How to Use the New AI Features in OmniFocus, the Power User's To-Do List One of the Mac's most popular productivity apps is incorporating generative artificial intelligence in a way that keeps it offline, private, and customizable. A lot of apps are adding artificial intelligence to their products in the most in-your-face manner possible. Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are all adding colorful buttons and pop-ups to their user interface, and barraging their customers with marketing emails, all of which are loudly begging users to try out the new AI features. It was refreshing, in that context, to talk to indie app makers Omni Group about their approach to AI. The Seattle-based company makes OmniFocus, a powerful task management application long loved by reviewers and enthusiasts for its extreme flexibility.

LG has rolled out its Gram laptop lineup in advance of CES 2025, confirming Intel's debut of the Arrow Lake platform in laptops and offering a mix of AI software that can run either locally or in the cloud. LG disclosed two versions of the LG Gram Pro (the 17Z90TR and 16Z90TS), as well as the LG gram Pro 2-in-1. LG is adding a new entry to its lineup as well: the Gram Book, an entry-level lightweight PC with a 1080p display and a cheaper price tag to boot. However, LG isn't saying what that price tag will be, or when these new devices will ship. LG's two new Gram Pros offer the choice of either integrated or discrete graphics.

PDFelement is already a well-established name when it comes to working with PDFs, thanks to its impressive range of features and affordable price. But the developers at Wondershare haven't rested on their laurels, as a new upgrade brings a host of AI tools and enhancements that will make it even easier to edit, annotate, extract information and share the results. If you regularly deal with PDF files, the updated PDFelements version 11 release could be about to make your life a whole lot simpler. The AI revolution is well underway, and the updated PDFelement brings AI-powered tools that are focussed on improving how users interact with PDF files. With these new abilities you can get work done in the least amount of time and with a minimum of fuss.

Since first introducing its generative AI assistant, Snap has been steadily ramping up the amount of AI in its app. Now, the company is adding a new slate of AI-powered features as it begins testing a larger redesign of the app. Snap often brings new AI features to its Snapchat subscribers first, and the company is continuing the trend with a new feature called "My Selfie." The feature uses selfies to create AI-generated images of users and their friends (if they also subscribe) in creative poses and situations. The company is also rolling out a new "grandparents lens" that uses AI to imagine what you might look like as a senior citizen.

Apple shares climbed more than 7% to a record high on Tuesday by market close, a day after presenting new artificial intelligence features meant to increase the appeal of its devices, including the iPhone, under the umbrella of "Apple Intelligence". The rally comes as a breather for the stock, which has underperformed versus the benchmark S&P 500 this year, as Apple grapples with weak sales for its premium consumer gadgets. Apple stands to add the better part of 200bn to its market value if the current stock price of 207 holds. At 3.18tn, its market capitalization is tens of billions shy of Microsoft's, the world's most valuable company. Nvidia, the largest benefactor of a boom in AI applications and number three in terms of market value, is at 2.97tn.

Apple's new AI strategy might also play a key role in its upgrade-your-iPhone strategy. The company used its annual developer conference today as a platform to announce Apple Intelligence, a decidedly non-generative nomenclature for a suite of new AI features that, like other generative AI tools, are trained on massive datasets. Apple's approach is an additive one, relying on the influence and footprint of its existing apps rather than spinning up a new chatbot or web browser that spits out humanlike responses. Once Apple Intelligence rolls out to iPhones, Macs, and iPads later this year, it supposedly will turn sketches into images, sort through photos and videos, rewrite emails, change the tone of messages, and allow its voice assistant Siri to tap into different apps to string together smarter responses. There's just one catch: It won't work on your old iPhone.

Apple typically uses its annual developer conference to announce big software updates and introduce new devices. But this year, Apple set aside the gadget talk and left plenty of room for what everyone expected would be the main topic of WWDC: all of the shiny new AI features coming to iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Of course, Apple is arriving late to the artificial intelligence party, and has found itself in the position of needing to partner with a more established AI company to gain a foothold in the current arms race. In April, rumors emerged that Apple might be partnering with Google to utilize its Gemini AI on iPhones, but that doesn't seem to have panned out. Instead, Apple is partnering with OpenAI for its first big batch of AI enhancements.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Opera adds support for Google's Gemini AI model In addition, Opera One users can test two new AI features at no cost. If you use the Opera browser, you've been able to download a large number of language models directly to your computer, including Llama from Meta and Mixtral from Mistral AI. Now Opera has announced that you can also use Gemini, Google's powerful language model launched last year. As part of the collaboration with Google, users can also test two new AI features at no cost.

Microsoft introduced a new series of products, named Copilot PCs, that are designed to be integrated with artificial intelligence technology in mind. The company has reportedly struggled with the laptop market in recent months, with sales of the flagship surface pro laptops declining significantly in 2023. But the new AI device features have raised privacy concerns. In particular, one feature that Microsoft refers to as "Recall" allows the device to take snapshots of a person's screen every few seconds. These screenshots are encrypted and then stored locally on the individual's device. Microsoft said that this feature was designed to "solve one of the most frustrating problems we encounter daily--finding something we know we have seen before on our PC."

As Google's I/O conference kicks off tomorrow evening, avid tech fans can certainly expect some exciting news from the company's biggest event of the year. The event, held in Mountain View, California, will be live-streamed here from 18:00 BST (10:00 PST) tomorrow. And, following the limited success of Apple's recent iPad launch, expectations will be high for the tech giant to deliver something impressive. With Google's Pixel 8A officially shipping today, there is a chance we might get a sneak peek of the hotly anticipated Pixel 9 or even a new foldable phone. But while there might be some updates on Google's hardware, you can expect AI to be the biggest topic of the day.