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Grok Bot's Mac app now integrates with six Apple apps—Messages, Mail, Notes, Reminders, Calendar, and Contacts—plus device location, according to an announcement from the @bot account on X. The update follows the app's recent move to version 1.0, exiting beta status this month.
Apple's iOS 27.3 update gives Siri AI a broad new set of controls within the Notes app, including creating, updating and deleting notes, folders and tags, locking notes, scanning documents, starting audio recordings, and managing checklist items. Users can now perform these actions by voice or through Spotlight rather than manually navigating the app.
Gitori analyzed 275,169 answers collected over three years from more than 10,000 players of its Find the Notes fretboard game. The data shows the upper-middle of the neck, especially the G string between frets 6 and 9, is where players most often misidentify notes, with the G string's 8th fret (E♭) wrong about a third of the time. By contrast, open strings and the 12th fret, along with the low and high E strings generally, are answered correctly far more often, with error rates around 6%.
Nintendo's free companion app Zelda Notes, available through the Switch app without a Switch Online subscription, includes interactive maps of Hyrule showing the locations of collectibles like Golden Skulltulas in the Ocarina of Time remake. Tapping icons reveals requirements needed to obtain each item, and players can filter maps by child or adult Link and by collectible category.
Oracle submitted SEC filings to sell $10 billion in common stock and $10 billion in senior notes, funds it says will go toward general corporate purposes including capital spending, debt repayment and future investments. The move follows last week's investor day, where Oracle projected at least $225 billion in fiscal 2030 revenue and said it would cap additional capital-market fundraising for 2027-2030 at $20 billion. Shares fell more than 6% on the filing news despite analysts noting the plan matched what Oracle had already disclosed.
Anthropic's IPO filing reveals that venture firms like Menlo Ventures, Sequoia, Sound Ventures and Spark Capital each hold less than 5% of the company, despite multi-billion-dollar stakes, because Anthropic's valuation of $965 billion makes even small percentages worth billions. Amazon, which invested through convertible notes rather than upfront equity, holds notes with $6.2 billion in principal that Amazon itself values at $97.9 billion as the company's valuation has risen. Anthropic recorded a $72.4 billion non-cash charge in the first half of 2026 reflecting the rising value of these notes and other instruments.
Amazon has extended its handwritten annotation feature, first introduced on its new Alexa Tablets, to the Kindle app for Android phones and tablets. The feature lets readers write directly on ebook pages using adjustable pen styles, sizes, and colors, with surrounding text reflowing around the handwritten notes. Users have reported seeing the option on devices including the Galaxy Tab S10 FE, Galaxy S24, Galaxy S23, XP-Pen Magic Note Pad, and BOOX Go 7.
X said it suspended more than 13,000 accounts linked to three suspected foreign influence operations that it attributed to Iran, Russia and China, ahead of the November 3 US midterm elections. The company said the networks used fake accounts to post and amplify political content about candidates and public figures, but it did not publish evidence supporting the attribution. X also pointed to its Civic Integrity policy, which funnels reports into Community Notes alongside other moderation actions.
Nintendo is remaking The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Switch 2, adding modern conveniences such as a dedicated jump button, a real-time item-swapping menu, and a new progression tracker called Threads of Time viewable from the pause screen. The remake also integrates with the Nintendo Switch app's Zelda Notes feature, letting players view maps and other information on their phone. A preview session let a reporter play roughly 90 minutes covering Child Link and Adult Link sections of the game.
Google released AI Edge Foresight, a note-taking app currently available only on MacOS that transcribes meetings from Google Meet, Zoom or in-person conversations entirely on-device. It organizes notes, works with files like PDFs and Google Docs, and offers a Live Assistance feature to answer questions based on meeting transcripts, all without sending data to the cloud.
A developer launched Ledge.sh on Show HN, a tool that turns markdown notes into executable documents by embedding code blocks (Python, shell, SQL) that run inline. The demo example shows a weekly subscription report pulling data from Stripe's API and a database, then summarizing new sign-ups and revenue directly within the note.
Apple's iOS 27 update introduces several changes to the Reminders app, including an upgraded natural-language 'Describe' feature powered by Apple Intelligence that can auto-fill reminder details like due dates. The update also redesigns the metadata editor within lists, consolidating options like date, time, location, and tags into a single interface, and improves grocery list auto-sorting accuracy across multiple languages.