Author: David Bernal Raspall

Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey meet again after True Detective. Apple TV premieres Brothers, a comedy that turns the rumor that has followed both actors for years into fiction: the possibility that they really are half-brothers.

A real rumor turned into a comedy

Brothers plays with that idea, with both actors playing fictionalized versions of themselves. With the first two episodes now available on Apple TV, the plot takes us to Woody’s daughter’s wedding, which, after things get complicated, brings the family to Matthew’s ranch in Austin, where Ma Mac, played by Holland Taylor, reveals an old secret. From there, the search for answers begins.

With Lee Eisenberg as showrunner, the season will have eight episodes in total, with a new one every Wednesday through next November 4. For McConaughey, this production marks a return to Apple TV after The Lost Bus, a standout film in a catalog that’s gaining ground in 2026 and that periodically delivers highly distinctive series.

Here, the appeal of mixing a decades-long friendship with a possible family connection, of two actors playing themselves, and of teasing answers to questions that have been circulating online for years, is worth keeping in mind. We can watch Brothers knowing that there is a story behind the rumor, while fiction takes it a step further.

Meta has just managed to place its new artificial intelligence app ahead of ChatGPT in the US App Store. Muse launched on September 8 and, within days, reached the number one spot among free iPhone apps. The speed at which Muse is gaining users is starting to draw attention.

Muse goes straight to number one

As reported by CNBC, citing Sensor Tower data, Muse racked up 730,000 downloads during roughly its first five days and has already passed 2.5 million. Over a comparable 13-day period, ChatGPT reached 3.1 million. The App Store’s current ranking still places Muse ahead of ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok.

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The app uses the Muse Spark family of models and is designed to act as an agent that can fill out forms, organize our email, and carry out tasks on the web on our behalf. It’s the same shift we’re seeing with ChatGPT Work and OpenClaw 2.0, AI is moving from answering questions to working directly for us.

Muse can be used for free, while Meta offers subscriptions of $20 and $100 a month depending on how you plan to use it. An alternative to the more established AIs? Only time will tell, although we can’t overlook the novelty factor. We’ll see how things develop but, for now, we can say that Meta isn’t standing still on AI.

While the iPhone is one of the safest devices on the market, it’s very hard to defend yourself against an attack in which someone manages to steal an unlocked phone. To help with that, Apple introduced Stolen Device Protection some time ago, a system that adds a security delay for sensitive actions, but now it goes further. Known as AutoLock, the system seeks to detect a phone snatching and automatically lock the phone on the spot.

Several signals to determine whether the phone needs to be locked as soon as possible

According to 9to5Mac, the code in the second beta of iOS 27.2 shows how AutoLock can combine a sudden acceleration, the loss of connection with the paired Apple Watch, a period with no network connection, or simply the iPhone remaining unlocked for too long to make a decision.

The key lies in how Apple combines several signals before acting. The system works through a kind of voting process where one signal can trigger a lock and other elements add context. Face ID, a familiar location, or certain activities provide even more information when it comes to interpreting the situation.

More security and fewer accidental locks

Apple is preparing several safeguards so the system is accurate. Biometric authentication is one of the decisive signals, as are certain activities or a pause after several locks. While many of us will prefer a precautionary lock when in doubt to doing nothing in a risky situation, Apple has to be able to fine-tune the system well.

AutoLock remains in development within iOS 27.2, but, although the service is already running in the background in the beta, Apple hasn’t enabled the locking feature yet, while it completes final testing. For now, we don’t know when that will happen, but sooner rather than later we’ll have, in addition to features like Find My iPhone, an extra layer to protect our data from the very first moment.

John Ternus has given an interview as Apple CEO and, after succeeding Tim Cook, he spoke about Siri, artificial intelligence, Vision Pro, and the iPhone Duo. A really interesting interview and one of the first to cover such a wide variety of topics at such length. In short, this is what was discussed.

Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, and the next product

Ternus explains how the offer to become CEO surprised him enormously. For years, his idea had been to focus on building products. From Steve Jobs and Tim Cook he remembers an important lesson: Apple must always look ahead. After each launch comes the next step, the next product.

“Well, I think when Tim asked me whether it was something I’d consider, I’d say the good news is that I was sitting down [laughs], because not in a million years would I have imagined that something like that could happen. For me it’s always simply been about being here, focusing on the work, creating incredible things, and enjoying every minute. That they gave me this opportunity, that they put it to me, was something truly mind-blowing. There are no words to describe it.”

As for the iPhone Duo, Ternus explains that Apple built on the iPad experience to design its unfolded screen and then worked on getting the hinge right and the panel’s reliability.

