Apple Event, Meta Connect & OpenAI — What’s Coming in September?
September’s tech calendar is lining up around Apple’s iPhone 17 event, Meta Connect smart glasses updates, and growing OpenAI rumors around a browser and possible AI device.
September’s tech calendar is lining up around Apple’s iPhone 17 event, Meta Connect smart glasses updates, and growing OpenAI rumors around a browser and possible AI device.
AI browsers like Perplexity Comet raise a practical security question: how much autonomy should they have when they can use logged-in accounts, saved passwords, and shopping sites on your behalf?
A practical setup for comparing DIA and Perplexity Comet, two early AI browsers, based on real use, first impressions, and the questions worth testing before choosing one.
DIA can help draft social media replies from highlighted text, then insert the response into a Facebook comment box for you to review and post yourself.
DIA and Perplexity Comet both add AI to a Chromium browser, but they feel very different: DIA is better as a research and writing helper, while Comet can actually act on webpages.
DIA custom skills are reusable prompts you can trigger with a slash command. They are useful for repeated tasks like summaries, replies, or writing formats you use often.
A practical look at using DIA Browser by Perplexity to find publicly available company contacts by role, while keeping the search focused on ethical research and clearly marking guessed email patterns.
After a week testing Dia Browser, the most useful feature is not basic article summaries. It is being able to ask questions across tabs and reuse custom prompts for faster research.
Amazon bought Bee, the always-listening AI assistant. If you use Bee, delete your data before it transfers, then reread Amazon’s new terms before deciding whether to keep using it.
A practical look at how I use a custom GPT to plan YouTube videos, write teleprompter scripts, estimate runtime, create metadata, and keep the whole workflow organized.
OpenAI’s reported $6.5 billion move with Jony Ive points to something bigger than ChatGPT on a screen: AI hardware you can wear, carry, or interact with in a more natural way.
A quick practical comparison of four AI assistant privacy styles: no memory, private vault, offline recorder, and always-on connected memory.