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Vivaldi just gave tab hoarders the feature they’ve been waiting for

Vivaldi just gave tab hoarders the feature they’ve been waiting for

Windows users are probably familiar with the ability to “snap” windows in various corners of their screen. Vivaldi is proposing a similar arrangement within Vivaldi 7.8, but within tiles on the pages of its browser. It’s a meaningful addition. Vivaldi calls this “tab tiling,” and it’s part of the latest iteration of its free Web browser, or Vivaldi 7.8. Vivaldi is complementing it by adding a “open as tiled tab” feature, too. Tabs can be organized and reorganized, and set to refresh periodically for live content or for other reasons. Essentially, what you gain here is some additional pixels. If you’re like me, you open dozens of tabs in your browser. As Vivaldi also notes in its blog , I use the additional tabs to go back and forth with my notes, or dedicate additional tabs for my research. Of course, the additional windows and tabs can come up with additional pixel cruft: any bookmarks or favorites, toolbars, and so on. It appears Vivaldi give you a bit of that — a title or URL bar, for example — but not much more. The only downside appears to be trading tabs for display space: if you end up pushing more and more tiled tabs into a tiny space, you’ll be able to see less and less of each one. As always, you’ll probably have to experiment and see what works best. Vivaldi Vivaldi has made a second addition which you might find useful, too: the ability to pin a tab to a specific page. Again, I have a tendency to scatter multiple tabs and windows across the screen. In an undisciplined moment, I sometimes grab a “free” tab and use it for additional work, without realizing that I had originally assigned that tab to a specific task or piece of information. You can now dedicate and lock a tab to a specific “current” site to help prevent that from happening. In a similar vein, you can now assign a tab to your Vivaldi Mail, and have that tab follow you around various workspaces. I think I might find this to be useful, as Vivaldi usually serves as a handy mail client / RSS reader. Now if the browser would also keep those RSS feeds in the cloud to avoid manually duplicating them on new machines… Vivaldi

Apple acquires Q.ai for a reported $2 billion

Apple acquires Q.ai for a reported $2 billion

Apple has acquired Israel-based startup Q.ai, a move that could provide a much-needed boost to the tech giant's capabilities in artificial intelligence. Although Apple has not disclosed terms of the deal, sources told Financial Times that the arrangement is reportedly valued at nearly $2 billion. If that figure is accurate, the Q.ai acquisition marks Apple's second largest acquisition to date, followed by its purchase of Beats for $3 billion back in 2014. Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware technologies, said in a statement that Q.ai "is a remarkable company that is pioneering new and creative ways to use imaging and machine learning." Apple hasn't shared any specifics about how it plans to leverage the startup, but its past work indicates the possibility of Apple moving deeper into AI-powered wearables. "Patents filed by Q.ai show its technology being used in headphones or glasses, using 'facial skin micro movements' to communicate without talking," the Times reported. The startup's founding team, including CEO Aviad Maizels, will join Apple as part of the deal. This acquisition marks Maizels' second sale to Apple; he previously founded a three-dimensional hearing business called PrimeSense that Apple bought back in 2013. For several months, many tech insiders have speculated that an acquisition might be Apple's best path forward to catching up in the AI race. In the company's Q3 earnings call in July 2025, CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that "We’re open to M&A that accelerates our roadmap." A deal like this one could eventually lead to Apple developing its own fully in-house AI chatbot rather than relying on a competitor like Google to power artificial intelligence in its Siri assistant. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/apple-acquires-qai-for-a-reported-2-billion-190017949.html?src=rss

Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3 billion over ‘flagrant piracy’

Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3 billion over ‘flagrant piracy’

A group of music publishers led by Concord Music Group and Universal Music Group are suing Anthropic, according to a report by Reuters . The suit accuses the AI company of illegally downloading more than 20,000 copyrighted songs, including sheet music, lyrics and compositions. These songs were then allegedly fed into the chatbot Claude for training purposes. There are some iconic tunes named by Universal in the suit, including tracks by The Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond and Elton John, among many others. Concord is an independent publisher that handles artists like Common, Killer Mike and Korn. The publishers issued a statement saying that the damages could amount to more than $3 billion. This would make it one of the largest non-class action copyright cases in US history. "While Anthropic misleadingly claims to be an AI 'safety and research' company, its record of illegal torrenting of copyrighted works makes clear that its multibillion-dollar business empire has in fact been built on piracy," the lawsuit says. The suit was filed by the same legal team as last year's Bartz v. Anthropic case . The music publishers say they found that Anthropic had been illegally downloading thousands of songs during the discovery process of that suit . For the unfamiliar, the Bartz v. Anthropic case ended with an award of $1.5 billion to impacted writers after it was found that the company had illegally downloaded their published works for similar training purposes. The terms of that agreement dictated that the 500,000 authors involved in the case would get $3,000 per work. The $1.5 billion looks like a big number, but not so much when broken down like that. Also, Anthropic is worth around $350 billion . In the Bartz case, Judge William Alsup ruled that it was legal for Anthropic to train its models on copyrighted content but not legal to acquire that content via piracy. We'll have to wait and see how this new suit shakes out. The legal precedent here seems to suggest that if Anthropic would have just spent a buck on each copyrighted song, then they'd be in the clear. That's an odd distinction when it comes to building an entire company around snatching up copyrighted content, but whatever. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/music-publishers-sue-anthropic-for-3-billion-over-flagrant-piracy-185459358.html?src=rss

Organize your charging in style with $50 off this Anker Prime charging station

Organize your charging in style with $50 off this Anker Prime charging station

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