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Apple is set to pay two hundred fifty million dollars to settle a lawsuit over its Apple Intelligence marketing. The claim is straightforward: buyers say Apple's advertising promised AI features that simply weren't ready when they purchased their iPhones. It's a reminder that in the race to brand everything as intelligent, the fine print still has consequences.
Shifting to a story about software you didn't ask for — Microsoft has quietly made it possible to uninstall Copilot from Windows, but the process is anything but simple. Users have long complained about the AI assistant appearing uninvited across their workflow. The fact that removing it requires technical gymnastics says something about how these companies think about user consent versus user experience.
And in the crypto world, executives from PayPal, Robinhood, and others gathered at Consensus Miami with a message that cuts against the usual industry noise: slow down. Their argument is that transparency, not technology alone, is what actually brings everyday people into crypto. In a space often defined by speed and spectacle, that's a quietly radical position worth watching.
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