Tech Roundup: Apple WWDC, Google I/O & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

• Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability and performance.
• Amazon announces new Alexa+ feature that makes it possible to generate podcast episodes on demand.
• X limits free accounts to 50 original posts and 200 replies a day, down from 2,400 posts a day, unless they pay for a blue checkmark.
• Cursor releases Composer 2.5, which is built on Kimi 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably.
• Google begins rolling out refresh icons for Google Workspace apps.
• Anthropic acquires NYC-based Stainless, which generates SDKs from APIs; plans to wind down its hosted products.
• Blackstone announces a joint venture with Google to create a U.S. company that will offer customers access to Google's TPUs; makes a $5 billion initial equity commitment.
• An Indian court rejects Apple's attempt to put the government's investigation into its App Store practices on hold, which found the company abused its dominant position in the iPhone apps market.
• Apple announces new accessibility features that uses Apple Intelligence to expand capabilities across VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control and Accessibility Reader; introduces Power Wheelchair Control for Apple Vision Pro, which uses the headset's precision eye-tracking system as an alternative input method for users who cannot operate a joystick.
• Epic Games says Fortnite is back on the App Store in every country except Australia, as the company says it is entering the "final battle" of its long-running legal dispute with Apple.
• OpenAI co-founder and Tesla's director of AI, Andrej Karpathy, joins rival AI lab Anthropic in a major hiring coup.
• Microsoft launches three new Intel-powered Surface devices for businesses: the Surface Pro 12, Surface Laptop 8 and a smaller 13-inch Surface Laptop model; turns Azure Linux into a general-purpose, Fedora-based cloud distribution available to all Azure customers.
• Microsoft says it plans to bring Snapdragon X2 chips to the new Surface Pro and Laptop later in 2026.
• The Take It Down Act, a U.S. law requiring social networks to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of reporting or face fines, goes into effect on May 19, 2026.
• Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash, its "strongest agentic and coding model yet", for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode; overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries, upload photos and videos, and use Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agents to automate searches.
• Google unveils Continue On, a new feature in Android 17 that will let users move tasks between Android devices, similar to Apple's Handoff feature, as it debuts new improved Gemini models and updates Project Genie, its interactive world builder, with Street View integration and expands access to the tool to AI Ultra subscribers globally.
• Google launches the Gemini Omni multimodal model, saying it can "create anything from any input," starting with video generation; announces updates to Flow and Flow Music with Gemini Omni support, mobile apps and the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders.
• Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses, conduct testing and understand scientific literature; adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app.
• Google unveils an AI image editor in Workspace called Pics that lets AI Pro and Ultra users edit specific elements and modify text; to release Gemini 3.5 Pro next month; teases Android Halo, which makes an AI agent's status visible via "subtle communication" at the top of the phone screen.
• Google rolls out Universal Cart in the U.S., a shopping assistant that works "across merchants" and built on the Universal Commerce Protocol, allowing users to add products to the cart from Search, YouTube and Gmail; updates web-based AI Studio to let users build native Android apps for personal use and introduces Antigravity 2.0, featuring an updated desktop app that lets users orchestrate multiple agents.
• Google says the Gemini app has more than 900 million monthly active users across 230 countries, up from 400 million in May 2025; launches Neural Expressive, a new design language for Gemini.
• Google takes on OpenClaw with Gemini Spark, a "24/7 personal AI agent" that is powered by Gemini 3.5 and supports integrations with Google Workspace apps, including Gmail; restructures its AI plans, introducing a $100/month AI Ultra plan for developers and cutting the top-tier Ultra subscription from $250 to $200/month.
• Google unveils conversational features for Gmail, Docs and Keep, letting AI Pro and Ultra users ask natural language questions; announces a new partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to produce a new line of AI-powered glasses that pairs with both Android and iOS devices.
• Discord says voice and video calls outside of stage channels are now end-to-end encrypted by default, after launching its DAVE encryption protocol in September 2024.
• Analog Devices agrees to buy Empower Semiconductor, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, in an all-cash deal worth $1.5 billion.
• OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity, a new offering that lets customers guarantee access to OpenAI's compute through one- to three-year commitments; adds support for Google's SynthID watermarks in AI images to better flag synthetic imagery, and previews a public portal to let users verify if an image was generated by OpenAI's tools. (Other companies that have announced support for SynthID include ElevenLabs, Kakao and NVIDIA. Google has said SynthID has been used to label 100 billion images and videos, plus 60,000 years' worth of audio.)
