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There's a much faster way to access your iPhone app settings — try these shortcuts
There's a much faster way to access your iPhone app settings — try these shortcuts

Tom's Guide

time3 days ago

  • Tom's Guide

There's a much faster way to access your iPhone app settings — try these shortcuts

The Shortcuts app is easily overlooked. While it's capable of creating scripts to automate tasks and processes, it can initially seem overwhelmingly complex — enough that many may have written it off as an app just for pro users. But in reality, it's relatively straightforward, and more importantly, it's incredibly useful. In fact, it's now more useful than ever. If you've installed iOS 18.4 or later, you can gain single-tap control over certain Apple app settings without needing to open the apps themselves. These new actions are available for the Books, Calendar, Freeform, News, Reminders, Safari, Voice Memos, and Weather apps. Hopefully, this list will expand to include more — including third-party apps. For now, you can create a shortcut for a frequently used setting (such as turning on Optimize Storage in News or enabling Time to Leave in Calendar), place it on your Home Screen, and tap it to make an instant change. Let's see how it's done. To start the process of creating a settings shortcut, you need to launch the Shortcuts app and tap the + icon in the top-right corner. Next, you have to tell Shortcuts which app you want to work with. There are two ways of doing this. You can simply browse the list of apps — just tap an app you want to use bearing in mind that some apps won't let you set up a settings shortcut. Alternatively, type settings in the search box. This will list apps that definitely have associated settings shortcuts and it's generally the quickest approach. In either case, you need to tap an option called Change [app name] Settings related to the app you want to work with. You will see a customizable shortcut action. For example, if you selected Change Safari Settings then you'll see the action Turn AutoFill Use Contact Info Off. You will see text highlighted in blue. In our example, both Turn, AutoFill Use Contact Info and Off are highlighted in this way. You can tap any blue highlighted text and select an option from the dropdown menu. When you're finished, tap Done. Let's give an example. With Safari, you can tap Turn and change it to Toggle. You can select AutoFill Use Contact Info and choose from a large number of options from Block Pop-Ups and Close Tabs to Open Links and Search Engine. The action will change depending on the options you choose. For example, you could select Search Engine and the action will become Set Search Engine to Search Engine. If you then tap the second instance of Search Engine, you could choose from the likes of Google, Yahoo!, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia. The resulting shortcut would allow you to run an action that instantly changes the default search engine. It's worth playing around. You can run a shortcut from the Shortcuts app. You just need to tap the Shortcuts tab at the bottom of the screen and then select the shortcut you'd like to run from those that are listed. A shortcut can also be added to the iPhone's Home Screen and run with a simple tap. Doing so means you won't even need to launch an app to use it. To do this, find a shortcut in the Shortcuts app and long-press its title. Tap Details and select Add to Home Screen. And there you go. You now know how to create custom iPhone shortcuts to control settings without opening an app You may also find it handy to learn 7 iOS Shortcuts that will transform how you use your iPhone and, should your iPhone come into contact with water, check out how to order Siri to eject water from your iPhone. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Shortcuts can also be assigned to the Action button, so check out how to set it up.

Apple targets spring 2026 for release of delayed Siri AI upgrade
Apple targets spring 2026 for release of delayed Siri AI upgrade

