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Apple unfurled a proverbial middle finger at rivals after it revealed the new 2024 iPad Pro. I got a savage whiff of the M4 chip inside this premium tablet — and all I can think is, "If this is what the M4 can do for the iPad Pro, the next M4 MacBook is going to be a problem!" Credit: Joe Maldonado / Mashable And by "problem," I mean it'll be a thorn in the side for laptop manufacturers competing with MacBooks.

Apple claimed that the new 2024 iPad Air and iPad Pro models have a battery runtime of up to 10 hours, whether you're surfing the web via Wi-Fi or enjoying video playback. The 13-inch iPad Pro's battery life on the left and the 13-inch iPad Air's battery life on the right. Credit: Mashable / Apple So when we ran our TikTok rundown test on both 13-inch models in our possession — the iPad Pro and the iPad Air — we weren't expecting the tablets to last more than a typical work or school day. The "Space Black" 13-inch iPad Pro on the new Magic Keyboard. Credit: Joe Maldonado / Mashable As it turns out, both tablets last much longer than Apple's battery-life claims — especially the 13-inch iPad Pro — which had our jaws dropping to the floor.2024 iPad Pro and iPad Air battery-life results Mashable's battery life chart for iPad Pro and iPad Air Credit: Mashable composite; Apple Curious about how long the iPad Air lasts on a single charge, we ran a TikTok video continuously on a loop at 50-percent brightness until the tablet died. 13-inch iPad Air Credit: Joe Maldonado / Mashable To my surprise, the 13-inch iPad Air, now packed with the M2 chip, lasted three hours longer than expected, for an impressive battery runtime of 13 hours and 10 minutes.

I tested the new iPad Pro, packed with the new M4 chip, and I'm floored. Revealed at Apple's "Let Loose" livestream event, the iPad Pro skipped a whole generation of chips (i.e., the M3 series) in favor of the brand-spankin' new M4 chip. When Apple boasted that the M4 iPad Pro would deliver a significant gen-over-gen performance increase, I didn't really understand the gravity of the iPad Pro's uptick in processing prowess.

Today, OpenAI announced GPT-4o, an AI assistant that can process text, audio, and vision simultaneously. GPT4o will be free for all ChatGPT users, but the company hasn't been clear when folks will be able to try it out. All CEO Sam Altman has said is that this "new voice mode will be live in the coming weeks for plus users." SEE ALSO: OpenAI announces GPT-4o, a multimodal voice assistant that's free for all ChatGPT users What we do know is that GPT-4o will first be available to ChatGPT Plus and Team users, with availability for Enterprise users arriving after that.

OpenAI announced on Monday that ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot, would get a desktop app. But if you're a Windows user, don't get too excited — it'll just be for Macs, at least for the time being. The announcement came during a highly anticipated livestream, during which OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o, its new model that combines text, vision, and audio. SEE ALSO: OpenAI announces GPT-4o, a multimodal voice assistant that's free for all ChatGPT users The desktop app could prove useful for many people.

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