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  • 1X, originally aimed at home use, has pivoted to deploy its Neo humanoid robots for industrial applications, targeting factories and warehouses.
  • The power dynamics in the tech startup ecosystem have shifted, with founders now exerting more influence over deal-making than venture capitalists, as highlighted by industry insiders.
  • Epic Games' popular title, Fortnite, has returned to the Google Play Store following a court decision, while also navigating a complex legal landscape regarding its presence on iOS platforms.
  • Disney is intensifying its legal efforts against Google, alleging widespread copyright infringement involving its characters through generative AI applications, as it ramps up its partnership with OpenAI's Sora.
  • OpenAI has released GPT-5.2 to enhance its offerings for developers, while also navigating competitive pressures from Google's Gemini AI and broader challenges within the AI landscape.

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  • Amazon's AI-generated recap tool didn't watch Fallout very closely 2 hours ago by Ian Carlos Campbell
    Media, Arts & Entertainment, Television, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Ian Carlos Campbell

    Amazon's plan to offer AI-generated recaps of Prime Video shows isn't off to a great start. The company's recap of the first season of Fallout features multiple errors, GamesRadar+ writes, including basic facts about the plot of the show. You can watch the recap yourself in the "Extras" section of Amazon's Fallout season two listing in Prime Video. Besides being somewhat dry, the AI-generated recap incorrectly identifies the time period of the show's Los Angeles-set flashbacks as being the 1950s, when they're actually 2077 (the Fallout franchise is set in an alternate history that diverged from our real one after 1945).

  • Disney's deal with OpenAI is about controlling the future of copyright 2 hours ago by Igor Bonifacic
    Company Legal & Law Matters, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Igor Bonifacic

    This morning Disney and OpenAI announced a three-year licensing agreement: Starting in 2026, ChatGPT and Sora can generate images and videos incorporating Disney IP, including more than 200 characters from the company's stable of Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel brands. To say these companies make for strange bedfellows is an understatement.   The agreement brings together two parties with very different public stances on copyright. Before OpenAI released Sora, the company reportedly notified studios and talent agencies they would need to opt out of having their work appear in the new app. The company later backtracked on this stance. Before that, OpenAI

  • '47 Ronin' director found guilty of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million 3 hours ago by Will Shanklin
    Media, Celebrities, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Will Shanklin

    A director who was charged with defrauding Netflix out of millions of dollars has been found guilty, Business Insider reports. Carl Rinsch, director of the 2013 Keanu Reeves movie 47 Ronin, now faces up to 90 years in prison. Rinsch began filming the project, White Horse (later renamed Conquest), around 2017. (Its premise: A scientist creates an organic humanoid species that turns on its creators.) The director completed six short-form episodes with his own money and investor funds. He then used those episodes to pitch studios for the money to complete the first season. Netflix ended up buying the rights for

  • New York passes law requiring ads to disclose the use of AI performers 3 hours ago by Ian Carlos Campbell
    Arts & Entertainment, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Ian Carlos Campbell

    New York is taking steps to regulate the use of AI in the state's entertainment industry. NY State Governor Kathy Hochul passed two pieces of legislation on Thursday that forces certain productions to disclose the use of AI-generated performers, and defines rules around how someone's likeness can be used after their death. Assembly Bill A8887B, now known as S.8420-A, specifically covers the use of AI performers in advertisements. Per Hochul's announcement, the law "requires persons who produce or create an advertisement to identify if it includes AI generated synthetic performers." S.8391, meanwhile, "requires consent from heirs or executors if a person

  • Fortnite is back on the Google Play Store 4 hours ago by Anna Washenko
    Technology & Electronics, Handheld & Connected Devices, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Anna Washenko

    Epic Games has spent a lot of time in court over the past several years, but it seems the company's litigious era may be winding down. The company announced today that its game Fortnite is back on the Google Play mobile store in the US. Fortnite's return to Android devices means Epic's popular hit is now available on just about every gaming platform following five years of arguing antitrust lawsuits.  Epic took both Google and Apple to court over their policies for mobile payment systems back in 2020. The gaming company has been successful on the whole in its challenges, most


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  • Disney wants to drag you into the slop an hour ago by Charles Pulliam-Moore
    AI, Disney, Entertainment, Film, OpenAI, Streaming, TV Shows

    Disney and OpenAI's new $1 billion partnership feels emblematic of the terrible times we're living through. In exchange for access to the generative AI firm's APIs and tools like ChatGPT, the studio plans to let users of OpenAI's Sora AI video generator create clips featuring hundreds of Disney-owned characters. Sora AI users will be able to generate as much uncanny Pixar / Marvel / Star Wars slop for themselves as they want, and Disney will share some of it in a special section on the Disney Plus platform. It's not hard to see where this is going to go. Disney CEO

  • The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2025 an hour ago
    Buying Guides, Gadgets, Headphone Reviews, Headphones, Reviews, Tech, Verge Shopping

    It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good a time as any to splurge on the pair you’ve been eyeing. The market has come a long way since the early era of true wireless earbuds, when we had to deal with mediocre sound quality and unreliable performance, all for the sake of ditching cables. Things are much different now. After several product generations, companies like Sony, Apple, Bose, and others are releasing their most impressive earbuds to date.  You can get phenomenal noise cancellation

  • Google brings Gemini’s Chrome integration to iPhone and iPad an hour ago by Stevie Bonifield
    AI, Apple, Chrome, Google, iOS, News, Tech

    Built-in Gemini AI features in Chrome are now becoming more widely available on the iOS version of Google's browser, as reported by 9to5Google and Engadget. They're popping up several months after the features' rollout on the desktop version started in September. Once the new Gemini features are active on your iPhone or iPad, Chrome users will see a new icon in the left corner of the address bar (where the Google Lens icon used to be), shaped like a notebook page with the Gemini star symbol in one corner. By tapping that new icon, you can ask Gemini questions about what's

  • Tim Cook’s lobbying hangs over a key kids online safety vote an hour ago by Lauren Feiner
    Antitrust, Apple, Google, Policy, Politics, Report, Speech, Tech

    At a congressional meeting to vote on the future of kids online safety, the most spirited debate of the day was about a bill that wasn't even on the agenda and Apple CEO Tim Cook. 18 bills that aim to regulate the internet to protect children are now headed for a vote before the full Energy and Commerce Committee, possibly as soon as next month. From there, the bills could get a vote on the floor of the House, giving the chamber a chance to set the tone on internet safety legislation after leaving the leading bill passed by the Senate

  • Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub an hour ago by Emma Roth
    AI, Amazon, Entertainment, News, Tech, TV Shows

    Amazon Prime Video has pulled its AI-powered video recap of Fallout after viewers noticed that it got key parts of the story wrong. The streaming service began testing Video Recaps last month, and now they're missing from the shows included in the test, including Fallout, The Rig, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Upload, and Bosch. The feature is supposed to use AI to analyze a show's key plot points and sum it all in a bite-sized video, complete with an AI voiceover and clips from the series. But in its season one recap of Fallout, Prime Video incorrectly stated that one of The


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