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GoPro's stock jumped sharply after disclosures showed that YouTube star Markiplier now holds the largest individual stake in the company. The rally continued into premarket trading, pushing shares to their highest level since early January.
Domino's has launched a new single-serve Detroit-style pizza and is promoting it with a limited-time giveaway. Customers who show a receipt from a competing fast-food chain, such as McDonald's or Burger King, can redeem the new pizza item for free during the promotional window.
Sonos held an event in New York to launch the Beam Ultra soundbar and Ace Ultra headphones alongside a major software update called Sonos 27, marking its largest product reveal since the troubled 2024 app relaunch. The update introduces an in-house voice assistant, Sonos 27voice, plus Sonos 27mcp, which lets users link outside AI models like ChatGPT or Gemini to control their systems, though Google Assistant remains unsupported. A future feature will let users build up to 10 custom AI agents with distinct voices and personalities to handle tasks like news updates or motivational prompts.
Dyson has introduced the CameraJet, an electric toothbrush that combines bristles with an integrated water flosser guided by a tiny embedded camera. The camera captures 28 images per second to detect gaps between teeth and fires a cone-shaped jet of rinse into them within 100 milliseconds, using a machine-learning model trained on roughly 470,000 dental images gathered over six years of development.
Google is rolling out a new live translation option within Gemini Live's voice settings, allowing the AI to translate spoken conversations between languages in real time with on-screen captions. The rollout also includes a smaller interface tweak, replacing the keyboard exit button with a clearer X icon and adding a 'Tap to interrupt' control, as part of a gradual server-side update following April's UI redesign.
A federal lawsuit filed by the FTC alleges that Amazon secretly raised minimum price thresholds in some advertising auctions after bids were already submitted, effectively changing the rules mid-game. The suit claims this practice forced advertisers to pay more than they should have, generating billions in extra revenue for Amazon.
Apple has filed fresh court evidence, including a forensic review of former engineer Chang Liu's old work laptop, alleging he used a confidential Apple circuit schematic and an internally named engineering tool while working at OpenAI. Apple also claims Liu enlisted OpenAI colleague Yu-Ting Peng to destroy evidence once he learned of the investigation, and that he exploited an authentication flaw to retain system access after leaving.
Hydrologist Anu Li hosted a 'doctorette party' at her Minnesota home to celebrate her upcoming thesis defense, complete with a tiara, a 'Mrs to Dr' sash, a themed photo booth and trivia about her research. The event reflects a broader trend among academics who are creating personalized celebrations for milestones like dissertations and tenure that traditionally go unmarked.
A commentary published in Nature argues that ongoing negotiations for a global plastics treaty should explicitly address how armed conflicts and energy insecurity affect plastic production and waste management. The authors contend that wars and fuel shortages can shift countries toward greater reliance on plastics for energy or materials, complicating efforts to curb plastic pollution worldwide.
As artificial intelligence tools increasingly contribute to scientific research, generating hypotheses, analyzing data and even drafting findings, questions are emerging over who bears responsibility when errors occur. Researchers, publishers and institutions are grappling with how existing norms of scientific accountability apply when machines play a substantial role in discovery.
The Federal Trade Commission, joined by attorneys general from 22 states, has filed suit against Amazon alleging it secretly altered its ad auction system starting in 2019 to charge advertisers more than they were told. The complaint claims Amazon added an undisclosed 'soft reserve price' and even used a fictitious bidder to drive up costs, despite marketing its system as a fair second-price auction. Regulators estimate the practice may have extracted over $20 billion from advertisers since 2019.
A threat actor deployed multiple infostealer malware strains to harvest session data and gain unauthorized access to an undisclosed number of Anthropic Claude user accounts. The attackers reportedly bypassed login credentials entirely by stealing active session tokens rather than passwords.