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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The next Call of Duty game will finally move on from the PS4.

Call of Duty games have released on the PS4 since 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts, but the upcoming entry in the series won’t launch on Sony’s last-gen console, according to the Call of Duty X account. A recent viral X post claimed that the game, rumored to be subtitled Modern Warfare 4, was being tested on the PS4. Last year’s game, Black Ops 7, did launch on last-gen consoles.

Allison Johnson
Allison Johnson
Aw, nuts.

The hit DualShot Recorder app just switched from an increasingly rare one-time fee to a subscription-based model. The app’s developer — also a notable squirrel video creator — says he made the change to “support the long-term sustainability of the business.” Subscriptions come for us all, I guess.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Early worries about Musk came from Ilya Sutskever.

From Sutskever’s texts to Brockman:

Elon might spend half a day a week with us

I imagined how it will be and I worry that our work environment can become very stressful

And since he’ll be bankrolling it, itll be hard to stop it

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Brockman is describing his bromance with Altman.

When Brockman was leaving Stripe, he told Altman “I’m thinking about doing an AI thing” and Altman said, “I’m also thinking about doing an AI thing” and “then we kept in touch.” They went to a dinner in Menlo Park — Musk arrived an hour late — to talk about AGI, then Brockman caught a ride home with Altman.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
“I do all the things.”

Asked what he does as president of OpenAI, that’s how Brockman responded. God I hate hearing millennial slang in the courtroom. Sooo I did a thing… for $30 billion.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Brockman says we are 80 percent of the way to AGI.

“We very much have these AI models that are smart and capable but they’re not fully connected to the world,” Brockman says. “We as society are still figuring out how do we integrate these.” This is lol and also lmao.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Google’s latest Gemini app redesign is popping up on iPhones.

9to5Google points out this Reddit post from someone seeing the updated design that’s already live on the Gemini macOS app showing up on iOS. It features a gradient color background, a pill-shaped prompt box, and a simplified UI that moves all the extra prompt options, like adding images or switching to Canvas, under a single “+” button.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Open AI’s direct examination of Brockman is pretty sedate so far… aside from Tesla.

When Musk left OpenAI he told Brockman that he was going to start an AGI competitor within Tesla. “The most important thing was that there was going to be a counterweight to Google/Deepmind,” Brockman said. Musk said there was “no hope — zero percent chance” at OpenAI. Musk also told Brockman that the work on AGI at Tesla would be secret because “the shareholders wouldn’t like it.”

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
For real, I think nerds should not testify in court.

Look, correcting lawyers on whether they’ve dropped an article and saying things like “all those words are accurate so far” probably plays in a lot of places but this nitpicking doesn’t really cover you in glory in a courtroom. I get it! I am also obnoxious! But this kind of quibbling doesn’t help Brockman recover from the journal entries that make him look unreliable.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
We are now looking at Brockman’s other financial dealings.

Cerebras, Stripe, CoreWeave, and Helion all appear on his financial disclosures. All four have deals with OpenAI. I see where this is going — probably a preview of what to expect with Altman.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
We finished with the Microsoft investment pretty quickly.

It happened. Kind of a nothingburger, as Brockman said that the deal was “not really my focus area.” We are now back in his disclosures. OpenAI did a December 2025 deal with Cerebras, for $10 billion of chips — and Brockman had an investment. The deal increased Cerebras’ valuation to $23 billion. “Your equity in Cerebras became more valuable because of the transaction OpenAI did?” Brockman admits that’s possible.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Altman didn’t return after we took our break.

But Brockman is back on the stand, and boy, morning has not been good to him. We are now moving on to Microsoft.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The release candidates for iOS 26.5 and macOS 26.5 are rolling out to developers.

Apple Maps is expected to get a new Suggested Places feature and ads in iOS 26.5, while users in the EU could receive interoperability features, including the ability to receive notifications from a third-party smartwatch. Apple is also launching release candidates for iPadOS, tvOS, and visionOS, which are typically the last updates before a wider rollout.