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Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
You’ll be able to sync your Hue smart lights to World Cup matches.

A new feature called Sports Live is being rolled out to the Philips Hue app that will trigger lighting effects in response to goals being scored or referees issuing cards during the World Cup in June and July. Your lights can also match the color of your favorite team or the team that’s currently in the lead during a match.

<em>Your Hue lights will react to goals, referee calls, and can change color depending on which team is currently in the lead during a match.</em>
<em>Through the Hue app you can select your favorite teams playing in the World Cup.</em>
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Your Hue lights will react to goals, referee calls, and can change color depending on which team is currently in the lead during a match.
Image: Philips Hue
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
43 percent of Americans blame data centers as a major reason for rising power bills.

That’s according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Similar numbers of both Republicans and Democrats also cite data centers, which are quickly becoming a bipartisan issue, as a major reason for higher costs.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Bear’s fifth and final season debuts on June 25th.

The whole season will be available to watch at once when it premieres at 9PM ET that day oh Hulu, Variety reports. If you want an appetizer, FX also released a surprise prequel episode just yesterday that’s available to stream now.

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Sarah Eddy, an attorney representing OpenAI, got sarcastic with Zilis.

Zilis said she now recalled certain messages that she had said she didn’t recall in her deposition, saying that at this point she’d reviewed documents numerous times. Eddy said, “Your long-lost memories have since been recovered.”

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
What does Polymarket’s US “CEO” actually do?

A report by The Information says that for the US-licensed arm of the prediction market, chief executive Justin Hertzberg “appears to be CEO in name only,” despite his protestations to the contrary.

It also runs down Polymarket’s issues in losing BMO Bank as a banking partner and Hertzberg’s history of launching “more than 300 prop trading firms,” including one, Surge Trader, where victims of an alleged Ponzi scheme sued him to get their money back.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Anthropic is programming Claude to “dream.”

The AI startup says “dreaming” will allow Claude to review previous sessions to “find patterns and help agents self-improve.” This feature, which is rolling out in research preview, is supposed to help AI agents identify frequent mistakes, spot tasks they might converge on, and understand a team’s preferences.

Image: Anthropic
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Musk offered Sam Altman a board seat at Tesla...

as part of his push to increase Tesla’s AI presence. “Those who want to work on large scale AI research don’t currently think of Tesla, and Elon wants to change that by announcing his intention to create a world-class AI lab,” Zilis wrote in 2017.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Android isn’t getting a Liquid Glass-style redesign.

Android ecosystem president Sameer Samat shut down what may have been a joke about a potential Apple-like design language for the platform.

Google will show off what’s actually coming to Android next week during The Android Show: I/O Edition, which premieres on May 12th at 1PM ET.

Screenshots of Google’s Sameer Samat replying to a user on X.
Image: X
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Shivon’s emails aren’t great for Musk.

We are seeing more details about Zilis advocating for Musk’s plan to wrap OpenAI into Tesla. “Tesla solves the funding issue immediately… Tesla at least has option to bury,” reads one email from Zilis. “They haven’t internalized the advantages to burying this in Tesla for stealth advantage,” reads another.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Samsung’s smart ring sequel may not arrive until 2027.

After launching its first smart ring two years ago, Samsung is developing a more comfortable Galaxy Ring 2 with battery life increased from seven to up to 10 days, according to a translated Etnews report spotted by 9to5Google. However, the new version isn’t expected to be announced until early next year.

Close up of person holding Galaxy Ring so you can see concave design
Photo: Victoria Song / The Verge
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
The big sticking point for Brockman and Sutskever was control.

They didn’t want Musk — or anyone — to have control over OpenAI. “You and I can argue that’s stupid all we want but they are holding firm on it,” Zilis says in an email to Jared Birchall in September 2017.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Anthropic’s Claude usage limits are getting a boost after compute deals with SpaceX and others.

Anthropic is doubling five-hour rate limits for many Claude Code users, removing Claude Code’s peak hours limit reduction, and significantly increasing API rate limits for Claude Opus models, starting today.

It credits the capacity to a new deal with SpaceX “to use all of the compute capacity at their Colossus 1 data center” in Memphis, noting recent announcements with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Sam Altman loves exclamation marks.

That’s what I’ve learned from his emails. Me too, Sam!