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Garmin's COO says the company is approaching artificial intelligence with, quote, a keen sense of authenticity, but the broader fitness tech industry tells a different story. From Google's Health Coach to Strava's Athlete Intelligence, AI-branded features are multiplying fast, and critics say many are simply older tools dressed up with a language model underneath.
That tension between genuine utility and surface-level AI adoption connects directly to a warning from inside Anthropic itself. Engineer Addy Osmani has written about what he calls cognitive surrender, the risk that leaning too heavily on AI coding tools quietly erodes the very thinking skills that make developers effective in the first place. He's not arguing against AI agents, but he is asking whether convenience is quietly becoming a crutch.
And on the security front, Apple is making it easier to know when your passwords have been exposed. The iOS Passwords app can now flag credentials that appear in known data leaks, prompting users to act before the damage is done. It's a quiet but meaningful feature in an era where breached data moves faster than most people realize.
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