AI, Siri, and the future of Vision Pro

For Ternus, generative AI is the most exciting moment of his entire career. The technology will make it possible to create new experiences and products, while Siri AI in iOS 27 takes its first steps in the right direction.

“I think what’s really interesting about this moment is AI… generative AI. It’s a really powerful technology, and that makes this the most exciting moment of my career to create products, because now we can do so many new things, things that used to be pure science fiction. So we’re really excited about, as I was saying earlier, harnessing this technology and using it in different ways to create new experiences, new products, and new capabilities. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Vision Pro also has a future, which Ternus compares to the first personal computers and highlights its applications in surgery and film production, among others.

“For me, Vision Pro is an incredible device. It’s an absolutely incredible device. But I think of it like the early days of computers. We’re at the beginning of a long road. That’s how I see Vision Pro.”

“If you think about those early years, people kept finding different reasons why the computer, the Mac, allowed them to do things that had been impossible before. For example, desktop publishing, which ended up becoming something very important in that industry.”

We’re at the beginning of a very long journey, according to Ternus, and more surprises and announcements are on the way, so we’ll have to pay closer attention than ever to the news coming out of Cupertino.

As has become tradition, the iPhone 18 Pro has been taken apart by iFixit and the teardown lets us see what’s behind its main new features. The analysis confirms that Apple has redesigned several key internal components to improve photography, battery life, and thermal management, and gives us a close-up look at them. So let’s see which new features aren’t visible at first glance.

A camera that achieves variable aperture in a truly tiny space

The standout feature of this iPhone is the main camera with variable aperture. As we can see in the video below, the mechanism uses six small blades made of a complex composite material that move magnetically. Thanks to the underlying magnets, we can choose between ƒ/1.48, ƒ/1.8, ƒ/2.8, and ƒ/4.0 before taking any photo or let the system choose the best option depending on the lighting conditions. Everything fits into an incredibly precise, truly tiny mechanism, in fact, each blade has a thickness comparable to that of a hair.

While the Apple Reference Image system remains in software, the hardware changes are significant. An increasingly professional camera that, despite its compact size, is already delivering impressive results.

A much larger vapor chamber

The teardown also lets us see the phone’s thermal improvements. Apple has placed the A20 Pro on the outer side of the logic board and has put the memory next to the processor, not on top of it, giving it a much more direct path to the cooling provided by the vapor chamber, which also has a surface area three times larger and spreads the heat across a much wider area of the chassis.

The eSIM versions have 4288 mAh in the iPhone 18 Pro and 5567 mAh in the Pro Max. Very interesting phones, truly surprising and that, seen from the inside, we can appreciate a bit more for their engineering, miniaturization, and design.

The unveiling of the iPhone Duo left us with a surprise that would have surprised even Steve Jobs himself: Apple’s first foldable iPhone will be compatible with the USB-C Apple Pencil. The original plan, however, went quite a bit further. Apple had prepared a dedicated Apple Pencil for the iPhone Duo, smaller and designed to attach magnetically next to the hinge. What happened to it?

An Apple Pencil created for the iPhone Duo

We’d already heard about this accessory when rumors claimed that Apple was internally testing an Apple Pencil for its foldable iPhone. According to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, however, the accessory ran into technical difficulties just before entering production and Apple preferred to rely on an already proven solution.

As far as we know, the stylus was shorter to better suit the iPhone Duo and its two screens. The idea was that we could place it on the hinge area to connect it, charge it, and also carry it. Removing it when opening the device, we’d have an iPhone that, when open, would offer the same experience as an iPad mini, something Craig Federighi has already spoken about.

Given the “technical difficulties,” of which we don’t know any details, Apple decided that the best option was to use the current USB-C Apple Pencil, and make it compatible with the inner and outer screens. That’s how it was announced during the presentation although support will still take a few months to arrive. Officially, it’s expected to arrive “later in 2026,” and Gurman adds that it’ll surely be shortly before the end of the year given the amount of testing.

Given that the iPhone Duo wasn’t going to be compatible with the USB-C Apple Pencil, Gurman explains that the work to enable that compatibility is substantial and that it also requires all the testing Apple will want to do to ensure it works properly. So, while we’ll already have the iPhone 18 Pro, to be able to write by hand on our iPhone Duo, we’ll have to wait a little bit longer.

OpenAI has introduced Astra for Law, a version of GPT-6 Astra built for legal work. According to OpenAI, the new service combines a specialized legal database with instructions for analyzing and drafting legal documents. The idea is to speed up some of the most repetitive tasks in law, from finding case law to preparing arguments, but it leaves us with more questions than answers.