• Spotify launches a "Verified by Spotify" badge for podcasts to help "authenticate creator identity" after releasing it for music last month; partners with Universal Music Group to let Premium users create AI covers and remixes using music from participating UMG artists as a paid add-on and teams up with Live Nation to launch Reserved, a new feature that sets aside tickets for the most dedicated fans, starting with Premium users in the U.S.
• Roku launches a creator hub with licensed creator content and programming from partners like Peacock and HBO Max, alongside new FAST channels from top creators.
• Yahoo Finance launches AlphaSpace, a customisable research dashboard with an AI assistant, for subscribers of its $479.40/year or $39.95/month Gold plan.
• Meta's WhatsApp tests a new setting for disappearing messages that causes them to vanish based on a countdown that starts only after they've been read.
• Mozilla brings AI controls to both iOS and Android versions of Firefox to let users turn off all generative AI features.
• Airbnb expands into luggage storage, airport pickups, car rentals, grocery delivery and thousands of boutique and independent hotels in 20 cities, including New York, Paris, London, Madrid, Rome and Singapore.
• Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers and AI-powered Shopping ads; allows users to adjust Google TV picture and audio settings with natural language voice commands using Gemini.
• Caller ID company Truecaller launches eSIM services for travellers in 29 countries (notably missing from the list is India) as it attempts to diversify its revenue streams.s
• Mozilla releases Firefox 151 with new privacy-focused protections for Private Browsing Mode and stronger anti-fingerprinting defenses; allows users to clear all data from the current session without closing the entire window.
• Spotify says it has over 1 million subscriptions to Audiobook+; unveils an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook self-publishing tool and launches Studio, a NotebookLM-like desktop app to generate private, AI-powered podcasts, in research preview across over 20 markets.
• X resolves a three-year dispute with Australia's eSafety regulator after a court upheld a fine against the company for inadequate disclosures on combating CSAM.
• Ofcom says Meta, Snap and Roblox will adopt stronger anti-grooming measures to protect children from stranger danger online, while TikTok and YouTube "failed to commit to any significant changes."
• Google announces Gemini integrations with Adobe, Canva and CapCut to let users access a wide range of image and video editing tools and create content within the AI platform.
• A new study of nine workplace monitoring services finds that they share some information, including names, email addresses to web history, with third-party platforms like Facebook, Google and Microsoft.
• Meta quietly launches a new standalone app called Forum that brings Facebook Groups into a dedicated feed separate from the main Facebook experience; says it's a "dedicated space for the conversations that matter most to you," indicating the company is pitching it as an alternative to Reddit.
• Google files its appeal of the U.S. federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing it "prevailed in the marketplace fair and square."
• Italian police dismantle a piracy network that streamed paid content from Netflix and others via an app called Cinemagoal with annual subscriptions of €40-€130.
• X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by "programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts."
• Spotify teams up with publications, including Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard, WIRED and Pitchfork, to offer subscribers narrated articles; releases a new feature to find and share specific podcast moments; adds playlist folders, bulk editing and background downloads.
• Google adds the option to sort YouTube Music playlists by artist, album or title; places AI disclosure labels more prominently for long-form videos and Shorts, and rolls out new internal signals to help identify AI-generated content and flag such content if a "creator doesn't specify whether or not they used AI."
• Amazon works out a deal to take over Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar, a little over a month after it announced plans to acquire the satellite company and partnered with Apple to power Emergency SOS satellite services for iPhone and Apple Watch.
• Meta begins rolling out paid Instagram Plus ($3.99/month), Facebook Plus ($3.99/month) and WhatsApp Plus ($2.99/month) subscription plans worldwide with support for profile customisation, super reactions, story insights and app themes; also teases Meta One Plus ($7.99/month) and Meta One Premium ($19.99/month) plans for Meta AI users.
• OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes.
• Amazon says it is making the "architecture, starter code, and learnings" from Alexa for Shopping available to third-party retailers, starting with Kate Spade.
• Polymarket makes it harder to use VPNs to access its service, blocking some IPs and suspicious accounts, and is asking some customers to identify themselves.
• Robinhood launches a feature to let users link AI agents, such as Claude or Cursor, to separate, dedicated investment accounts for trading stocks autonomously.
• YouTube adds a "custom feed" to its home page, letting users enter a prompt to create a constantly refreshed feed, available to signed-in users in the U.S.; launches new Premium podcast features, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an "Auto speed" setting, a new on-the-go listening mode, and tests removing the dislike button in Shorts.
