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Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Bernie Sanders rallies with labor leaders for AI protections and tells oligarchs, ‘Go to hell.’

Union leaders across industries joined the Vermont senator to push for jobs protections as the technology quickly evolves. Sanders has called for a pause on data center construction and warned that left unchecked, within ten years, “the idea of a manufacturing job will no longer exist.”

Cameron Faulkner
Cameron Faulkner
Turtle Beach’s new flagship gaming headset seems a lot like that other one.

Remember the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless that launched in 2022? It has swappable batteries, ANC, a wireless hub for transmitting audio from multiple sources, simultaneous 2.4GHz and Bluetooth audio — the works. So does the new Stealth Pro II that’s up for preorder now. Notably, it also supports Hi-Res Audio over wireless, an impressive feat at $349.99.

Image: Turtle Beach
Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Some Pennsylvania poll workers will be barred from prediction market election betting.

Delaware County is updating poll workers’ oath to bar election bets on platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, Spotlight PA reports. “I think they’re a pernicious, horrible factor and I don’t think elections should be bet on in one shape or form,” the county’s elections director Jim Allen said.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Call of Duty movie has a release date, but it’s far away.

The movie, which Activision and Paramount announced last year, is scheduled to hit theaters on June 30th, 2028. It’s set to be written, directed, and produced by Peter Berg, with Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan also onboard to write and produce.

Graphic showing the Call of Duty logo and a message “in theaters June 30th 2028”
Image: Activision
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Some fresh Playdate news.

Panic’s little yellow handheld got a big boost last year with its second season of games, and now it’s confirmed that we’ll get season 3 at the end of 2026 The company also announced a new educational initiative so that the device can be used to teach game design and programming.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
It’s getting easier for Android devs to code with AI agents.

Along with an upgraded Android CLI, Google is launching a new Android skills GitHub repository and an Android Knowledge base, which can provide AI agents with the information and resources they need to perform coding tasks.

Android CLI.
Android CLI.
Image: Google
OpenAI’s big Codex update is a direct shot at Claude Code

Codex can now use your macOS apps on its own.

Robert Hart
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Google is reportedly in talks to let the Pentagon use Gemini in clasified settings.

The company is apparently reversing course in its approach to military dealings. Google currently has a contract that allows the DOD to use Gemini for “all lawful purposes,” but only in unclassified settings. According to The Information:

Google’s proposed contract language appears to mirror the terms OpenAI secured in an agreement it struck with the Pentagon over the use of its AI earlier this year… However, lawyers also said at the time that language in OpenAI’s contract that seemed to preclude the use of its AI for fully autonomous lethal weapons and mass domestic surveillance wouldn’t necessarily prevent those applications because OpenAI also agreed that its technology could be used for “all lawful purposes.”

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams is hosting Netflix’s latest original podcast.

We’re Back! With Brian Williams is among a handful of new shows coming to the platform including Allegedly, Shut Up Evan, The Puzzle Room with David Kwong, and The Rotten Files. They’ll join the streamer’s growing library of video “podcasts,” which are only available on Netflix, with no RSS feed downloads.

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