A GPT designed for law firms

Astra for Law can search case law, statutes, regulations, court rules, and administrative decisions. It also integrates with tools like Relativity, Clio, or Thomson Reuters, for more context and a vetted information source. OpenAI wants AI to fit directly into the day-to-day work of law firms, with privacy controls for confidential information, but there’s more to consider about the launch than meets the eye.

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First, this comes at a time when there are still several questions about the legal responsibility of AI agents, in short, who’s responsible when an AI system breaks the rules or even causes harm.

What could go wrong?

We’ve seen lawyers submit legal cases invented by ChatGPT, lawsuits caused by false information generated by AI, and, a few days ago, we saw a lawyer sanctioned for including fictitious witnesses in a murder appeal. The more convincing an answer is, the more important it is that we check every source and every line of reasoning.

Astra for Law can greatly improve legal research and help us find, compare, and draft faster, but the final decision must remain in human hands. Tools like these can change what technology is capable of, but, especially when we’re talking about rulings, evidence, or a person’s freedom, we can’t let it replace us, only help us.

With the release of iOS 27, Siri AI comes to the iPhone. Apple’s assistant takes a huge step forward and greatly expands what we can ask it to do and improves how it understands our context when it responds. Do we want to put it to the test? Do we want to see how useful it can be to us in day-to-day life? Let’s look at 125 questions we can ask it.

125 questions that show us what Siri AI can do

David Pogue has put the new assistant up against 125 requests and the result, according to what he posted on Substack, stands out. His list includes personal queries, actions across apps, general knowledge questions, and much more.

We can ask it “what are they expecting from me?” and Siri pulls together our commitments to other people from Mail, Messages, and Reminders so we can see at a glance what’s still pending. We can ask it to work out the total of several bills we have on the Mac, fix a transcription error by voice, split the bill at a restaurant, or open FaceTime directly for our 1:00 p.m. call.

The best part is that we don’t have to give it too much context, the assistant understands us. A simple “open the call I have now” or “how much did I spend on last week’s trip” is enough. We’re looking at an assistant that understands what we’re seeing and doing at all times.

Siri AI arrives alongside the new Apple Intelligence features in iOS 27 and the improvements in the Messages app, where Siri gains more context and more capability. Given the compatibility requirements, iOS 27 turns Siri into an assistant that is far more capable than it was a year ago. An assistant that understands us, knows us, and is ready to help us with practically anything.

the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Apple Watch Ultra 4 arrive with a long list of new features. As for battery life improvements, Apple has updated more than just the watch, since we also have a new charger. It looks the same as ever, but the difference is on the inside and it lets us charge our new watch quite a bit faster.

A 10 W charger for the new hardware

As reported by MacRumors, the new Apple Watch Magnetic Fast Charger, model A3277, can deliver up to 10 W of power, double the 5 W of the previous version. Combined with the internal changes in the new watches, a 15-minute charge gives you up to 12 hours of battery life on the Series 12 and up to 18 hours on the Ultra 4.

To get those numbers, you’ll need, of course, a 10 W or higher USB-C Power Delivery adapter. The same one we use to charge the iPhone, or even the Mac charger, will work just fine here.

Although the new charger is compatible with previous watches and we can use it with them without any issues, we won’t notice improvements in speed. The Series 11 still gets 8 hours of battery life after 15 minutes of charging and the Ultra 3 still gets 12 hours. The key lies in the internal hardware changes of the Series 12 and the Ultra 4.

Just like when choosing official and certified chargers for the Apple Watch, here the charger model is what matters. One that keeps our watches running longer on a single charge.

Anthropic has announced a very important change in how we use Claude. Claude Cowork is being integrated into the main chat, so that although it technically disappears, all its capabilities will be available from any conversation. Now we’ll be able to start with a quick question and end up delegating a report from the same place.

Claude goes from three modes to just two

Until now, Claude separated Chat, Cowork, and Code depending on the task. With this change, Claude will be able to decide which tools it needs for each request we make of it. Keeping the context, the Skills, and the configured connectors, Cowork is now much more fully integrated into Claude.

According to Anthropic, the rollout will begin with the Pro and Max plans over the coming weeks. Team and Free will come later, while Enterprise accounts will receive information about the changes at least 30 days in advance.

Claude keeps evolving. Most recently, it can work in the background on a Mac, a feature that lets Claude Code sessions communicate with one another and, more generally, how AI is turning toward agents capable of completing tasks beyond answering questions.

Claude Docs, Slides, and Design come to chat

As if these new features weren’t enough, Anthropic has announced that Claude Docs and Claude Slides are coming to the service, while Claude Design will also start working in our chats. We’ll be able to create documents, presentations, and designs with all the context they need, edit them directly in the conversation, and export the results to PowerPoint or PDF.