• Oura unveils the Oura Ring 5 smart ring with a 40% smaller form factor, improved sensing and repositioned LEDs for $399.
• Intel unveils its first dedicated handheld gaming chips, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, featuring Xe3 GPU cores; to arrive first in the Acer Predator Atlas 8.
• Alphabet Waymo unveils Ojai, a vehicle designed in partnership with Zeekr for robotaxi use, initially for select riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix; introduces $30-a-month premium tier for riders who want faster pickups, with perks including 10% cashback and five free ride cancellations per month.
• Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling hundreds of subagents to run in parallel for complex engineering tasks such as framework migrations; says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers "in the coming weeks" following the development of stronger safeguards, as it launches Opus 4.8.
• Mistral AI rebrands Le Chat, its conversational AI assistant launched in February 2024, to Vibe, turning it into a unified agent platform for enterprise productivity and software development.
• Microsoft launches a revamped version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, offering a cleaner design that the company claims loads twice as fast and provides more reliable and structured responses that are easier to scan.
• CNN files a lawsuit against Perplexity, claiming that the startup's AI tools generate "verbatim" copies of its work and provides users with information locked behind its subscription.
• A new study finds that large language models (LLMs) appear to learn from the statistical patterns in their training text more than from explicit framing around it; says Negation Neglect happens even when every sentence referencing the claim is immediately preceded and followed by sentences stating the claim is false. However, if documents are phrased so that negations are local to the claim itself rather than in a separate sentence, [...] models largely learn the negations correctly."
• ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages while staying synced to content.
• Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo sees a surge in demand for its "No AI" search option in the wake of Google's AI overhaul of search; makes its no AI search engine easier to access.
• NVIDIA unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data; debuts Isaac GR00T, an open humanoid reference design, DGX Station, a desktop Windows PC powered by its GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748 GB of memory, as the chipmaker says Microsoft and NVIDIA will "reinvent the PC", starting with 30+ laptops and 10 desktops coming in the fall from Dell, HP, Lenovo and others.
• Microsoft introduces the Surface Laptop Ultra with an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen and up to 128GB of unified memory.
• Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries.
• Google plans to open its first flagship store outside of the U.S. in Tokyo later this year.
• Florida's attorney general sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company prioritised growth and market value over user safety and failed to adequately warn about risks tied to ChatGPT.
• Salesforce acquires CMS provider Contentful in a deal estimated between $1 and $1.5 billion.
• Strava adds an $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping.
• Meta tests a Series feature, letting creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profiles on Instagram and Facebook, and pilots new Instagram limits on what types of posts teens can 'repeatedly' see; expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including about nutrition, weightlifting and anxiety.
• X launches a React with Video feature on iOS that targets creators and is being pitched as a multimedia alternative to the Repost and Quote Post functions.
• Google plans to allow websites to exclude themselves from AI search results without impacting their placement in regular searches, as the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google AI search results, giving the company nine months to implement the changes; appears to be silently piloting an offer that grants them access to code written by Android developers who have published apps on the Play Store to help the company train its AI coding tools in exchange for additional revenue.
• Microsoft announces new in-house AI models, including a new "flagship" reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1; announces Scout, an always-on enterprise AI agent built on OpenClaw, that appears as a Microsoft Teams contact to automate tasks like scheduling and repeated office tasks.
• Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices; unveils developer tools for Windows, such as a set of Linux-like command line utilities called Coreutils, and a GitHub Copilot desktop app in technical preview with a feature called canvases for bidirectional work between users and agents.
• Microsoft releases Web IQ, a search service for AI agents that is powered by Bing; says it's a "suite of AI-native APIs that gives applications access to fresh, real-world intelligence from across the web – including web pages, news, images and videos."
• Microsoft announces the Agent Control Specification, an open-source standard that gives developers a granular, consistent way to control what AI agents can do; releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions.
• OpenAI launches new Codex tools for data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing and investment banking; acquires Ona, which offers cloud services to support AI agents.
• Nintendo Music adds support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
• Meta tests a new Scam Alert feature in WhatsApp that notifies users when a message from an unknown contact looks like a potential scam.
• U.S. President Donald Trump signs AI executive order asking companies to give government early access to models to assess their capabilities ahead of a full release.
• TikTok launches TikTok Pro Events, an app that allows users to engage with other fans, explore trending videos and access curated creator feeds.
