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🎧 Apple accidentally leaked camera AirPods
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- Apple accidentally revealed that it is building AirPods with built-in cameras, using code and a short video hidden in a macOS Tahoe software release that describes the earbuds working with Siri and Visual Intelligence.
- The cameras aren't meant for regular photos or video, but let Siri recognize and save things users look at, like reading a book's title, giving visual context without needing to pull out an iPhone.
- The product, codenamed B790, matches Mark Gurman's earlier report that it could launch as soon as September, though Apple hasn't confirmed the device, its design, image processing, or privacy controls for a camera worn in public.
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🧒 OpenAI launches ChatGPT for teens
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- OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version of its chatbot built for users aged 13 to 17 that becomes the default experience for anyone who identifies as a teen or is estimated to be one.
- The product adds safeguards like frequent break prompts, warnings against uploading sensitive images, and parental alerts when teens discuss violence, while avoiding romantic language or any suggestion the AI has feelings or consciousness.
- New learning tools include quizzes drawn from chats or notes, homework reminders meant to discourage shortcuts, and a "Study Hours" setting that parents and teens can use to limit ChatGPT to Study Mode each day.
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📦 Amazon's new terms bar customers from suing in court
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- Amazon has changed its US Conditions of Use to require customers to settle most disputes through individual arbitration, blocking them from joining together to file class action lawsuits against the company.
- The new rules force customers to first contact support, then file a claim giving Amazon 60 days to respond, and finally pay a $250 fee to arbitration service JAMS, though Amazon covers most other costs.
- Amazon dropped a similar clause in 2021 after facing roughly 75,000 arbitration claims from customers who said Alexa recorded them without consent, a fight that threatened to cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.
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🚕 Tesla’s Cybercab is finally launching
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- Tesla is set to put its Cybercab, a two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, onto public roads in Austin as soon as this month, though the first riders will be its own employees.
- Staff rides will come first, with the cars folded into Tesla's existing Austin robotaxi service days later, aiming for the end of August, though those familiar with the plan warn the timeline could still slip.
- Tesla has built Cybercabs at Gigafactory Texas since February, with over 100 spotted in lots by July, yet it cannot legally sell or let customers drive a vehicle that lacks both controls and, in most places, permission.
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⚖️ US probes Andreessen Horowitz over AI boards
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- The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz over a possible antitrust violation, looking at whether the firm's partners can sit on the boards of competing AI companies at the same time.
- The case centers on data firms Databricks and Fivetran, both backed by the firm, with cofounder Ben Horowitz on the Databricks board and partner Martin Casado on Fivetran's, both companies helping businesses handle large amounts of data.
- The probe relies on a 1914 law banning the same person from leading two competing firms, and what's new is that it targets Andreessen Horowitz itself, not just one director, since several sit on rival boards.
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💻 Cursor launches Origin to rival GitHub
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- Cursor has launched Origin, a cloud service where software teams can store their code, setting it up as a competitor to GitHub and marking its first big product update since a $60 billion sale to SpaceX in June.
- Origin runs on Git and lives inside a new tab in the Cursor desktop app, with a command line tool, plus a GitHub integration that copies projects across and keeps files in both places updated when either side changes.
- Developers can edit Origin repositories using Cursor's desktop or cloud agents, and connect the service to outside tools including Vercel for testing app updates, with connectors from Depot and Buildkite and more integrations promised soon.
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