iOS 18.4 is coming soon, as the company released the RC (Release Candidate) build to developers and beta testers on Monday. In addition to the features we already know about, such as Priority Notifications and the expansion of Visual Intelligence, the update also comes with a new API for sports apps in CarPlay.Sports apps can now take advantage of new CarPlay APIApple didnt make a big announcement about the new API. Instead, it was quietly revealed on a new documentation page on the Apple Developer website. Named CPNowPlayingModeSports, Apple describes the API as a sports mode for CarPlay, which adapts the layout of the Now Playing screen to sporting events.Interestingly, Apple says that the API only works for events with exactly two teams. Thats because apps using this API will be able to show information about each team on the left and right sides of the screen, with a large colorful image for the background.The sports mode represents a layout for now playing suited to live-streaming or recorded playback of a sporting event that features exactly two teams, the API description reads.Since were talking about a new API, its now up to the developers to adopt it in their apps so that we can see it in action. The API requires an iPhone running iOS 18.4. For developers, it requires Xcode 16.3 RC or later.This isnt the only change coming to CarPlay with iOS 18.4. The update also adds a third row of icons in cars with larger displays. In addition, Apple Maps EV routing will now have knowledge of the fact that certain cars can charge at Tesla NACS stations.According to Apple, iOS 18.4 will be released to the public in early April.Gadgets I recommend:Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

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Image: Gemma Smith / Nintendo LifeNintendo has been regularly updating its Nintendo Music app with different soundtracks but this week it's slightly differentFollowing the addition of multiple albums last week, today we're getting just part of an album. It's 23 tracks from the recent Switch title Kirby and the Forgotten Land - with the rest of the game's songs scheduled to arrive on the app "later this year".Here's the official notice about this:"Twenty-three of the game's tracks are here today, and the rest are coming later this year!"Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube800kWatch on YouTube Nintendo hasn't explained why exactly it's doing this, but this is the first time an update has included a notice like this. The Kirby and the Forgotten Land "complete" soundtrack contains over 100 songs, so this initial drop is a warm up ahead of the full album drop.Here's what you can listen to in the first part of this update:Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo Switch)Ready to Go!Running Through the New WorldA Trip to Alivel MallVS. Dangerous BeastAbandoned BeachWelcome to WondariaWaddle Dee TownWaddle Dee's Weapons ShopLunch Rush! A Wave of WaddlesSword of the Surviving GuardianNortheast Frost StreetRoar of the DededeMoonlight CanyonEnter the Fiery Forbidden LandsBurning, Churning Power PlantMasked and Wild: D.D.D.The Dream Discoveries TourThe Raging Lion RoarsElfilinTwo Planets Approach the Roche LimitA Full-Speed Farewell from the New WorldSoaring Determination: No Night Is EternalWelcome to the New World! (Full)To listen to this latest album update, you'll need to have an active Switch Online subscription and have downloaded this app to your mobile device. It follows on from Nintendo's addition of two Tetris soundtracks and a Dr. Mario album last week. A celebration of classic puzzle gamesA mobile music app exclusive to Switch Online membersFinally!What are your thoughts about Nintendo releasing just some of this soundtrack today? Let us know in the comments.Related GamesSee AlsoShare:00 Liam is a news writer and reviewer for Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox. He's been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario and Master Chief. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...Related ArticlesNintendo Expands Switch Online's SNES Library With Four More TitlesArriving next weekReminder: Nintendo Is Removing A Switch Online SNES Game Next WeekPlay 'Super Soccer' on the subscription service before it's goneNintendo Music Drops Three More Albums, Here's Every Song IncludedA celebration of classic puzzle gamesGallery: Xenoblade Chronicles X Celebrates Switch Launch With Stunning Character ArtworkNew Switch Online icons also availableReview: Donkey Kong (GB) - One Of The Game Boy's Very BestIt's on with the King of the Kongs

