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Apple Cuts AI Budgets; Netflix Tests Mood-Based Recommendations; Apple to Scan iCloud Links

Apple reduces daily AI budgets for engineers from $300 to $200, with further reductions possible, as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative. Netflix introduces AI Discover for TV app users in the US, offering mood-based theme suggestions to enhance user experience and reduce endless scrolling. Apple will begin checking public iCloud links for harmful content with iOS 27.3 updates, impacting content shared via 'Anyone with the link'.

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Last 24 hours · 5 mins · 26 stories · 133 sources in 13 languages

Top stories

  1. Apple tightens internal AI budgets as part of broader cost-cutting push 9to5mac.com and 12 more
  2. Netflix tests AI Discover mood-based recommendations on US TV app techcrunch.com and 9 more
  3. Apple to scan public iCloud links for harmful content in iOS 27.3 theverge.com and 4 more
  4. Meta buys Conductor to bolster AI coding tools and developer ecosystem techcrunch.com and 7 more
  5. Google, partners disrupt XCPE botnet across 1.3 million Android TV boxes itmedia.co.jp and 4 more
All 26 stories in today's brief

Question of the day

When you share iCloud files via “Anyone with the link,” what exact security boundary does Apple remove to scan them? “Anyone with the link” shifts iCloud from E2E-protected storage to server-readable sharing, so scanning works by downgrading encryption at the share boundary.

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