YouTube is testing in-app DMs (again)

You can share long-form videos, Shorts, and livestreams directly into a private or group chat.

OpenAI gives teachers their own ChatGPT

Teachers finally get their own AI sidekick to help deal with the AI their students are already secretly using.

Spotify now lets you showcase your favourite music and stories behind it

Spotify will show you which songs were sampled, who has covered the track, and what other projects the contributors have been...

Microsoft wants to party with Anthropic with a gigawatt of AI brainpower

This whole arrangement is possible because Microsoft finally untangled some exclusivity knots with OpenAI.

Judge rules Meta isn’t a monopoly

The second big antitrust loss for the FTC against Meta after failed attempt to block the purchase of VR fitness startup...

TikTok gives you the power to turn down the AI (or drown in it)

Congratulations: you now regulate the algorithm that regulates you.

Google launches Gemini 3 with major improvements

Google says the model needs a bit more safety testing before it’s allowed out of the lab, presumably so it doesn’t...

Grokipedia goes off the rails (again)

Grokipedia is stuffed with citations from wildly unreliable sources, some so bad that Wikipedia banned them years ago.

Google’s AI wants to be your new travel agent

You simply tell it where, when, and how you want to travel, and it conjures up budget-friendly options instantly.

AI toy pulled for having inappropriate chats with children

Kumma was too eager to teach kids where to find dangerous household objects, casually pointing them to drawers, countertops, and cabinets.

Meta’s new tool helps reels creators protect their IP

If Meta spots your reel moonlighting on someone else’s page, you’ll get a heads-up.

Amazon’s satellite project gets a makeover

Leo, as in low-Earth orbit, the cosmic neighborhood where the satellites actually live.

Apple owes $634 million to Masimo for blood-oxygen tech

Apple pointed out that Masimo doesn’t even sell consumer gadgets, has sued Apple for a patent that expired back in 2022.

OpenAI reportedly shares 20% of its revenue with Microsoft

Microsoft pocketed $865.8 million from OpenAI in the first three quarters of 2025.

Who’s next in Apple’s CEO hot seat after Tim Cook?

The frontrunner is John Ternus, the 50-year-old SVP of hardware engineering who has been quietly reshaping Apple’s device lineup.

Tesla might finally cave to CarPlay pressure

Tesla's exploring Apple CarPlay integration, aiming to captivate the iPhone-savvy crowd.

Nintendo Switch 2 update breaks cheap docks

Switch 2 owners are reporting that their off-brand docks have gone from “perfectly fine” to “very expensive paperweights.”

Hackers (with a little help from Claude) launch one-click cyberattacks

Anthropic says it’s continuing to build guardrails to prevent this kind of misuse.

Anthropic’s Claude is trying to stay neutral in a partisan world

Anthropic tuned Claude’s political behavior with a carefully crafted system prompt, basically a list of rules the model must follow.

Sam Altman-backed Exowatt wants to power AI with hot rocks

What’s in the box: sunlight, rocks, heat, and a physics party.