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Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Marvel’s launching a new comics app developed with Webtoon on November 16th.

The revamped Marvel Comics app will include archived and current comic books, with new issues arriving as soon as 30 days after their print release. It’s replacing Marvel Unlimited, which will shut down on December 28th, but Marvel says you’ll be able to transfer your library to the new app after it launches.

Mia Sato
Mia Sato
TikTok is adding even more shopping features.

Users will soon be able to shop from other retailers without leaving TikTok, as well as use an AI chatbot to find and purchase products.

TikTok is often associated with short form video, but it has also reshaped the online shopping landscape. As I wrote last year, scrolling has become synonymous with shopping, and perhaps more than any other platform, TikTok has figured out how to bridge the gap.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Production on The Batman Part II has been paused.

Director Matt Reeves is temporarily stepping away to focus on a “family matter,” according to a statement given to Deadline. The film is scheduled to release on February 18th, 2028, following some delays, though Deadline reports that “Sources say it is too early to say whether the stoppage will have an effect on the release date.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Arc Raiders and The Finals are getting movie and TV adaptations.

Variety and GamesBeat reported on the news, though it’s unclear when the films or TV shows may actually be coming out. The two games have been big hits for Embark Studios.

Update, October 6th: Added Nexon’s press release.

David Pierce
David Pierce
Our Googlebooks have landed.

A few of us in the newsroom got a Monday morning delivery of Google-powered laptops, and we’re starting to set them up. (All five of them!) We have lots of testing to do, and lots of questions to answer. Questions like, do I actually want Android apps on my laptop? But we also want to know what you want to know! If you have questions, drop ‘em here — we’ll answer as many as we can here, and in all our coverage this week.

(Also, if you buy one, tell us which one and why. And whether the people at Best Buy had any idea what you were talking about.)

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Meta reportedly made a “mad dash” to fix a Muse AI breakout bug weeks before launch.

The vulnerability could have allowed Meta’s buzzy AI assistant to escape its virtual machine and access the company’s databases and services, a source tells 404 Media:

The Meta source said they felt security teams were asked to push hot fixes to these bugs as quickly as possible and in a way that wouldn’t delay Muse’s launch, leading to what they described as “half-baked protections being rushed out to enable the launch.”

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat.

As reported by the Gulf Coast News network, Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot flagged a conversation with 30-year-old Carli Michelle Heller after she allegedly made violent threats toward the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Human reviewers then viewed the messages and reported them to police, the report says.