Jul 15, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
GameNative, a popular PC game emulator for Android, has released a pre-update that integrates Nexus Mods directly into the app. Users can now import, download, enable, and disable mods for thousands of PC games. The update also adds multiplayer controller support for up to four players and a new recommendations tab powered by GOG.
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Jul 15, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
OpenAI is developing its first hardware device: a movable, screenless smart speaker that acts as a physical embodiment of ChatGPT. Featuring cameras, sensors, and personalization capabilities, it aims to become a proactive home AI companion. Bloomberg reports the device could be unveiled later this year and released in 2027, though plans may shift due to an ongoing Apple lawsuit.
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Jul 15, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Samsung Health users were alarmed by a warning that opting out of AI training would delete their health data and disable syncing. Samsung now clarifies the warning only refers to data separately collected for AI development purposes, not the health data used for the app's core services. Testing confirms no disruption to functionality after opting out.
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Jul 15, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Google celebrates 25 years of Google Images by rolling out a complete redesign of the visual search experience, featuring a dynamic, personalized homepage and AI-powered image generation directly within AI Overviews. The update introduces a real-time gallery tailored to user interests and Collections, while the Nano Banana model enables users to generate custom images from text prompts. This marks the biggest visual search overhaul in years, blending discovery with creation seamlessly.
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Jul 15, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Spotify has announced a new conversational AI feature called 'Talk to Spotify' that places a text-and-voice chatbot directly in its app. The feature allows Premium subscribers to control playback, save songs, ask trivia, and analyze their listening history using natural language. It is currently rolling out in beta to English-speaking users in select countries on both iOS and Android.
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Jul 14, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Meta has pulled a controversial AI feature that let Instagram users modify images from public accounts without notification. The tool, part of the new Muse Image generator, faced immediate backlash over privacy and potential misuse, including non-consensual image editing. Meta acknowledged the feature 'missed the mark' and removed it, but concerns about AI on social media persist.
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Jul 14, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Meta launched Muse Image, an AI feature that uses public Instagram photos to generate images. Users can opt out by toggling a setting in Sharing and reuse. The tool raises major consent and privacy issues, especially given Meta's past with Cambridge Analytica and the $5B FTC fine.
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Jul 14, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
In a surprising blog post, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that companies using proprietary AI models are paying twice – with money and with their sensitive business data. He argues that model makers could use this data to become competitors. Nadella urges enterprises to retain ownership of their data and build private learning environments on the cloud. This has sparked a shift towards open-source models run on-premises, as seen with companies like Solo.io and Vercel.
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Jul 13, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Google and OpenAI are rolling out SynthID watermarking to more platforms, while Meta adopts C2PA for camera images. These moves could prove whether AI labeling systems can effectively combat deepfakes, though significant hurdles remain including metadata stripping and limited adoption by open-source models.
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