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Spotify reported operating profit that missed estimates even as it saw a surge in subscribers in the first quarter. The profit miss overshadowed a stronger gain in subscribers in the first three months of the year, showing that the streaming service’s strategy of expanding beyond music into audiobooks and podcasts is luring more fans even as it raises prices.

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This September’s iPhone launches just got a tiny bit less interesting, with reports that the previously rumored anti-reflective, anti-scratch screen is no longer likely to appear on the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max.

Last spring, a Weibo account named Instant Digital claimed that Apple had bought equipment for making the outer glass of the iPhone out of a new “super-hard” anti-reflective material, suggesting that Ceramic Shield would be replaced by something better in the fall of 2025. But it looks like this development hasn’t worked out.

MacRumors, citing an anonymous “source with reliable information,” says this project may now have been cancelled, and won’t appear on the 17-series iPhones.

“Apple planned to use the anti-reflective coating for the higher-end ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ and the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max models, which would have made them the first iPhones with an anti-reflective display,” the site explains. “Apple ran into problems scaling up the display coating process, and it is currently no longer a planned feature for the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models.”

The issue appears to be a question of volume. Apple’s suppliers can make the displays, but not at a sufficient scale to cover even just the number of Pro handsets the company expects to sell. It isn’t clear at this point if Apple intends to persist with the project for future handsets.

In the Mac and iPad ranges, Apple offers a nano-texture display finish that reduces reflections and delivers improved screen performance outside or in bright lighting. This hasn’t yet appeared on the iPhone, but an option could appear as a replacement for the cancelled/postponed project.

Longtime Apple watchers will be familiar with the process by which upcoming products are billed as groundbreaking when they’re just a distant rumor, and then steadily become more and more mundane as they approach release. But there are still more than a few interesting announcements that will make it to launch—for all the latest news and rumors, bookmark our regularly updated iPhone 17 superguide.

Huawei has officially announced that it will debut a new smartwatch on May 15 at a special “Innovative Product Launch” event in Berlin, teasing a breakthrough in digital health tracking. The focus keyword Huawei smartwatch leak has gained traction following the device’s full appearance online, revealing all its expected features and design options. The tech
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Duolingo is now going to be “AI-first,” the company has announced — aka it will drop employees in favor of using AI. In a publicly shared email, CEO Luis von Ahn outlined how Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle.” This follows the company’s January 2024 decision to cut 10 percent of its contractors, in part because AI could do their tasks. 
In the email, von Ahn points to Duolingo’s “need to create a massive amount of content, and doing that manually doesn’t scale. One of the best decisions we made recently was replacing a slow, manual content creation process with one powered by AI. Without AI, it would take us decades to scale our content to more learners. We owe it to our learners to get them this content ASAP.” 
The CEO claims that Duolingo still “cares deeply about its employees” but that it needs to remove bottlenecks to best utilize them. To that end, it will be looking for experience using AI both in hiring and when doing performance reviews.  
In the email, von Ahn admits that AI is far from perfect — wow, who knew? But, he states that Duolingo should move with urgency, rather than wait and take “occasional small hits” quality-wise. We’ll have to wait and see what these AI-powered prompts will look like as a result. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/duolingo-will-replace-contract-workers-with-ai-123058178.html?src=rss