IOL News

time7 days ago

  • IOL News

Apple targets spring 2026 for release of delayed Siri AI upgrade

Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, from left, John Giannandrea, senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy, and Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering. Image: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Apple has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, marking a key step in its artificial intelligence turnaround effort. The company's Siri team is aiming to bring the revamped voice assistant to market as part of an iOS 26.4 software update, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The long-promised changes will allow Siri to tap into consumers' personal data and on-screen activities in order to better fulfill queries. Apple's '.4' updates - known as 'E' on the company's internal software development schedule - are typically released in March. That was the case with iOS 18.4 this year and iOS 17.4 in 2024. But an exact date hasn't been set internally for the software, beyond a spring time frame, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the work is private. Apple, in response to a request for comment, said it hasn't announced exact timing for the new Siri features. It reiterated earlier statements that the upgrades are planned for the 'coming year.' The timeline could still shift depending on whether new snags emerge. If the next several weeks of development work proves promising, the company could consider giving a preview of the features when it launches the next iPhones in the fall, one of the people said, though no final decisions have been made. The upgrade has been a long time coming. Apple originally introduced the next-generation Siri features at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June of last year. The idea was to modernize the voice assistant - first introduced in 2011 - which hasn't kept pace with chatbots and other AI tools. Video Player is loading. 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Advertisement Next Stay Close ✕ Ad loading The technology in the works also includes a system called App Intents that allows Siri to more precisely control applications and in-app actions across Apple devices. If the latest release timing sticks, Apple will have gone nearly two years between announcing the new Siri and delivering it to customers. It's been an especially high-profile delay because the capabilities were part of the iPhone 16 marketing last year - despite the new Siri not being close to ready. Internally, Apple's AI and marketing teams have pointed fingers at each other. The engineering side has blamed marketing for overhyping features, while marketing maintains it operated on timelines provided to them by the company's AI teams, according to people with knowledge of the matter. There also remains a debate over how much AI functionality Apple should be building itself and how much it should push off to partners like OpenAI. And the company has held internal discussions about buying smaller AI-related startups. Within Apple, the original goal was to have the Siri features ready in the fall of 2024, alongside the new iPhone. The target then shifted to spring 2025. The company had privately expected a rollout as part of iOS 18.4, before moving the target again to May with iOS 18.5. By March, the company postponed the features indefinitely, saying at the time they wouldn't arrive until sometime in the coming year. The delays stemmed from engineering snags that kept the technology from working properly a third of the time, Bloomberg News reported earlier this year. A key technical challenge: Siri's brain was essentially split in half for iOS 18. Apple used an existing system for common tasks, such as setting timers and making calls, and a newer-generation platform for upgraded Siri features. Combining the two architectures led to bugs, necessitating Siri to be rebuilt entirely. The issues set off a firestorm within Apple, leading to the company's senior vice president of AI, John Giannandrea, being stripped of all consumer-facing product oversight. That included his management of Siri and Apple's secretive robotics unit. At the company's latest developer event this week, Giannandrea kept a low profile. It was a shift from the previous year, when he spoke in a number of press interviews about the Apple Intelligence platform and the company's AI work. He's also become less influential internally, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Some executives believe he should be squarely focused on underlying AI research, which is seen as his strength. He continues to oversee development of large language models - the basis of generative AI - and testing of AI technology. Engineering for the voice assistant was taken over by Vision Pro headset creator Mike Rockwell and software engineering chief Craig Federighi. Both executives played key roles in the company's latest software announcements at WWDC. Rockwell is now leading work on Siri LLM, the internal name for the new underlying system to power the service and enable the delayed features. While Apple announced a sweeping design overhaul for all of its platforms this week, it didn't introduce major in-house AI features beyond opening its large language models to developers and adding live translation to calls and text messages. It also didn't introduce or demonstrate Siri features, though Federighi did address the delay. 'This work needed more time to reach our high quality bar, and we look forward to sharing more about it in the coming year,' he said at the beginning of the roughly 90-minute presentation. Federighi and other executives also sought to downplay the company's struggles in AI, saying that the postponed Siri features were just a part of a broader push and that success in AI will be determined over the next several years. The reality, though, is that the delays have already had repercussions. The technology was part of a planned smart home hub that has now been pushed back as well, keeping Apple from moving into a new product category, Bloomberg has reported. The home hub is a screen-based device that can be affixed to walls or placed on a desk. The operating system for the product relies heavily on the new Siri features - and the software delays forced Apple to indefinitely postpone a hardware release that had been set for March. The larger concern is how Apple's still-nascent push into AI will affect future hardware categories. The company wants to launch smart glasses next year featuring AI-enhanced cameras that can scan the surrounding environment. But as of now, it's still reliant on OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.'s Google for image analysis. For further in the future, the company has been working on an even more ambitious Siri revamp. This would turn the assistant into an always-on device copilot that's more conversational. Apple also has teams exploring a chatbot-like app dubbed Knowledge that can tap into the open web.

