Week in Review: WWDC 2025 recap

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we have a lot to share with you, including the results of WWDC 2025, The Browser Company’s AI Browser, OpenAI’s partnership Mattel and updates for your iPad. Have a great weekend!

Apple’s experience: WWDC 2025 was the start of the week, when the company showcased a newly designed iOS 26 and new features in its products. Apple was under a lot of pressure this year to deliver on its promises, and to make amends with developers. It is lagging behind in AI, and continues to face legal challenges regarding its App Store.

Snack Hack: U.S. grocery distributor United Natural Foods was the victim of a cyberattack on Tuesday. UNFI’s external systems, such as web systems used by customers and suppliers, as well as its VPN products, were mostly offline. Whole Foods was also a victim, and told staff that UNFI was affected by the cyberattack, which was affecting their “ability to select products and ship them from their warehouses.” This will “impact our usual delivery schedules and availability of product.”

The much-anticipated debut of Chime as a public company finally arrived. Iconiq is one of Chime’s many supporters who took a victory lap when it graduated to become a publicly traded company.

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News

Not wanting to be outdone,Google rolled Android 16 out to Pixel phones. This included group chat in RCS, AI-powered editing suggestions for Google Photos, and corporate badges support in Google Wallet.

Cabs have arrived: Elon Musk spent years claiming Teslas would be self-driving. It seems the time is now — maybe? Musk announced this week that Tesla would begin offering public rides with driverless vehicles on June 22 in Austin, Texas.

AI browser: Last year, The Browser Company announced that it would stop developing and supporting its Arc browser. Although popular, the browser was never able reach a large audience. Since then, the startup has been working on Dia, an AI-first web browser.

Another one: OpenAI has released o3 pro, which is an updated version of the reasoning model o3, that was launched by the startup earlier this year. In contrast to conventional AI models that work through problems in a linear fashion, reasoning models solve problems step-by-step, which allows them to perform better in domains such as physics, math and coding. Sam Altman, a representative of his company, posted on X that the first open model for years would be delayed until this summer.

Desperately Seeking: With the ability to ask a chatbot questions — often generated from news content that was taken without a publisher’s knowledge — people no longer need to click Google’s blue links. Publishers are hurt by this.

Cool? Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to create a “AI-powered” product, whatever that may be. As part of the agreement, Mattel employees get access to OpenAI’s tools like ChatGPT to “enhance creative ideation and product development.”

A privacy disaster: Reporter Amanda Silberling tested out the Meta AI app. She found that the app was publicly sharing people’s questions. “Meta doesn’t indicate to users where they are posting or what their privacy settings are.” If you log into Meta AI using Instagram, and if your Instagram account is publicly accessible, then your searches for ‘big booty woman’ are also public,” she writes.

iPad at work: iPadOS 26 brings new features to this 15-year-old tablet that could make it useful for a full workday.

Analysis

Recent headlines and posts have raised questions about Bluesky. From concerns about slowing down growth to claims that Bluesky is turning into a left leaning echo chamber, and that its users take themselves too seriously. These criticisms are part of the conversation but don’t give the whole picture. If left unchecked these perceptions could be a real threat to the platform’s growth in the future.