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Apple is writing a quarter-billion-dollar check to settle claims over delayed Siri features — promises made about capabilities that simply weren't ready when customers bought their devices. If you own an affected iPhone, you could see up to ninety-five dollars per device from that settlement fund.
That kind of gap between promise and delivery is a theme worth watching, and it connects to a quieter collapse in the AI partnership space. Snap's four-hundred-million-dollar deal with Perplexity to bring AI search into Snapchat is officially dead, the feature never having fully reached users. It's a reminder that announced deals and shipped products are two very different things.
And looking further out, a new analysis is raising serious questions about the timeline for quantum computing's threat to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Researchers warn that so-called Q-Day — when quantum machines could crack current encryption — may arrive as soon as two thousand thirty, potentially before crypto networks have hardened their defenses. The window to act, the report suggests, is narrower than most in the industry are willing to admit.
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