• Plex adds social features, including a community forum called Discussions that lets users post comments and talk about movies or TV shows and a feature known as Lists to create, manage and share lists of their favorite movies and shows.
• Meta spins off Supernatural into an independent company, Supernatural Health, after earlier saying the VR fitness game would stop getting new content; launches Meta Business Agent globally on WhatsApp and Instagram DMs, after a two-year pilot of the customer support AI bot in India, Mexico, and other countries.
• YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix falls from 100.5 to 93.4 minutes.
• OpenAI's ChatGPT becomes the fastest app by far to hit 1 billion global monthly active users.
• Google adds a scam-detection feature, built on RCS, to Android 12 and later that verifies whether a call is coming from the caller's actual Android smartphone.
• Perplexity unveils a Computer feature that splits tasks across local models and cloud-based models, to keep private data on-device and maximise token efficiency.
• The E.U. Parliament plans to replace Google with the French search engine Qwant as the default search tool on its computers, seeking digital sovereignty.
• Amazon announces new visual search features, including displaying AI-generated images of products within its app based on users' search queries.
• Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices; also debuts AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app and introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory.
• Apple says users in Texas must confirm they are 18 years or older or obtain parental consent to create an Apple Account starting June 4, after a court ruling.
• Anthropic urges leading AI labs to consider slowing or temporarily pausing development, warning that frontier models are advancing fast enough that they may soon be able to improve themselves without direct human intervention.
• A new report from 404 Media reveals that companies are spamming Reddit to manipulate answers provided by OpenAI ChatGPT and Google AI Search.
• Cloudflare says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time."
• OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a "more capable and compute-efficient" architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers.
• Poke, which lets users access AI agents via text message, becomes the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform.
• Google lets big creators and publishers in the U.S. claim and customize dedicated Search profiles to aggregate their cross-platform content; comes as Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook to give creators personalised recommendations based on their content style, performance, community and goals.
• Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities to let workers assign tasks.
• Apple says its App Store facilitated over $1.4 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2025, a figure up from the $1.3 trillion it announced last year.
• Brave announces the public release of Origin, a paid minimalist, bloat-free version of its browser that strips out Brave Rewards, Brave Wallet, Brave VPN promotions, Brave Leo AI, Brave News, Brave Talk, sponsored images and other promotional or monetisation components.
• Apple removes Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max from its App Store to comply with "sanctions regulations." (The application remains available on Android devices through Google Play and Russia's RuStore.)
• SpaceX says Starlink now has over 12 million "active customers with high-speed internet" across more than 160 countries, territories and other markets, up from 9 million in December 2025.
• The Indian government launches a new mobile app that can perform offline verification for a user's identity or age against the country's Aadhaar biometrics database; to allow users to prove they're above a certain age without sharing their date of birth.
• Apple unveils iOS 27 with Liquid Improvements, expanded parental controls and Siri AI, its next generation chatbot powered by Apple Intelligence based on Google Gemini but adapted to run on device and its Private Cloud Compute (iOS 27 will support devices starting from iPhone 11); also debuts macOS 27 Golden Gate and showcases AI-powered photo editing and shortcut creation capabilities, as well as features like a Siri mode in Camera, Notify Me feature in Safari (which alerts users when a web page content changes), create an extension on the fly for repeated tasks, fix weak and compromised passwords, and a Call Context feature in the Phone app (which surfaces relevant information during a call from other apps, such as Mail).
• Apple says its Apple Foundation Model Cloud Pro is comparable to Gemini frontier models and runs on NVIDIA GPUs; confirms Siri AI will be delayed in the E.U. for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 due to the Digital Markets Act and will not be available in China at launch. (However, the E.U. has said Apple decided not to roll out Siri AI in the region after it had unsuccessfully requested to be exempted from interoperability obligations for the tool.)
• Apple announces major performance improvements across its platforms, including up to 30% faster app launches and up to 80% faster AirDrop transfers; to added a custom EQ feature to AirPods as part of iOS 27; updates iCloud Shared Albums to allow friends and family on Android and Windows to join and contribute photos more conveniently, with support for full-resolution images.
• Apple allows developers to partner with one another to offer subscription bundles through the App Store.
• Apple turn on landscape mode for most first-party apps in iOS and makes it possible for users to hide their location from select people in Find My; unifies iOS 27, macOS and CarPlay wallpapers for the first time, and announces new discovery features that will personalise app recommendations based on users' interests and behaviour.
