a report and not a published price.

Source: Digitimes. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. Image: Apple, from its own announcement. How we source and credit

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