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Epic reaches a settlement with Samsung, which it sued over allegedly conspiring with Google to undermine third party app stores (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/analysis/699541/epic-games-settle-samsung-auto-blocker-lawsui…

Epic reaches mystery settlement with Samsung days before new Galaxy phones
Epic Games has dropped all its claims against Samsung, saying it’s reached a settlement, days before Samsung is due to announce new phones at Samsung Unpacked.

https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/754647/microsoft-grok-4-roll-out-private-preview-notepad?utm_content=buffer2ce4c&…

Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Microsoft is taking a careful approach with rolling out Grok 4 on Azure AI Foundry. It’s working on a private preview for a handful of customers.

Truth Social launches a Perplexity-powered AI search feature that consistently references Trump-supporting media including Fox News and The Washington Times (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/753863/trump-truth-social-ai-s…

Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News
Donald Trump’s media company is beta-testing a new AI search feature on Truth Social that’s seemingly biased towards conservative media sources.

Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications, letting users receive notifications of new posts and replies from selected accounts, as it expands its sports presence (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/699671/bluesky-push-n…

Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications
Bluesky’s latest update added more notification settings, as well as activity notifications to see whenever certain accounts have a new post.

Waymo introduces teen accounts in Phoenix, allowing teenagers aged 14-17 to use its Waymo One ridehailing service alone with parental approval (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/699580/waymo-teen-account-phoenix

Waymo introduces teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix
Waymo is introducing teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix. Kids as young as 14 can create an account that’s linked to their parent or guardian.

Sources detail Google's struggles to monetize Google TV, which has been costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars annually and has yet to break even (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/lowpass-newsletter/724970/google-tv-ad…

Google TV’s uncertain future
Google isn’t very good at selling ads for its own smart TV platform, Google TV.

Microsoft showcases a new fullscreen Xbox experience optimized for handhelds, coming first to the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X and to other handhelds in 2026 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/682011/microsof…

This is how Microsoft is combining Windows and Xbox for handheld PCs
Microsoft has worked with Asus to launch two new Xbox Ally devices. Both include improvements to Windows on handhelds with a full-screen Xbox experience.

During the GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed two charts whose scales were all over the place, with Sam Altman later calling one "a mega chart screwup from us" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/756444/openai-gpt-5-vibe-graphing-chart-crim…

OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing
During its big GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed off a few charts that seemed to have some big mistakes. CEO Sam Altman called one a “screwup.”

A now-deleted GitHub blog post reveals GPT-5, available as gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, and gpt-5-chat with "major improvements" in reasoning, code, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/752091/openai-gpt-5-model-announceme…

OpenAI’s new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub
OpenAI’s GPT-5 announcement has been leaked early by GitHub. A now-deleted blog post reveals there are four GPT-5 model variants on the way.

OnePlus launches five products: the midrange €449 Nord 5 smartphone, the €349 Nord CE 5, a smaller €299 Watch 3 wearable, the €119 Buds 4, and the €229 Pad Lite (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/700339/oneplus-watch-3-4…

OnePlus launches five new products, including Buds 4 and smaller Watch 3 for the US
The Nord 5 and Nord CE 5 phones and Pad Lite tablet are all headed to Europe and India.