Apple targets spring 2026 for release of delayed upgrade of Siri AI
Apple targets spring 2026 for release of delayed upgrade of Siri AI

Business Standard

time13-06-2025

  • Business Standard

Apple targets spring 2026 for release of delayed upgrade of Siri AI

Apple Inc. has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, marking a key step in its artificial intelligence turnaround effort. The company's Siri team is aiming to bring the revamped voice assistant to market as part of an iOS 26.4 software update, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The long-promised changes will allow Siri to tap into consumers' personal data and on-screen activities in order to better fulfill queries. Apple's '.4' updates — known as 'E' on the company's internal software development schedule — are typically released in March. That was the case with iOS 18.4 this year and iOS 17.4 in 2024. But an exact date hasn't been set internally for the software, beyond a spring time frame, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the work is private. Apple, in response to a request for comment, said it hasn't announced exact timing for the new Siri features. It reiterated earlier statements that the upgrades are planned for the 'coming year.' The timeline could still shift depending on whether new snags emerge. If the next several weeks of development work proves promising, the company could consider giving a preview of the features when it launches the next iPhones in the fall, one of the people said, though no final decisions have been made. The upgrade has been a long time coming. Apple originally introduced the next-generation Siri features at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June of last year. The idea was to modernize the voice assistant — first introduced in 2011 — which hasn't kept pace with chatbots and other AI tools. The technology in the works also includes a system called App Intents that allows Siri to more precisely control applications and in-app actions across Apple devices. If the latest release timing sticks, Apple will have gone nearly two years between announcing the new Siri and delivering it to customers. It's been an especially high-profile delay because the capabilities were part of the iPhone 16 marketing last year — despite the new Siri not being close to ready. Internally, Apple's AI and marketing teams have pointed fingers at each other. The engineering side has blamed marketing for overhyping features, while marketing maintains it operated on timelines provided to them by the company's AI teams, according to people with knowledge of the matter. There also remains a debate over how much AI functionality Apple should be building itself and how much it should push off to partners like OpenAI. And the company has held internal discussions about buying smaller AI-related startups. Within Apple, the original goal was to have the Siri features ready in the fall of 2024, alongside the new iPhone. The target then shifted to spring 2025. The company had privately expected a rollout as part of iOS 18.4, before moving the target again to May with iOS 18.5. By March, the company postponed the features indefinitely, saying at the time they wouldn't arrive until sometime in the coming year. The delays stemmed from engineering snags that kept the technology from working properly a third of the time, Bloomberg News reported earlier this year. A key technical challenge: Siri's brain was essentially split in half for iOS 18. Apple used an existing system for common tasks, such as setting timers and making calls, and a newer-generation platform for upgraded Siri features. Combining the two architectures led to bugs, necessitating Siri to be rebuilt entirely. The issues set off a firestorm within Apple, leading to the company's senior vice president of AI, John Giannandrea, being stripped of all consumer-facing product oversight. That included his management of Siri and Apple's secretive robotics unit. At the company's latest developer event this week, Giannandrea kept a low profile. It was a shift from the previous year, when he spoke in a number of press interviews about the Apple Intelligence platform and the company's AI work. He's also become less influential internally, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Some executives believe he should be squarely focused on underlying AI research, which is seen as his strength. He continues to oversee development of large language models — the basis of generative AI — and testing of AI technology. Engineering for the voice assistant was taken over by Vision Pro headset creator Mike Rockwell and software engineering chief Craig Federighi. Both executives played key roles in the company's latest software announcements at WWDC. Rockwell is now leading work on Siri LLM, the internal name for the new underlying system to power the service and enable the delayed features. While Apple announced a sweeping design overhaul for all of its platforms this week, it didn't introduce major in-house AI features beyond opening its large language models to developers and adding live translation to calls and text messages. It also didn't introduce or demonstrate Siri features, though Federighi did address the delay. 'This work needed more time to reach our high quality bar, and we look forward to sharing more about it in the coming year,' he said at the beginning of the roughly 90-minute presentation. Federighi and other executives also sought to downplay the company's struggles in AI, saying that the postponed Siri features were just a part of a broader push and that success in AI will be determined over the next several years. The reality, though, is that the delays have already had repercussions. The technology was part of a planned smart home hub that has now been pushed back as well, keeping Apple from moving into a new product category, Bloomberg has reported. The home hub is a screen-based device that can be affixed to walls or placed on a desk. The operating system for the product relies heavily on the new Siri features — and the software delays forced Apple to indefinitely postpone a hardware release that had been set for March. The larger concern is how Apple's still-nascent push into AI will affect future hardware categories. The company wants to launch smart glasses next year featuring AI-enhanced cameras that can scan the surrounding environment. But as of now, it's still reliant on OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.'s Google for image analysis. For further in the future, the company has been working on an even more ambitious Siri revamp. This would turn the assistant into an always-on device copilot that's more conversational. Apple also has teams exploring a chatbot-like app dubbed Knowledge that can tap into the open web. The chatbot project is being led by Robby Walker. He previously ran the team developing Siri, until it was removed from his responsibilities during the shake-up earlier this year. That has spurred concerns within the company over whether his team is up to the latest challenge, Bloomberg has reported.

