Apple unveils $599 iPhone 17e with A19 chip

Apple unveiled the iPhone 17e on Monday, a lower-cost addition to its smartphone lineup starting at $599 with 256 gigabytes of storage — double the storage of the previous base model. The device features Apple’s A19 chip and MagSafe charging but is the same price as the previous iPhone 16e.

Bloomberg previously reported that Apple plans to market the model, which goes on sale March 11, to users in emerging markets and enterprise customers.

The launch comes as global smartphone shipments are projected to post their steepest decline ever this year, with memory shortages pushing up device costs and prices.

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Report: Google DeepMind builds “strike team” to catch up to Anthropic models

Anthropic’s recent momentum, powered by the success of its popular Claude Code tool, is turning up the heat among its AI competitors — not only for its AI startup peer OpenAI, but also with established Big Tech giants like Google.

The Information reports that within Google DeepMind, a “strike team” has been assembled to make a serious push to improve Gemini’s coding capabilities. According to the report, leaders within Google, including cofounder Sergey Brin, are sounding the alarm after determining that Anthropic’s Claude has superior coding skills. The new team’s goal is to create a AI system that can improve itself.

“To win the final sprint, we must urgently bridge the gap in agentic execution and turn our models into primary developers,” Brin wrote in a recent memo to DeepMind staff.

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“To win the final sprint, we must urgently bridge the gap in agentic execution and turn our models into primary developers,” Brin wrote in a recent memo to DeepMind staff.

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