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Joe and Anthony Russo, who previously helmed several Marvel blockbusters, are returning to direct 'Avengers: Doomsday.' The directors say their motivation to rejoin the Marvel Cinematic Universe stems from a fresh creative approach rather than simply reprising past formulas.
The UN Environment Program's new Limiting Overshoot report acknowledges that global temperatures will rise past the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C threshold, and instead focuses on how to minimize the severity and duration of that overshoot. The plan calls for nations to simultaneously cut greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero and deploy large-scale carbon dioxide removal, treating the latter as a supplement rather than a substitute for emissions cuts.
Apple TV's new action-comedy Mayday, starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh and directed by the Game Night team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, premieres September 4. Early reviews from outlets like JoBlo, Empire, and The Hollywood Reporter praise its action sequences, humor, and the leads' chemistry, with several critics noting it feels strong enough to have warranted a theatrical release.
Google has shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash-tier model in six weeks, built to handle complex agentic workflows more effectively than earlier versions. Alongside it, the company introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a specialized version aimed at vulnerability detection and automated patching, though that variant is currently restricted to participants in Google's Fairwind Program.
The Trump administration filed a court brief supporting OpenAI in its ongoing copyright dispute with publishers over AI training data. Officials argued that restricting AI firms' access to content for training purposes could pose national security risks.
Apple's iOS 27 update includes three specific fixes for the Mail app: more accurate unread message badges, faster loading of messages, and improved search indexing reliability. These changes were included alongside a long list of quality-of-life improvements Apple presented during the iOS 27 announcement.
The federal government filed a letter in court supporting OpenAI and Microsoft against the New York Times' 2023 copyright lawsuit over AI training data. The filing argues that using copyrighted articles to train large language models qualifies as fair use because it is 'extraordinarily transformative' and doesn't directly compete with the Times' journalism.
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest in New York federal court supporting OpenAI's argument that training AI models on copyrighted news content qualifies as fair use. The filing addresses lawsuits brought by The New York Times and Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, which accuse OpenAI of infringing their copyrighted material to build ChatGPT.
A follow-up Wireshark analysis of Firefox 155 confirms an earlier finding: toggling off Mozilla's AI kill switch disables generative AI features but does nothing to stop background telemetry or advertising data collection. The retest comes six months after Mozilla's CEO publicly called the AI switch one of the browser's most important features, even as onboarding flows never mention what the control actually covers.
A contributor for Entrepreneur argues that small business owners who initially manage marketing themselves often hit a ceiling as their companies grow and technical demands multiply. The piece describes how tasks like website maintenance, SEO, video editing and social scheduling can overwhelm a single in-house coordinator, leaving no time for strategy or new campaigns.
Russian startup Mostik has developed a method allowing AI models to exchange information through their internal weight values rather than generated text, effectively letting a smaller model absorb capabilities from a larger one. The team demonstrated this by linking a 753-billion-parameter GLM-5.2 model with a 4-billion-parameter Qwen-3.5 model, producing a hybrid system that runs at one-twentieth the cost of the full-size model while performing roughly midway between the two in capability. Mostik also used a related technique to build a model that has topped the ARC-AGI 3 benchmark, though details remain undisclosed while the contest is ongoing.
An early build of Google's Device Intelligence app, discovered ahead of the Googlebook laptop launch, reveals an opt-in feature that automatically groups related local files into topic-based collections, such as trip planning documents. These collections can be viewed through desktop widgets, and Google states the sorting happens on-device without files leaving the machine or being used for AI training.