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Monzo Suffers Major App Outage and Switches to Backup System

Using an independent backup preserved customers' card and ATM access with transfer confirmations and live transaction feeds still unreliable.

Spotify Hit by Widespread Outage That Crippled Web Player

Sam Altman Accepts Fault for OpenAI Shortcomings and Flags Major Product Push

Apple Brings Siri AI to Apple Watch, Tests Third‑Party App Queries in Beta 3

Spotify Launches Studio by Spotify Labs to Generate Personalized AI Podcasts

Spotify Suffers Widespread Outage

Reports: OpenAI Planning AI-Agent Smartphone With Qualcomm, MediaTek and Luxshare

Google Home Automations Stay as Phone-Based Actions End in Early May

Amazon’s New Fire TV Stick Blocks Sideloading as It Switches to Vega OS

OpenAI Confirms Partial ChatGPT and Codex Outage as Services Recover

AccuWeather Brings Live Forecasts to ChatGPT With a Dedicated App

Deutsche Telekom To Add Network-Level AI Assistant to Phone Calls This Year

Anthropic Launches 'Claude’s Corner' Substack for Retired Opus 3

Google Maps Shows 'Limited View' for Logged-Out Users, Hiding Reviews and Photos

Google Docs Rolls Out Gemini Audio Summaries to Paying Users

Jony Ive Rebukes Car Touchscreens as Ferrari’s Luce Interior Restores Physical Controls

OpenAI Starts U.S. Test of In‑Chat Ads for ChatGPT’s Free and Go Users

OpenAI Restores ChatGPT After Short Global Outage

Firefox Sets Feb. 24 Rollout for AI Master Switch and Per‑Feature Controls

OpenAI to Retire GPT-4o and Other ChatGPT Models Next Month