Apple targets spring 2026 for release of delayed Siri AI upgrade
Apple targets spring 2026 for release of delayed Siri AI upgrade

The Star

time13-06-2025

  • The Star

Apple targets spring 2026 for release of delayed Siri AI upgrade

Apple Inc has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, marking a key step in its artificial intelligence turnaround effort. The company's Siri team is aiming to bring the revamped voice assistant to market as part of an iOS 26.4 software update, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The long-promised changes will allow Siri to tap into consumers' personal data and on-screen activities in order to better fulfill queries. Apple's ".4' updates – known as "E' on the company's internal software development schedule – are typically released in March. That was the case with iOS 18.4 this year and iOS 17.4 in 2024. But an exact date hasn't been set internally for the software, beyond a spring time frame, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the work is private. Apple, in response to a request for comment, said it hasn't announced exact timing for the new Siri features. It reiterated earlier statements that the upgrades are planned for the "coming year.' The timeline could still shift depending on whether new snags emerge. If the next several weeks of development work proves promising, the company could consider giving a preview of the features when it launches the next iPhones in the fall, one of the people said, though no final decisions have been made. The upgrade has been a long time coming. Apple originally introduced the next-generation Siri features at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June of last year. The idea was to modernise the voice assistant – first introduced in 2011 – which hasn't kept pace with chatbots and other AI tools. The technology in the works also includes a system called App Intents that allows Siri to more precisely control applications and in-app actions across Apple devices. If the latest release timing sticks, Apple will have gone nearly two years between announcing the new Siri and delivering it to customers. It's been an especially high-profile delay because the capabilities were part of the iPhone 16 marketing last year – despite the new Siri not being close to ready. Internally, Apple's AI and marketing teams have pointed fingers at each other. The engineering side has blamed marketing for overhyping features, while marketing maintains it operated on timelines provided to them by the company's AI teams, according to people with knowledge of the matter. There also remains a debate over how much AI functionality Apple should be building itself and how much it should push off to partners like OpenAI. And the company has held internal discussions about buying smaller AI-related startups. Within Apple, the original goal was to have the Siri features ready in the fall of 2024, alongside the new iPhone. The target then shifted to spring 2025. The company had privately expected a rollout as part of iOS 18.4, before moving the target again to May with iOS 18.5. By March, the company postponed the features indefinitely, saying at the time they wouldn't arrive until sometime in the coming year. The delays stemmed from engineering snags that kept the technology from working properly a third of the time, Bloomberg News reported earlier this year. A key technical challenge: Siri's brain was essentially split in half for iOS 18. Apple used an existing system for common tasks, such as setting timers and making calls, and a newer-generation platform for upgraded Siri features. Combining the two architectures led to bugs, necessitating Siri to be rebuilt entirely. The issues set off a firestorm within Apple, leading to the company's senior vice president of AI, John Giannandrea, being stripped of all consumer-facing product oversight. That included his management of Siri and Apple's secretive robotics unit. At the company's latest developer event this week, Giannandrea kept a low profile. It was a shift from the previous year, when he spoke in a number of press interviews about the Apple Intelligence platform and the company's AI work. He's also become less influential internally, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Some executives believe he should be squarely focused on underlying AI research, which is seen as his strength. He continues to oversee development of large language models – the basis of generative AI – and testing of AI technology. Engineering for the voice assistant was taken over by Vision Pro headset creator Mike Rockwell and software engineering chief Craig Federighi. Both executives played key roles in the company's latest software announcements at WWDC. Rockwell is now leading work on Siri LLM, the internal name for the new underlying system to power the service and enable the delayed features. While Apple announced a sweeping design overhaul for all of its platforms this week, it didn't introduce major in-house AI features beyond opening its large language models to developers and adding live translation to calls and text messages. It also didn't introduce or demonstrate Siri features, though Federighi did address the delay. "This work needed more time to reach our high quality bar, and we look forward to sharing more about it in the coming year,' he said at the beginning of the roughly 90-minute presentation. Federighi and other executives also sought to downplay the company's struggles in AI, saying that the postponed Siri features were just a part of a broader push and that success in AI will be determined over the next several years. The reality, though, is that the delays have already had repercussions. The technology was part of a planned smart home hub that has now been pushed back as well, keeping Apple from moving into a new product category, Bloomberg has reported. The home hub is a screen-based device that can be affixed to walls or placed on a desk. The operating system for the product relies heavily on the new Siri features – and the software delays forced Apple to indefinitely postpone a hardware release that had been set for March. The larger concern is how Apple's still-nascent push into AI will affect future hardware categories. The company wants to launch smart glasses next year featuring AI-enhanced cameras that can scan the surrounding environment. But as of now, it's still reliant on OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.'s Google for image analysis. For further in the future, the company has been working on an even more ambitious Siri revamp. This would turn the assistant into an always-on device copilot that's more conversational. Apple also has teams exploring a chatbot-like app dubbed Knowledge that can tap into the open web. The chatbot project is being led by Robby Walker. He previously ran the team developing Siri, until it was removed from his responsibilities during the shake-up earlier this year. That has spurred concerns within the company over whether his team is up to the latest challenge, Bloomberg has reported. – Bloomberg

Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade
Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade

Yahoo

time12-06-2025

  • Business
  • Yahoo

Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade

(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, marking a key step in its artificial intelligence turnaround effort. Shuttered NY College Has Alumni Fighting Over Its Future Trump's Military Parade Has Washington Bracing for Tanks and Weaponry NYC Renters Brace for Price Hikes After Broker-Fee Ban Do World's Fairs Still Matter? NY Long Island Rail Service Resumes After Grand Central Fire The company's Siri team is aiming to bring the revamped voice assistant to market as part of an iOS 26.4 software update, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The long-promised changes will allow Siri to tap into consumers' personal data and on-screen activities in order to better fulfill queries. Apple's '.4' updates — known as 'E' on the company's internal software development schedule — are typically released in March. That was the case with iOS 18.4 this year and iOS 17.4 in 2024. But an exact date hasn't been set internally for the software, beyond a spring time frame, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the work is private. Apple, in response to a request for comment, said it hasn't announced exact timing for the new Siri features. It reiterated earlier statements that the upgrades are planned for the 'coming year.' The timeline could still shift depending on whether new snags emerge. If the next several weeks of development work proves promising, the company could consider giving a preview of the features when it launches the next iPhones in the fall, one of the people said, though no final decisions have been made. The upgrade has been a long time coming. Apple originally introduced the next-generation Siri features at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June of last year. The idea was to modernize the voice assistant — first introduced in 2011 — which hasn't kept pace with chatbots and other AI tools. The technology in the works also includes a system called App Intents that allows Siri to more precisely control applications and in-app actions across Apple devices. If the latest release timing sticks, Apple will have gone nearly two years between announcing the new Siri and delivering it to customers. It's been an especially high-profile delay because the capabilities were part of the iPhone 16 marketing last year — despite the new Siri not being close to ready. Internally, Apple's AI and marketing teams have pointed fingers at each other. The engineering side has blamed marketing for overhyping features, while marketing maintains it operated on timelines provided to them by the company's AI teams, according to people with knowledge of the matter. There also remains a debate over how much AI functionality Apple should be building itself and how much it should push off to partners like OpenAI. And the company has held internal discussions about buying smaller AI-related startups. Within Apple, the original goal was to have the Siri features ready in the fall of 2024, alongside the new iPhone. The target then shifted to spring 2025. The company had privately expected a rollout as part of iOS 18.4, before moving the target again to May with iOS 18.5. By March, the company postponed the features indefinitely, saying at the time they wouldn't arrive until sometime in the coming year. The delays stemmed from engineering snags that kept the technology from working properly a third of the time, Bloomberg News reported earlier this year. A key technical challenge: Siri's brain was essentially split in half for iOS 18. Apple used an existing system for common tasks, such as setting timers and making calls, and a newer-generation platform for upgraded Siri features. Combining the two