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Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web
The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models (LLMs) training on copyrighted work - but not chatbots regurgitating that work to users. An overly black-and-white ruling, it says, could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI-based tools or endanger the open web. In an amicus brief filed Friday, the nonprofit…
Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.
GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinical psychologists, they can represent something more sinister—a potential trigger for eating disorders. A new report suggests that the global incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa shot up between 1990 and 2023—by a whopping 71%. By 2023, there were an estimated 18.1 million people living with one of…
Community safety report and new protections for teens
OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.
Binance hacked for an estimated $6.3 billion in record crypto theft
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been hit with a record $6.3 billion hack.
This Google Photos bug made edited photos disappear, and there’s finally a fix
TL;DR Google Photos has fixed a bug that made edited pictures disappear from other Android apps. The issue affected photo pickers and apps like Google Messages, Gemini, and WhatsApp. The fix is available in Google Photos v7.97. Your perfectly edited photo is ready for its grand WhatsApp debut. You open the app, tap the image picker, and suddenly your masterpiece pulls a disappearing act. No warning, no error…
General Motors agrees to pay $220 million to settle multi-state data privacy lawsuit
GM has settled the Smart Driver program lawsuit brought by 35 attorneys general.
Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost
Samaya AI has released Samaya Sterling , a post-trained model for agentic financial research. Sterling is built on NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Lightning , a 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters. On Samaya’s FrontierFinance benchmark , it scores 58.9%. Claude Fable 5.1 scores 55.9%. Each Sterling question costs $0.61, against $6.89 for Fable 5.1. For developers, the takeaway is a concrete recipe: co-train…
Samsung’s next foldable is here, and it’s even more expensive than the iPhone Duo
Credit: Samsung China TL;DR Samsung has launched the W27 foldable phone in China. This is effectively a Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra with a high-end design. The Samsung W27 starts at ~$2,852 for the 16GB/512GB model. Samsung usually releases China-exclusive variants of its Galaxy Z Fold line each year, complete with swanky designs. The company teased the arrival of the Samsung W27 a few days ago, and it’s now made the…
Waymo taps Toyota to supply robotaxis for Japan and the U.K.
Waymo will begin testing self-driving versions of Toyota's electric bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year as part of a broader partnership with the automaker.
Google is giving Gemini’s overlay a literal sparkle on your Android phone
TL;DR Google is rolling out a new Gemini overlay animation to all Android phones. The animation uses Google’s Neural Expressive design language and gives Gemini an ethereal look. The redesign is rolling out as part of a Google app update. Google loves redesigning things, and Gemini is one of the things it loves redesigning the most. We’ve already seen the company experiment with new animations for Circle to Search…
Motorola finally puts a date on its Galaxy Ultra challenger
TL;DR Motorola has officially confirmed that the Signature 27 will launch on November 5. The phone’s US landing page is live, showcasing its premium design and flagship hardware. A Geekbench listing reveals more performance details, but pricing remains under wraps. The original Motorola Signature had the looks and the hardware to rub shoulders with Android’s finest, but American buyers never got an invitation. Its…
Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model
Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic , an open-weight text-to-speech model for zero-shot voice cloning. Audio8-TTS-Realistic is a 0.6B-parameter model that clones a voice from 1 reference clip and transcript. It supports 23 languages, 12 more than its predecessor. The weights and code ship under Apache 2.0 . For developers, the catch is competitive multilingual accuracy at a size that is cheap to fine-tune and…
Gemini’s latest integration can tell you if you’re getting faster, one run at a time
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Strava subscribers can now connect their accounts to Google Gemini for personalized fitness and training insights. Gemini can analyze race performance, compare personal records, track activity streaks, and assess how weather affects workouts. The integration is read-only and rolling out in the US, with no confirmed availability date for other markets. Strava is…
Reddit is coming for logged-out browsing, and users aren’t having it
TL;DR Reddit plans to shift to a primarily logged-in experience, potentially limiting how people browse the platform without an account. Nearly 59% of Reddit’s daily active uniques were logged out in Q3 2026, meaning the change could affect the majority of its audience. Reddit will begin testing the changes in select markets outside the US, but users are already pushing back against the idea. Reddit’s about to look…
Android 17 is barely making a dent as Android 11 still powers 10% of phones
Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 is now the most widely used Android version, accounting for 25.4% of active devices, up from 7.5% in December 2025. Android 17 has reached just 1% adoption, despite becoming available in June 2026, and even Android 8.1 has a larger share. Android fragmentation remains a problem, with 43.6% of active devices still running Android 13 or older. Android 16 has…
Apple’s best MacBook Pro decision this week had nothing to do with touch
Apple’s new touchscreen MacBook Pro brings plenty of welcome upgrades, but one of the best things about this week’s launch is what the company decided not to change. more…
You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work
David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace.
Apple TV’s new crime thriller series ‘Nocturne’ is now streaming
The first two episodes for Apple TV’s latest crime thriller, “ Nocturne ,” are now available to stream. Watch the trailer below. more…
9to5Mac Daily: October 29, 2026 – New MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac . 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app , Stitcher , TuneIn , Google Play , or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze : Backup you can rely on. Save 20% with code 9to5daily . more…
Google confirms: Fix is in the works for Pixel Watch extreme battery drain issue
TL;DR Pixel Watch owners have been complaining about their battery life suddenly taking a nose dive. Multiple generations of watches have been impacted, making this look like a software issue, rather than hardware failure. Google now confirms that it’s identified the problem, and is developing a fix. Smartwatches are great, but battery life continues to be a problem. Sure, they can do a lot, but what good is all…
Fair use benefits everyone
OpenAI shares excerpts from court briefs by creators, academics, accessibility advocates, and legal experts, among others, on how fair use supports AI training and innovation.
The director of Obsession put a new horror short on YouTube
Curry Barker, the director behind the hit horror film Obsession , just published a new horror short on YouTube. The short, titled "Mama Bear," is nearly five minutes long. The video is pretty unnerving, and fair warning that it gets a little graphic, but it's a fun one to watch if you're looking for something scary ahead of Halloween on Saturday. Barker wrote, directed, and edited "Mama Bear," according to the…
Andy Jassy says Prime Video is on track to earn ‘tens of billions of dollars’
The success of blockbuster hits like Project Hail Mary and Verity is only part of the story, Amazon's CEO says.
AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.
Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.