• Google lowers the price of its Google AI Plus plan to $4.99 per month, down from $7.99, and doubles the included storage to 400GB; upgrades NotebookLM, which now runs on Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity, to deliver new agentic capabilities and more advanced reasoning for AI Ultra users.
• Amazon expands its print-on-demand features to AI-generated designs created using Alexa for Shopping for products like T-shirts, water bottles and hoodies.
• Italy's competition authority says it has dropped its 2025 probe into Meta over allegations Meta abused its dominant position by installing Meta AI on WhatsApp after the European Commission extends its own ​investigation ⁠into the same issue to include ⁠the ​Italian ​territory; comes as E.U. regulators order Meta to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp while they continue to probe if Meta abused its market power by blocking competitors.
• Meta adds the ability to reorder posts on the Instagram profile grid; expands Your Algorithm to its main feed, letting users choose topics they want to see.
• The U.K. gives tech companies like Apple and Google three months to create device controls to block naked images of kids on smartphones and tablets.
• Anthropic debuts Claude Fable 5, a "safe" Mythos-class model it says can't be used for cyber attacks, to the public, and Claude Mythos 5 (which is the same underlying model as Fable 5 but with the safeguards lifted in some areas) to trusted organisations; backtracks on a policy limiting Claude Fable 5's ability to develop other AI models, after significant backlash from the AI research community.
• Apple updates its guidelines to say it may remove apps in saturated categories from the App Store if they're not "updated, improved, or attracting customers."
• Google releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, which it says can deliver "near real-time speech-to-speech translation in over 70 languages"; introduces DiffusionGemma, an experimental 26B-parameter open model that uses text diffusion for faster text generation compared to autoregressive models.
• Meta plans to expand the use of off-platform data, such as e-commerce purchases, to personalise content feeds and AI responses, moving beyond serving targeted ads.
• A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices; comes as Gemini in Chrome expands further to Latin America and the Middle East.
• X rival Bluesky plans to add "communities" this year that serve as smaller spaces to "go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff"; launches group chats with support for up to 50 people.
• Canada introduces the Safe Social Media Act, a bill that would ban social media for children under 16 and establish safety standards for AI chatbots; comes as Malaysia begins enforcing new rules that ban social media accounts for children under 16, with plans to roll out age verification for existing users over the next six months.
• YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having one-to-one conversations, after discontinuing an its previous Messages feature in 2019; says it was a "top feature request" in testing last year.
• OpenAI says it has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting US debates over tariffs and data centers; partners with Visa to let AI agents make purchases online after users give their permission and to explore enterprise applications for AI-driven payments.
• Russia restores access to Roblox after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements, following its banin December 2025.
• DoorDash lets customers use photos and prompts to order food and book reservations in latest AI push.
• London's Met Police calls on tech companies to make stolen phones unusable and says it is sharing data with Apple to build a "global picture" of stolen devices.
• Deezer launches a free AI music detection tool for users of 20 services, including Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music.
• Xiaomi releases MiMo Code V0.1.0, an open-source AI coding assistant that it says outperforms Claude Code on agentic coding and software engineering benchmarks.
• Polish lawmakers pass legislation imposing prison sentences of up to five years for "trash streaming" of violent crimes, animal cruelty and gambling promotion.
• Meta previews upcoming updates to its video-editing app Edits, adding a new AI assistant and a desktop version of the previously mobile-only app.
• Social network Reddit lets users post videos in comments, along with text, images and GIFs.
• Amazon finally begins rolling out its 'Story So Far' feature to Kindles to help readers recall plot points and characters and get instant spoiler-free answers.
• Snap says it will no longer allow younger teens' Spotlight videos to be publicly viewable on Snapchat.
• Huawei unveils HarmonyOS 7, introducing an "agent-friendly" architecture that connects to 2,000+ specialized AI agents and features an enhanced voice assistant.
• Anthropic says it is disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after the U.S. government issued an export control order, citing national security concerns.
• Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.7-Code, claiming 30% lower reasoning token usage compared to K2.
• Google introduces a new metacognitive technique named "faithful uncertainty" that allows AI models to offer best guesses instead of hallucinations.
• Amazon's Audible launches a connected subscription that lets members stream nearly 700 premium podcast titles directly within Apple Podcasts across 135 countries.
• The U.S. government seizes two domains that were "being used to publish thousands of digitally forged images and videos depicting famous women as nude and sometimes engaged in sexual activity, without their consent."