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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Apple acquired a color grading tool made by a single developer.

In a January filing spotted by MacRumors, Apple disclosed its purchase of Color.io — a grading tool used by filmmakers and photographers — and the hiring of its sole developer. Color.io shut down last year after its creator, Jonathan Ochmann, said he’s “been offered an opportunity to work alongside a company whose products have shaped and inspired me.”

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Molo is not doing especially impressive lawyering here.

It’s funny that he’s on the team alleging money overrode ethics, because, well, I guess it takes one to know one? Throughout the case, we’ve seen a number of own goals from the Musk team. This morning, when the Musk team was requesting to ask questions about safety concerns with AI, YGR snapped, “What else do you think you want to do? Because you do not want to be held in contempt I guarantee you.” She’s tough with lawyers as a general rule, but woof.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
“The Netflix Effect.”

Netflix launched a new website in an attempt to highlight the impact of its films and TV shows over the past decade. Some stats shared by the streamer say Netflix contributed $325 billion to the global economy and created over 425,000 jobs for actors, writers, directors, researchers, and VFX artists.

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Molo asked Altman if he’d ever fire himself as CEO of the OpenAI for-profit.

“I have no current plans to do so,” Altman replied, adding, “I’ve never thought about it before.”

Cameron Faulkner
Cameron Faulkner
I’m living for the anti-AI Hacks media tour.

Clips of Hacks creators Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky, and Paul W. Downs are making the rounds as they promote the (amazing) HBO Max show’s final season. They have a unified message about using AI for creative purposes: “It’s so deeply offensive to me on every level,” says Aniello in an interview at Wired. “The grist and the struggle and the friction, it’s what makes art good,” says Statsky in an On with Kara Swisher appearance.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Google-powered cars will predictively nudge you to switch lanes.

Amidst the biggest update to Android Auto in 10 years, here’s one more feature we spotted on the Android Show: it uses your car’s front camera to predict when to move over. (What would it look for?) Only for select Google Built-in cars, not vanilla Android Auto.

Google’s Guemmy Kim introduced the new features.
Google’s Guemmy Kim introduced the new features.
Image: Google
Cameron Faulkner
Cameron Faulkner
A good reason to wait a few weeks to buy a Nintendo Switch 2.

In early June, Nintendo will start selling “Choose Your Game” Switch 2 bundles for $499.99 that include one of three excellent games. You can choose between Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Pokémon Pokopia. It’s a savings of up to $29.99 on your first game, and a smart purchase ahead of the console’s planned price increase in September.

Image: Nintendo
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google may work with SpaceX to launch data centers into space.
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Mr. Molo is going directly in at Altman: “Do you always tell the truth?”

“I believe I am an honest and trustworthy businessperson,” Altman says. We are now hearing about Ilya Sutskever’s testimony that he thought Altman was dishonest, and Mira Mirati’s as well. Altman is responding to this with confusion, seems hurt, and is speaking very softly.

TC Sottek
TC Sottek
Google, please, leave our sassy cat alone.

Google just introduced new 3D emoji which are causing quite a stir in our newsroom. (Early reviews from our staff aren’t great.)

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Hours after acknowledging an outage, Spotify says things are “all clear.”

Spotify initially acknowledged there were “some issues” with the app at 12:49PM ET and gave the all clear at 4:57PM ET.

Update: Spotify says things are fixed.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Apple will let developers offer subscriptions with a 12-month commitment.

In theory, this means you could get a subscription with a reduced annual fee but without having to pay for the full subscription in one go. The new type of subscriptions are available on iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, macOS Tahoe 26.4, tvOS 26.4, and visionOS 26.4 or newer, Apple says.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Android is getting better for creators.

Adobe’s updated Premiere video editing app, which launched on iOS last September, will finally arrive on Android “this summer.” It’ll include some Android-exclusive templates and effects designed for YouTube Shorts.

There are also Android-exclusive tools coming to Instagram’s Edits app, including AI upscaling and automatic audio track separation.