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Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case

But Sweeney warns iOS devs are still afraid of “totally illegal” retaliation by Apple.

An update to Google’s Live with Search feature.

The tool, which lets you have voice conversations in AI Mode in the Google app, now uses Google’s newest Gemini model for native audio, which means that responses are “more fluid and expressive than ever before,” the company says. You can hear an example in this video.

With iOS 26.2, Apple lets you roll back Liquid Glass again — this time on the Lock Screen

Your iPhone clock doesn't have to be so "glassy" anymore, thanks to a new Apple software update.

A Kinect for kids is outselling Xbox to become the hot toy this holiday

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How OpenAI is using GPT-5 Codex to improve the AI tool itself

“The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex,” OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent.

AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world

Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment.

A brief history of Sam Altman’s hype

Here’s how pinning a utopian vision for AI on LLMs kicked off the hype cycle that’s causing fears of a bubble today.

AI might not be coming for lawyers’ jobs anytime soon

Generative AI might have aced the bar exam, but an LLM still can’t think like a lawyer.

Grok got crucial facts wrong about Bondi Beach shooting

Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI and popularized on his social media platform X, appears to have repeatedly spread misinformation about today’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia.

iRobot files for bankruptcy

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DoorDash driver faces felony charges after allegedly spraying customers’ food

A woman is facing felony charges in Evansville, Indiana over a DoorDash delivery in which she allegedly sprayed the food with a substance that made the customers vomit.

Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs

It's a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life