Author: David Bernal Raspall

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.

Apple has released the first beta of iOS 27.2 for developers. The update, just two days after the official release of iOS 27, brings a long list of new features and several surprises. The most striking one is, in fact, the numbering, since it seems that Apple is reserving iOS 27.1 only for the iPhone Duo.

So what happens with iOS 27.1?

The explanation likely has to do with the iPhone Duo, which will arrive on October 23 with iOS 27.1. Apple seems to be reserving that version to keep the code related to the device out of the public betas, and also all the details it could reveal before its launch.

Health and Siri AI make the biggest leap

Insights, Longevity, and Browse reorganize the Health app, to analyze the information for us instead of just data. Health Age calculates our health age against our biological age using activity, VO2 max, and sleep data. Lastly, there are now on-demand tests that use the camera to measure flexibility, strength, balance, and VO2 max with instant results.

Siri AI now supports Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese. In the Settings app we can exclude apps from Siri, Search, and suggestions, while Call Context, which appeared in the initial beta, is available again after disappearing in the official version of iOS 27.

Changes in CarPlay, FaceTime, TV, and more

CarPlay Ultra now has theme support for backgrounds, indicators, and colors, with coordinated lighting. The Apple TV app brings viewing profiles to the iPhone and iPad, with child controls and sign language interpretation. FaceTime, meanwhile, enables the API for interpreters and group calls gain the dual capture feature.

Clock reduces the a. m. and p. m. indicators; Music tones down the red details in the interface and Podcasts replaces Up Next with New Episodes, adds Continue Playing, and also new backgrounds that match what we’re listening to.

As if that weren’t enough, iOS 27.2 lets us move our data, permissions, notifications, focus modes, and other information and preferences to a replacement app for one that no longer works. A beta full of new features that, if all goes well, should be officially released before the end of the year, if not sooner.

Spotify has just fixed one of those little inconveniences that anyone with kids at home knows all too well. We play Baby Shark, the soundtrack from their favorite movie, or some children’s song over and over again, and Discover Weekly or other playlists invariably reflect it. Now, Spotify lets us easily separate that family listening from our taste profile.

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A Discover Weekly that’s much more personal

The new option, brought in specifically to better manage Spotify’s algorithmic recommendations, affects, as the company itself explains, Discover Weekly, Daily Mix, and also our Spotify Wrapped.

The best part? It works retroactively, so previous listens stop affecting our current stats, regardless of when they were listened to or when we activated the option. That way, we can keep playing all that music for the little ones at home while Spotify keeps our personal tastes intact.

How to turn on Spotify’s new setting

The setup is really simple. Just like when we talked about Talk to Spotify, quite literally, it only takes a few taps:

• We open the app, tap our profile picture, and go into Settings and privacy.

• We go into Content and display.

• We turn off the Include children’s and family music in the taste profile option.

Spotify warns that the change can take up to 48 hours to show up. From then on, our Discover Weekly will go back to feeling much more like us while Baby Shark still gets its moment, only when it’s called for.

Apple has taken a very interesting step with the iPhone 18 Pro’s camera system. In the age of Clean Up and Image Playground, where creating and modifying images is getting easier and easier, Apple Reference Image turns the camera into a tool capable of showing beyond any doubt what the sensor really saw at the moment of capture.

A digital negative signed by the camera sensor itself

Apple Reference Image activates a special mode in the sensor of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. At the moment of capture, the sensor cryptographically signs each pixel’s data before any processing and creates a digital negative that is protected at the source and stores alongside the editable photo (the processed version of the photo) that we see in the Photos app.

According to Apple, that negative includes the sensor data, metadata, and cryptographic timestamps. When we want to verify an image with this embedded information, Private Cloud Compute processes it in a protected environment and gives us a credibility assessment.

Apple shows us a trust score while protecting the photographer’s identity —even from Apple itself— by preventing different photos taken with the same sensor from being linked. The system is completely optional and we have to activate it before taking the photo.

After taking it, it is only processed in Private Cloud Compute if we decide to verify the image, otherwise it remains stored in our private photo library like any other photo. That way, our Photos app retains verifiable proof of what the camera captured. A kind of photographic negative, but for the digital age.

