Author: Geek Planet

Anthropic has been working on ways to help people better understand their Apple Watch and Health data, and now that idea has officially moved from promise to practice. The company has begun rolling out a new beta feature that can connect Claude AI directly to your Apple Health, turning raw fitness and medical data into something you can actually talk about and understand. The new integration is part of a broader health push from Anthropic and is now available in beta for Claude Pro and Max users in the US through the iOS and Android apps. Once you explicitly opt…

Digiday covers the latest from marketing and media at the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. More from the series → Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify A few years ago, Twitter Beach was one of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity places to be. Before it became X, the platform brought marketers from the Palais to the beach for daytime panels featuring Chrissy Teigen, a celeb the company once dubbed the mayor of Twitter, and a nighttime party with performances by Ciara and Steve Aoki. The flag with its iconic blue bird flew next to tech giants like…

Most popular messaging apps already let you schedule a text for later, whether it’s a birthday wish timed for midnight or a reminder set to land at the start of a workday. Until now, that convenience has been missing from WhatsApp. However, a new report suggests that the Meta-owned platform is finally laying the groundwork for a native message scheduling feature that could roll out in a future update. WABetaInfo has spotted evidence of the in-development message scheduling feature in the latest WhatsApp beta for iOS. While the functionality is not yet live, the outlet reveals that the feature will…

Google has announced that AI Mode in Search can now tap into your Gmail and Google Photos to deliver responses that feel personal, relevant, and grounded in your real life. This update brings what Google calls Personal Intelligence directly into Search, pushing it beyond generic results and into something closer to a digital memory that works for you. Until now, AI Mode focused on handling complex questions through conversation. With Personal Intelligence added, it can now quietly connect details across your Google apps, so you do not have to explain everything from scratch. Google says this helps Search understand your…

When Chris Hassell’s agency Ralph last made the trip to Cannes several years ago, building a business around branded entertainment felt like a creative experiment. Novel but niche. Now, it feels inevitable.  “What is exciting for us now as an entertainment brand is that we’re now able to speak to marketers about things we can partner up for and work collaboratively on instead of ‘hey there, do you have a brief for us, do you have some budget for us please, can we dance the usual dance,’” said Hassell. That evolution is hard to miss this year.  Whether it’s Mattell’s…

Snapchat is betting that AI-powered ad tech might finally help it shrink the distance between itself and the platforms that have long outpaced it. Last month, the mobile messaging app launched its first major iteration of an AI-powered suite of tools called Smart Campaign Solution — akin to Google’s Performance Max or Meta’s Advantage+ — to support advertisers, but particularly SMBs. While the tools are still in test mode with a select group of advertisers, chief business officer Ajit Mohan believes the combination of having more performance driven capabilities has the potential to put Snapchat into the tier one platform…

AMD has finally confirmed pricing and availability for its Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor, the company’s newest near-flagship desktop CPU aimed at gaming enthusiasts. The chip will officially launch on January 29th with an MSRP of approximately $499 USD, according to AMD’s latest announcement. The 9850X3D was first unveiled at CES 2026 as part of AMD’s expanding Zen 5 with 3D V-Cache family, and it slots in just below higher-tier Ryzen 9 models in the 9000 series. Compared with its predecessor, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the 9850X3D gains a higher boost clock of up to around 5.6 GHz, while continuing to…

At Cannes, AI is the loudest topic no one wants to talk about publicly. Everyone has an opinion. Few want their names attached to it.  That’s the thing about this year’s biggest theme. It’s not just AI itself that’s destabilizing the industry. It’s the quiet discomfort people have with how quickly it’s moving — and what that says about the work, the value chain and who gets to keep their seat at the table.  “There’s a lot of oversight on all things AI from corporate comms at the moment,” said an ad exec on the Croisette — immediately after asking to…

Digiday covers the latest from marketing and media at the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. More from the series → Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Amid the AI hype, increasingly fragmented media marketplace and economic headwinds, marketers this year came to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity looking for answers.  For Carly Carson, PMG’s head of integrated media, this year’s festival served as a temperature check for an industry in flux. As the book closes on another Cannes Lions, Carson has pocketed three takeaways. AI still needs a human infusion. To be sure, AI talk dominated panels.…

Phishing scams are evolving fast, and AI-assisted sites are making fake login pages look more convincing than ever. To help users stay safe, 1Password, one of the most widely used password managers, is rolling out a new built-in anti-phishing feature in its browser extensions and apps. The goal is simple: prevent your device from automatically providing saved credentials on sites that don’t match the URLs where those logins were originally stored. Instead of quietly refusing to autofill credentials on a suspicious domain, the updated 1Password now adds a proactive warning pop-up whenever you try to paste a saved login into…