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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google is “looking into” a vague AI search response about who won the 2020 US election.

“The Gemini app answers this question more fully but this isn’t the most helpful response on Search,” Google says in a response to the Bluesky user who posted the unhelpful search answer. “We’re looking into this and working to address it.”

A few of us at The Verge weren’t able to recreate it, but Ars Technica has a good rundown of the situation with some of its own testing.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Amazon cut about 250 jobs from its devices team just weeks after launching a bunch of new devices.

In the last 30 days Amazon has launched new tablets, a new Kindle, a picture frame, and multiple new Echo devices. Now the company is cutting around 250 positions from its devices and services team, though Reuters says they’re primarily focused on software development. Amazon did not confirm a reason for the layoffs, but developers are facing increased pressure from increasingly advanced AI coding tools.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The All-In guys can’t stick to SI.

As reported by Semafor, the hosts of the popular podcast haven’t been using President Trump’s preferred “super intelligence” word for AI as much as they did at the beginning of the month.

Hands-on with the new OLED iPad MiniHands-on with the new OLED iPad Mini
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto and Jay Peters
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Pixar’s new short is a stylishly un-Pixar-like slice of life.

The studio’s two-minute Driving Lesson appears to be an actual recording of a mother giving her child their first driving lesson. The animation has a real tactile feel, almost like a photocopy, rendered in muted reds and blues. It’s easily the most un-Pixar-like thing Pixar has ever made. Even the aspect ratio is weird!

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
OpenAI now lets you text your Dot.

OpenAI had promised this was coming for its AI agents, but now the feature is here. You can text through iMessage or RCS, OpenAI says. It’s rolling out in preview for US Pro users.

Victoria Song
Victoria Song
RFK Jr. unilaterally gives the OK for some unapproved peptides.

Oh boy. This move refers to BPC-157, TB-500, Mots-C, KPV, epitalon, and semax. A document outlining the decision indicates that this seems to be the Health Secretary’s call, even though FDA scientists advised against it in July. This broadens access, but still requires a patient-specific prescription and adverse reporting.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Can we please stop with the hands?

First X, now Apple’s website? That’s enough hands on my internet today, thank you.

An image of Apple’s Mac lineup, with a hand pointing at the new MacBook Pro.
Image: Apple
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Apple’s polishing cloth adds critical support for the new touchscreen MacBook Pro.

Now that pixel-pushers, editors, musicians, and artists will have their fingers all over the new MacBook Pro’s screen, Apple has updated the listing for its $9 polishing cloth to include support for eradicating fingerprints from that PROLED XDR display.

Apple’s polishing cloth overlaid on a MacBook pro laptop screen.
Image: Apple