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OpenAI, io Products, and former Apple employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan have filed a fresh petition seeking to have Apple's trade secret misappropriation lawsuit dismissed with prejudice. The move follows Apple's rebuttal defending the specificity of its claims after the defendants' earlier motion to dismiss argued the company failed to identify protectable secrets or prove harm.
Toei Animation has released a spin-off tied to 'One Piece' that centers on Nico Robin and Nami, sending the two heroines on their own standalone adventure separate from the main crew's storyline. The project emphasizes fashion, friendship, and the bond between the two women rather than the series' usual battles and pirate mythology.
Rockstar co-studio head Rob Nelson told IGN that Grand Theft Auto VI will replace the series' simple hotwire button with varied theft methods tied to each vehicle's make and model. Some cars will require tools like key cloners, others will demand careful speed control to dodge GPS tracking, and an in-game app will help players identify what's needed and what a car is worth. Players can still carjack any driver directly, but stealing parked vehicles will be gated by story progress and acquired equipment.
OpenAI is said to be developing a persistent AI agent capable of running continuously rather than only responding to single prompts. The agent would maintain ongoing awareness of tasks and context over time, moving beyond the transactional chat-based model most assistants use today.
Despite ranking among the world's top five smartphone makers by shipments, Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo have essentially no official retail presence in the United States. US buyers largely see only Apple, Samsung, Google and Motorola on carrier shelves, even as these Chinese brands dominate sales across Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Fairphone has begun selling its Gen 6 Plus directly in the US for the first time, rather than through Murena, running standard Google Android. Priced at $649, the phone lets owners replace up to 12 parts—including the battery, display, cameras, and USB-C port—using just a screwdriver. In a reader poll of over 1,500 responses, 91.5% called the device appealing despite its modest spec upgrades over the base Gen 6.
A free set of runnable Colab notebooks called AI Engineer Notebooks has been released to teach applied LLM engineering skills like RAG, agents, evals, fine-tuning, and serving. The curriculum deliberately avoids frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex, instead having learners build agent loops and retrieval pipelines from raw API calls using the free Groq API. Two GPU-heavy topics, LoRA fine-tuning and self-hosted serving, include optional appendices tested on Colab's free T4 GPU.
Data miners found a DLSS 5-related DLL file inside NBA 2K27's early access build, containing neural rendering weights tied to Nvidia's next-gen upscaling tech. Although the game has no interface to enable it, modders behind the RenoDX Reshade project extracted the file and got it working in Control, revealing customizable sliders that alter lighting, shadows, and facial detail.
Scammers are circulating fake websites claiming to offer a downloadable GTA 6 demo, but Rockstar has not released any playable build. These sites are designed to trick eager fans into downloading malware disguised as game files.
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced that Amazon is now part of YouTube's e-commerce affiliate network, letting eligible U.S. creators tag Amazon products in long-form videos, livestreams, and Shorts. Creators will earn commissions when viewers buy tagged items, expanding an affiliate program YouTube launched in 2022.
Rockstar Games hosted a 26-minute Netflix livestream titled 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look,' showing gameplay, cutscenes, and mechanics for its long-awaited sequel. The presentation confirmed players will control two lead characters, Jason and Lucia, as they navigate a richly detailed, satirical version of Miami called Vice City. The reveal followed a week of leaks from a hacker group Rockstar called 'heartbreaking,' plus a separate report detailing the game's technical ambitions.
WIRED's Uncanny Valley podcast reports that despite the US-China AI rivalry over chips and model performance, researchers from both countries are beginning informal cooperation on AI safety. Senior writer Will Knight, who recently traveled to China, discusses growing concern over increasingly capable AI agents that can autonomously act, including hacking systems, and why that risk may push rival nations toward collaboration.