architectures led to bugs, necessitating Siri to be rebuilt entirely. The issues set off a firestorm within Apple, leading to the company's senior vice president of AI, John Giannandrea, being stripped of all consumer-facing product oversight. That included his management of Siri and Apple's secretive robotics unit. At the company's latest developer event this week, Giannandrea kept a low profile. It was a shift from the previous year, when he spoke in a number of press interviews about the Apple Intelligence platform and the company's AI work. He's also become less influential internally, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Some executives believe he should be squarely focused on underlying AI research, which is seen as his strength. He continues to oversee development of large language models — the basis of generative AI — and testing of AI technology. Engineering for the voice assistant was taken over by Vision Pro headset creator Mike Rockwell and software engineering chief Craig Federighi. Both executives played key roles in the company's latest software announcements at WWDC. Rockwell is now leading work on Siri LLM, the internal name for the new underlying system to power the service and enable the delayed features. While Apple announced a sweeping design overhaul for all of its platforms this week, it didn't introduce major in-house AI features beyond opening its large language models to developers and adding live translation to calls and text messages. It also didn't introduce or demonstrate Siri features, though Federighi did address the delay. 'This work needed more time to reach our high quality bar, and we look forward to sharing more about it in the coming year,' he said at the beginning of the roughly 90-minute presentation. Federighi and other executives also sought to downplay the company's struggles in AI, saying that the postponed Siri features were just a part of a broader push and that success in AI will be determined over the next several years. The reality, though, is that the delays have already had repercussions. The technology was part of a planned smart home hub that has now been pushed back as well, keeping Apple from moving into a new product category, Bloomberg has reported. The home hub is a screen-based device that can be affixed to walls or placed on a desk. The operating system for the product relies heavily on the new Siri features — and the software delays forced Apple to indefinitely postpone a hardware release that had been set for March. The larger concern is how Apple's still-nascent push into AI will affect future hardware categories. The company wants to launch smart glasses next year featuring AI-enhanced cameras that can scan the surrounding environment. But as of now, it's still reliant on OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.'s Google for image analysis. For further in the future, the company has been working on an even more ambitious Siri revamp. This would turn the assistant into an always-on device copilot that's more conversational. Apple also has teams exploring a chatbot-like app dubbed Knowledge that can tap into the open web. The chatbot project is being led by Robby Walker. He previously ran the team developing Siri, until it was removed from his responsibilities during the shake-up earlier this year. That has spurred concerns within the company over whether his team is up to the latest challenge, Bloomberg has reported. American Mid: Hampton Inn's Good-Enough Formula for World Domination New Grads Join Worst Entry-Level Job Market in Years The Spying Scandal Rocking the World of HR Software US Tariffs Threaten to Derail Vietnam's Historic Industrial Boom The SEC Pinned Its Hack on a Few Hapless Day Traders. The Full Story Is Far More Troubling ©2025 Bloomberg L.P. Sign in to access your portfolio

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