The company’s first chief technology officer (CTO), Francis Shanahan, has a remit “to focus on artificial intelligence efforts,” announced alongside a new head of marketing. New-ish CEO Peter Stern has already said AI “has the potential to give humans superpowers,” which in Peloton’s case so far means personalized workout plans and AI-powered subtitles for classes.
Then bring suitcases full of hard drives to the AI chips. That’s what some Chinese engineers have reportedly taken to amid efforts to skirt the US ban on selling training chips to China, manually moving terabytes of data to Malaysia to build an AI model there.
Developers are already barred from publishing new AndroidX or Wearable Support Library on the Play Store, and starting January 14th, 2026, users will no longer be able to install new legacy watch faces, nor will developers be able to publish updates for them, Google says.
[android-developers.googleblog.com]
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Ten more states joined the suit filed today against President Trump and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Congress recently voted to revoke EPA waivers that allow California to set tougher air pollution standards for vehicles than the nation as a whole, in what the plaintiffs allege was an unlawful use of the Congressional Review Act.
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The Switch 2 is bigger than the original, but how does it compare to a GameCube?
Founder Carl Pei had already teased as much, but now it’s official: when the phone launches next month it’ll go on sale at Amazon and Nothing’s own store. It won’t be available direct from carriers, but will support AT&T and T-Mobile, 4G and 5G. The same was true of 2023’s Phone 2, and that was mostly fine on Verizon too.
Oh, and don’t worry — Nothing’s first over-ear headphones are getting a North American release too.
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