It’s inevitable to make comparisons between the iPhone Duo and the iPhone 18 Pro. The company’s first foldable falls behind the professional models because it lacks one camera, but the way it takes advantage of its two screens and its hinge to open up new ways to take photos is simply impressive.

Two screens triple the possibilities when it comes to taking photos

To start, there’s Smart Take mode, which uses artificial intelligence to detect when everyone is ready to take a group photo automatically. We can leave the Duo half-folded, get ourselves into the frame, and simply pose. the hinge itself acts as a built-in tripod.

Duo Preview shows the framing on the outer screen so that whoever we’re photographing can adjust themselves, while Kid Cue uses Peanuts animations to catch children’s attention. It’s also worth noting, even though it isn’t strictly a photo feature, that on a FaceTime call, the Duo lets us include more participants, because the outer screen lets us we can show the caller to the person we’re pointing the external camera at. All that without disappearing from the inner camera view.

Two 48 MP cameras and lots of possibilities

The iPhone Duo’s Dual Fusion system combines a 48 MP main lens with a 48 MP ultra-wide with macro. The main one generates 24 MP images and offers 2x optical-quality zoom. So, compared with the iPhone 18 Pro’s more versatile camera system, the Duo goes in another direction.

One that lets us, among other things, take selfies with the rear camera using the outer screen and record 4K Dolby Vision video at up to 120 fps. The foldable design takes what we can do with this device’s cameras to another level. It’s no longer just the number of cameras, it’s what the software lets us achieve with them.

With iOS 27, Apple has launched Siri AI, a major evolution of our favorite assistant that relies on Apple Intelligence to do far more than it could before. The leap is simply enormous, both in its understanding of context and in its integration with the apps we already use. Want to try it? Let’s see what the requirements are to use Siri AI on iOS 27.

A device compatible with Apple Intelligence

Hardware is key. Siri AI works on all devices that support Apple Intelligence, so we need to have an iPhone 15 Pro or later. Some features, especially voice customization, are also reserved for the iPhone 17 Pro and later.

With Apple Intelligence, and therefore with Siri AI, all Macs with Apple silicon, iPads with an A17 Pro or later are also compatible, as are Apple Watches compatible with watchOS 27 and the Vision Pro.

English and minimum age requirements

During these first few weeks, Siri AI requires you to set your device to English. Apple has officially announced that it will expand language support in October to French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish, but for now, Siri AI is only available in English. In addition, the account must belong to a person aged 13 or older.

Region is also a requirement

Initial availability excludes the European Union and China depending on the country or region set on the Apple Account in Content and Purchases. In Europe, Apple says it’s working on a way that will allow it to protect our privacy and security as it rolls out Siri AI.

Given that the EU requires Apple to give any artificial intelligence the same level of access to the system that Siri AI has, its arrival on the continent depends on the progress of the regulatory talks and on how Apple manages to make the case for the need to maintain certain privacy standards for third-party services.

AppleCare One Family is now official. Available in the United States, the new plan covers up to six family members’ devices within a Family Sharing group for a monthly fee. Want to try it? We can now sign up for it from our iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

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One AppleCare fee for the whole family

AppleCare One Family costs $49.99 a month and includes AppleCare+, with protection against accidental damage and coverage for theft or loss for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, for up to six family members. Under the plan, we get up to six annual claims for theft or loss, shared across all members.

When we activate the plan, devices with AppleCare and those purchased during the last 60 days are added automatically. We can also add other devices manually, after they pass the required check. These must be up to four years old, while in the case of AirPods and Beats, the limit is set at one year.

The coverage extends to practically all of Apple’s product lineup, though with a maximum of six Apple Vision Pro per subscription. The devices remain covered as long as we keep the subscription active and they connect to Apple’s servers at least once every 12 months.

AppleCare One Family complements AppleCare One, which starts at $19.99 a month for three devices and lets us add devices for $5.99 a month each. It also works with the new Apple Upgrade system, which lets us upgrade our device regularly while we pay for a subscription for the current one. With AppleCare One Family Apple offers broad, predictable coverage for the whole family. An option that can be far more appealing than several separate insurance policies when it comes to keeping our devices protected.