In today’s episode of Mint Techcetra, host Shouvik Das is joined by Leslie D’Monte to break down Apple’s WWDC announcements — from its new ‘Liquid Glass’ interface and renamed all its OS platforms to match the calendar year — iOS 26, macOS 26, and so on. But while the stage was set for an AI reveal, the company mostly sidestepped it. Instead, Apple dropped research papers questioning the intelligence of large language models, signaling a slower, more guarded approach to AI. Whether that’s caution or clever branding is still up for debate. ChatGPT crashes for a few hours, the internet loses its mind OpenAI’s flagship tool, ChatGPT, went offline for several hours — and what followed was a small digital meltdown. For something that didn’t exist in the mainstream two years ago, ChatGPT has quietly embedded itself into everything from writing workflows to late-night Googling. The outage didn’t just highlight OpenAI’s growing reach — it raised questions about just how much we've come to rely on AI assistants. Android 16 changes nothing, and maybe that’s the point Google’s Android 16 beta quietly rolled out with almost no visible changes — and that might be by design. The UI stays the same, the upgrades are tucked into accessibility and security layers, and the overall experience remains consistent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices