“Our first AI-native product ships next month. It’s a tool, but one built with the personality and care that have come to define a Nothing product. It has no new screen, and it couldn’t have been an app.”
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Apple will check shared iCloud links for ‘harmful content’
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Published 11/4/2026 12:23:37 PM
Apple will check shared iCloud links for ‘harmful content’
If you make an item on iCloud available to anyone who has the link, Apple will be able to check it starting with iOS 27.3.
If you make an item on iCloud available to anyone who has the link, Apple will be able to check it starting with iOS 27.3.
is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.
Apple will start checking iCloud items that are accessible to anyone who has the link for “harmful content” starting with iOS 27.3 and other 27.3 updates, the company says.
“When you share an item that can be accessed by Anyone with the Link in version 27.3 or later of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS, that content is made accessible to Apple to check for harmful content,” according to a support document reported on by 9to5Mac. Sharing something over iCloud with the “Anyone with the Link” permissions will also mean that it’s no longer end-to-end encrypted.
Apple’s support document does not define what “harmful content” is. But this new approach follows calls from protestors for Apple to crack down on child sexual abuse material stored in iCloud.
Apple says it “reserves the right to move, refuse, modify, remove, or delete” any harmful content that a user attempts to upload. Apple may also block or disable accounts, prevent a user from making a new account, or, “if necessary,” invoke law enforcement.
The company launched the first 27.3 developer betas yesterday, and said recently it plans to launch iOS 27.3 in December.
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CEO Carl Pei says Nothing’s first ‘AI-native’ device ‘couldn’t have been an app.’
CEO Carl Pei says Nothing’s first ‘AI-native’ device ‘couldn’t have been an app.’
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Nothing CEO Carl Pei said in a post on X that the company’s launching its first AI device in December. That’s just a little over a year after Pei announced plans for “AI-native” devices and an AI operating system. He didn’t give away much about what exactly the new device is, only that one feature it won’t have is a screen:
Pei shared an image with the post that says “NOTHING(R)” in the top left corner, above an ambiguous black rounded corner. Last month, a rumor claimed Nothing is planning to launch two pairs of AI smart glasses, including one without cameras, and an earlier rumor said it’s “repositioning itself as an AI-first company” with a shift to AI accessories.
Image: Nothing
Nothing’s AI device wouldn’t be the first screen-free AI gadget, following the likes of the Humane AI pin, the Friend, and even AI stuffed animals. OpenAI is also reportedly working on an AI smart speaker with Jony Ive. Pei alluded to earlier AI devices, saying, “the whole industry is hunting for its iPhone moment: the pendant, the pin, the glasses, the companion, some magical consumer device that makes AI part of everyone’s life.” He added, “Looking for the iPhone of AI today is a dead end.”
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