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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Epic Games announces that Fortnite is back on the App Store in the US for iPhone and iPad users, and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the EU — After a nearly five-year hiatus, Fortnite is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users in the United States.
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Mastodon: @johnvoorhees@mastodon …. X: @fortnite, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @donaldmustard, @aaronp613, @aaronp613, @drbarnard, @jason_kint, @rjonesy, @zollotech, @zaidjilani, @nickeh30, @shiinabr, @mgsiegler, @markgurman, @loudmouthjulia, and @markgurman. LinkedIn: Adam Smith
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, and r/FortNiteBR
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Google's AI Mode, its chatbot for Search, rolls out to everyone in the US and will include features like Deep Search, agentic capabilities, and chart generation — Google has begun rolling out AI Mode to every Search user in the US. The company announced the expansion during its I/O 2025 conference.
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Threads: @that.map.guy.craig. X: @modestproposal1, @officiallogank, @mgsiegler, @stevesi, @munster_gene, @benbajarin, @loudmouthjulia, and @officiallogank
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google says Project Astra will power new capabilities in Search, including a new Search Live feature, as well as in the Gemini AI app and third-party products — Google announced on Tuesday during Google I/O 2025 that Project Astra — the company's low latency, multimodal AI experience …
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Bluesky: @danhon.com and @hypervisible
| Google on YouTube: |
A recording of the Google I/O 2025 keynote — It's time to I/O! Tune in to learn the latest news, announcements, and AI updates from Google.
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Bluesky: @reckless, @parkerortolani.com, @mgsiegler.com, @fredericl, and @mgsiegler.com
Threads: @natolambert, @benedictevans, and @wongmjane
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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Threads: @max.zeff. X: @lkshaas, @maxwinebach, @loudmouthjulia, @natolambert, @fofrai, and @thexeophon
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/Bard, and r/mlscaling
| CNBC: |
Google announces new video and image generation models Veo 3 and Imagen 4, alongside a new AI filmmaking tool Flow and expanded access to Lyria 2 — Google on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio. — The artificial intelligence tool competes …
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X: @mattshumer_, @ednewtonrex, @nearcyan, @mkbhd, @swyx, @mattvidpro, @google, @kylebrussell, @saboo_shubham_, @googledeepmind, @teodor_io, and @google. LinkedIn: Jeff Chang
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts Deep Think, an enhanced reasoning mode in Gemini 2.5 Pro that it says excels at math and coding, available to “trusted testers” via the Gemini API — Google is moving closer to its goal of a “universal AI assistant” that can understand context, plan and take action.
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X: @officiallogank, @archit_sharma97, @mattturck, @natolambert, @jack_w_rae, @googledeepmind, @erikbryn, and @tunguz. LinkedIn: Thomas Kurian. Forums: Hacker News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google launches SynthID Detector, a verification portal that lets users upload files and tries to identify if they contain content made with Google AI — Google is launching a way to quickly check whether an image, video, audio file, or snippet of text was created using one of its AI tools.
More: The Keyword, How-To Geek, Decrypt, Google DeepMind, Engadget, Forbes, and Neowin
| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
| Michael L Hicks / Android Central: |
Hands-on with Google's Android XR Gemini-powered prototype glasses: they are light and comfortable to wear, and the single display in the right lens works well — Google's Android XR glasses prototype worked surprisingly well in my quick press demo. — I got hands-on time with Google's prototype AR glasses at Google I/O 2025.| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Google says it is partnering with Samsung, Gentle Monster, Xreal, and Warby Parker to create Android XR smart glasses, offering AI assistance via Gemini — With smart glasses, Google seems to be taking a page out of Meta and Ray-Ban's book. … Google's second era of smart glasses is off to a chic start.
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Google commits up to $150M, including $75M for product development and commercialization, as part of its partnership with Warby Parker to make smart glasses — Warby Parker shares surged 15.6% after Google announced a smart glasses partnership at the tech company's annual I/O developer conference.
More: Business Wire, The Information, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, and TechCrunch. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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Threads: @michaelbtech. X: @scobleizer, @heaney555, @markgurman, @parkerortolani, @heaney555, @mikeisaac, @arian_ghashghai, @heaney555, @scobleizer, and @xreal_global. Forums: r/Android
| Amanda Kooser / CNET: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google says Gmail's smart replies will use AI to pull context from a user's inbox and Drive, launch in Google Labs in July, and be available first in English — Smart replies are getting smarter. … Gmail's smart replies, which suggest potential replies to your emails …
More: Google Workspace Blog, SiliconANGLE, PCWorld, Digit, Mashable, and Android Authority
| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
More: Hindustan Times, XDA Developers, CNET, and 9to5Google
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out Project Mariner, its web-browsing AI agent, to Google's AI Ultra plan, and brings its capabilities to the Gemini API and Vertex AI — Google announced during Google I/O 2025 that it's rolling out Project Mariner, the company's experimental AI agent that browses and uses websites, to more users and developers.
More: Engadget, 9to5Google, Investor's Business Daily, and Android Central
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to unveil at WWDC an SDK and related frameworks to let third-party devs build AI features based on LLMs it uses for Apple Intelligence — Apple Inc. is preparing to allow third-party developers to write software using its artificial intelligence models … | Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Matthew Lane, a 19-year-old from Massachusetts, pleads guilty to hacking two US companies and extorting them for ransoms; source: one of them is PowerSchool — The Massachusetts man agreed to plead guilty to obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
More: US Department of Justice, BleepingComputer, CyberScoop, and Reuters
| CNBC: |
Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo has reached 10M paid trips, doubling in the past five months, and that the company is not yet profitable — Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana told CNBC on Tuesday that the Alphabet-owned ride-hailing company has reached 10 million trips, doubling in the past five months.| Charles Szumski / Euractiv: |
Sweden passes a law criminalizing the purchase of live online sexual performances, including cam shows and sex chats; buying pre-recorded content remains legal — The new law criminalises paid online sexual services, including cam shows and sex chats. — Based on facts, either observed …
More: USA Today and New York Post
Bluesky: @mikestabile, @mikestabile, @esqueer.net, and @mmasnick
Forums: r/europe, r/portugueses, and r/brasil
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The ad-supported web is dying, and the next development to accelerate this may be the agentic web, which Microsoft is pushing via NLWeb and MCP support — Ethan Zuckerman wrote in The Atlantic in 2014: … Marc Andreessen, who was there when the web was born, explained in a 2019 podcast …
More: The Verge. Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @noupside, @glinden, @miasato, and @nycsouthpaw
X: @sriramk, @jeffjohnroberts, @stratechery, @dkthomp, and @packym
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $2.29B, vs. $2.28B est., net income down 6% to $262.1M, and non-GAAP gross margin of 76%, vs. 77.2% est. — Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the latest quarter but its gross margin was below estimates.| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Civitai blames a “configuration issue” for allowing users to generate non-consensual porn; it appears that users can still create such videos of non-celebrities — 404 Media found that people were using Civitai to create nonconsensual AI porn videos of anyone for a small price.Sponsor Posts
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