Stories by John Quintet

Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI is going to make life a lot harder for the AI company's hardware team, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. For now, the timeline hasn't moved. A person with knowledge of the matter says OpenAI still expects to announce its first hardware product later this year and ship it in...

  Apple is changing up its Mac chip plans for the next few years, and AI is why. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports the base M6 chip is still coming this fall, but that's it for the M6 family. So that means no M6 Pro, M6 Max or M6 Ultra. Instead, Apple is going straight to...

Apple and OpenAI are in a legal fight now, and a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman lays out just how ugly things have gotten between the two. The lawsuit itself is about trade secret theft, but Gurman's sources paint a bigger picture of OpenAI scrambling to build an AI-powered iPhone rival. People familiar with...

Apple has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI in Northern California, accusing the company of running a scheme to steal its intellectual property and use it to build its own consumer hardware. In the complaint, Apple claims the theft went right up the chain. "This much is clear, however: at every level, from members of...

The European Commission says Meta is breaking the rules with the way Instagram and Facebook are built to keep people hooked. On July 9, the Commission put out preliminary findings saying Meta ran afoul of the Digital Services Act with the "addictive design" of both apps. The investigation zeroes in on stuff you use every...

The federal government and Bell have wrapped up a joint project to get reliable cell coverage onto a remote stretch of road in Quebec. The work covered a 28-kilometre section of road in Obedjiwan, home to the Atikamekw of Opitciwan First Nation in the Mauricie region. The project got $806,285 in federal funding through the...

Telus-owned prepaid brand Public Mobile has revamped its plans ahead of the back to school season. The company added expiry labels to its 5G plans yesterday, indicating changes would be coming today. Here are the new 5G plans as of today: $35/50GB (was 40GB) 5G Canada  $40/70GB (was 100GB) 5G Canada-US-Mexico 5G + 1000 int’l...

Rogers and Fido have made changes to their websites today to lower the cost of shipping a new smartphone to your front door. Previously priced at $25, the websites now state this cost is $9, and is also waived if you choose to have phones shipped to stores for in-store pick up. That's a reduction...

As expected, Freedom Mobile has continued to make some sweeping changes to its wireless plans. We told you yesterday the company had added expiry labels to its top plans and on Thursday, changes arrived. Here are Freedom Mobile’s plans for bring your own device and after autopay discounts, as of July 9: $35/10GB + 1GB...

The AI arms race just kicked into another gear. One day after SpaceXAI dropped Grok 4.5, Meta has fired back with its own model, Muse Spark 1.1. The announcement stood out for more than the tech itself, since Mark Zuckerberg broke a three-year silence on X to post it himself. "Today we're releasing Muse Spark...

Freedom Mobile is taking heat from customers after floating the idea of charging extra for what a lot of people consider basic account security. The whole thing kicked off when a subscriber posted a question from an official Freedom Mobile survey on Reddit. The Quebecor-owned carrier asked how likely people would be to pay an...

Meta has published a new FAQ tackling the privacy questions that keep coming up around its AI glasses, laying out the features it's built to make both wearers and the people around them more comfortable. To signal when someone is recording, every pair has a white light on the front that Meta calls a capture...