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-The suit was filed on Friday in Seattle and accused Amazon of profiting "hundreds of millions of dollars in unlawful tariff costs." -OpenAI announced a "world's first partnership" with the country of Malta. -A $3 Mac app that hit the App Store this weekend aims to solve a very specific, but very common problem: accidental inputs from cats walking, sitting and sprawling out on keyboards. Learn mor...

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-Security researchers from a Palo Alto-based company called Calif claim they were able to breach macOS after designing a privilege escalation exploit with help from Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview. -Grok Build is still in its early beta version that's initially only available to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers paying $300 per month for the service. -Netflix has launched a new studio called INKubator...

Plus - Sony has launched a new flagship phone; Galaxy 26 owners can test drive One UI 9, built on Android 17. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Lobbying by tech industry groups, the Science Based Targets initiative decided to not recommend a protocol that would have made it more difficult for tech companies to use clean energy investments to offset fossil fuel pollution. -To date, Apple has not permitted vibe coding tools on the App Store because they would violate its policies. -Reuters reported that Meta's workers have begun circulatin...

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-The lawsuit says that on May 31, 2025, "ChatGPT actively coached a 19-year old to mix Kratom and Xanax." Despite presenting itself as an expert in dosing and interactions, and despite acknowledging his state of being high, ChatGPT did not tell him that this recommended combination would likely kill him.” -Santa Clara County has become the latest entity to sue Meta over scam ads on Facebook and In...

NBC has greenlit a primetime game show based on Wordle, set to be produced by Jimmy Fallon's Electric Hot Dog, Universal Television Alternative Studio and The New York Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-OpenAI has just launched Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative that's clearly the company's competitor to Anthropic's Project Glasswing. - Digg CEO Kevin Rose said, "the internet has more noise than ever, and the people who can sort signal from it have never been more valuable. Digg's job is to find that signal and bring it to you." -GameStop may take the offer directly to eBay's shareholders or r...

Plus - Boox announces Tappy, a wireless page-turning remote; Sony wants TSMC's help to make image sensors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-TikTok announced that an ad-free option will roll out to UK users over the coming months, available to anyone with an account who is 18 or older. The monthly subscription will cost £4 ($5.40) per month. -The big change is that Samsung is adding support for Google Gemini, which has several important implications. By combining Samsung's existing on-device object recognition with Google's cloud-base...

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-ShinyHunters, the extortion group that infiltrated cloud-based educational tech provider Instructure, claims to have stolen data from 8,809 schools around the world. -Nintendo is raising the price of its Switch 2 by $50 to $500 in the US as it faces higher memory costs and US tariffs. -According to an Axios report, rather than asking users to swipe right or left on a profile to confirm their inte...

Google is continuing to revamp its smart home app and the latest change includes an update to the camera experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The most common type of fainting called vasovagal syncope is normally not dangerous in itself, but it can cause sudden falls that results in severe secondary injuries like concussions. -Snap's $400 million deal with Perplexity to put the AI search engine directly in Snapchat is dead -The company behind the long-running space sim Eve Online has entered into a partnership with Google in which the s...

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-The Information reported that Anthropic has agreed to pay a staggering $200 billion to Google over the next five years. -Irish regulators have opened two investigations into Meta over whether the company is sufficiently complying with a European law requiring platforms to offer users alternatives to targeted algorithmic feeds. -Pennsylvania is suing AI startup Character. AI for offering chatbots...

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-The New York Times reports that the White House may create a new working group to oversee AI development. -Smartphone bans in the classroom might not be the panacea that governments and school administrations want them to be. -Colin Angle, the guy who co-founded iRobot and helped put robot vacuums in millions of homes, just unveiled his new venture called Familiar Machines & Magic and it's making...

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-OpenAI introduced AI-generated pets to the Codex app, its agentic tool that helps with coding. -Meta has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup company that's building artificial intelligence for robots in order to "address critical challenges" in "high-value labor markets." -On Friday, Reuters reported that AI-generated acting and writing won't be eligible for Academy Awards. The new ru...

Plus - Google has begun rolling out an update that gives its chatbot the ability to generate files directly from the prompt bar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple will reportedly introduce new AI editing tools that will let users extend the background of photos, enhance image quality and reframe images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-Google has signed a deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for "any lawful government purpose." -Snapchat rolled out AI Sponsored Snaps, a "new way for brands to show up in Chat through AI agents." -Most of these scams started on Facebook, with WhatsApp and Instagram in "a distant second and third.” A lawsuit filed against Meta, which owns all three platforms, last wee...