OpenAI released updates Monday for Advanced Voice Mode, its AI voice feature that enables real-time conversations in ChatGPT, to make the AI assistant more personable and interrupt users less frequently.Manuka Stratta, an OpenAI post-training researcher, announced the changes in a video posted Monday to the companys official social media channels.OpenAIs latest update aims to address a frequent problem with AI voice assistants, which will interrupt users when they pause to think or take a deep breath. Free users of ChatGPT now have access to a new version of Advanced Voice Mode that lets users pause, without being interrupted, when speaking to the AI assistant. Paying users of ChatGPT including subscribers to OpenAIs Plus, Teams, Edu, Business, and Pro tiers will also now get less frequent interruptions when using Advanced Voice Mode, as well as an improved personality for the voice assistant.An OpenAI spokesperson tells TechCrunch its new AI voice assistant for paying users is more direct, engaging, concise, specific, and creative in its answers.The improvements to Advanced Voice Mode come amid intense pressure from competitors in the AI voice assistant space. Sesame an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup created by Oculus cofounder Brendan Iribe recently went viral for its natural-sounding AI voice assistants, Maya and Miles. Larger players are also stepping more aggressively into the AI voice assistant space, such as Amazon, which is readying the release of its LLM-powered version of Alexa.

The Arc Prize Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by prominent AI researcher Franois Chollet, announced in a blog post on Monday that it has created a new, challenging test to measure the general intelligence of leading AI models.So far, the new test, called ARC-AGI-2, has stumped most models.Reasoning AI models like OpenAIs o1-pro and DeepSeeks R1 score between 1% and 1.3% on ARC-AGI-2, according to the Arc Prize leaderboard. Powerful non-reasoning models including GPT-4.5, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Gemini 2.0 Flash score around 1%.The ARC-AGI tests consist of puzzle-like problems where an AI has to identify visual patterns from a collection of different-colored squares, and generate the correct answer grid. The problems were designed to force an AI to adapt to new problems it hasnt seen before. The Arc Prize Foundation had over 400 people take ARC-AGI-2 to establish a human baseline. On average, panels of these people got 60% of the tests questions right much better than any of the models scores.a sample question from Arc-AGI-2 (credit: Arc Prize).In a post on X, Chollet claimed ARC-AGI-2 is a better measure of an AI models actual intelligence than the first iteration of the test, ARC-AGI-1. The Arc Prize Foundations tests are aimed at evaluating whether an AI system can efficiently acquire new skills outside the data it was trained on.Chollet said that unlike ARC-AGI-1, the new test prevents AI models from relying on brute force extensive computing power to find solutions. Chollet previously acknowledged this was a major flaw of ARC-AGI-1.To address the first tests flaws, ARC-AGI-2 introduces a new metric: efficiency. It also requires models to interpret patterns on the fly instead of relying on memorization.Intelligence is not solely defined by the ability to solve problems or achieve high scores, Arc Prize Foundation co-founder Greg Kamradt wrote in a blog post. The efficiency with which those capabilities are acquired and deployed is a crucial, defining component. The core question being asked is not just, Can AI acquire [the] skill to solve a task? but also, At what efficiency or cost?ARC-AGI-1 was unbeaten for roughly five years until December 2024, when OpenAI released its advanced reasoning model, o3, which outperformed all other AI models and matched human performance on the evaluation. However, as we noted at the time, o3s performance gains on ARC-AGI-1 came with a hefty price tag.The version of OpenAIs o3 model o3 (low) that was first to reach new heights on ARC-AGI-1, scoring 75.7% on the test, got a measly 4% on ARC-AGI-2 using $200 worth of computing power per task.Comparison of Frontier AI model performance on ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2 (credit: Arc Prize).The arrival of ARC-AGI-2 comes as many in the tech industry are calling for new, unsaturated benchmarks to measure AI progress. Hugging Faces co-founder, Thomas Wolf, recently told TechCrunch that the AI industry lacks sufficient tests to measure the key traits of so-called artificial general intelligence, including creativity.Alongside the new benchmark, the Arc Prize Foundation announced a new Arc Prize 2025 contest, challenging developers to reach 85% accuracy on the ARC-AGI-2 test while only spending $0.42 per task.