I’m not one of the people who watches YouTube or TikTok videos while some endless runner game scrolls by, but if you are, this YouTube Playables feature is for you.
On desktop and Android (iOS is still audio-only for now), you can now have the miniplayer visible while you play one of the games from YouTube’s library, as shown here with The Vergecast’s holiday episode.
The tool, which can do research for you, is now available in 45 languages beyond English, as well as in over 150 countries for people with Gemini Advanced subscriptions.
OpenAI’s search leader Shivakumar Venkataraman, hired from Google just 7 months ago to lead the company’s search efforts, has departed with no explanation for his exit or succession plan, per The Information.
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The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating report on the state of the James Bond franchise under Amazon’s ownership. There are a lot of politics around managing the series that I had no idea about.
And no, it does not answer when we might see another James Bond movie.
Sean O’Kane writes that two focus on chief designer Jeff Hammoud, with one claiming HR failed to discipline him for being “prone to irrational outbursts of anger” that were “often directed at women in leadership.”
These previously unreported lawsuits and settlements follow the now-settled lawsuit from 2021, where a former exec said Rivian had a “toxic bro culture that marginalizes women.”
