A federal district court in Northern California ruled in favor of Cameo, a platform that allows users to receive personalized video messages from celebrities, and ordered OpenAI to stop using “Cameo” in its products and features. OpenAI used the name “Cameo” for its AI video generation app Sora 2. Users could use this feature to … Read more
The California Department of Motor Vehicles will not suspend Tesla’s sales and manufacturing licenses for 30 days because the electric car maker stopped using the term “Autopilot” when marketing its vehicles in the state. The ruling, issued late Tuesday, means Tesla can continue to sell its EVs in California without interruption and officially settles a … Read more
With RetroArch with Apple TV, you can play classic PC games from the comfort of your couch. Here’s how to get retro gaming on Apple’s streaming box. Retro gaming in the Apple ecosystem saw a resurgence in 2024 as Apple updated its App Store review guidelines to allow emulators into the App Store. This change … Read more
Apple on Monday invited select journalists and content creators to a “special Apple Experience” on Wednesday, March 4 in New York, London and Shanghai. And now there are rumors about Apple’s larger plans for this week. Brave fireballToday, John Gruber estimated that Apple will announce new products every day from Monday, March 2 to Wednesday, … Read more
Yesterday, Apple announced a “special experience” for March 4th at 9:00 a.m. ET and invited journalists to New York, London and Shanghai. The question right now is what format this “special experience” and related product announcements will take. John Gruber suggested the following idea as part of the “spitball” in a post on Brave fireball … Read more
Meta has entered into a multi-year deal to expand its data centers with millions of Nvidia’s Grace and Vera CPUs and Blackwell and Rubin GPUs. While Meta has long used Nvidia hardware for its AI products, the deal “represents the first large-scale deployment of only Nvidia Grace,” which Nvidia says will deliver “significant improvements in … Read more
A government customer of sanctioned spyware maker Intellex has hacked the phone of a prominent journalist in Angola, in what Amnesty International says is the latest case of targeting someone in civil society using powerful phone-hacking software. A human rights organization published a new report on Tuesday analyzing several attempted hacking attacks against local journalist … Read more
There’s a long list of new features in the iOS 26.4 beta, many of which we highlighted yesterday, but since then we’ve discovered a few other minor changes Apple has made to the software. Health application iOS 26.4 includes a new Average Sleep Time metric for the Sleep section of the Health app that provides … Read more
Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he will join the firm as a general partner. The news is a big deal, especially since Altman has been running his own VC firm, Alt Capital, since at least 2024. The fund raised a $150 million Fund I in early 2024 and then, just last September, announced … Read more
Anthropic updated its Sonnet model to version 4.6 today, and the company says it’s the most capable Sonnet model yet, with upgrades in coding, computer usage, long context reasoning, agent scheduling, knowledge work, and design. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the default for users who have Free and Pro plans and has an updated 1M token … Read more