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OpenAI updates its Model Spec, which defines how its AI models should behave, emphasizing “customizability, transparency, and intellectual freedom” (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-13 AI

Adobe launches Generate Video in public beta via its re-designed Firefly web app, alongside new image generation, translation, and AI credit subscription tiers (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-13 AI Adobe

Thomson Reuters wins an early court battle over AI, copyright, and fair use (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-13 AI

Meta creates a free, “fully funded” curriculum to teach middle schoolers how to recognize forms of online exploitation, in partnership with nonprofit Childhelp (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-12

Google Calendar removes Pride month, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and other events, saying it wasn't “scalable or sustainable” to keep them (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-11 Google

Google Maps now shows “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” for users in the US; users in Mexico see “Gulf of Mexico”, and everyone else sees both names (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-11 U.S. Mexico Google

Lyft says it will launch a fleet of robotaxis, using self-driving tech from Intel's Mobileye, in Dallas “as soon as 2026” (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-11 Intel

PlayStation Network has been experiencing a multi-hour outage, affecting account management, gaming and social, and PlayStation Video, Store, and Direct website (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-8

Trump issues an EO pausing the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China until systems are in place to “process and collect tariff revenue” (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-8 Trump China

Google has edited Gemini's response in a Super Bowl commercial after it was found to contain false information about Gouda cheese (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-7 Google

Ted Carstensen, the head of US Digital Service, which has been renamed DOGE, says he is resigning instead of taking a buyout offer for federal staff (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-7

Google Photos starts adding its SynthID watermarks to photos that have been edited using Magic Editor, but says some changes may be too small to detect (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-7 Google

OpenAI opens ChatGPT search to users who are not logged in, after launching it to paying subscribers in October 2024 and logged-in users in December 2024 (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-6

Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash via its API, an experimental Gemini 2.0 Pro version via its apps, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, and 2.0 Flash-Lite in AI Studio (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-6 Google AI

Microsoft says Microsoft Build 2025 will run from May 19 to May 22 in Seattle, where AI, Copilot, and Surface updates are expected to be announced (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-5 Microsoft AI Seattle

Sources: Sonos will release an Android-based streaming box in the coming months, priced between $200 and $400, that combines content from Netflix, Max, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-5 Android Netflix

Adobe adds “contract intelligence capabilities” to Acrobat's $4.99 per month AI Assistant, letting the PDF manager summarize complicated contract language (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-5 AI Adobe Intelligence

Opera launches Opera Air, a free browser focused on mindfulness and mental well-being, including break reminders and ambient soundscapes, for Windows and macOS (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-5 Browser

Elon Musk's goal seems to amount to a coup over the US administrative state; Musk said he “deleted” the Direct File tax department, but that may not be true (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-4 Tax Elon Musk

A US district court judge denies Apple's emergency motion to halt the remedy trial of the DOJ v. Google case, saying it hasn't demonstrated satisfactory reasons (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-4 Google Apple

The Beatles' Now and Then, created using AI and an original 1970s lo-fi demo, won Best Rock Performance at the Grammys; McCartney and Starr completed it in 2021 (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-4 AI

O3-mini will be available to all ChatGPT users, the first time free users of the chatbot will be able to try out OpenAI's reasoning models (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-1 chatbot

Apple files an emergency motion to halt the remedy trial of the DOJ vs. Google case while it appeals a court's denial of its request to intervene as a defendant (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-1 Google Apple

Leaked all-hands: Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sold more than 1M Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2024, revealing sales figures for the first time (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-31 Ban Zuckerberg

Sources: Satya Nadella and Microsoft execs moved quickly to get engineers to test and deploy R1 on Azure and GitHub in 10 days, an unusually fast turnaround (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-31 Microsoft GitHub

Microsoft makes OpenAI's o1 model, branded as “Think Deeper”, free for all Copilot users, after launching it in October as a paid Copilot Pro feature (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-31 Microsoft

Microsoft unveils Intel-powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for businesses, both Copilot+ PCs starting at $1500, or $500 more than Qualcomm variants (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-31 Microsoft Intel

Vodafone makes “the world's first” satellite video call using a standard smartphone via SpaceMobile satellites; the service is set to launch in Europe in 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-30 Europe

Microsoft Q2: Windows OEM and Devices revenue up 4% YoY, gaming revenue down 7%, Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 2% (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-30 Microsoft Xbox

Microsoft adds DeepSeek's R1 to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, and plans to make a distilled, smaller version of R1 available to run locally on Copilot+ PCs soon (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-30 Microsoft AI GitHub

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