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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Hyper Light Breaker finally launches in early access on January 14th, 2025.

The 3D, roguelike successor to Heart Machine’s Hyper Light Drifter was first announced in 2022 and has seen a few delays.

I got to play this for a bit at XOXO 2024 and I’m really excited to spend more time with it in early access.

Kylie Robison
Kylie Robison
OpenAI demos new Apple Intelligence features for ‘ship-mas.’

On the 5th day of ‘ship-mas,’ OpenAI demonstrated ChatGPT’s integration with Apple Intelligence across iOS and macOS, which launches today. The demo showed Siri delivering ChatGPT-generated responses, with a link to view full answers in the ChatGPT app.

The macOS integration showcased document analysis capabilities, and the new camera button on the iPhone 16 can open ChatGPT’s vision feature.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Matt Mullenweg says it’s “hard to imagine” wanting to work on WordPress after WP Engine ruling.

The WordPress co-founder posted the message in a Slack community and changed his username to “gone 💀” after a judge granted WP Engine’s preliminary injunction, 404 Media reports:

I’m sick and disgusted to be legally compelled to provide free labor to an organization as parasitic and exploitive as WP Engine. I hope you all get what you and WP Engine wanted.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Why am I telling a robot to memorize something?

I guess “conversational” input is a feature of Google’s updated Gemini AI agents, but this step of the Project Mariner demo is where they lose me.

Maybe the bot can take some research work off my hands, but now I have to remember three steps of instructions to give it and even ask it to remember what it’s doing twice? How is this easier?

Screenshot from Project Mariner YouTube video, showing instructions to the AI bot that say “Memorize this list of companies. Then find their websites and look up a contact email I can use to reach them. Remember these so I can use them later.”
Image: Google (YouTube)