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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
OpenAI now lets you text your Dot.

OpenAI had promised this was coming for its AI agents, but now the feature is here. You can text through iMessage or RCS, OpenAI says. It’s rolling out in preview for US Pro users.

Victoria Song
Victoria Song
RFK Jr. unilaterally gives the OK for some unapproved peptides.

Oh boy. This move refers to BPC-157, TB-500, Mots-C, KPV, epitalon, and semax. A document outlining the decision indicates that this seems to be the Health Secretary’s call, even though FDA scientists advised against it in July. This broadens access, but still requires a patient-specific prescription and adverse reporting.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Can we please stop with the hands?

First X, now Apple’s website? That’s enough hands on my internet today, thank you.

An image of Apple’s Mac lineup, with a hand pointing at the new MacBook Pro.
Image: Apple
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Apple’s polishing cloth adds critical support for the new touchscreen MacBook Pro.

Now that pixel-pushers, editors, musicians, and artists will have their fingers all over the new MacBook Pro’s screen, Apple has updated the listing for its $9 polishing cloth to include support for eradicating fingerprints from that PROLED XDR display.

Apple’s polishing cloth overlaid on a MacBook pro laptop screen.
Image: Apple
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
The Trump administration is loaning $5 billion to build nuclear plants for data centers.

Constellation Energy will receive the funds to expand capacity at eight nuclear plants by 1.1 gigawatts. Most, if not all, of that additional capacity has already been claimed by Google, Meta, or Amazon for their data centers, according to TechCrunch.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google will let more developers make apps that plug into Search and Gemini.

With the new “Connected Apps” platform, developers can submit apps for people to use within Gemini and Search. This will allow developers to launch integrations similar to the ones OpenTable and Instacart built into Google’s AI tools.

Developers in the US can join the public beta waitlist starting today, which also offers ways to track metrics like traffic and latency.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The GitHub Copilot app is getting a big update.

Along with support for projects, which lets you assign Copilot a task across multiple repos, the GitHub Copilot app now allows you to pick up your work where you left off when you switch to other devices. You can now create reusable AI automations within the GitHub Copilot app as well.