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Supreme Court denies Google's request to pause Play Store changes while it appeals Epic case

Supreme Court denies Google's request to pause Play Store changes while it appeals Epic case

Google's Chief Scientist of Quantum Hardware won the Nobel Prize in Physics, Mastodon is adding Bluesky-like starter packs, and California banned loud commercials on streaming platforms

OpenAI agrees to buy 'tens of billions' worth of AMD chips

Instagram will start handing out awards to select creators, Apple is bringing back Slide Over in iPadOS 26.1, and Evernote's biggest update since 2020 goes all in on AI

ICE is planning to create a surveillance team that hunts for leads on social media

Tesla insurance could lose its license for mishandling claims, OpenAI's first device could be delayed, and Discord users' IDs and data were compromised

FTC sues Zillow and accuses it of buying off rival Redfin

Apple removes ICEBlock from the App Store after the Trump administration's demand, Strava sues Garmin in a bizarre patent infringement lawsuit, and Threads is getting a 'communities' feature for better conversations

Meta will soon use AI chats for ad targeting

Is Amazon pitching law enforcement on its cloud services? FTC sues Zillow, and Saturn’s ocean moon looks more hospitable to subsurface life than we thought.

Amazon has a new smart remote that's completely programmable by Alexa+

Disney sent a cease and desist letter to Character.AI, OpenAI's Sora app is real but you'll need an invite to try it, and Daniel Ek is stepping down as Spotify CEO

Microsoft is trying to make 'vibe working' a thing

Alphabet will pay $22 million to settle President Trump’s YouTube lawsuit, OpenAI will reportedly release a TikTok-like social app, and Tile trackers reportedly have a security flaw

Apple reportedly made a ChatGPT-clone to test Siri's new capabilities

Apple may be nearing production for its M5 MacBooks, EA may go private with help from Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia, and Meta wants to become the Android of robotics

Amazon is paying $2.5 billion to settle FTC claims it duped customers into signing up for Prime

xAI accused OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets, Spotify addressing AI 'slop', and the EU told Apple it has "no intention" of repealing the DMA

Qualcomm says its new Snapdragon chips are 'the fastest and most efficient' for Windows PCs, Meta Lab pop-ups will let you try on the company's new smart glasses for yourself, and Proton Mail's redesigned mobile app is built for speed

Oakley Meta Vanguard are the smart glasses athletes might actually want

The Secret Service seized a network capable of shutting down NYC's cell service, Apple TV+ indefinitely delayed 'The Savant', and Microsoft claimed a 'breakthrough' in AI chip cooling

Stellantis confirms data breach involving customers' contact information

Meta is making its Llama AI models available to more governments, Google is turning Gemini into a gaming sidekick, and Facebook added an AI assistant to its dating app

Meta CTO explains the cause of its embarrassing smart glasses demo failures

Elon Musk's Neuralink plans a brain speech trial, BYD's all-electric hypercar hit a record-breaking speed, and the complicated Subnautica 2 lawsuit took a bizarre twist

Samsung’s very expensive Family Hub fridges will now treat you to ads on their displays

Meta will let outside developers create AI-powered apps for its smart glasses, the FTC is suing Ticketmaster, and a former Facebook lobbyist is now in charge of the EU's Facebook regulator

Trump's TikTok deal will give control to a group of US investors

Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses revealed at Connect 2025, Trump crypto advisor David Sacks being investigated over a possible SGE violation, and Google Discover to start showing social media posts and YouTube Shorts

Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal file joint lawsuit against generative AI app Hailuo

Tesla is being investigated over its electronic door handles, another lawsuit blames an AI company of complicity in a teenager's suicide, and LimeWire acquired Fyre Festival

A TikTok deal may finally be happening

China says NVIDIA's Mellanox acquisition violated antitrust law, New York details its plans for online age verification rules, and Early Access is the latest place where Steam is restricting games with mature themes

xAI reportedly laid off at least 500 AI tutors working on Grok

Google facing its first AI Overviews lawsuit from a major US publisher, California's age verification bill took another step forward, and Tesla's most affordable Cybertruck scrapped after five months

The FTC is investigating companies that make AI companion chatbots

The 'next phase' of Microsoft's and OpenAI's partnership, Grok claimed the Charlie Kirk assassination video was a 'meme edit', and Perplexity's definition of copyright gets it sued by the dictionary

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping

Amazon is reportedly developing separate AR glasses for customers and its drivers, HBO Max is going to get a lot more expensive, and Lyft launched an autonomous fleet with May Mobility in Atlanta

Everything announced at the iPhone 17 launch event

Is Microsoft planning to use Anthropic models to power some of Office 365's Copilot features? Plus, the FDA approved human trials for pig kidney transplants

Meta reportedly suppressed research about how dangerous its VR headsets are for kids

Judge rejected Anthropic's record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement for the AI copyright lawsuit, Vodafone is testing an AI 'actor', and Bluesky finally has a private bookmarking feature

Apple faces lawsuit over alleged use of pirated books for AI training

Apple's 'Awe Dropping' event preview, cut cables in the Red Sea disrupted Microsoft's Azure, and players of Silksong are complaining about confusing translations

Honda teases its first full-size e-motorcycle with fast charging

Big tech signed on to White House plan for AI education in US schools, Researchers found alarming overlaps among 18 popular VPNs, and Sesame Street's new partnership with YouTube will bring 'hundreds of full episodes' to the video platform

Samsung announces a pair of flashy new party speakers

Google ordered to pay $425 million in an app data collection lawsuit, OpenAI offers ChatGPT Projects to free users, and the largest illegal sports streaming service has been shut down

OpenAI is adding parental controls to ChatGPT