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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Meta wants March’s big social media addiction ruling to be thrown out.

According to Reuters, Meta filed to ask a judge to toss out the jury’s March verdict, which found that Meta (and YouTube) were negligent.

Meta had said at the time of the ruling that it planned to appeal. Google also said it plans to appeal.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Stranger Than Heaven looks incredibly ambitious.

The upcoming crime drama from Yakuza developer RGG Studio spans five decades and five different cities, and this new deep dive gives a good sense of what to expect — including a slick smuggler played by Snoop Dogg. No release date, but the game is launching in the winter, a very competitive window.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Nintendo’s new Star Fox game lets you play as virtual avatars of Fox and other characters.

When using GameChat, you can appear as an interactive avatar “that mirrors your expressions and movements,” Nintendo says. There are also AR filters that let you add “a pair of Star Fox-like ears or a Falco-inspired beak that moves when you talk.”

Check the avatars out in Nintendo’s Star Fox direct, or in the image and GIF below. Very silly. The game launches on June 25th.

A screenshot of Star Fox’s virtual avatar next to a real person.
A GIF showing Star Fox’s virtual avatar feature.
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Click the arrow to see a GIF of the avatar in motion.
Image: Nintendo
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Nintendo surprise-announced a Star Fox Direct.

It starts at 6PM ET / 3PM ET today — yes, that’s five minutes from now. You can watch it on YouTube. The show will last about 15 minutes, Nintendo says.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Warner Bros. Discovery posted a $2.9 billion loss this quarter.

The $2.8 billion breakup fee paid to Netflix makes up most of this loss, but it also includes $1.3 billion in other expenses related to its merger with Paramount. As noted by CNBC, Paramount agreed to cover the hefty termination fee, “but the cost lives on WBD’s books until the close of the deal.”

Victoria Song
Victoria Song
Snap says its relationship with Perplexity ended ‘amicably.’

In its Q1 2026 investor letter, it advised analysts not to expect any contribution from Perplexity in its revenue guidance. The latter was supposed to have powered Snap’s AI search, but alas. The letter also hinted at more Specs news in June, because “intelligent eyewear” is still very much on the company’s agenda.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
TikTok is scaling back its AI-powered video summaries.

A TikTok spokesperson tells Business Insider that the feature will now identify products in a video, instead of attempting to summarize what happens in it.

Users have reported some wildly inaccurate AI video descriptions, like one that described Charli D’Amelio as a “collection of various blueberries with different toppings,” according to Business Insider.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
xAI is becoming SpaceXAI.

In Wednesday’s annoucement of its compute partnership with Anthropic, the company formerly known as xAI referred to itself as “SpaceXAI.” It was the first time I had seen that name, and while I don’t think it’s a good one, it made some sense following SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI.

According to Elon Musk, “xAI will be dissolved as a separate company, so it will just be SpaceXAI, the AI products from SpaceX.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Supreme Court denies Apple’s latest request.

Apple had asked the court for a stay in a mandate from the Ninth Circuit appeals court sending the case to back to district court to figure out how much of a fee Apple can charge on purchases out of the App Store. But Reuters reports that Justice Elena Kagan declined to pause the ruling. Epic, perhaps unsurprisingly, seems happy.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Microsoft would like to be excluded from this narrative.

Every time a MSFT lawyer gets up to question a witness in Musk v. Altman, it’s “And Microsoft wasn’t there?” with an occasional addition of “And Satya Nadella wasn’t there either?” This gets funnier every time it happens.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
OpenAI is teaming up with other companies to improve supercomputer networking for AI training.

OpenAI says it partnered with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA on a protocol called Multipath Reliable Connection, or MRC, which “improves GPU networking performance and resilience in large training clusters.” The full spec is available through the Open Compute Project.